Horizontal Stabilizer Knot Tail 
Aerotime
MARCH 28, 2025
What should have been a routine flight turned into a tragedy after a part of the tail assembly failed. 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.
Aerotime
MARCH 21, 2025
TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. seconds before touchdown the aircrafts indicated airspeed was 136 knots, and its ground speed was 111 knots.
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Plane and Pilot
MARCH 7, 2025
It was short, stubby, very tall, and had two wings and two tails. To that he added wings and tail, and placed the pilot behind all this. The unique twin tails completed this one-of-a-kind design and became the signature feature of the entire line. Then suddenly, out of the sky, swooped a most bizarre-looking flying machine.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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. Well, I was indicating 210 knots when I ejected and on my way out I was counting the rivets on the canopy bow.
Pilot Institute
DECEMBER 26, 2024
The white light is located on the aircrafts tail and sometimes additionally on the wingtips, facing backward (aft). Suppose the switch is set to taxi, and the aircraft is flying above 40 knots. When aircraft were invented and became more advanced, they were added to them in the same places.
Aerotime
JULY 19, 2024
The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.
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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