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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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Tail Rudder 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 134

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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Crosswind Knot Rudder Turbulence 97

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

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

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 65

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

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 68

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

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 65

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

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 59

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

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

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns.

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Aileron Rudder Drag Descent 52

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

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 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

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. While some of this may be due to continued pilot improvements, a more than 8% improvement is remarkable!

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

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 Rudder Hangar Tail 89

Aviation Bussiness News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Created in collaboration with Airbus, the course focuses on key differences between the A321neo and A321XLR, such as the innovative fuel system and the introduction of electronic tail rudder control in the A320 family.

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Rudder Tail Airline Airlines 40

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

This would be a twin-engine, all-metal design for a high-wing monoplane with a high aspect ratio wing braced by one large strut per wing, and a square-section fuselage with twin tailfins and rudders. For ease of loading and unloading, the design also featured a large rear door for cargo. Hurel-Dubois Miles HDM.105, Parachute test jumper Tech.

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Cargo Rudder Airplanes Tail 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Looks good with retracts, he replies. Its a housing development now.

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Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 79

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. Micro vortex generators are also a popular upgrade, optimizing airflow over the wing and tail surfaces to enhance control.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 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 61

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 60

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Stropp is placed below the tail of the Caquot observation balloon (Norwich University Archives) Perhaps the most intriguing discovery during the restoration was the trajectory of a bullet through some of the aircraft’s forward section. But as the restoration carried on, the Smithsonian’s specialists began finding some clues.

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Pilot Airplanes Tail Rudder 105

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In 1998, I joined a venerable flying club, Stick and Rudder Flying Club of Waukegan National Airport (KUGN). We slowed, tapped the tail first, and the nose came down solidly, causing the now open passenger door to come off in Diane’s hand. Hopefully you can acquire that experience without injury or damage. And she was not kidding.

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Pilot Descent Runway Crosswind 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. These extensive modifications kept Hartman and his monoplane flying, with the civil registration N286Y, well into the 1950s!

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For better maintenance access, the small tail of the aircraft could be removed to work on or remove the engines. The X-4 had no horizontal stabilizer in order to avoid interaction of shockwaves between the wings but had a vertical stabilizer and rudder. It weighed 7,820 lbs.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The modifications included replacing the single fin and rudder with a twin-tail design to improve stability. Trials and Tribulations Between 1932 and 1933, Mitsubishi produced additional prototypes with significant alterations. Three prototypes designated 3MT5A were completed, followed by five more 3MT5 models in 1933.

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Weight-Shift-Control Aviation Technology Aileron Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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. When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 58

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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. When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Pitch was controlled by varying the angle of incidence of the upper wing (forward and aft motions of the stick) and roll was initiated by the oversize rudder (left-right motion of the stick). The twin tail booms, vertical stabilizers, engines, and forward fuselage were years away from being mounted. The Black Widow in 2009.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

MiGs on your tail! Lead banked and wagged his rudder, signaling us to maneuver back into a spread formation. Radio calls from all over North Vietnam assaulted my helmet-covered ears, which strained to hear Lead’s call through the nonstop cacophony of SAM-generated warning tones and transmitted warnings: “SAMs! Four o’clock!”

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52