Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Weather conditions on Groundhog Day were better than the week prior, characterized by a high ceiling and no thin screen of clouds hiding the ground from view. Braking was less effective there than at Alton Bay and, with full aileron into the wind and backpressure on the controls, we coasted to a stop in the final tenth of the runway.

Runway 95

Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 95

Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The new aircraft would be called ‘Mercure’, as decided by the company’s founder Marcel Dassault, who wanted to name the new aircraft after a mythological figure, opting for ‘ Mercury ’ (or ‘ Mercure ’ in French) who had wings on his helmet and ailerons on his feet.

Jet 293

Jet Airplanes Airlines Airline 293

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Model PG featured larger ailerons and adjustments to the tail design and would be shipped from East Boston to Hazelhurst Field [later known as Roosevelt Field] in Mineola, NY, the intended destination for the Model G Scout back in 1915. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

Tail 98

Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

He replaced the two-cylinder, horizontally opposed Detroit Aero 25hp engine with a three-cylinder Szekely SR-3 45-hp radial engine, and in 1935, he changed out the wooden fuselage frame for a tubular steel one, and removed the pulleys and cables for wing warping and added ailerons to the wings.

Airplanes 105

Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

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. m Performance Maximum Speed 446 mph Service Ceiling 41,500 ft Range 873 nm Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 Corsair, Bu. m Length 10.26 m Height 4.50 m Length 10.26 m Height 4.50

Aileron 98

Aileron Rudder Ceiling Tail 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames. Your new Spartan cruised at just over 200 mph, climbed at 1,000 fpm, and had a service ceiling of 24,000 feet. However, the Spartan’s belly flap was controlled separately from the wing flaps.

Rudder 86

Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 86

Airspeed Junkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The aircraft uses a system of six spoilerons on each wing for roll control, compensating for the lack of traditional ailerons. This impressive power plant allows the B-52H to achieve a maximum speed of 1,000 km/h and a service ceiling of 15,151 meters. The control systems are equally sophisticated.

Payload 98

Payload Weight-Shift-Control Thrust Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Ailerons and flaps were positioned on the outer trailing edges with solid interior ribs, unlike the rest of the aircraft, which had hollow interior ribs to reduce weight. The two main fuel tanks were located between the inner wing spars, with a second pair of reserve tanks positioned further out. meters Length 16.4

Cockpit 52

Cockpit Aileron Ceiling Descent 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

That required the creation of a redesigned, shorter span aileron that resulted in a markedly increased roll rate. In an airplane with a great deal of adverse aileron yaw that challenges a pilot each time the airplane makes a turn? Slow flight requires good rudder work to handle adverse aileron yaw when rolling at all aggressively.

Gross Weight 78

Gross Weight Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Rudder 78

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. The wing’s dead-smooth surface plus the tight-fitting aileron and flap brackets plus aileron gap seals give the build a professional factory look (left).

Airplanes 79

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79