Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
Have you ever seen an airplane with no tail and no vertical fin, but with just a sleek wing? A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. A tailless airplane is one where everything needed to fly, like lift, control, and stability, is built into the main wing.
Northstar VFR
MAY 26, 2025
Flaps are movable surfaces on the trailing edge of an airplanes wings that can be extended downward to change the shape of the wing during flight. When deployed, they increase the wings lift and drag, allowing the airplane to fly safely at slower speeds. At the same time, flaps create extra drag, which helps slow the airplane down.
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Pilot Institute
MARCH 13, 2025
Wing Camber Wing camber defines how much more curved the wings upper surface is compared to the lower surface. They adjust wing camber, thickness, and aspect ratio to balance lift, drag, and stall characteristics for different aircraft roles. What Affects Flow Turning? Two major factors affect how the airflow turns.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Airplane wings vary in shape and size, but all have standard features like the chord line. The Difference Between a Chord Line and a Camber Line The chord line is a straight line that crosses the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. The mean camber line is drawn halfway between the upper and lower surfaces.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? The asymmetry between the top and bottom surface of the wing is called wing camber. The downward movement of the aileron increases the asymmetry and, therefore, the camber while raising the aileron reduces the wing camber.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 12, 2025
Application of Newton’s Third Law in Aviation When we talk about airplanes, we focus primarily on two forces: Lift (how the aircraft stays aloft). One is the upper wing surfaces curvature compared to the lower surface, called wing camber. This has only been possible by understanding the laws of physics.
Pilot Institute
JULY 11, 2025
For most aircraft with highly cambered wings or thick profiles, airflow accelerates over the top of the wing. Effects of Mach Number on Aircraft Performance Critical Mach Number Why do aircraft experience adverse effects from the speed of sound before reaching Mach 1? So you might be flying at, say, Mach 0.85
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