Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

As I tuned the ATIS for Destin Executive, I was glad to hear there was no ceiling reported. When the ceilings come down, I’ve had the pleasure of getting placed into a lengthy hold to accommodate commercial, as well as military traffic, working in the area. No ceiling so no hold for us today! That was poor airmanship on my part.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

The right aileron sustained substantial damage. Weather at the destination airport at the time of the accident included a 300 feet ceiling, quarter mile visibility in fog, and calm wind. During the ground loop, the right wing struck the ground and the airplane came to rest upright on the main landing gear.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

Thrust

Flying Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

Courtesy: Meg Godlewski] The Fly Along It was a typical gray overcast morning in Olympia, Washington, but the ceilings were high enough for a flight. Trooper Anson Statema carefully orbited over the signal location and the stolen car until ground support troops could arrive. Statema allowed me to try it.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings. By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings. By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests.

Wind Shear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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