Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. But there are variations from plane to plane.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. “I started to make a normal landing, but as I was getting ready to touch down, I pulled the power off and the tail just fell out from underneath me,” he said. The landings are a little tricky, if you will.

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Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

Here’s a video of a 182 flipping in 30 knot winds at Las Vegas (with jet blast the deciding factor). I could turn tail, but things were not much better back further west. I finally learned to time the change of rudder direction better, straight as the nose wheel touches the ground, then as needed to stay upwind. What to do?

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

The rudder and elevators both had some internal work done to the ribs prior to re-covering the surfaces, but not much. Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components. The yoke is original.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. Unlike the elevators and rudder mounted close to the fuselage, the ailerons location at the end of the long, thin, and flexible wings makes them much more prone to flutter. Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Vital Components of a Plane in the Tail Assembly The primary function of the empennage or tail assembly of an airplane is to keep the aircraft stable despite the rotational energy of relative wind. Of all the sections of an aircraft, the tail assembly is perhaps the most important for keeping an airplane in the air safely.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

As the aircraft began to slow and the tail wheel contacted the runway and the aircraft began to drift slightly to the right. And there it was, a bracket with both hydraulic lines from the rudder pedals only about 1 apart and 8 of flexible line to the brakes. The approach and touch down were normal. I decided to change career path.

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Runway Airplanes Pilot Pilot in Command 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

The principle is the same whether the aircraft gets thrust from propellers or jet engines. A propeller forces air backward, while a jet engine ignites a mixture of air and fuel to generate hot gases that eject backward. In jet engines, increasing throttle increases the fuel flow, producing more exhaust gases that can be flung backward.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. One of the rarest aircraft in the museum is an example of the first American jet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.

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Airspeed Junkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The F-18 Fighter Jet: A Review The F-18 Fighter Jet has become one of the most iconic military aircraft in history. From its ability to conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground combat missions to its outstanding performance, the F-18 has earned its reputation as an incredibly capable fighter jet. It is a single-seat aircraft.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. With no money for flight instruction, my plan was for the military to pay for the training.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

The one-of-a-kind jet is carefully unloaded at its new home. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type This safety pilot handled engine starting, re-lighting and fuel control.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, if the aircraft has an oversized tail but not enough dihedral in the wings, it becomes vulnerable to spiral instability. Tail Design Larger, more effective stabilizers provide stronger restoring forces. They’re especially used in statically unstable designs like fighter jets. Is Dutch Roll Dangerous?

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

She flew like a big, lumbering Cub of sorts, complete with a wooden rudder bar, tall wooden stick, and instruments that seemed like they were straight out of World War One. But my recommendation is to find a very early Bonanza for your first V-tail experience. Well, like a lot of the early jets, its fast.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

With ECM pods beeping and squeaking, our semi-spread formation of four jets created an indistinct blob of noise on enemy radars. MiGs on your tail! Lead banked and wagged his rudder, signaling us to maneuver back into a spread formation. Four o’clock!” Break right! Break left! We flew directly over the target, roughly 10,000 ft.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

After we decided this, we heard a Challenger jet announce “Taxiing to 26 for takeoff”. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call. This near miss was avoided only by the jet taking off immediately in front of him. He tried again, with no reply.

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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.”

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

3,957 were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, by RAF fighter interception by Hawker Tempests, Spitfires, de Havilland Mosquitos and by Britains first jet fighter, the 400mph Gloster Meteor or hit the cables of barrage balloons tethered outside the capital. 7,488 crossed the south coast of England.

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