One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1

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Descent Threshold Knot Flight Deck 102

Aerotime

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The design features a unique V-tail, a retractable landing gear, and is constructed 100% from composite material. The aircraft can accommodate up to seven occupants including the pilot, and the type can travel up to 1,275 nautical miles (2,361km) at a cruising speed of up to 311 knots (576kph).

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Jet General Aviation Clearance Knot 272

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2025

These include a new nose bowl and dorsal fin/tail root fairings from Lasar Speed Mods. While individual upgrades like these often return only a few knots each, they can collectively boost a stock airplanes cruise speed noticeably.

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Transponder Airplanes Drag Knot 97

CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

climb or approach) and the pilot suddenly applies full power, causing an excessive pitch-up due to the trim setting and increased propwash over the tail. 65 knots in a Cessna 172). times stall speed, like 80-90 knots in a Cessna 172). How to Perform: Trim the airplane for a climb or approach speed (e.g.,

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Aileron Rudder Checkride AGL 96

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire. The wing tip then struck the ground, at which point the wing and the tail section broke. The wing and tail on runway 23 as photographed by Brennan Milroy (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Runway 59

Runway Tail Knot Altimeter 59

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.

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Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Gross Weight Pilot 53

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As they descended towards Leeds, the crew calculated the landing performance with the wind at 060 at 19 knots. The approach controller gave them the current wind as 070 gusting 33 knots and let them know that a Boeing 737-800 had just landed. And sometimes its 35 knots across *and* thick fog. It’s not *always* like that.

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Crosswind Rudder Knot Runway 52

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing. The helicopter was at treetop height with an indicated airspeed of zero knots when the right yaw ceased. The pilot reported two miles out.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 98

AV Web

JUNE 7, 2024

The M700 FURY, which was certified in March of this year, boasts impressive capabilities—including a max cruise speed of 301 knots, a max range of 1852nm, and a standard useful load of 2,320 pounds. The aircraft is powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-52 700 SHP engine, and features Garmin’s Autoland technology. “The

Knot 98

Knot Tail 98

AV Web

JUNE 7, 2024

The M700 FURY, which was certified in March of this year, boasts impressive capabilities—including a max cruise speed of 301 knots, a max range of 1852nm, and a standard useful load of 2,320 pounds. The aircraft is powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-52 700 SHP engine, and features Garmin’s Autoland technology. “The

Knot 98

Knot Tail 98

Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

Though wind is reported using such simple numbers like 270@15G20, I’ve come to believe that 20 knots here is not always the same as 20 knots there. I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. Then came the landing in 20 knots in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin.

Knot 98

Knot Crosswind Rudder Turbulence 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Go-around , flaps 13,” I called.

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Runway Approach Knot Jet 66

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The plane’s wings and tail detached but the fuselage remained intact. In media interviews all reported a firm arrival on Toronto’s Runway 23 in a howling wind that was gusting to 40 knots from 270 degree although fire officials said the runway was dry and there was no crosswind. local time. Most of the occupants were U.S.

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Crosswind Runway Knot Tail 98

Fear of Landing

JUNE 28, 2024

The Cabri G2 comprises a shrouded tail rotor, usually referred to as a “Fenestron” (a registered trade mark of Eurocopter) that was proven to provide excellent maneuverability in every flight condition, in every direction of flight up to 40 kt at least. The pair took off from Gruyère Aérodrome at 14:00.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 111

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 74

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 12, 2024

This hybrid helicopter could be configured with wings and General Electric TF34 turbofans, enabling it to reach speeds of up to 300 knots. Additionally, the S-72 was equipped with a low-drag fuselage, allowing it to achieve a maximum speed of 340 knots in a dive. S-72 RSRA compound in flight.

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Drag Knot Approach Tail 119

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

That is the story of the Bellanca Aries T-250, an efficient, T-tailed travel machine that rivaled the Beechcraft Bonanza and Piper Comanche in speed, load-carrying capacity, and elegant design. Their first design, the Anderson Greenwood AG-14, was a 90 hp, twin-tailed, two-seat pusher. So how does this efficient bird fly?

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Tail Airplanes Crosswind Knot 96

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.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The flight crew adjusted the icing bug to 165 knots. Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. The ATR’s airspeed was 191 knots.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 104

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Notable design changes included the introduction of a swept tail design in 1960 and a new cowl design in 1961, which improved aerodynamics and performance. Another interesting model is the 172RG Cutlass RG, which features retractable landing gear and a more powerful Lycoming O-360-F1A6 engine, offering a cruise speed of 140 knots.

Knot 98

Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The weapon was guided by the launch aircraft through the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) method, with the pilot tracking the flight of the missile via two bright flares on the weapon’s tail and making corrections using a small joystick in the cockpit.] Each Thud is loaded with a pair of AGM-12C Bullpup B air-to-ground missiles.

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Pilot Cockpit Knot Stability 105

One Mile at a Time

JULY 29, 2024

So the pilot of the first Delta jet advised air traffic control they’d need a minute to crunch the numbers on takeoff performance: Delta 1304 pilot: “Right now, for Delta 1304, we got four knots too much on the tailwind. We’re just running the numbers, so stand by.”

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Jet 120

AV Web

JULY 23, 2024

With its Rotax 912ULS engine, the original Sirius promised 115 knots cruising speed on a fuel burn of 4.5 A redesigned lower fuselage section will move the main gear forward, and a beefed-up aft-fuselage section and tail surfaces will handle the added stress of the tailwheel. gallons per hour.

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Knot Tail 52

Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

He was in his forties when we flew together in his V-tail Bonanza. Upon reaching five knots before the rotation speed, I merely tugged on the manual trim slightly and the aircraft rose without hesitation. The A36 Bonanza is rated to fly at 178 knots ROP at 6,000 feet. You can lose up to five knots or more.

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Knot Approach Pilot Runway 97

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

As you can see, the plane doesnt yet have the full Austrian livery, but instead has an all-white fuselage, except for the Austrian name written across the front of the plane, and the Austrian logo on the tail. He warned of some turbulence on approach, and of strong winds at Washington Dulles, which were gusting up to 30 knots.

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Approach Descent Airlines Airline 89

Chess In the Air

JULY 24, 2022

(We don’t practice low tow in the US except when practicing “boxing the wake” In some countries the low tow position is used more routinely for towing because it protects the tow pilot from a glider pulling the tow plane’s tail up and forcing the tow plane into the ground.) In principle this is certainly true.

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Knot Ground Effect Tail Pilot 52

Air Facts

MARCH 26, 2025

The airspeed indicator registered 55 knots, close to the Cessna 172s stall speed. Just before touching down, I checked my airspeed and the pit in my stomach deepened: 85 knots far above the 172s normal landing speed of 65 knots. There in his hand, hung elegantly from a necklace chain, was the tail tie-down.

Knot 52

Knot Runway Pilot Tail 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

As seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. Whats Happening Inside the Vortex?

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Class C airports’ speed limits require aircraft within 4 Nautical Miles (NM) of the primary airport and below 2500 feet to maintain an Indicated Airspeed (IAS) of 200 knots or less. Give ATC a brief but informative transmission with the following information: The kind and tail number of the aircraft. Altitude and intentions (e.g.,

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Clearance Transponder Knot Indicated Airspeed 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 79

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Go-around , flaps 13,” I called.

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Runway Approach Knot Jet 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A 10-knot tailwind was also in our favor as the Cessna tracked around 150 knots over the ground. Mine was to keep us at 1,300 feet, hugging the right side of the Hudson River, and listen for our tail number. It was a beautiful morning without the typical fog that resides at KCRW in the summer.

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Clearance Approach Knot Altimeter 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A 10-knot tailwind was also in our favor as the Cessna tracked around 150 knots over the ground. Mine was to keep us at 1,300 feet, hugging the right side of the Hudson River, and listen for our tail number. It was a beautiful morning without the typical fog that resides at KCRW in the summer.

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Clearance Approach Knot Altimeter 52

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. Well, I was indicating 210 knots when I ejected and on my way out I was counting the rivets on the canopy bow. However, it had built from literally dozens of F-104s of all variants.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

The aircraft had to land into a 15-knot crosswind, and the plane landed at a speed of 115 mph, well below the standard landing speed of between 150-175 mph. (Historic Chicago) On September 28, 1992, the Boeing 727 took off from Chicagos OHare International Airport on the short flight to Meigs.

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Cockpit Pilot Ceiling Rudder 55

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You may lust after a vintage Beech Staggerwing , but a radial-engine tail-wheel airplane with unique quirks will need to be approached with a careful transition. Because it can truly carry four adults at 140 knots, with extra high-elevation airport capability, selling prices have soared.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes.

Weather 52

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52