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Examining over 100 years of flight automation and the history of the autopilot

Aerotime

The 56 aircraft that participated in the 1914 competition presented a wide range of aviation innovations, ranging from assisted starting mechanisms, automatic carburetors, basic stabilization systems, and many other innovations that purported to benefit aviation safety.

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Tailless Aircraft: How Airplanes Fly Without a Tail

Pilot Institute

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 airplane is one where everything needed to fly, like lift, control, and stability, is built into the main wing.

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Everything You Need To Know About Ailerons

Pilot Institute

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design.

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Phugoid Motion in Aviation: What It Is and Why It Matters

Pilot Institute

Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. Airliners may take a couple of minutes for a single oscillation. Longitudinal stability is an aircrafts stability in the pitch axis.

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What Is a Dutch Roll, and Is It Dangerous?

Pilot Institute

How an aircraft handles Dutch roll depends on its dynamic stability. The aircraft’s design influences its dynamic stability. To understand the aircraft’s response to a disturbance, you need to understand aerodynamic stability. There are two main types of stability: Static and Dynamic stability.

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Stupid Pilot Tricks

AV Web

Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Thats FA tenacity. Other than that, what?

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