Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For others, flying on a commercial airliner may be a once-a-year event when heading off on vacation. In the case of certain passengers, a flight may represent the first time they have ever been onboard an airplane, generating feelings of excitement and trepidation in equal measure about what may lie ahead.

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 273

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 31, 2025

Copyright 2012 koepnickphotography.com Growing up, Andy Porter always had some sort of airplane. Mike had built up a considerable amount of flight hours, and had his sights set on a job flying for the airlines. Here are six airplanes. The airplane had been totally rebuilt from the ground up. He stayed the course.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Annual Inspection 105

Northstar VFR

JUNE 8, 2025

ATC had vectored an Alaska Airlines to turn base just over my position, 1,000 ft above me. Mechanical Factors Mechanical failures : Airplanes in general are very reliable, and major malfunctions are the minority. Read Chapter 5 “Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training” in the Airplane Flying Handbook.

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Turbulence Wind Shear Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2025

On January 26, 1941, the aircraft was delivered to Transcontinental & Western Air (later Trans World Airlines (TWA)) as NC1944. However, airlines such as TWA still contributed to the war effort during WWII by transporting personnel and materiel across the United States and even around the world.

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Aileron Cargo Airplanes Tail 93

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

While commercial airliners are made up of millions of individual components, the foundation of every airplanewhether a Boeing jet or a training aircraft like a Cessna 172 starts with the same key parts. The Main Parts of an Airplane While aircraft come in many designs and sizes, they all share several core components.

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Lift Thrust Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 52

AV Web

DECEMBER 22, 2024

I did not fly through tropical storms, hurricanes, or blizzards; the only inversions I have experienced were voluntary aileron rolls or the occasional intentional spin. None of my students have killed themselves in an airplane, and all of them have miraculously passed their check rides without too much drama.

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Airplanes Hangar Aileron Crosswind 52

Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This regimented approach can be beneficial for students pursuing aviation as a full-time career, as it is often designed to meet airline and professional pilot training standards. Your instructor will introduce you to the basic components of the aircraft, including the fuselage, wings, ailerons, rudder, elevator, and landing gear.

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Aileron Approach Rudder Visual Flight Rules 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Adam Estes) Inside the museum one can find a former United Airlines Boeing 727-100 (registration number N7017U) hanging from the second story balcony. In 1991, N7017U was retired from United Airlines operational fleet, but instead of being scavenged for parts and scrapped, N7017U was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry.

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Cockpit Pilot Ceiling Rudder 95

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Learn the basic structure of an airplane while in flight school at Leopard Aviation. From the navigation display to the wing structure, understanding all segments of an airplane is crucial in the aviation industry. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Beyond that, likely with an instructor, you can learn fun, new skills in the same airplane. If you have access to both low- and high-wing airplanes, you can practice till you’re really good in both. Then I had occasion to fly with an airline pilot, giving him a ride home in his leaseback before I was to fly it back.

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Crosswind Aileron Runway Gross Weight 52

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. Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Flying Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

These flying law enforcement officers pilot helicopters and airplanes in support of troopers on the ground. She graduated from the law enforcement academy around the same time the airline was recalling its pilots and decided to focus on a career in law enforcement. Missions are conducted in a standardized way much like the airlines.

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Pilot Aileron Ceiling Hangar 81

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous. Our Aircraft Our family’s airplane is a 1976 Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six. Flagstaff is at 7,015 feet.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

From short-haul narrowbodies to hopes of building airplanes that could carry more passengers and travel further and faster than ever before, the arrival of jet-powered passenger aircraft opened the floodgates to discovery, innovation, and modern design. The proposed aircraft was an airliner with a capacity for 110 to 120 passengers.

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Jet Airplanes Airline Airlines 293

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

I want it because I want to travel through time and I want to fly a difficult airplane and I want to feel the wind when I fly and I want people to look, to see, to know that glory still exists. Although I had never ridden in the Parks, I had seen it fly many times and we all enjoyed watching Glen’s masterful operation of the airplane.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

I had never heard of a Pierre Robin R2160 before, and why should I have known about an obscure GA airplane that only has eight (10, actually, but more on that later) examples in the U.S.? A former Marine and airline pilot with 30,000-plus hours, he has owned two of the 10 Robin R2160s imported to the U.S., Soon after that, I sold it.

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Rudder Pilot Center of Gravity Airplanes 83

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 95

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 95

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

By Chris Henry During the war in Vietnam, there was an airline that flew some of the most harrowing missions ever taken on by a group of this type, and over hostile territory. Because of this, they gained the title of “World’s Most Shot at Airline”. The airplane shuddered under the fire. It was just a great airplane.

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Cargo Cockpit Airplanes Pilot 116

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

With the introduction of the Cirrus SR22T in 2010, general aviation had a truly modern, high-flying, personal airplane that could fly at over 200 mph and make reliable long-distance travel a reality for the single-engine piston set. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 89

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

If you’ve ever been on a flight and felt the airplane swaying side to side, you might’ve experienced a taste of what’s known as a Dutch roll. Learning about the Dutch roll can make your next flight feel a little more grounded, even when the airplane isn’t. It’s very tempting to counter the roll with ailerons.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With each wiggle and movement, the airplane bobbed accordingly, just dying to do something other than the relatively gentle climb I’d commanded for the last three minutes. I grew up flying aerobatic airplanes—but they were nothing like this. We both wound up flying at the same regional airline.

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Aileron Rudder Airplanes Knot 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 2, 2024

While Nantucket has commuter airline service, and a lot of business jet activity, there were enough flyers like us that we didn’t feel out of place. We ended at the front desk where we paid our admission fee, walked out the back, got in the airplane, taxied out, and took off again. We decided to stay two days. Onward to Bar Harbor.

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General Aviation Weather Pilot Cockpit 98

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With a collection seeded by purchase of six WWI era aircraft from the former Roosevelt Field where Charles Lindbergh launched on his historic flight to Paris, ORA is a tribute to founder Cole Palen's (1925-1993) fervent belief that an airplane is only an airplane if it still flies. Over time, he built an extensive flying menagerie.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 59

Air Facts

JUNE 21, 2024

This school owned no airplanes—all the aircraft were “lease-backs,” by owners. On my one and only flight with the young flight school co-founder, he suddenly slammed the airplane into a 60-degree left bank and pulled aggressively, saying “What do you think of this ?’’ I don’t think he knew what the ailerons or rudder did.

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Rudder Crosswind Knot Aileron 75

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

While hover taxing on the taxiway, NTSB reports, a Cessna airplane taxied onto the same taxiway. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. at Marana, Arizona, on 2021s first day.

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Pilot Airplanes Runway Descent 52