Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

But lifting an aircraft off the ground and getting it to fly fast and far is a challenge of a rather different magnitude. In less than two decades, starting from rather lackluster performances, electric cars have managed to outcompete their fossil-fuel-powered equivalents in several markets.

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Approach Lift Aviation Technology General Aviation 300

Flight Training Central

MAY 6, 2024

This meant the airplane, if were to carry anything, had to be built from very light materials incapable of providing support for a wing long enough to generate the needed lift. Some of the most successful General Aviation aircraft have been high wing models. The bi-wing design has one serious flaw.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

When it was time for us to leave, Russell raised the collective, and the Kiowa’s wide rotor blades bit the air and lifted us up and above the trees. As I waved back, I realized I was witnessing an example of what makes general aviation in America so incredible and worth defending.

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Aviation News

MARCH 11, 2025

Airbus Helicopters has introduced its H140 at the vertical lift industry show VERTICON in Dallas, Texas. The multi-mission helicopter raises the bar in the light.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 3, 2025

Depending on design, airfoils used in general aviation, stall at angles of attack between 16 to 18 degrees. If the bank increases, the loss of vertical lift component tends to lower the nose. Then, slowly and smoothly bring the nose up to the attitude which will stall the airplane.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Mark’s passion for general aviation endured, despite not logging many hours since the ’80s. ” Yet, her passion for general aviation remained. General aviation provides such great opportunities! Once the fog lifted, we departed KVBT on an IFR flight plan.

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Approach General Aviation AGL Weather 98

Aviation Bussiness News

MARCH 26, 2025

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has announced that four companies have joined it as new members. With the Ultra Short, Electra is pioneering Direct Aviation, a new category that enables point-to-point air travel without airports, while dramatically reducing operating costs, noise, and emissions.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Proper AOA management affects lift generation and stall prevention. It is one of the main factors affecting lift, and airplanes need a constant source of lift to fly. As we stated a little while ago, understanding the angle of attack is fundamental to understanding aerodynamics and how lift is generated.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I’d yet to land on that fabled grass runway, the Augusta National of general aviation, and this would be the year. As I passed Atlanta, the skies went from sunny to cloudy, which was as advertised, but as I neared the South Carolina state line, the weather wasn’t lifting. Except it wasn’t meant to be.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s as close to “evasive action” as you can get while flying a general aviation aircraft. A smaller bank angle will result in more lift, while an increased bank angle will reduce the lift. As an aircraft banks, lift is divided into horizontal and vertical components. What Are Steep Turns?

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AV Web

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I smiled and started to brag about being part of the Tetris generation, but then I realized she probably said that to every pilot who flew supplies in. A long line of general aviation birds waited their turn to unload. Standing on the ramp at Rutherford County Airport in rural North Carolina, I was far from alone.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. The more the wings shape is able to change the direction of the flow of air over the surface, the more lift it will produce. Why does this increase the lift?

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. Air Force and NASA to explore using vectored thrust to transition from vertical and horizontal takeoffs to achieve level flight before making a vertical landing.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s exactly what the legendary Bob Buck did 55 years ago in his Cessna 182 Skylane as he enjoyed the sights and sounds of low altitude flying and the freedom that only general aviation affords—a relatable sentiment to the Air Facts community. It would lift during the day and lift into scattered stratocumulous.

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Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

Did you know that loss of control (LOC) is the number one root cause of fatalities in both general aviation (GA) and commercial aviation? More than 25% of GA fatal accidents occur during the maneuvering phase of flight. Of those fatal accidents, half involve stall/spin scenarios resulting in a crash.

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Inflight Pilot Training

APRIL 7, 2025

Theres something magical about watching an airplane lift off the runway and rise into the open sky. Its the ability to lift off and leave the ground behind, to navigate through the clouds and explore from above. general aviation gives you access to far more destinations than the airlines. Could I do that?

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Flight Training Central

JULY 29, 2024

In general aviation (GA) airplanes, we don’t worry much about the jet stream or mountain waves at 37,000 feet. Big, billowing cumulus clouds usually mean there’s some lifting action in the atmosphere, while flat stratus clouds often indicate more stable air. As a first clue, consider the height of haze layer.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Gerry had taken flying lessons on his own time, but the 20-ton, twin-engine fighter was in a far different class than the general aviation bug-smashers he’d flown. Dick recalls “about a dozen hands lifting me out of the cockpit” and being gently taken down a ladder. “I He had no idea how badly the Phantom was damaged.

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet. The first aircraft to adopt winglets were within the general aviation and business jet communities. Winglets help increase an aircraft’s range and decrease fuel consumption.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Haas We All Fly exhibit aimed at highlighting and celebrating General Aviation. I am genuinely pleased by the idea of this exhibit because the general public seems generally oblivious to the existence and role of General Aviation. We All Fly A new gallery for the NASM is the Thomas W. Dry clean only?

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 7, 2024

The fuselage is bent near the gear-attach points, wing spars have split, and the lift struts on the right side need replacing. A hard point for a bomb rack was installed at some point, and it has yet to be determined if the airplane ever carried a bomb for any purpose. CIV was ground looped and damaged back in the 1980s.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 14, 2024

We reached the island shortly after numerous other arrivals, our five airplanes creating a small arrival push at the uncontrolled general aviation airport. The extra precautious were probably unnecessary; Warrior 481 lifted off quickly and climbed skyward with plenty of runway remaining. Photo by Steve.

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Runway Weather Airplanes Approach 89

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Anti-Ice, Rain: flight deck window heat, windshield wipers, probe heat, and anti-ice/de-ice systems that either prevent ice from accumulating on lift generating surfaces and engines, or break the ice off after it’s accumulated. These are more general aviation oriented rather than large scale fractional operators.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’m not Lindbergh… This trip was ambitious for me, but quite common in the general aviation community. More air molecules in engine cylinders allow the engine to produce more power; more air molecules moving across the propellor blades and wings means more efficient thrust and lift.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 7, 2024

The fuselage is bent near the gear-attach points, wing spars have split, and the lift struts on the right side need replacing. A hard point for a bomb rack was installed at some point, and it has yet to be determined if the airplane ever carried a bomb for any purpose. CIV was ground looped and damaged back in the 1980s.

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Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Stalls Cause a Loss of Lift A stall is not related to engine failure. Many people unfamiliar with aviation hear the term stall and mistakenly think it refers to a car engine dying. However, in aviation, an aircraft can experience a stall even when the engine is operating at full power. What Is a Stall in Aviation?

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The assumption that standards established for remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) and general aviation (GA) single-pilot aircraft may be transferred to transport category airplanes in commercial air transport is not feasible, because of the high standards of Part 25 certification.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In this situation, the wings aren’t producing enough lift, and the aircraft essentially falls out of the sky while spinning. A stall occurs when the angle of attack (the angle between the wings and the airflow) becomes too high, causing the wings to lose lift.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). It looks normal as the plane lifts off and starts to climb, but then a witness hears a change in the sound of the engines. When flying alone, general aviation pilots should follow the same rules. on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m.

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Pilot Knot Airplanes Lift 90

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

If the airplane is tied down outside, it’s important to get all of the ice and snow off the lifting and control surfaces. Scraping the ice off the aircraft is hard on the pilot—not to mention the paint and plexiglass—and often leaves a residue of lift-killing crust on the surfaces. This is hard to do without deicing fluid.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 105

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

If the airplane is tied down outside, it’s important to get all of the ice and snow off the lifting and control surfaces. Scraping the ice off the aircraft is hard on the pilot—not to mention the paint and plexiglass—and often leaves a residue of lift-killing crust on the surfaces. This is hard to do without deicing fluid.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 98

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators. In maneuvering flight such as turns in the pattern.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

The bill also contains a mandate for the FAA to publish a final special rule for operations of powered-lift aircraft—a new category that includes eVTOL air taxis—within seven months of passage. It would expand FAA research into preparing the U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.)

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Lift Stability Aviation Technology General Aviation 96

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). It looks normal as the plane lifts off and starts to climb, but then a witness hears a change in the sound of the engines. When flying alone, general aviation pilots should follow the same rules. on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m.

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Air Facts

MAY 1, 2024

Many times as a teenager I would hang around the airport watching the general aviation planes come and go. Spend some time lifting some weights and do some aerobic exercise (I walk three miles a day and do lift weights three days a week). My dad did get his Private Pilot license and my mom only soloed.

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Aviation News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Turkish Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler announced that Germany has approved the sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Turkey, lifting a longstanding.

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Jet Lift General Aviation 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The outer wing generates more lift than the inner wing since it’s temporarily moving faster. Extra lift makes the wing rise. Increased lift on the raised wing immediately creates more induced drag. Placing the center of gravity ahead of the aircraft’s center of lift improves longitudinal stability.

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