Plane and Pilot

JULY 10, 2025

Third, there is this little thing called ground effect. The performance charts will tell you that your airplane will lift up off the runway, but if performance is marginal, you will need to build up additional speed to break free of ground effect. Now that I think about it, I am not sure? OK, more on that later.

Density Altitude

Air Facts

MARCH 17, 2025

By the time I was in my late teens, I had built a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves and had begun immediately to fill them with aviation books and magazines at a rate throttled solely by my wallet. One of the several rows of shelves holding the collections approximately 10,000 volumes.

Pilot

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Airplane performance can be defined as the capability of an airplane to operate effectively while serving a specific purpose. Among the performance elements are takeoff and landing distances, rate of climb, ceiling, speed, payload, and fuel economy. What is ground effect? a higher-than-normal angle of attack.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. We didn’t do any single-engine work in the time we had, but the team says the single-engine service ceiling is probably around 5000 feet. The plane will fly itself off.

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