Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Center of Gravity: Used to calculate and balance the aircraft’s center of gravity. In general, the chord line is used as an easy-to-understand reference when referring to the properties of a wing or airfoil. Where its pivot point is, is called the center of gravity. It goes something like this.

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Center of Gravity Camber Lift Airfoil 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

The Weather Vane It mostly comes from the vertical stabilizer (fin) and the sides of the fuselage behind the center of gravity. Use of Reflex Airfoils Ever notice how many tailless aircraft have wings that curve at the trailing edge? This type of design is a reflex airfoil. Flying wings dont have tails or elevators.

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Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Center of Gravity: Used to calculate and balance the aircraft’s center of gravity. In general, the chord line is used as an easy-to-understand reference when referring to the properties of a wing or airfoil. Where its pivot point is, is called the center of gravity. It goes something like this.

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Center of Gravity Camber Lift Airfoil 59

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

Learn to Fly

JULY 11, 2024

This happens regardless of weight, bank angle, temperature, density altitude, or center of gravity. An angle of attack (AOA) indicator can determine the aerodynamic health of the airfoil (wing). An airplane will, however, always stall at the same angle of attack, called the critical angle of attack.

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Airfoil Center of Gravity Density Altitude Drag 40

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. Additional Dangers of Ice Accumulation Icing also makes your aircraft heavier and can even change the position of the center of gravity.

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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. The aircraft pivots about its center of gravity. Wings do just that.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52