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. Directional (yawing) stability from the vertical stabilizer. What Is a Tailless Aircraft? Lets find out.

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Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

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.

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Stability Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cargo 73

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.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Approach Pilot 83

Aerotime

MARCH 4, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to issue airworthiness directives (ADs) to US airlines concerning the engine nacelles on older generation Boeing 737 airplanes. Airlines can continue safely operating the fleet with interim actions until these permanent modifications are made.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Tail Airplanes 250

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

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Airline Airlines Horizontal Stabilizer Cabin Crew 151

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.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Runway Descent 213

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.

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Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Runway Pilot 111

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.

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 260

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.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 93

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.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 92

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.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

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.

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Tail Stability Airline Airlines 109

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.

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Runway Airline Airlines Horizontal Stabilizer 257