Airfoil Crosswind Rudder 
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. Rudder The rudder is the panel on the vertical part of the aircrafts tail.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
You have to use a lot of rudder—I mean you have to be rabid as far as using the rudder to control the airplane, and it wheel lands very nicely.” It’s the rudder that is doing everything. I can control it now with the Red Line Brakes, but this airplane is not built for crosswinds.
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Plane and Pilot
JUNE 4, 2025
Theres always a rudder dance on every takeoff and landing. A little crosswind gives you a chance to evaluate your skills as a pilot. m2) Airfoil: NACA 43015 Empty weight: 1,150 lbs. I do not think any pilot will deny that handling a tailwheel airplane requires a somewhat higher skill set. m) Wingspan: 30 ft., m) Height: 7 ft.,
Flying Magazine
MAY 6, 2025
Now, release the brakes and feel yourself pressed into the seat as you discover less right rudder is needed than you expect. It retained the classic, high-lift Clark Y airfoil, but the span of its four-position semi-Fowler flap span was extended. Confirm the gauges reflect full power and feel the airplane quiver in anticipation.
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. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Well see about that.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We The only unconventional thing I noticed (as did the folks in back) was the rudder has a dead spot mid-travel.
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