Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

Key Takeaways Category is the broadest grouping based on aircraft use, like airplane, glider, or rotorcraft. Heres a quick summary: Category: The broadest classification of aircraft based on their intended use and operating environment, such as airplane, glider, or helicopter (rotorcraft). propellers) or thrust (i.e.,

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Weight-Shift-Control Knot Approach Lift 96

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).

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Simple Flying

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Modern aircraft are designed to cope with interference from portable electronic devices (like mobile phones ) - so over time the reasons for requiring cell phones to be on airplane mode have grown more cautionary in nature.

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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.

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Air Traffic Control Airplanes Lift Runway 113

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?

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Aerotime

JULY 5, 2024

Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has started low-rate serial production of its AG600 amphibious airplane. These include DARPA’s heavy lift seaplane program and US military interest in the capabilities of Regent’s Seaglider , a wing-on-ground vehicle capable of skimming the surface of the ocean at high speeds.

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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?

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Camber Drag Lift Airplanes 52

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This invisible turbulence is caused by a pair of counterrotating vortices behind an airplane’s wingtips, generated whenever a wing develops lift. A hazardous phenomenon that all pilots learn to avoid when operating at airports is wake turbulence. This video clip below is from Sporty’s complete Learn to Fly Course.

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Turbulence Airplanes Lift Pilot 98

Aerotime

JULY 2, 2024

.” Boeing said in a statement that the new order was reflective of the “rapid growth of e-commerce and the need for efficient and reliable transportation across the globe” and that the extra freighters will provide Turkish Airlines with an additional 408 metric tons to its cargo lift.

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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.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

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.

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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.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

You can lift most limitations through the completion of a prescribed training course with an FAA-certified flight instructor. A great option for that is taking an interactive ground school, such as the private airplane pilot course on Pilotinstitute.com. For instance, the airplane category includes four classes: Single-engine land.

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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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airplanes Lift 116

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.

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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.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Knot Airplanes 103

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.

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Airlines Airline Clearance Lift 253

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.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. While the company designed the Six to be a heavy-lifting workhorse for hauling cargo and passengers, it aimed upmarket with the Lance.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 20, 2025

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. For a pilot who values visibility, versatility, and careful craftsmanship, this airplane is hard to beat. Todays Top Pick is a 2012 Kitfox Series 5.

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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.

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WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

The Main Parts of an Airplane While aircraft come in many designs and sizes, they all share several core components. Wings: The Source of Lift The wings are what make fixed-wing flight possible. As air moves over the curved top surface of the wing and the flatter bottom, lift is generated, allowing the plane to rise.

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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.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Physics of mobility 101 Every movement, every transportation, regardless of whether it takes place in a car, by train, on a bicycle, in an airplane or simply by walking, requires energy. The mass to be moved (in kilograms, kg) plays a decisive role both in the energy required for acceleration and for the lifting work.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

As much as it seems sometimes that airplanes fly by magic, it’s important for every pilot to understand at least the basic fundamentals of aerodynamics. The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. What force makes an airplane turn?

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In its Airplane Flying Handbook , the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines the take-off roll (or ground roll) as "the portion of the take-off procedure during which the airplane is accelerated from a standstill to an airspeed that provides sufficient lift for it to become airborne."

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Lift Airplanes Runway 111

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

While most equate this to improved landing distances, the flaps are particularly effective at reducing the takeoff distance by creating more lift. You can arrange financing of the aircraft through FLYING Finance and quickly calculate your monthly payment using the airplane finance calculator. Learn more about Cessna 170 ownership here.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Velocity Andrews, North Carolina/Injuries: 1 Fatal NTSB Report: ERA23FA194 The owner recently purchased the experimental amateur-built, modified airplane. He did not have a lot of experience in the make and model airplane, so he hired the accident pilot to conduct the first flight since recent modifications.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Aerotime

JULY 5, 2024

The Japan Times YouTube Channel Airport employees wore three kilogram robotic suits around their waists to help with lifting heavy objects. The suits worked by sending bioelectric signals from the brain to the muscles, prompting the machine to support the weight being lifted and reducing back stress.

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Lift Cargo Weather Hangar 282

Simple Flying

JUNE 11, 2024

While helicopters are designed for vertical operations, the VTOL classification is only limited to airplanes that can achieve lift in forward flight. As the name suggests, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft can become airborne or land vertically without the use of a runway strip.

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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.

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Hangar Airplanes Pilot Descent 116

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

The Bleriot XI that was the first airplane to cross the English Channel was a monoplane, as was the first really effective fighter of World War I, the Fokker Eindecker. When engines were weak and it was hard to get into the air at all, multiple wings were an obvious way to add lift without making the airplane much bigger.

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Drag Airfoil Lift Airplanes 101

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.

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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.

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