Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

You can adjust the wings using a manual control in the cockpit. According to Robert Gregg, Boeing’s chief aerodynamicist , supercritical airfoils help delay shock waves by managing how pressure waves behave at high speeds. But to give you a general idea, let’s look at the F-111 aircraft as an example.

Weight-Shift-Control

Simple Flying

JUNE 14, 2025

One of the most influential cockpit levers on a jet’s take-off is the flap handle. Hinged panels at the wing’s trailing and leading edges transform a sleek airfoil into a low-speed lift sail. Increasing camber, flaps propel an airliner to lift off at lower speeds, trading a little drag for a lot of lift.

Camber

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

That combination of requirements was incompatible with very thin wings, and in the early days of aviation it was widelythough not universallybelieved that thin birdlike airfoils were best. A notable later finding was that the drag of a round wire is equal to that of an airfoil 30 times as thick.

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

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. ” 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. of Great Britain, built 443 of the type.

Crosswind

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. 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.

Airfoil

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Glass Cockpit During the 1970s and 1980s, NASA created and tested the concept of an advanced cockpit configuration that replaced dial and gauge instruments with flat panel digital displays. Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet.

Wind Shear

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. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. If you don’t act quickly, you’ll soon feel its effects.

Pitot Tube

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. Her father had been allowed to sit in the back seat on the last day and violated the sterile cockpit rule. The oldest is Archimedes’ Law. Quiet Dad, I am trying to land the plane.”

Lift

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 4, 2025

Owner Ken Nelson smiles from the cockpit of his Varga. m2) Airfoil: NACA 43015 Empty weight: 1,150 lbs. My understanding is that between five and seven 2180s were built as taildraggers with the designation 2180TG, and a similar number were modified with tailwheels under an STC. Varga 2180TG General Crew: 2 Length: 21 ft., 29 imp gal.;

Airplanes

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. In most ways, the cockpit is conventional, with twin center sticks and a prominent throttle lever on the center console.

Rudder

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. After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2025

(image via AirCorps Aviation) The instrument panel mounts within the black painted bulkhead assembly in this image looking forwards from the cockpit. The two leading off to the lower right are for the cockpit hand pump. image via AirCorps Aviation) This bracket holds the handheld signal lamp on the rear, lefthand side of the cockpit.

Rudder