Aerotime

MAY 6, 2025

Ready 4 Duty originally entered service with the US Navy in 1944 and is powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney radial piston engines, each producing 1,200 hp of thrust. The airplane cabin display also contains replica depth charges of the same type that the R4D used on anti-submarine patrols in WW2.

Ferry Flight

Thrust Flight

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In this guide I’ll share exactly what you need to use to record videos in flight and share the best GoPro airplane mounts. GoPros and action cameras are fun ways to share your aviation adventure.

Airplanes

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.,

Weight-Shift-Control

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

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.” However, excess propulsive thrust, over that needed to maintain level flight, can be utilized to either increase speed or climb to a higher altitude. The resulting drag increase slows climb rate.

Descent

Jetwhine

APRIL 2, 2025

Flying an airplane smoothly demands dozens of subtle, often repetitive movements, like adjusting engine power each time the aircrafts pitch attitude changes. During an engine failure aboard a multiengine airplane, the autothrottle automatically sets the best power on the good engine.

Cockpit

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. I even pulled out my smartphone to video the abnormality for maintenance.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

They will study the feasibility, economics, and sustainability of the technology “on a platform in the category of Daher’s Kodiak multi-role airplane.” But Chabbert said the company could produce a “more electric airplane, likely hybrid-electric and a derivative of one of our existing airplane models,” the TMB 960 and Kodiak 100/900.

General Aviation

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

However, as Epic CEO Doug King told FLYING , the airplane was originally designed to be a big-engine, high-performance machine, unlike many manufacturers that start small and progressively add power. We note that the airplane we flew, the first AX off the line, equipped with nearly every option, had a useful load of 2,918 pounds.

Rudder

One Mile at a Time

JULY 14, 2025

Per the document: Although the fuel control switch design, including the locking feature, is similar on various Boeing airplane models, the FAA does not consider this issue to be an unsafe condition that would warrant an Airworthiness Directive on any Boeing airplane models, including the Boeing 787.

Flight Deck

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. If youre flying an airplane with a short wingspan, you should do everything you can to avoid severe wake turbulence. This includes single or multi-engine prop airplanes including Cessnas and Pipers.

Turbulence

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Although he was flying at or near the proper airspeeds for an overhead pattern, he was constantly moving the throttlesfrom near idle to near full thrust within seconds. 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.

AGL

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. The entire airplane was being coated with clear ice.

VOR

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Throttles/Thrust Levers According to Navigraph’s 2023 survey, throttle quadrants are the number one add-on peripheral. Since there are only two thrust levers, the TCA quadrant is best used for jet or FADEC aircraft. But if you need to store the pedals between each use, the size of the TPR pedals may be an issue.

Rudder

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Instead, the focus is on mastering the skills and procedures that are unique to multi-engine aircraft—things like managing asymmetrical thrust, understanding the concept of VMC (minimum control speed), and responding to engine-out scenarios. This rating plays a crucial role in career development.

Checkride

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

This principle is fundamental in generating lift, thrust, and maneuverability, allowing aircraft to fly. 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). Thrust (how it moves forward). That force is called thrust.

Torque

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? Unstable aircraft designs are better suited for high-maneuverability aircraft like aerobatic stunt airplanes or military fighters. They can use the engines to produce differential thrust to steer the aircraft. What Is Aileron Trim?

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From 150s to Cherokee 140s to two-place Grumman AA-1s , good airplanes abound, but most are quite commonplace and few really stand out as classic or unique. You can arrange financing of the aircraft through FLYING Finance and quickly calculate your monthly payment using the airplane finance calculator.

Payload

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.

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Calm down and follow these steps: Apply maximum thrust immediately. When you recognize the early warning signs, take action quickly to avoid the possibility of a microburst. But lets say youve done your very best to avoid it but still end up caught in one. What do you do? Your top priority is to regain and maintain airspeed.

Wind Shear

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

The Main Parts of an Airplane While aircraft come in many designs and sizes, they all share several core components. Cockpit: Where Control Happens Cockpit, also known as the flight deck , is the nerve center of the airplane. The engine is what provides the thrust needed to move the aircraft forward.

Lift

Flying Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2025

It lacks any reverse thrust sound. It is what I call an “empty shell” of an airplane. The Zibo airplane comes with the full FMS, full systems, accurate autopilot, incredible sound set withmany options, aircraft configurations and visual features found on the real NG series, and much more—all on the cockpit iPad unit.

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In this article, well take a tour of the top 10 largest airplanes in the world. Key Takeaways The Antonov An-225 Mriya held the title of the largest airplane ever built. For the purpose of this list, weve chosen to rank these enormous airplanes based on their Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW).

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We practice power-off stalls to help us identify the signs of a stall and the characteristics of your airplane when it stalls. It’s mainly due to the effects of thrust and the high-energy slipstream from the propeller preventing boundary separation. On final approach, it can be the difference between recovering and crashing.

Descent

Thrust Flight

JANUARY 2, 2025

But there are tons of other speeds that pilots need to know to operate their airplanes safely questions that pop up from the first moments of flight. What speed do I […] The post Understanding V-Speeds | Vx, Vy, Va, Vs, Vfe, and More appeared first on Thrust Flight.

V Speed

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

on dry thrust alone. Military supersonic flight is common: fighters like the F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 can exceed Mach 2 but only in short bursts due to extremely high fuel consumption. The F-22 Raptor introduced the idea of supercruise. This means flying supersonic without using afterburner. It can supercruise above Mach 1.5

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

MARCH 24, 2025

Once the airplane has reached a point where it nearly stalls or loses lift, youll initiate a pivot or turn. When the thrust is not enough to overcome the force of gravity, the aircraft slides backward and eventually flips to point the nose toward the ground, known as a tailslide. The stall turn consists of three main parts.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

This disabled all flight controls, leaving the crew to maneuver the aircraft with engine thrust only. The pilots used differential thrust to navigate to Sioux City airport. In 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123s tail section blew out from explosive decompression, cutting all the aircrafts hydraulic lines.

Stability

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you dream of flying small airplanes on weekends or piloting commercial airliners with hundreds of passengers, you need certain pilot licenses to reach your aviation goals. During training, you’ll learn about Newton’s laws of motion, Bernoulli’s principle, and aerodynamic forces, including lift, thrust, and drag.

Pilot

Aerotime

MAY 13, 2025

While the development of piston-driven propeller engines had enabled aviation to take huge leaps forward in terms of how far and how fast airplanes could fly, there remained a widespread belief that the next major development of aircraft propulsion lay just around the corner.

Jet

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Turns: Students practice shallow, medium, and steep turns to develop a feel for how the airplane behaves when banking. This develops an understanding of how the airplane reacts at low speeds, a critical skill for safe takeoffs and landings. It sounds simple, but it requires precise control of pitch, power, and heading.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But in Minden, Nebraska, just south of Interstate 80 and in the shadow of a row of grain elevators across the street and the railroad, there is an incredible collection of all manner of antiques, from historic buildings, cars, a steam locomotive, household appliances, and even airplanes. They can all be found in the Pioneer Village.

Airplanes

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Inside the aircraft were two rocket propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilots pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing spar structure, a 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

The data also showed that the speedbrakes deployed simultaneously with the thrust reversers, as the nosewheel bounced a second time before making a third contact with the runway. Flight data recordings revealed that control column inputs varied between 5 degrees nose high and 5 degrees nose low during the landing sequence.

Pilot in Command

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

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. The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter is an airplane (category) thats Multiengine Sea (class). Multiengine land.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

One very effective way to add more takeoff thrust is with a McCauley 80/42 seaplane propeller , a modification that’s a small fraction of the cost of installing a larger engine. You can arrange financing of the aircraft through FLYING Finance and quickly calculate your monthly payment using the airplane finance calculator.

Density Altitude

Fear of Landing

JUNE 27, 2025

American Airlines Fire at Denver: What We Know So Far Damage to the right side of the airplane The NTSB has released the preliminary report which confirms that the fuel leak visible in the video of the aircraft was the cause of the fire. They will be livestreamed on the NTSB YouTube channel. seconds before touchdown.

Descent