Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The tail section mates perfectly with the forward fuselage. The horizontal and vertical stabilizers have also been completed and attached to the tail section. Before the temporary halt in restoration, the fuselage structural framework had been completed and painted.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 122

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

More right rudder!!” The airplane rudder is one of the most misunderstood of the primary flight controls. Yet the rudder is one of the most important and one of the most under-utilized. The rudder’s most important function is controlling the yaw of the aircraft, which moves the nose of the plane left and right.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

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 weather was clear. The helicopter continued rotating left.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 107

World Airline News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday issued urgent safety recommendations to The Boeing Company and the Federal Aviation Administration in response to the potential for a jammed or restricted rudder control system on some 737 airplanes. The NTSB is investigating a Feb. operators to do so until replacements are available.

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Rudder Airplanes Tail Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Some fuselage work also took place – such as test-fitting the tail wheel, tail cone, and the skin under the horizontal stabilizer. image via AirCorps Aviation) Here we can see that the newly-made third rib and a 1/16” plywood reinforcement strip for the rudder hinge installation are glued and clamped in place.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Rudder Tail 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite, Elevator forward. A flat spin happens when the center of gravity shifts too far aft (toward the tail), and the aircraft’s rotation becomes more horizontal. Rudder: Full opposite input to the spin direction. Ready to become a safer pilot? Let’s get started! Ailerons: Neutral.

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

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. The newly painted rudder and horizontals now re-installed on 92460. From the cockpit back to the tail, 92460 is looking the part with the new painted control surfaces.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

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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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail Drag 126

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 13, 2024

For those not familiar with a Dutch roll, this is an aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of “tail-wagging” (yaw) and rocking from side-to-side (roll). An inspection was performed on the aircraft upon landing, and damage was discovered with the PCU (the power control unit, which also controls the rudder).

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Rudder Tail Pilot Runway 135

Plane and Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

The unique H-tail reduces the left-turning tendencies during takeoff while also minimizing the weathervaning effect prevalent in crosswinds. While the original Ercoupes lacked a rudder and rudder pedals entirely, this example has had them installed as an aftermarket kit, making the airplane a bit more familiar for newcomers to fly.

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Rudder Airplanes Crosswind Tail 87

Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

I could turn tail, but things were not much better back further west. In a left crosswind you need right rudder during your sideslip, then once on the ground you need left rudder to correct for the skipping and keep the aircraft centered. What to do? In hindsight, I should have stayed in Rock Springs, but too late for that now.

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Knot Crosswind Rudder Turbulence 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Large components such as the fuselage, wings, and the distinctive triple tail unit, along with 292 crates of smaller parts, arrived in October 2023. The lighting and controls are functional, and cables connect to movable rudders and flaps, providing a true-to-original experience.

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Rudder Tail Hangar Cockpit 130

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 88

AV Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As of today, the CRJs right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical stabilizer, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer, and quick access recorder have been recovered and will be moved to a secure location for examination.

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Air Traffic Control Quick Access Recorder Cockpit Rudder 68

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 5, 2025

As the British had not yet perfected their own synchronization gear to allow for firing through the arc of a propeller, it was intended that the pilot would have no forward-firing weapon, with the rear gunner shooting planes behind the tail.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Airplanes 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. The fuselage is 9 feet tall, just about even with the top of the twin rudders.

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Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Gross Weight Pilot 53

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Just before touchdown, the captain used right rudder to “de-crab” the aircraft and landed smoothly in the touchdown area. When you land a Boeing 737, you control the aircraft direction using the rudder pedals, which are linked to the nosewheel steering. As they decelerated, the captain reduced the right rudder to neutral.

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Crosswind Rudder Knot Runway 52

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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Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Jetwhine

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Seeking an endorsement, I was enrolled in the 15-hour tailwheel transition course at Stick and Rudder Aviation’s “Academy of Flight and Taildragmanship” in Watsonville, California. And then Paul asked me to make a no-rudder turn to the left. When I raised the tail, the prop twisted my wrist to the left. So, this was adverse yaw.

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Rudder Airplanes Tail Pilot in Command 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. 9” on its rudder. Albree would consider this design to be his “make or break” aircraft to validate his theory for the Flying Tail design he and Roscoe P. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. Remember that torque will be created as power is applied; therefore, it will be necessary to use rudder pressure to keep the airplane straight as it settles onto the runway.

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Airplanes Runway Accelerated Stall Lift 89

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2024

According to Russ, the whole process had gone so smoothly that the decision was made to continue to the nacelles and tail booms to finish what was completed on the aircraft. From there, volunteers are continuing their work on the fuel tanks and building the aircraft’s rudders. Two hours later the fuselage painting was complete.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. “Very little,” the gunner reported.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

Your ailerons and rudder will be neutral once you’re in the crab position. We use the rudder to align the aircraft’s longitudinal axis with the centerline. Simultaneously, we apply ailerons opposite the rudder input. The pilot needs to hold aileron and rudder deflection the entire time.

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Crosswind Longitudinal Axis Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The fuselage panels were composed of aluminum and the outer wings, main spar, armament bays, ailerons, elevators and rudders featured fabric as their skinning. He still succeeded in chopping off the enemy’s tail with the large propeller of his Corsair. m Length 10.26 m Height 4.50

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Aileron Rudder Ceiling Tail 98

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. To correct a Dutch roll, pilots should apply opposite rudder to the yaw direction to help dampen the motion.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

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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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane. Its not button pushing but rather intuitive rudder coordination. He had recently moved from California to South Florida to begin his commercial flying career , joining a nationwide banner tow company with 50 aircraft. Its cool flying.

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Drag Airplanes Pilot Rudder 72

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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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 92

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 60

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It was amazing to see it on the gear for the first time when I visited the project in December 2017, by now the tail was also completed and installed. Some of the systems were starting to be put in place and in the cockpit the rudder pedals and control columns were installed. The nose art had also now been applied!

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

Air Facts

OCTOBER 9, 2024

I love flying with the clam shell door and windows open with just the stick in my right hand, throttle in my left, and feet dancing on the rudders, taking in the sights and smells of the world below. The ability to share this with my wife makes it that much more enjoyable.

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Weather Hangar Rudder Tail 94

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

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. The Cessna 195 is known for its round tail and flashy looks.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. “The steel fuselage frame, tail surfaces, and landing gear have been repaired as needed, media blasted, and primed.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105