Ceiling Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 19, 2025
In response, Curtiss developed the XP-55 as a radical canard configuration aircraft, featuring a horizontal stabilizer at the nose. Its vertical stabilizers were integrated into the wingtips, while its single engine—an Allison V-1710-95 producing 1,275 horsepower—was mounted at the rear in a “pusher” configuration.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 20, 2025
The weather at the time of the accident included an AIRMET active for IFR conditions with ceilings below 1,000 feet and visibility less than 3 miles due to fog and mist. The LPV has lower weather minimums of the two, as it requires a ceiling of 673 feet versus 750 for the LNAV. nautical miles from the runway.
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Flying Magazine
JUNE 30, 2025
It is as far forward as possible for stability under heavy braking and absorbs serious shock loading through a trailing-beam design. There are gap seals between the elevator and horizontal stabilizer, and the rudder and vertical stabilizer. What about the nosewheel itself? In our opinion, it’s brilliantly engineered.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 22, 2025
Although Palen recovered the fabric on the Pigeon, the ORA never installed a new engine or flew the aircraft, and today the Albree Pigeon-Fraser is suspended inverted from the ceiling of one of the Aerodrome’s hangars for static aircraft.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
While the layout for a cabin to accommodate 10 passengers and two pilots was settled upon, the original design of the Electra was to feature a single vertical stabilizer on the tail. Now, the aircraft is presently displayed at the Science Museum in South Kensington, suspended from the ceiling.
Aerotime
MARCH 21, 2025
A large portion of the tail, including most of the vertical stabilizer and the entire horizontal stabilizer, also broke away from the aircraft. However, the pilots could not use the flight deck door, and they were forced to use the escape hatch on the cockpit ceiling which was now positioned towards the ground.
Aerotime
JANUARY 15, 2025
Its service ceiling of 45,100 ft also made it an appealing choice for the mission. Modified from the 747-100, sections of the fuselage were removed and other parts adapted to save weight, giving it a dinky length of just 184 ft 9 in, and a range of 6,650 NM.
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