Airplanes Indicated Airspeed Thrust 
Flight Training Central
MARCH 3, 2025
A wing will always stall at the same angle of attack; however, weight, and bank angle, power setting and load factor may change the speed or the pitch attitude at which the airplane stalls. Also, the weight in the airplane must be properly distributed and balanced. The test standards divide stalls into power off and power on.
Pilot Institute
JULY 11, 2025
Why don’t they use Indicated Airspeed just like the pilots who fly slower aircraft? Key Takeaways Mach number is a dimensionless ratio of true airspeed to local speed of sound. That’s the speed your airspeed indicator shows based on ram air pressure in the pitot tube. on dry thrust alone. Here’s why.
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Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
Flying a single engine airplane, under IFR, in the clouds, in a non-radar environment and without an autopilot, adds a great deal to the pilots work load. With three airplanes, we departed Springfield for Fairfield, Iowa to compete in an NIFA competition against five other schools. This was the situation on Friday, December 1, 1972.
Professional Pilot
JULY 7, 2025
However, with no room to navigate up the steep glacial valley, the pilots finessed the airplane over the hurdle with no more than 200 ft of clearance. Every pilot knows that aircraft fly because the forces of lift and thrust balance or exceed the weight and drag countering them.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 2, 2025
Concorde was a beautiful airplane, and it remains the object of much nostalgic admiration, but the world did not hurry to replace it. Now that ban, whose obtuse wording would apply even to a perfectly silent supersonic airplane if there were such a thing, is under new scrutiny, and NASA is studying ways of making sonic booms less annoying.
Air Facts
MAY 10, 2024
A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. For example, some aircraft limit flaps and gear in icing until on approach or forbid the use of speed brakes or require a minimum thrust setting. Particular attention to true airspeed vs. turn radius. A well briefed “transfer of aircraft controls” is paramount.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 26, 2025
These include lift, propeller thrust, and engine combustion. This actually decreases the engine’s efficiency in converting engine power into thrust. Reduced thrust means decreased aircraft performance and fuel efficiency. Jet engines also experience reduced thrust in less dense air.
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