Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In general, the chord line is used as an easy-to-understand reference when referring to the properties of a wing or airfoil. The Difference Between a Chord Line and a Camber Line The chord line is a straight line that crosses the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. What Is the Chord Line in Aviation?

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Center of Gravity Camber Lift Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 16, 2024

It will be coupled with a wind tunnel and a few different types of airfoils to demonstrate the effect of airflow at different angles. The airframe itself never flew with the military – being put into storage immediately after being built – but was eventually sold to civilians.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airfoil Rudder Stability 111

Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

Airfoils use this principle, with faster airflow over the top creating lower pressure. If lift were entirely due to Bernoulli, a symmetric airfoil (one with equal curvature on top and bottom) wouldnt generate lift – yet it does when given the right angle of attack. In reality, the wing also uses Newtons third law to create lift.

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Pilot Lift Camber Airfoil 52

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 14, 2025

The NXT was designed using computer-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD), NASA-derived airfoils, and was tested in the Lockheed wind tunnel to refine the aerodynamics. However, like any overnight success story, the actual journey to the NXT began in the early 1990s with the original Nemesis.

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Airfoil Final Approach Drag Tail 74

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 28, 2025

A more modern airfoil helps performance as well. According to the company, the prop at a median pitch setting yielded improved take-off and climb performance with better cruise speeds and fuel flows. Moreover, the new prop and carbon-fiber spinner combination results in a 13-pound reduction over the standard fixed-pitch metal prop.

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Density Altitude Airfoil Airplanes Pilot 89

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 11, 2025

Both aircraft display early examples of swept-wing airfoils. The Skyrocket also contributed to refining wind tunnel methodologies and validating theories of flight dynamics in the transonic and supersonic regimes. This 1950s photograph shows the Douglas D-558-2 and the North American F-86 Sabre chase aircraft in flight.

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Drag Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airfoil 52

Flight Training Central

MARCH 3, 2025

Depending on design, airfoils used in general aviation, stall at angles of attack between 16 to 18 degrees. While its extremely important to understand what conditions can lead to a stall, how to recognize an impending stall, and correct recovery techniques, its not something to fear during your everyday flying.

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Rudder Aileron Airplanes Accelerated Stall 96

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Setting the benchmark for modern airliners, the Douglas DC-3 (1935) a classic in commercial aviation brought all-metal construction, retractable landing gear, and more efficient airfoil designs. Replacing the slower, drag-heavy biplanes of previous years, monoplane aircraft emerged during this time.

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Drag Lift Jet Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

These glove modifications served to smooth the wing surface and alter the airfoil to achieve specific pressure distributions. For the VSTFE program, the outer wing panels of NASA 834 were fitted with specially designed natural laminar flow gloves.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

An angle of attack (AOA) indicator can determine the aerodynamic health of the airfoil (wing). More simply, an AOA indicator displays the margin between the current AOA of the airfoil, and the AOA at which the airfoil will stall (critical AOA), providing the pilot with a visual and sometimes audible indication.

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Airfoil Center of Gravity Density Altitude Drag 40

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

Powered-lift: Heavier-than-air aircraft capable of vertical takeoff, vertical landing, and low speed flight that depends principally on engine-driven lift devices or engine thrust for lift during these flight regimes and on nonrotating airfoil(s) for lift during horizontal flight.

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Pilot Weight-Shift-Control Lift Airplanes 86

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

However, by the mid 1950s, the desire to increase the range and speed of large airplanes led to swept-back wings of high aspect ratio, thin airfoils, and fuselages with high fineness ratios (i.e. long and thin).

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Stability Airplanes Airfoil Pilot 98

Inspire

APRIL 1, 2020

He performed a lot of the build himself, including installing the landing gear, airfoils in the tail, and most of the tedious portions of construction. Richard Kampeter, EAA Lifetime 1128617, began constructing his Kitfox approximately four years ago.

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Airfoil Tail Hangar 40

AV Web

JULY 23, 2024

For the experimental market, Hartzell has added its Carbon Blended Airfoil propeller (the company has a re-naming contest for this propeller, with a goodie bag for any AirVenture attendee who comes up with a better name) that maintains the same performance gains as its all-metal prop with a savings of 20 pounds in weight.

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Airfoil Knot Airline Airlines 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In general, the chord line is used as an easy-to-understand reference when referring to the properties of a wing or airfoil. The Difference Between a Chord Line and a Camber Line The chord line is a straight line that crosses the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. What Is the Chord Line in Aviation?

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Center of Gravity Camber Lift Airfoil 59

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Supercritical Airfoil During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA scientist Richard Whitcomb led a team of researchers to develop and test a series of unique geometric shapes of airfoils or wing sections that could be applied to subsonic transports to improve lift and reduce drag.

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Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airline 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. Wake turbulence can cause severe roll and structural damage to smaller aircraft. Pilots avoid vortices by maintaining safe separation and adjusting flight paths. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The wings are designed with an airfoil shape, curved on the top and flatter on the bottom, creating a pressure difference when air flows over them. Each rotor blade acts as an airfoil, and as it rotates, it moves air over its surface, generating lift. This pressure difference produces lift, allowing the aircraft to ascend.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This was a characteristic of the Mk II and Mk III Bulldogs, but was eliminated in the Mk IV when the airfoil was changed, enclosing the tanks entirely. .” When looking at the Bulldog, notice that the wing is very thin over the cockpit, but bulges to port and starboard to accommodate the 33 Imperial gallon gravity feed fuel tanks.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. Ice build-up on the airframe changes the airflow pattern around these airfoils. If you don’t act quickly, you’ll soon feel its effects. They’re designed with precision to utilize the airflow around these surfaces.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

They are designed with a special shape called an airfoil, which encourages passing air to turn and deflect downward. This is why the typical airfoil shape has a curved top and a flat bottom, especially in slower-speed general aviation aircraft. Newtons Third Law tells us that we need to push air downward to produce an upward force.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It came to the market with Rolls-Royce AE 3007 high bypass turbofans, large engine intakes, and a highly swept wing with supercritical airfoil. After a few delays, the Citation X was certified in 1996, with the first aircraft delivered to Cessna fan and golfing legend Arnold Palmer.

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Jet Ceiling Thrust Airfoil 264

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Pigeon-Fraser Model SG was powered by a single 100hp Gnme rotary engine, had a length of 24 feet with a wingspan of 37 feet, 11 inches, and its single-set of wings featured a flat-bottomed airfoil.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Neither large commercial nor small private aircraft are designed to endure such stresses.

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Pilot Airfoil Pilot in Command Airlines 278

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

irplane controls work per the Lever Principle, and a wing’s airfoil shape increases lift via the Bernouilli Principle and Coanda Effect. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.

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Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, the Shiun incorporated a laminar flow airfoil to reduce drag. In order to minimize the effects of torque on the aircraft, the Shiun was equipped with the MK4D variant of the Kasei engine, which was modified to accept contra-rotating two-bladed propellers.

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Drag Stability Torque Airfoil 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

As North American discovered with the Sabreliner, Lear soon realized that the real expense in designing a new aircraft are the hours spent perfecting the airfoils, landing gear, and major systems. Thus, the search for a suitable design led to Switzerland and the orphaned P-16 lightweight fighter project.

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Jet Airfoil Airplanes Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 7, 2024

It featured a laminar flow airfoil, the Allison V-1710 was fitted with a second supercharger, a four-bladed propeller was installed, and the nose cowlings to access the airplane’s 37mm gun and two Browing M2.50 However, the US Army Air Force was still interested in an improved version of the P-39, and so a new design was drafted.

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Airfoil Pilot Stability Tail 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For one thing, the F2s fuselage hangs from a completely new wing with two distinct airfoil shapes. An obvious discontinuity leads to a thinner airfoil inboard. Wings, Things Major aerodynamic tweaks have been made. The outboard section of the wing is thicker at the leading edge and has a pronounced droop.

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Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The airfoil is a Harry Riblett shape, giving modernized flow separation on the leading edge for a soft stall yet with good lift and drag performance. This is a Riblett-airfoil airplane with a slow stall speed (we got it down to 42 knots IAS and it didn’t stall) and a cruise speed of 120 knots.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77