Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Logo Lights Logo lights are lights mounted on the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft and point upward toward the vertical stabilizer, illuminating the airlines logo. On older aircraft, they are sometimes located on the wingtips, pointing backward. These lights are not a legal requirement.

Airplanes

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

While commercial airliners are made up of millions of individual components, the foundation of every airplanewhether a Boeing jet or a training aircraft like a Cessna 172 starts with the same key parts. These parts help the aircraft maintain its stability in flight.

Lift

Aerotime

MARCH 3, 2025

But in reality, flying is one of the safest ways to travel and, thanks to a new report, we can now discover which are the safest airlines in the US to fly with. AirlineRatings, an airline review site, evaluates safety against more than just an incident record. million passenger flights in 2024. 10 years ago, that rate was one per 4.4

Airline

AOPA

JULY 21, 2025

The horizontal tail has morphed into a traditional fixed horizontal stabilizer and elevator with an electrically actuated trim tab. The stabilator from the prototype is gone. He has an airline transport pilot certificate and instrument and multiengine flight instructor certificates. Photo by David Tulis.

Tail

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. This list is not exhaustive, however.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Developed as an all-metal light airliner, the Model 10 Electra was widely used around the world in various civil and military purposes carrying everything from freight to high profile civilian and military officials. Lockheed Model 10A Electra prototype, NC233Y, Northwest Airlines fleet number 60, after modification to production standards.

Tail

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The British Airways Airbus A350-1000, registered G-XWBC, was involved in a collision with a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Heathrow in April 2024, resulting in damage to the aircraft’s right-hand horizontal stabilizer.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Saudia, the national airline of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently transported three of its retired Boeing 777 aircraft from Jeddah Airport (JED) to Riyadh International Airport (RUH). years old and was delivered to the airline from Boeing in March 1998. years old having first been delivered to the airline in September 1998.

Horizontal Stabilizer

World Airline News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Based on playback, it appears to be a ground collision between a Delta A350 and Delta Connection CRJ-900 that resulted in the vertical and horizontal stabilizer of the CRJ being severed from the aircraft.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane. You’ll find a horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder pedals here. Small planes tend to have fixed landing gear, while commercial airliners have retractable gear.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Learn to Fly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter features vertical tail feathers and horizontal stabilators made from carbon fiber-reinforced bismaleimide composite. The F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter features vertical tail feathers and horizontal stabilators made from carbon fiber-reinforced bismaleimide composite.

Stability

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

The airlines use their high-fidelity flight simulators to great advantage, and when combined with stick shakers, multicrew flight decks, and low-speed and stall-warning systems, the training is excellent. Not to worry: The airliner you are flying has probably not entered a stall in its entire 20- to 30-year service lifespan.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

Runway

Aerotime

MAY 30, 2025

However, while it was reported at the time that two passengers had received serious injuries, according to a report on travel website PYOK, eleven passengers are now claiming that they have been left with extreme injuries from the crash landing and have initiated legal action against the airline for damages in respect of their injuries.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

RELATED Pure power: The worlds largest aircraft engine manufacturers General Electric uses a Boeing 747-400 registered N747GF, a 30-year-old airframe originally delivered to Japan Airlines in 1994. N747GE was acquired by the company in 1992, taking it directly from the fleet of iconic airline Pan Am.

Cargo

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The pilot died instantly.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The pilot died instantly.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Placing the center of gravity ahead of the aircraft’s center of lift improves longitudinal stability. The aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer (tailplane) creates a downward lift to counterbalance pitching moments. Directional Stability Directional stability decides how stable the aircraft is about the yaw axis.

Stability