Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the standout aircraft in Drydens research history is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a legendary Navy fighter jet that played a key role in two major research programs at the center. This photo shows NASA’s F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design. The prototype Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, N67900 over Burbank.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Intended to be a long-range escort fighter, the Consolidated XP-81 also represented a departure from conventional aircraft, but the rapidly evolving nature of both the Second World War and jet engines would see the XP-81 becoming nothing more than a footnote in American aviation history.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

jet ace, Lebanese-American Major James Jabara). The gallery will feature Campbell’s flight gear that she wore on that mission, and a battle-scarred piece of the tail of her A-10.

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Hangar Stability Tail Aviation Technology 92

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane. 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. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. 1127 Kestrel, the aircraft that was to be the basis for the Harrier jet-jump fighter-bomber flown by the Royal Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 76

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Speaking of its positive qualities, they felt the cockpit layout was descent, its ground handling was good, the controls were light, the roll rate was adequate, and control and stability was generally effective. However, the overall performance was still underwhelming. Elliot was able to make an emergency landing at Lambert Field.

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Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

Ask the Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

One small hazard might’ve been broken material striking the rear stabilizers. Worst case would’ve been the slat breaking apart further, or detaching completely, unlikely as that might be, but even this wouldn’t crash the plane, so long as the stabilizers or tail weren’t struck and badly damaged. The B-word is what counts.

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Stability Lift Runway Tail 52

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

TURBO-AE Code During the 1990s, NASA developed a computer code that generates two-dimensional simulations of potential aeroelastic (AE) problems that can occur in jet engine blades. Jet Engine Combustors During the 1990s and early 2000s, NASA improved the technology associated with jet fuel combustion to help engines burn fuel more cleanly.

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Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airlines 52

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.

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Jet Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes 103

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

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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Lift Thrust Torque Aileron 52

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98

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. Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. In commercial service, it flew more than 2.5

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 278

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board. It was also hoped that a seaplane fighter could also operate from remote areas that had no airbases but enough water for seaplane operations.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 95

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Jet Pilot Stability 98

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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Jet Thrust Stability Cockpit 52

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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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 60

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 14, 2024

It was certainly a most unusual aircraft, distinguished by its forward swept wing and canard horizontal stabilizers. This was why the strakes were added to the X-29’s tail, in order to reduce drag from using the trim on the canard in the nose.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Center of Gravity Tail Drag 89

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Moreover, as more new-generation jets with lower maintenance requirements come online to replace the older airframes over the coming years, could this shift have a detrimental effect on MROs? Once the current next-generation jet engine teething issues are overcome, this is likely to negatively impact MROs even further.

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Cargo Jet Airlines Airline 290

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 12-type fin giving more surface area for greater stability and to compensate for the extra fuselage length. feet this was the longest Meteor produced.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

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

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Flight Safety Foundation’s approach and landing accident reduction tool kit goes on to point out that an approach is stable only if all the criteria in company standard operating procedures (SOPs) are met before or when reaching the applicable minimum stabilization in height. The response from the PIC was, “we know it.”

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Following D-Day, as the war began to tail off, Yeager returned to fly combat missions, as Eisenhower yielded to Yaeger’s demands. One notable shootdown accredited to Yeager was one of historys very first air-to-air victories against a jet-powered fighter aircraft. Eisenhower himself.

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Pilot Airplanes Drag Thrust 287

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.

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Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail 98

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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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. At first, you might experience a strong headwind, which briefly increases your airspeed and gives you a false sense of stability. Unable to recover, the jet struck approach lights short of the runway and then towers 8 and 9.

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Wind Shear Weather Descent Approach 66

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 7, 2024

After the war, the thousands of P-63 Kingcobras remained in Soviet service, and were later referred to by NATO with the codename ‘Fred’, serving as transitionary fighters and instructional airframes as the Soviets shifted towards advanced jet fighters such as the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15.

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Airfoil Pilot Stability Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Currently, the wings and one of the tail stabilizers have been delivered to the museum by Robert’s son Dean, and the fuselage is currently being prepared for the drive by trailer down to the museum.

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Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail 98

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.

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Runway Airlines Airline Horizontal Stabilizer 264