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.

True Airspeed 69

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 69

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.

True Airspeed 67

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 67

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. Navy Darryl’s hybrid F-104 was registered as N104RB and carried the Lockheed construction number of an F-104G.

Horizontal Stabilizer 124

Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. image via AirCorps Aviation) The transverse tube (highlighted by the red box) is where the horizontal stabilizer’s rear main spar tube passes through the fuselage.

Firewall 52

Firewall Gross Weight Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Placing the center of gravity ahead of the aircraft’s center of lift improves longitudinal stability. The aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer (tailplane) creates a downward lift to counterbalance pitching moments. Directional Stability Directional stability decides how stable the aircraft is about the yaw axis.

Stability 52

Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes. Many aircraft have heated leading edges on the wings, tail, and propellers.

Pitot Tube 52

Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Short-coupled with a large horizontal stabilizer, the aircraft was practically a staggered biplane. The twin tail booms, vertical stabilizers, engines, and forward fuselage were years away from being mounted. There is no room in the hangar to attach the Black Widow's wings outboard of the tail booms.

Torque 52

Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both the vertical and horizontal stabilizers were made of wood and fabric, while the construction of the wing involved wooden spars and ribs, with metal leading edges inboard of the engine nacelles, plywood leading edges on the outer panels, and doped fabric on the trailing section. 313 was similar to that on the Ca.310.

Tail 98

Tail Aileron Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” ZK-RAJ after having its overhauled horizontal stabilizers reinstalled in late September 2024. This put a halt on proceedings until I could decide what the future of the project looked like. I eventually pressed ahead after some great discussions with Paul [Levitt], the engineer and owner of Aero R.”

Jet 72

Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes 72

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2024

Like many aircraft of its day, the O3U Corsair was of tubular steel construction for the fuselage and tail stabilizers and the wings were made of wood, and all covered in fabric. The horizontal stabilizer and elevators of the O3U-3 were built over full scale Vought drawings.

Cockpit 94

Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail 94

Aerotime

AUGUST 9, 2024

The aircraft configuration sees a monocoque fuselage with a raised flight deck above the nose-to-tail cargo compartment below. The tail is attached to the rear of the empennage and is of a twin-tail design, with a vertical stabilizer attached at each end of the single horizontal stabilizer.

Airplanes 286

Airplanes Cargo Payload Horizontal Stabilizer 286

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

Airplanes 61

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 61