Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Below are other critical pieces of the wings that help give the plane additional lift, reduce drag, or achieve lower speeds in preparation for landing: Ailerons: A French word meaning “fin” or “little wing,” the aileron helps control the airplane’s roll. 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

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. Sometimes it seems that planes go off the side of the runway in a crosswind landing because the pilot did not use full aileron deflection to counter the crosswind. He had the altitude nailed. Why might that be?

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Crosswind Aileron Runway Gross Weight 52

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. Ailerons, located on the wings, control roll by increasing lift on one wing while decreasing it on the other, allowing the aircraft to bank left or right.

Torque 52

Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Aviation Bussiness News

JANUARY 30, 2025

These systems provide the power and precision needed to operate critical components, from landing gear and braking activation to flight control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, and rudder) and flaps. MROs enable airlines to comply with regulations in terms of their hydraulic systems performance and efficiency.

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Aileron Rudder Approach Jet 40

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. Captain Haynes continued his flying career with United Airlines after the incident involving Flight 232.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

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., Navy medic and then flew Harriers for the Marine Corps, he was hired by American Airlines, flying a wide range of airlinersfrom the Boeing 727 to the McDonnell MD-11. and has, in fact, owned Six Zero Zulu twice.

Rudder 74

Rudder Pilot Airplanes Center of Gravity 74

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. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4.

True Airspeed 88

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 88

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. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

” [Photo via Brad Donner] “My late mother was a stewardess, back when you could call them that, for Capital Airlines until she married my father. “Completing the wing panels and mating new ailerons to new wings and new wings to an old fuselage with new struts bracing the whole affair.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Despite the hardships of the Great Depression, airline travel was coming of age with the arrival of the fast, safe, and comfortable Douglas DC-3. It sported a supercharged 450 hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior and an enlarged vertical stabilizer and rudder to match. He called it the Spartan Executive.

Rudder 80

Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 80

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. Anyone who bothered to look up from the farms, corn fields and cotton fields east of Mobile Bay could watch students meld aerodynamic theory with stick and rudder practice.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most commercial airliners have wings that are swept backward to allow them to fly close to the speed of sound safely. To correct a Dutch roll, pilots should apply opposite rudder to the yaw direction to help dampen the motion. Once the yaw dampens, gradually reduce rudder input to neutral. What is a yaw damper?

Stability 52

Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Giant ailerons could whip the world around me with a 400-degree roll rate, and the thing would tolerate plus or minus 10 Gs, breaking yours truly long before any structure failed. I gave up and fired with all available firepower: “I taught your school’s owner how to do an aileron roll in 2003.” Here’s the thing.

Aileron 52

Aileron Rudder Airplanes Knot 52

Air Facts

JUNE 21, 2024

Nowadays, I feel even sorrier for him, because I see on Linkedin that he’s a first officer at a regional airline. As my buddy, who used to be a captain for Trans States, said “Flying in the airlines is like driving a car into a garage with someone you don’t like and staring out the windshield at the wall for four hours.”

Rudder 75

Rudder Crosswind Knot Aileron 75

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In an effort to sidestep the Wright Brothers' patent on wing warping, Curtiss implemented ailerons as a practical solution for roll control that are still used by most modern aircraft. With a passenger capacity of six, the airplane was popular with early airlines Braniff, Delta, and Northwest, though it was also an effective freight hauler.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56