Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. As at higher altitudes, the vortex movement near the ground is affected by crosswinds. After one aircraft lands, the tailwind pushes the vortices forward into the runways touchdown zone.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. You just make one great big U-turn, that way you can kind of watch the runway the whole time. That was kind of a strange feeling to get over that squishiness as the airplane settles down on the runway.” ” Ed Storos and His Bulldog. .”

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

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. Whenever aircraft encounter crosswinds, the most noticeable impact is felt in yaw.

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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. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority. Wings, Things Major aerodynamic tweaks have been made. In this case, nothing.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98