Airfoil Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder 
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. With this type of aircraft, the functions of longitudinal stability and control are incorporated into the main wing. A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). How does the tail do this?
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 16, 2024
However, the wooden rudder and elevators need repairs due to warpage and tears, respectively. The wings, horizontal stabilizer, and elevators will be removable in 30 minutes, as the museum plans on using the original trailer, which it received with the project, to transport it to schools and airshows as part of a STEM program.
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Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 11, 2025
D-558-2 Skyrocket take off using JATO assist in 1949 NACA engineers improved the rockets performance by adding nozzle extensions to its combustion chambers, reducing exhaust interference with the rudders and increasing thrust at altitude. Both aircraft display early examples of swept-wing airfoils.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 18, 2025
Photo by NASA The impetus for the program came from issues the Navy had encountered with inadvertent spin entries, which were traced back to the aircrafts aileron rudder interconnect system. These glove modifications served to smooth the wing surface and alter the airfoil to achieve specific pressure distributions.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 22, 2025
The Pigeon-Fraser Model SG was powered by a single 100hp Gnme rotary engine, had a length of 24 feet with a wingspan of 37 feet, 11 inches, and its single-set of wings featured a flat-bottomed airfoil. 9” on its rudder. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.
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. The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. Well see about that.
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