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V- Speeds: What You Need to Know

Northstar VFR

Below, we’ll take a look at some of the ones you should know as you work through your training, but we will refrain from getting into the speeds associated with Mach as those pertain more to Jets! This when the plane begins to rotate along its longitudinal axis. The rotation speed. Simply, it is the speed at which you takeoff.

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Everything You Need To Know About Ailerons

Pilot Institute

Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? Roll or bank is the aircrafts movement about its longitudinal axis. Since theyre located on opposing sides of the longitudinal axis, both ailerons need to move in the opposite directions to complement each others motion.

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The Role of Newton’s Third Law in Aviation

Pilot Institute

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). The principle is the same whether the aircraft gets thrust from propellers or jet engines. They allow roll control about the aircrafts longitudinal axis.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Indeed, standing as a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors.

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