Center of Gravity Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer 
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. With this type of aircraft, the functions of longitudinal stability and control are incorporated into the main wing. Directional (yawing) stability from the vertical stabilizer. What Is a Tailless Aircraft? Lets find out.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Additional Dangers of Ice Accumulation Icing also makes your aircraft heavier and can even change the position of the center of gravity. It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit. I think I’d have figured out the trick in another couple hours.
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