Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

A large portion of the tail, including most of the vertical stabilizer and the entire horizontal stabilizer, also broke away from the aircraft. As was seen in video footage of the incident the aircraft then began to slide along the runway and rolled to the right until it became inverted.

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Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer 285

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 294

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The initial design incorporated wing panels from the North American P-51 Mustang, the tail assembly of the Douglas A-24, and the landing gear from the Vought F4U Corsair. Engineers struggled to stabilize the aircraft’s center of mass, and the V-3420 engine often failed to deliver its expected power output.

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Tail Aileron Approach Stability 105

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Numerous parts have been fabricated for the outer wing panels, and they will soon be covering the tail control surfaces using a new water-based system.” Additionally, the team has begun laying out the damaged left horizontal stabilizer to assess the necessary repairs.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. 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. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The white light is located on the aircrafts tail and sometimes additionally on the wingtips, facing backward (aft). Logo Lights Logo lights are lights mounted on the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft and point upward toward the vertical stabilizer, illuminating the airlines logo. These lights are not a legal requirement.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Runway Pilot 111

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Unlike the Cessnas all-aluminum airframe construction, the Stinson uses a steel tube fuselage with fabric covering the fuselage, wing, and tail. This particular 108 is the dash three model, identifiable by the large vertical stabilizer. It has a low 2,221 hours on the airframe with no known damage history.

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Transponder Stability Tail Airplanes 97

Simple Flying

JULY 23, 2024

Significant advances in aviation technology have occurred over the last few decades. Aircraft are fitted with wingtip devices, generally known as winglets or sharklets, to minimize aerodynamic drag and increase fuel efficiency, and state-of-the-art engines reduce sound and wear and tear.

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Stability Drag Aviation Technology Tail 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

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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). Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft).

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Stability Tail Cargo Jet 111

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The restoration team removed, refurbished (or remade) and reinstalled each component from the original vertical stabilizer, one-at-a-time, so everything stayed in alignment, negating the need for a fixture. AirCorps Aviation’s CAD department has produced a rendering of the AT-10’s horizontal stabilizer.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Rudder Tail 98

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This version was equipped with modified flight controls based on lessons learned from the initial prototype, had a larger vertical stabilizer, and several other minor improvements. The large vertical tail completes the picture. Undeterred, Harlow and his merry band of students constructed a second prototype, the PJC-2.

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Airplanes Ceiling Stability Tail 98

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. ” “I guess we surprised them!”

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

A large portion of the tail section was found on the runway, around 1,680 feet from the threshold, and 235 feet from the main wreckage. Obviously it was gusty, but if youre not able to stabilize an approach, thats when a go around would ordinarily be performed. The right wing came to a rest around 215 feet beyond the main wreckage.

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Descent Threshold Knot Flight Deck 93

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

An unbuilt concept, the Douglas DC-8 Skybus aimed to position two V-12 piston engines in the forward fuselage and link them with two contra-rotating propellers in the tail. A ventral stabilizer doubled as propeller protection in the event of over-rotation or tail strikes.

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Drag Thrust Stability Tail 133

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 3, 2024

The aircraft’s wings and horizontal stabilizer required only minor repairs. The team installed new electrical systems and hoses, rebuilt the main landing gear and tail wheel, and recovered and painted the fuselage, wings, and flight surfaces to restore the aircraft’s original appearance.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail Pilot 124

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 66

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

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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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

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. The problem is that the airflow from the propeller goes over the horizontal stabilizer, which produces a downward force (and causes the nose to pitch up).

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

As the propeller spins, it creates a spiral pattern of airflow that wraps around the fuselage and strikes the left side of the vertical stabilizer (rudder). This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. So what does that mean exactly?

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

feet high at the tip of the vertical stabilizer. At the center is the Douglas X-3, surrounded clockwise by the Bell X-1A (AF serial 48-1384), the third Douglas D-558-1 (NACA tail number 142), Convair XF-92A, Bell X-5, Douglas D-558-2, and Northrop X-4. feet long, had a 31.3-foot foot wingspan, and was 17.5 Photo NACA/NASA

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Airfoil Aileron Rudder Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In March 1939, a new owner, Alhambra resident Warren Knox Layne, added a tailwheel to better operate from paved runways as opposed to the original tail skid. It shows that the aircraft had border stripes following the contours of its tail surfaces and wings, with a single stripe down the length of each side of the fuselage.

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Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airplanes 111

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The airship initially recovered, dumping ballast and stabilizing at 700 feet above the sea and returning to its cruising altitude of 1,600 feet, but the ship was sent into another plunge, falling a rate of 14 feet per second tail-down.

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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. They crashed into a field east of the runway, breaking the skids off.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 110

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As a 1979 N-model this 172 incorporates the swept vertical stabilizer and rear cabin window, giving it the most modern look of any 172 variants. Custom-painted wheel pants and a sharp paint scheme add to the overall appearance and make it stand out from older, round-tail, fabric-covered taildraggers.

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Stability Tail Airplanes General Aviation 98

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

At approximately 30-40 feet agl, the spinning stopped and the helicopter appeared to stabilize for a brief moment before continuing a nose-low, forward descent into the grass north of Runway 28. The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. As it descended it spun around 2-3 times.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 94

Learn to Fly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter features vertical tail feathers and horizontal stabilators made from carbon fiber-reinforced bismaleimide composite. Composites can make up 50 to 90% of a rotorcrafts airframe by weight, including radomes, tail cones and large structural assemblies (Figure 6).

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Stability Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cargo 73

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.

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Tail Airplanes Crosswind Knot 98

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

The provision of stabilizer floats at the ends of each wing, which could be retracted for streamlined flight, added to the design’s efficiency. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged.

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Pilot Tail Ferry Flight Clearance 286

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 94

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 93

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

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 71