Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Davis Wing allowed for higher speeds and added lift at relatively low angles of attack. The new bomber design, which was internally designated as the Model 32, also adapted the Corregidor’s twin tail design, and had twin internal bomb bays compared to the B-17’s one.

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Tail Airfoil Drag Ceiling 98

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Yet, improvements in vertical-lift technology are still coming fast. AutoFlights Prosperity and CarryAll variants all carry 13 propellers 10 for lift and 3 pushers. The Albatross V400 heavy-lift air cargo eVTOL or hybrid-electric aircraft has a max payload of 220 lb. The rear props are strictly for lift.

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Lift Payload Cargo Pilot 68

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

The FG-1D Corsair is lifted into position back in 1971. Photo by Jerry O’Neill She was lifted off the pole in July 2008 and brought to the CASCs restoration shop. It just so happened that 92460 was available, so a deal was made and the center section was sent to Texas along with the tail cone. CASC Photo.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A flat spin happens when the center of gravity shifts too far aft (toward the tail), and the aircraft’s rotation becomes more horizontal. In this situation, the wings aren’t producing enough lift, and the aircraft essentially falls out of the sky while spinning.

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

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 54

AV Web

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A pair of aerodynamic researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a raptor-inspired drone that uses its tail feathers to control bank, rather than wingtip feathers mimicked by ailerons on airplanes. The turns could be executed at low and high speeds as the raptors maneuvered.

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Tail Aileron Drag Lift 105

Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

And then we lift it.” Several processes were conducted simultaneously, such as the ground assembly and lifting of several sections of the structure and fitting panels that would eventually become the walls of the hangar. He continued: “All those accessories and technology, the cables, you fit them on the ground, and you lift them up.

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Hangar Tarmac Lift Approach 300

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power. Within a couple of seconds, I could feel that the tail was ready to come up, so I added just a touch of forward stick pressure. Within a couple of seconds, I could feel that the tail was ready to come up, so I added just a touch of forward stick pressure.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Though the German Zeppelins were inflated with hydrogen, which was a more readily available and lighter lifting gas, it was flammable when mixed with oxygen, which doomed many a Zeppelin to a fiery end. While flying high over West Texas, the sun heated and expanded the helium lifting gas, forcing the Macon to rise up.

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Lift Tail Stability Wind Shear 59

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 helicopter, still powered, briefly lifted off again.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 110

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Unfortunately, during preparations to present the aircraft at Airbus’ CASA centennial, a combination of factors—crosswinds, rotor control issues, and a tail skid—led to an accident, damaging the autogyro. 4 – achieved the first recorded flight of a powered, self-lifting autogyro in January 1923. They’ve rebuilt the C.4,

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Lift Crosswind Tail Pilot 124

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. When the pitch attitude changessuch as when the tail of a taildragger rises during takeoffthe force applied to the propeller does not take effect immediately at the point of contact. How do you counter this left turning tendency? So what does that mean exactly?

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 29, 2024

Earlier in the season, noise from NX611’s tail oleo when the grass was wet prompted the disassembly of the last spare tail oleo to obtain a serviceable spare for both airworthy and taxiing purposes. The jig was prepared for the wing to be lifted into position, requiring the use of two forklifts borrowed from AE Lenton’s.

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Lift Tail 122

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The Graf II “My model of the D-LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II was built as a flying model, and it is built to a scale of 1:36 because when I was considering its size, I was advised that the model would need at least 150 cubic feet interior volume for helium to provide lift to deem the model airworthy,” Mellberg said.

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Lift Ceiling Tail Hangar 52

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. A mechanic had found a worn feathering bearing in the tail rotor hub and blade assembly. The tail rotor’s responses and vibrations are measured in order to adjust the weights of the rotor blades and/or the alignment of the rotor assembly.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 94

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 15, 2024

In 1968 “Carter’s Li’l Pill” was finally lifted onto a trailer flatbed then towed out by a bulldozer after hard work by William “Bill” Chapman to clear a path. The tail group has been rebuilt, and both the engine mount and the windshield and canopy have been restored.

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Lift Tail Pilot 98

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. However, if I were to consider an electric glider I would want to have the batteries in the fuselage (for easy charging and also to remove them during the very cold Colorado winter) and I would insist on a steerable tail wheel for taxiing.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Principles of Flight: Lift, Weight, Thrust, and Drag Flying a plane for the first time requires a basic understanding of the forces that make flight possible. Lift is generated by the wings, counteracting the force of weight, which pulls the plane down. Ready to experience the skies with us?

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Aileron Drag Rudder Descent 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 6, 2024

This meant the airplane, if were to carry anything, had to be built from very light materials incapable of providing support for a wing long enough to generate the needed lift. The bi-wing design allows two shorter wings to be braced against one another with a series of struts and wires providing the strength and lifting surface required.

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Lift Drag Airplanes Ground Effect 97

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

It may be necessary to add a slight amount of power to keep the airspeed from decreasing excessively and to avoid losing lift too rapidly. As the airplane contacts the ground, the tail will be forced down very rapidly by the back-elevator pressure and by inertia acting downward on the tail.

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Airplanes Runway Accelerated Stall Lift 89

Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

We waited for the low clouds to lift then made our way to the airport. My tail cam was dead, despite knowing I had recently charged it. I've been up in the air once more then my bride with a coastline tour in August. It's a longer process getting back into the preflight and getting things set up.

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Runway Lift Tail Airplanes 92

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

.” It’s still configured as a cropduster, with gauges in the center section, a hopper, pump, and booms, with flat-bottom high lift wings, a metal covered fuselage and the most distinct looking “stearman” tail you’d ever find. This year, there were two very eye-catching stearmans on the line that brought a lot of attention.

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Tail Airplanes Transponder Aileron 122

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Legend has it that Custer observed how roofs were lifted off barns during windstorms and decided that he could recreate this effect. Thus, the propeller draws air through the channel, reducing pressure and producing lift. Fast-forward to 1929 and Custer was granted a patent for the channel wing concept.

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Gross Weight Lift Pilot Tail 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Joel Edwards] When A&T commenced the recovery, divers placed inflatable lift bags at strategic points on the two sections to raise them to just below the surface, thus preventing damage during the twelve hours it took to tow the wreckage to the local marina. The same didn’t happen on the port side. The yoke is original.

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Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Air Facts

MAY 8, 2024

This was not a problem as it gave me time on something other than a tail dragger. We lifted off without issue and commenced the climb. In this particular incident I had been flying a Piper Super Cub most of the day when the Tug Master asked if I could give him a break and use the C182.

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Lift Air Traffic Control Checkride Tail 98

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. This pressure difference produces lift, allowing the aircraft to ascend. Each rotor blade acts as an airfoil, and as it rotates, it moves air over its surface, generating lift.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Generate Lift With Airplane Wings One of the most valuable airplane parts that connect to the fuselage is the wings. The wings work with other sections of an aircraft to increase lift and adjust stalling speed. 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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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

This operation was carried out routinely with the little fighters launching from the airship, flying their mission, and then hooking up on a trapeze that lifted them inside the hull. Navy had equipped both the USS Akron and Macon airships with a hangar deck and trapezes to carry and launch Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes.

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Jet Tail Pilot Descent 88

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. The knob on the right enables “auto slots,” slats on the wings that automatically deploy like flaps to provide additional lift at low speeds and high angles of attack. Notice that there is no artificial horizon.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The outer wing generates more lift than the inner wing since it’s temporarily moving faster. Extra lift makes the wing rise. Increased lift on the raised wing immediately creates more induced drag. Placing the center of gravity ahead of the aircraft’s center of lift improves longitudinal stability. What’s induced drag?

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

As air flows over it, a force like lift results, and the tail is pulled in the opposite direction of the deflection. But instead of an upward force of lift on a wing, it’s a horizontal force pushing the tail of the plane causing the nose of the plane to move left and right. Why is this? This is called adverse yaw.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

Fear of Landing

JULY 12, 2024

Canards have been used to add lift and flight control since the Wright Flyer; however, the complex aerodynamics meant that it was another 50 years before it appeared on a mass-produced aircraft, the Saab 37 Viggen. Tail One quick trick could be to look at the tail and see if there is a flag on it.

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Cockpit Tail Jet Pilot 88

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. The more the wings shape is able to change the direction of the flow of air over the surface, the more lift it will produce. Why does this increase the lift? How Do Ailerons Work?

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Cables stretched across each end of the runway, suspended several inches off the tarmac by rubber standoffs, could be snagged by a fighter’s extended tail hook. The Phantom’s tail hook could only be lowered from the front cockpit. Dick recalls “about a dozen hands lifting me out of the cockpit” and being gently taken down a ladder. “I

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Cockpit Tail Approach Pilot 98

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Most of the time, I would turn the floatplane setting the tails of the floats onto the shore in order to make our departure a simple matter of climbing in, starting the engine, and with a burst of throttle, sliding into the deeper water and going about our day. In short order, we loaded our gear and beat a hasty retreat back to Ketchikan.

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Airplanes Torque Tail Pilot 87

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Most of the time, I would turn the floatplane setting the tails of the floats onto the shore in order to make our departure a simple matter of climbing in, starting the engine, and with a burst of throttle, sliding into the deeper water and going about our day. In short order, we loaded our gear and beat a hasty retreat back to Ketchikan.

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Airplanes Torque Tail Pilot 85

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 18, 2025

Dean Coryell photo via Randy Malmstrom] After the lifting of the arms embargo in 1952, a Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine running a 4-blade propeller was introduced for the Buchn. The tail markings also indicate homage to the aircraft’s original Hispano markings as s/n 193.

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Tail Rudder Thrust Stability 59