Horizontal Stabilizer, Jet and Stability

Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Investigating what caused the tragedy

Aerotime

MARCH 28, 2025

The trim on the horizontal stabilizer – the rear wing of the aircraft – was not working. Then the tone indicating the movement of the horizontal stabilizer sounded. The aircrafts horizontal stabilizer had pitched to 3.6 As such, Tansky had to rely on elevators alone to climb to 31,000 feet.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airline Airlines

The Last Beechcraft Starships

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 16, 2025

The Starships lifting surface was positioned aft of the horizontal stabilizer, making stalls unlikely. The Starships lifting surface was positioned aft of the horizontal stabilizer, making stalls unlikely. Its radical design and high price, comparable to small jets, deterred buyers.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Lift Pilot

Airbus Beluga to help free damaged BA A350 stranded at Heathrow since April

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The British Airways Airbus A350-1000, registered G-XWBC, was involved in a collision with a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Heathrow in April 2024, resulting in damage to the aircraft’s right-hand horizontal stabilizer.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Jet Pilot

Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

Touchdown The TSB explained that as the Delta Connections flight reached touchdown the side-stay attached to the right MLG fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire.

Indicated Airspeed

Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer

What Are Canards In Aviation?

Simple Flying

MAY 8, 2024

This forward-swept horizontal stabilizer, positioned ahead of the main wings, has been implemented across a range of aircraft, from experimental designs to advanced military jets. One of the more intriguing configurations that has captured the imagination of aviation enthusiasts is the canard.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Jet Airplanes

The Unfulfilled Promise of the Fairchild T-46

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

The most significant visual differences were the T-46’s high wing and the “H” tail, with twin vertical stabilizers mounted to the ends of the horizontal stabilizer that strongly resembled those of the company’s previous jet, the A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail Drag

Exploring the Essential Sections of an Aircraft: A Comprehensive Guide

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane. You’ll find a horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder pedals here. Jet engines: These engines create an electric spark by compressing air and igniting it with fuel.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift

Avoiding the Stall

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, if you take a close look at the inboard upper wing surface of the B-52, you will see a neat row of vortex generators that correspond to the width of the horizontal stabilizer. These were added to manage the low speed air flow over the wings, stabilizer and elevators.

Airplanes

Airplanes Approach Horizontal Stabilizer Pilot

What Is a Dutch Roll, and Is It Dangerous?

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.

Stability

Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder

Matt’s Gnat: A Red Arrows Jet Restoration Downunder

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As reported by Vintage Aviation News earlier this year, Folland Gnat XR987 — now with the New Zealand civil registration ZK-RAJ, for “Red Arrows Jet” — is being returned to airworthiness at the workshops of Aero Restoration (Aero R) south of Auckland in the North Island for owner Matt Wilcock.

Jet

Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Codenamed the “Fagot” by NATO, the MiG-15 was a shock to Western observers when it first entered Soviet Air Regiments in 1949, and would earn a reputation for its firepower, maneuverability, and ruggedness during the Korean War, was the first Soviet jet fighter to be an equal to Western designs.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. One of the first of these was the Model 73 Jet Mentor. The Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor in flight.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. One of the first of these was the Model 73 Jet Mentor. The Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor in flight.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Grumman X-29

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 14, 2024

It was certainly a most unusual aircraft, distinguished by its forward swept wing and canard horizontal stabilizers. On this day in aviation history, December 14, 1984, the Grumman X-29 research aircraft took the air for the first time.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Center of Gravity Tail Drag

Vought Heritage Foundation Completes O3U-3 Corsair Reproduction

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2024

Photo: Nigel Hitchman The Vought Heritage Foundation (VHF) has restored several Vought aircraft, including an RF-8 Crusader, the last surviving F6U Pirate, the company’s first jet aircraft, and the unique V-173 “Flying Pancake”. The horizontal stabilizer and elevators of the O3U-3 were built over full scale Vought drawings.

Cockpit

Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail

The Fastest Warbird: Darryl Greenamyer and the RB-104 “Red Baron”

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. It could not be made official because of a failed FAI camera. IMPOSSIBLE.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust

Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From the pilot’s seat it cruises near effortlessly and handles nimbly on land or water with a great combination of stability and modest control pressures. A significant investment in heavy, water-jet cut steel tooling means repeatedly accurate wings come off the Composite Creations table.

Airplanes

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron

Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Indeed, standing as a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors.

Runway

Runway Airlines Airline Horizontal Stabilizer

Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Boeing 747 is an icon of the jet age, a giant aircraft that democratized air travel for the masses and shrank the world throughout the latter 20th century. Boeing 747 rocket launcher One of the coolest ways for a passenger jet to extend its lifespan has to be in a role that involves shooting rockets into space.

Cargo

Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer

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