Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

But a reputation for dishonest dealing spreads quickly in the relatively small world of general aviation. Expect to put down 20 to 25 percent of the purchase price as your demonstration of financial stability. Beech’s best four-seater value is the straight-tail F33A, produced through 1994.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. This means that they have to be effective enough to counter the aircrafts inherent lateral stability. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The white light is located on the aircrafts tail and sometimes additionally on the wingtips, facing backward (aft). These systems can even be found on newer General Aviation (GA) aircraft, such as the Cessna 172, with a recognition light setting activating the ALLS. These lights are not a legal requirement.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Runway Pilot 111

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

High camber generally promotes more airflow deflection, thanks to something called Bernoullis Principle. This is why the typical airfoil shape has a curved top and a flat bottom, especially in slower-speed general aviation aircraft. The tail rotor pushes air to one side ( action ), and the tail moves the other way ( reaction ).

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Lift Thrust Torque Aileron 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A flat spin happens when the center of gravity shifts too far aft (toward the tail), and the aircraft’s rotation becomes more horizontal. The problem is that the airflow from the propeller goes over the horizontal stabilizer, which produces a downward force (and causes the nose to pitch up).

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In tracing the origin of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, one must go back to the development of one of the company’s most successful civilian designs, the Model 35 Bonanza, which first flew on December 22, 1945, being piloted by Beech Aircraft’s chief test pilot, Vern Louis Carstens, and by 1947, the type hit the civil market for general aviation.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 97

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In tracing the origin of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, one must go back to the development of one of the company’s most successful civilian designs, the Model 35 Bonanza, which first flew on December 22, 1945, being piloted by Beech Aircraft’s chief test pilot, Vern Louis Carstens, and by 1947, the type hit the civil market for general aviation.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 95

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 95

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 94

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

With the introduction of the Cirrus SR22T in 2010, general aviation had a truly modern, high-flying, personal airplane that could fly at over 200 mph and make reliable long-distance travel a reality for the single-engine piston set. Then there was the Spartan’s ramp appeal.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 89

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

How an aircraft handles Dutch roll depends on its dynamic stability. The aircraft’s design influences its dynamic stability. To understand the aircraft’s response to a disturbance, you need to understand aerodynamic stability. There are two main types of stability: Static and Dynamic stability.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

With the engines decided, the rest of the airplane’s general size and mass fell into place. True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

General aviation is driven by myriad forces. Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. It has since been repaired and returned to service.

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Runway Airline Airlines Horizontal Stabilizer 258