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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

Vintage Aviation News

With a long, pencil-like fuselage, short anhedral wings capped with large tip tanks, and a T-tail, the Starfighter bore a striking resemblance to the spacecraft being developed at the same time. The XF-104 prototype was born from these principles, powered by a General Electric J79 afterburning turbojet producing 15,600 pounds of thrust.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

Aerotime

The pilot flyingpulled back the thrust levers, and as a result, over the following 5seconds, N1 decreased from 64% to approximately 43%, where it remained until touchdown. The engine thrust was steady at approximately 43%N1, the TSB report explained. The air speed began to decrease, the TSB report said.

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Understanding Left-Turning Tendencies in Airplanes

Northstar VFR

Left-turning tendencies are primarily caused by four aerodynamic effects:torque, spiraling slipstream, gyroscopic precession, and P-factor (asymmetric thrust).Each This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. Each plays a unique role, especially at high power settings and low airspeeds, such as during takeoff.

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35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10

Aerotime

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. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

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Delta CRJ-900 Accident In Toronto: Preliminary Report Published

One Mile at a Time

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. degree bank Two seconds before touchdown, the planes bank angle to the right increased, to 5.9 degrees to the right, and a rate of descent of 1,110 feet per minute The plane touched down at a bank angle of 7.5

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The Bold, Bulbous Douglas 1015 Cloudster II

Flying Magazine

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. Neither aircraft would advance beyond the development stage.

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Unbolted in Fairfield (Update on the 2022 Bell 407 GXP Crash)

Fear of Landing

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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