Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This is called lift. Wingtip vortices are a byproduct of lift. Once the wing stops producing lift, the vortices dissipate instantly. Wing spoilers drastically reduce the lift generated by the wing. Its important because the lift is always produced perpendicular to the relative wind. Why is this important?

Turbulence

Cranky Flier

JUNE 5, 2025

The airplane itself is a blended-wing aircraft, or as they like to call it, an “all-wing” airplane. Photo via Jon Ostrower The front part of the airplane is narrower and can have more traditional seating options with windows. For passengers, that means it feels like any other airplane.

Airplanes

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

One of the fundamental aerodynamic concepts in aviation isleft-turning tendenciesthe natural forces that cause an airplane to yaw or roll left, particularly in a single-engine, propeller-driven aircraft. When the aircraft is in a climb, the descending blade meets the relative wind at a greater angle, producing more lift (thrust).

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

As with all airplane maneuvering, proper altitude changes are based on the foundational formula “power plus attitude equals performance.” When discussing climb technique, it’s easy to confuse high power setting with increasing lift. It’s the wing that generates lift, not the engine. The resulting drag increase slows climb rate.

Descent

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

We’re like, this is an all-electric airplane. And most people don’t believe you because sometimes they look at it, and they’re like, You came from hundreds of miles awaywhat do you mean that’s an electric airplane? According to Clark, the configuration makes for a really slippery, efficient airplane.

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

The school also offers spin endorsements, upset recovery, aerobatic training, and hourly instruction if youre just itching to check the GameBird off your airplane bucket list. The Sbach, a notoriously difficult airplane to fly, challenges even the hardest of hard-core aerobatic pilots. The four-blade MT propeller is the only exception.

Knot

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.

Rudder

AV Web

JULY 23, 2025

The single biggest change is the increase in the maximum stall speed for airplanes a Sport Pilot can operate. A Sport Pilot can now get logbook endorsements to operate aircraft with retractable landing gear and airplanes with manually controllable-pitch propellers. airplane) as their training.

Weight-Shift-Control

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. Lets get into it by first talking about what flaps are. What Are Flaps?

Camber

Flight Training Central

JUNE 9, 2025

Calculating the airplane’s weight and balance is a mandatory task you must complete before every flight. Many of an airplane’s performance, handling, and structural characteristics are a function of weight and balance, not to mention the safety risks associated with operating an overloaded or out-of-balance airplane.

Airplanes

Aerotime

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Notable is the surge in passenger volume in Asia, where pandemic restrictions were last to lift and carriers have been slow to reinstate capacity. Kwok Ho Eddie Wong Flickr Theres an in-built hack on this route to get a better seat and a nicer airplane.

Airline

Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

Many explanations on websites, videos, and even some textbooks oversimplify or misrepresent the true mechanics of lift. In reality, lift generation involves both Bernoullis principle and Newtons third law working together. Read on to understand Bernoullis principle and how it relates to lift the right way.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

After the war, the aircraft was used for medical air transport and cargo lifts between Hawaii and California during the Korean War before being decommissioned in 1956. The second airplane is Marianas Mars, Bu. Navy during World War II. Each of these impressive planes was given a proper name, perhaps as a nod to their nautical roots.

Cargo

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Have you ever thought about landing an airplane without using flaps? Think about these scenarios: maybe the flaps stop working, or youre flying an older airplane that doesnt even have them. Lift and Drag Modifications A no-flaps landing significantly reduces drag and lift, which is why the approach is flown at a higher speed.

Pilot

Learn to Fly

JULY 30, 2025

LSA include a huge variety of aircraft, from airplanes and gliders to balloons and gyroplanes. In place for nearly two decades, the LSA category has shown a lower accident rate than experimental amateur-built airplanes, leading the FAA to expand the definition of LSA with MOSAIC. Lifts the two-seat aircraft restriction.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Studying historical aircraft helps students understand the development of flight and learn from early engineers about problems of lift, propulsion, stability, and material constraints. Often touted as the first successful powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer (1903) clearly shows lift, propulsion, and control.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 23, 2025

The second airplane is Marianas Mars, Bu. The Hawaii Mars lifted off from Sproat Lake yesterday for the first time in 9 years! Following initial flight testing, the Mars officially entered service on November 30, 1943. Four Martin JRM-3 Mars flying boats in formation. In the foreground is Philippine Mars, Bu.

Cargo

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Lift, drag, and handling correlate well with IAS in the lower atmosphere. This means the inboard wing loses lift first, while the wingtips might still be lifting. The net lift vector moves rearward as Mach increases into the transonic range. This nose-down pitching moment is called Mach tuck.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Airplane wings vary in shape and size, but all have standard features like the chord line. Wing Control: Flaps, slats, and ailerons change the chord line, impacting lift and control. There are many styles of the wing, including: Straight wings Swept wings Delta Wings Elliptical wings Tapered Straight Wing These wings all generate lift.

Center of Gravity

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

As he lifted off from a touch-and-go, I shook the control stick and said, Ive got the jet. He shook the stick in reply: Youve got the airplane. I lowered the nose, pushed the throttles to 100%, lifted off again, and cleaned up the airplane. Youve got the airplane. One day, I had finally had enough.

AGL

Northstar VFR

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Its your slowest turn and if you arent carefully watching your airspeed, you can get too slow in the turn, exceed your critical angle of attack, stall the airplane, and enter a spin. The most common area is your base to final turn. Whats terrible is that base to final happens close to the ground. What happens next?

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After the war, the aircraft was used for medical air transport and cargo lifts between Hawaii and California during the Korean War before being decommissioned in 1956. The second airplane is Marianas Mars, Bu. Navy during World War II. Each of these impressive planes was given a proper name, perhaps as a nod to their nautical roots.

Cargo

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2024

VTOL, which stands for Vertical Takeoff and Landing drones, are Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that can lift off and land vertically. Because their rotors can adjust direction and lift so quickly, multi-rotors are incredibly agile and responsive. You might have heard about them being used by the military or in futuristic air taxis.

Payload

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 24, 2025

Twice, lines attached to the aircraft snapped during the lift and twice new lines were attached to Hellcat 66237 before it was lost to the sea for a second time. After the war, NAS Wildwood was repurposed for civilian air travel as Cap May Airport.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

MAY 7, 2025

Subscribe Now Carsons argument began with the familiar observation that because airplanes need to climb, their engines are more powerful than they would be if they were sized solely for most efficient cruising. Naval Academy, approached the problem by setting lift-drag ratio, L/D, as his metric of efficiency.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. Why does this increase the lift? How Do Ailerons Work?

Aileron

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The faster an aircraft goes, the more lift it generates. Lift is the upward force that keeps you in the air. If airspeed is too slow, the aircraft could lose lift and stall. Meanwhile, lower altitudes demand that you be extra careful with airspeed to maintain lift and prevent stalls. miles per hour. Dangerous mistake.

True Airspeed

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

I fully expected the gauge to fix itself before we landed because that is what old airplanes frequently do (this airframe was about 42 years young). Time for that full disclosure stuff… I am a CFI in airplanes and gliders, and actively teach in gliders. Full flaps are mostly about drag, not lift.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A forklift is being used to lift the horizontal stabilizer from the fuselage. Hamilton purchased the surplus airplane alongside a former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) B-25 Mitchell, RCAF 5212 (USAAF #44-30947) around 1976 and had them trucked from New Orleans to Petal, where they were on display at the Mississippi Machinery Museum.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With carrier aviation still in its infancy, airships could fly further than many airplanes of the day and remain in the air for days on end without the need to land to refuel and replenish their supplies. While flying high over West Texas, the sun heated and expanded the helium lifting gas, forcing the Macon to rise up.

Lift

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2025

Nagle on Tuesday urged the FAA to lift certain operational restrictions, as it did for Dallas-Fort Worth in July. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for a 10-pound drone that doesn’t carry a person, and the pilot is sitting in an operations center versus being on the airplane, Nagle said. Like this story?

Approach

AV Web

JULY 14, 2025

But once airborne with enough speed for the wings to lift the aircraft, those props can fold into the nacelle and the jet engines take over for much faster flight than any other VTOL aircraft. The new aircraft has tilting wings with engines and large propellers at the tips that allow for vertical takeoffs and landings.

Gross Weight

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Lift is the force that aircraft use to counter gravity. Newton’s Third Law is one of the key laws of physics that explains lift. Lets see what Newtons Third Law is, and why we need it to understand lift. This principle is fundamental in generating lift, thrust, and maneuverability, allowing aircraft to fly.

Torque

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

When the flyweights move outwards, the threaded shaft moves and lifts the pilot valve up, allowing oil to enter the propeller hub and thereby changing the pitch angle of the blades. The threaded shaft is connected to a pilot valve, which controls the flow of oil into and out of the propeller hub.

Blade Angle

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 21, 2025

Then, Johnson spotted what looked to be the profile of an airplane, sitting on the bottom of the reservoir. Intrigued by the discovery, Johnson called Brown Field Municipal Airport to see if they knew of any airplanes that had gone down in the lake, but no planes were missing from their records. Unfortunately, neither E.D.

Hangar

AV Web

JUNE 10, 2025

Hats off to the FAA for finally suggesting that all airplanes be equipped with angle of attack systems. The agency recently published a special airworthiness information bulletin (SAIB) recommending that AoA systems become standard equipment in new airplanes and retrofitted in existing ones. I’ve been a believer ever since.

Primary Flight Display

Pilot Institute

APRIL 30, 2025

the wings provide less lift) and reduced engine output (i.e., Air density is a critical factor affecting aircraft performance. Air that is less dense (lower density) causes a decrease in aircraft performance. This is due to reduced aerodynamic performance (i.e., less horsepower).

Density Altitude