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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Investigating what caused the tragedy

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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.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

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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.

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Which Boeing 747 Variant Was Used As The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft?

Simple Flying

Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft). The Space Shuttle Carriers are easily recognizable from the extra stabilizers placed on the tail of the 747s as well as the struts on top (where the orbiters were attached).

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The Unfulfilled Promise of the Fairchild T-46

Flying Magazine

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.

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The Bold, Bulbous Douglas 1015 Cloudster II

Flying Magazine

Although the company built and flew two examples, the military quickly lost interest in piston engines, and Douglas pivoted, ultimately reworking the XB-42 into the jet-powered XB-43. A ventral stabilizer doubled as propeller protection in the event of over-rotation or tail strikes.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Breguet Deux-Ponts

Vintage Aviation News

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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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Lockheed Constellation

Vintage Aviation News

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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