Flying Magazine

JULY 24, 2025

Air Force ace Chuck Yeager’s historic supersonic flight in 1947, as well as several systems—such as the NACA airfoil—that remain in use. READ MORE: How Hybrid Air Vehicles Is Making World’s Longest Aircraft Longer Today, just about every airplane and air traffic control (ATC) facility in the country relies on technology developed by NASA.

Airfoil

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Application of Newton’s Third Law in Aviation When we talk about airplanes, we focus primarily on two forces: Lift (how the aircraft stays aloft). They are designed with a special shape called an airfoil, which encourages passing air to turn and deflect downward. This has only been possible by understanding the laws of physics.

Torque

Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

However, with no room to navigate up the steep glacial valley, the pilots finessed the airplane over the hurdle with no more than 200 ft of clearance. Aeronautical engineers improve continually on that imbalance with better airfoils and powerplants along with aircraft designs and materials to reduce weight and drag.

Density Altitude

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.

Airfoil

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Making the wing relatively flat on top with a blunter leading edge and more curvature on the bottom gives you a supercritical airfoil. Even the wing cross-section can be designed to redirect shock waves. This type of wing redirects the shockwaves further aft on the wing, reducing drag. roughly) up to about Mach 5.0.

True Airspeed

Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

I was one of four transient airplanes on final for the larger runway 27L and Detroit Approach provided a pair of vectors to delay my arrival until those ahead landed. Though it is not a required instrument for VFR (GOOSEACAT) or IFR (GRABCARD) flight, I think one should be mandatory for airplanes flying IFR in the Great Lakes region.

OAT

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. From 1991-98, the original Nemesis became the winningest airplane in air race history, capturing 45 of 48 events.

Airfoil

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

A great option for that is taking an interactive ground school, such as the private airplane pilot course on Pilotinstitute.com. For instance, the airplane category includes four classes: Single-engine land. The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter is an airplane (category) thats Multiengine Sea (class). Multiengine land.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2025

In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station. The drag chute was used on landings to help brake the airplane’s speed. The Douglas D-558-ll is a research aircraft, while the Boeing B-47A Stratojet is a production bomber and very different in size.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JULY 26, 2025

Powered-lift models have characteristics of both airplanes and rotorcraft, which places the regulator in a bind when it comes to defining their airworthiness. For lift during horizontal flight, they use rigid airfoils such as wings.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

However, Hughes was never one to rest on his laurels, and as he surveyed the airplanes parked in Miami, he told his chief aeronautical engineer, Glenn Odekirk, “Hell, Glenn, there isn’t a decent plane in the lot.” ” Odekirk replied, “Howard, you’ll never be satisfied until you build your own.”

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

A variable-sweep wing, also called a “swing wing,” is a type of airplane wing that can change its angle while flying. According to Robert Gregg, Boeing’s chief aerodynamicist , supercritical airfoils help delay shock waves by managing how pressure waves behave at high speeds. The design adds weight, complexity, and maintenance needs.

Weight-Shift-Control

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even during his student days, however, Albree was fascinated with airplanes, often to the detriment of his academic studies, and he began to build his own designs. Born in Boston on February 3, 1888, Albree would graduate from Dartmouth College in 1912 after attending courses at Union College and Amherst College.

Tail

Flight Training Central

JUNE 30, 2025

When he created his principle of differential pressure, he had no thoughts about its future application to the development of airfoils and lift production. With some imagination this looks a bit like the top of an airfoil. In the case of our airfoil, we’ll assume that the fluid is air and that the air is relatively still.

Airfoil

Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

As much as it seems sometimes that airplanes fly by magic, it’s important for every pilot to understand at least the basic fundamentals of aerodynamics. The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. What force makes an airplane turn?

Longitudinal Axis

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

“Wing warping,” as this approach was called, was satisfactory for very slow airplanes, but faster ones required more rigidity, and by around 1908 or 1909 the idea had arisen of replacing part of the trailing edge of a wing with a hinged, controllable flap. His invention had been forgotten, however, by the time real airplanes came into being.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 28, 2025

Considering the evergreen airplanes extensive role in flight training all over the world, the ability to tailor its capabilities for the mission would be an added advantage. A more modern airfoil helps performance as well. There isnt a Cessna 172 owner alive that doesnt at some point wish for more performance.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

The Bleriot XI that was the first airplane to cross the English Channel was a monoplane, as was the first really effective fighter of World War I, the Fokker Eindecker. When engines were weak and it was hard to get into the air at all, multiple wings were an obvious way to add lift without making the airplane much bigger.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

During these years, he concluded that the inner surface of the venturi tube needed an airfoil shape to achieve the greatest efficiency. The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. The Stipa-Caproni in flight.

Airfoil

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station. In earlier decades, the response to control-surface motions had been fairly well established for a relatively rigid airplane by flight test and theory. long and thin).

Airfoil

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It actually flew fine, and it flies like a normal airplane. “If you view the video of the first flight on YouTube ( LINK ), you’ll see the airplane does some wiggling around, but most of that was done on purpose as I was trying to get the feel of it as fast as I could.” It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds.

Crosswind

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. 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.

Torque

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Airplane wings vary in shape and size, but all have standard features like the chord line. In general, the chord line is used as an easy-to-understand reference when referring to the properties of a wing or airfoil. Basically, the mean camber line is meant to indicate the midpoint between the top and bottom surfaces of the airfoil.

Center of Gravity

Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

An airplane will, however, always stall at the same angle of attack, called the critical angle of attack. An angle of attack (AOA) indicator can determine the aerodynamic health of the airfoil (wing). Additionally, these devices can give a visual rendering of the energy management state of the airplane.

Airfoil

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ice can affect everything from how the airplane flies to the engines staying functional. 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.

Pitot Tube

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 4, 2025

After building only a handful of airplanes, Morrisey then sold the construction and design rights to Shinn Engineering Inc., Tale of the Tailwheel Recognizing the more challenging characteristics of taxiing a taildragger, why would an aircraft owner go to the trouble of converting a tricycle gear airplane into a taildragger?

Airplanes

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

One was at the controls of an airplane alongside a CFI, and was preceded by flight planning and a preflight inspection. irplane controls work per the Lever Principle, and a wing’s airfoil shape increases lift via the Bernouilli Principle and Coanda Effect. Two hours were allocated to flying. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

The development of the original Lear model 23 weaves the story of a self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, a Swiss fighter prototype, and a design that proved to be the right airplane at the right time. Both were very capable airplanes. As might be expected from its jet fighter lineage, the Lear 23 was, and remains, a pilot’s airplane.

Jet

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

Confirm the gauges reflect full power and feel the airplane quiver in anticipation. Can an airplane feel excitement? FLYING Magazine flew the Aviat Husky thanks to one mans desire to build and sell a serious utility backcountry airplane. He wanted to expand his companys offerings by selling a backcountry airplane.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Literally overnight we got eight semitruck loads of equipment outtooling, molds, and even airplanes. General aviation is driven by myriad forces.

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