AV Web

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A pair of aerodynamic researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a raptor-inspired drone that uses its tail feathers to control bank, rather than wingtip feathers mimicked by ailerons on airplanes. The turns could be executed at low and high speeds as the raptors maneuvered.

Tail 105

Tail Aileron Drag Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

It just so happened that 92460 was available, so a deal was made and the center section was sent to Texas along with the tail cone. “We were able to trade the oil coolers and exhausts to Chuck Whal for non-airworthy parts and ailerons.” Cleaned, repaired, and primed, she returned to Connecticut just about a year later.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

Photo by NASA The impetus for the program came from issues the Navy had encountered with inadvertent spin entries, which were traced back to the aircrafts aileron rudder interconnect system. This photo shows NASA’s F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The tail section mates perfectly with the forward fuselage. The horizontal and vertical stabilizers have also been completed and attached to the tail section. Before the temporary halt in restoration, the fuselage structural framework had been completed and painted.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 122

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 29, 2025

For over ten years, the project has been underway, with museum volunteers having built a pair of wings to the same dimensions as the first set of wings on the original, and have built the fuselage, cockpit, and tail surfaces, along with the retractable skid rather than a wheel that Hughes had installed on the original H-1.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion.

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Aileron Drag Rudder Descent 52

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. But there are variations from plane to plane.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 92

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although it is sort of heavy on the ailerons,” Storo said. What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. The tail touched down hard, but to save the landing—and the airplane—Storo put power to it and went around for another approach.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

.” It’s still configured as a cropduster, with gauges in the center section, a hopper, pump, and booms, with flat-bottom high lift wings, a metal covered fuselage and the most distinct looking “stearman” tail you’d ever find. With its wide stance, long wing and nose, and square tail it takes you back to the 1930’s in art deco style.

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Tail Airplanes Transponder Aileron 122

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

As seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. When the aircraft encounters a vortex and its strong enough to induce roll, the pilot counters it by using the ailerons against the roll and tries to fly out of the wake as soon as possible.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England. Left unchecked, the fire consumed most of the aircraft; just the tail and outboard wing sections survived the blaze.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

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

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Because the aircraft would be hanging from the structure of the Transportation Gallerys balcony, the left wing was removed from the aircraft, with only the right wing brought inside for reattachment, along with the tail stabilizers and the engines.

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Cockpit Pilot Ceiling Rudder 95

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On the early Bristol Biplanes (Boxkites) the ailerons were called ‘balancers.’ ’ The Wright Brothers aggressive litigation (against Blriot and Curtiss among others) over their patent as they saw it of the aileron did not help matters. An example of the Blriot control system on display in Londons Science Museum.

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Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Aileron Airplanes 78

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.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 94

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Just five minutes later, however, Burcham landed the aircraft, having been unable to retract the landing gear and was unaccustomed to the high sensitivity of the hydraulically assisted ailerons. However, the gear did not retract because of a safety switch left in place, and Kelly Johnson reassured Burcham of the sensitivity concerns.

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Jet Aileron Pilot Tail 111

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.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

As air flows over it, a force like lift results, and the tail is pulled in the opposite direction of the deflection. But instead of an upward force of lift on a wing, it’s a horizontal force pushing the tail of the plane causing the nose of the plane to move left and right. However, it’s not nearly as pronounced as on takeoff.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For better maintenance access, the small tail of the aircraft could be removed to work on or remove the engines. The X-4 had no horizontal stabilizer in order to avoid interaction of shockwaves between the wings but had a vertical stabilizer and rudder.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The modifications included replacing the single fin and rudder with a twin-tail design to improve stability. A particularly harrowing incident occurred during a test flight in March 1934 when the ailerons tore off one of the prototypes mid-flight. Despite these efforts, the problems persisted.

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Weight-Shift-Control Aviation Technology Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes. Many aircraft have heated leading edges on the wings, tail, and propellers.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Helicopters use a small rotor mounted on the tail that produces sideways thrust to counter the main rotors torque reaction. The tail rotor pushes air to one side ( action ), and the tail moves the other way ( reaction ). Other Designs The tail rotor is not the only way to solve the torque reaction problem.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite, Elevator forward. A flat spin happens when the center of gravity shifts too far aft (toward the tail), and the aircraft’s rotation becomes more horizontal. Ailerons: Neutral. The movement of the ailerons will change the angle of attack of both wings. Let’s get started!

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. Albree would consider this design to be his “make or break” aircraft to validate his theory for the Flying Tail design he and Roscoe P. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

Tail 98

Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The initial design incorporated wing panels from the North American P-51 Mustang, the tail assembly of the Douglas A-24, and the landing gear from the Vought F4U Corsair. Other issues included insufficient engine cooling, excessive aileron forces at high speeds, and poor spin recovery.

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Tail Aileron Approach Stability 105

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

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.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 306

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This under-mounted tail design was chosen to enhance the gunner’s field of fire and echoed elements seen in earlier seaplanes, such as the German Hansa-Brandenburg models. Both the upper and lower wings included ailerons, maximizing maneuverability. Further challenges arose from the central float.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 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.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. “The steel fuselage frame, tail surfaces, and landing gear have been repaired as needed, media blasted, and primed.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With its unique forward-tail design, retractable landing gear, and classic lines, it began the design philosophy for the over 11,000 Mooneys to follow. The wing featured a laminar flow design extending to the end of its generous flaps then a more conventional design forward of the ailerons.

Tail 94

Tail Aileron Pilot Airplanes 94

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. This wasn’t the first Van’s homebuilt to experience an in-flight tail separation. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot died instantly. Was the breakup cause or effect?

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 88

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Missing its tail, pointing almost straight down, a Van’s RV-7A single-engine, two-seat homebuilt plummeted out of the blue and into the rocky ground. This wasn’t the first Van’s homebuilt to experience an in-flight tail separation. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot died instantly. Was the breakup cause or effect?

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

Your ailerons and rudder will be neutral once you’re in the crab position. Simultaneously, we apply ailerons opposite the rudder input. The ailerons control our lateral position over the runway. We use just enough aileron input to prevent the aircraft from drifting downwind. We call this de-crabbing.

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Crosswind Longitudinal Axis Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The fuselage was made from a welded steel tube framework, with duralumin skin placed on the forward and center sections, while the rear section, along with its twin tail design, was covered with fabric.

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Payload Pilot Aileron Stability 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. Courtesy: Patrick Chovanec] The silver knobs on the left control throttle, fuel mixture, and aileron trim. However, the trickiest part of takeoff for most tailwheel airplanes is still when the tail comes up.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 119

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

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. He still succeeded in chopping off the enemy’s tail with the large propeller of his Corsair. m Length 10.26 m Height 4.50

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Aileron Rudder Ceiling Tail 98