Airfoil Airplanes Cockpit 
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
Have you ever seen an airplane with no tail and no vertical fin, but with just a sleek wing? A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. A tailless airplane is one where everything needed to fly, like lift, control, and stability, is built into the main wing.
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.
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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 door to the cockpit area is open, showing a view of the ladder that folds down to be used by the pilots to enter and leave the area.
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.
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.
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).
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. But how dangerous is it?
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