Center of Gravity Descent Stability 
Aerotime
APRIL 3, 2025
The 56 aircraft that participated in the 1914 competition presented a wide range of aviation innovations, ranging from assisted starting mechanisms, automatic carburetors, basic stabilization systems, and many other innovations that purported to benefit aviation safety.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. This means that they have to be effective enough to counter the aircrafts inherent lateral stability. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design. This shifts the ailerons Center of Gravity (C.G.)
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Pilot Institute
APRIL 12, 2025
The aircraft pivots about its center of gravity. Weve recently seen rockets and spacecraft such as SpaceXs Falcon 9 and Starship land themselves tail first using engines to slow the descent and touch down gently. The elevator raises if you pull back on the stick or yoke. This generates a downward force on the tail ( reaction ).
Pilot Institute
JUNE 2, 2025
Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. What can make an aircraft do that?
AV Web
APRIL 15, 2025
Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Other than that, what?
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
(Wright State University) The original configuration of the Bell Model 68 was an open cockpit all-metal monoplane with fixed landing gear that was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines with thrust deflectors located at the aircraft’s center of gravity.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 26, 2024
This tendency is due to their high center of gravity and heavy engine over the nose wheel. As with any landing, it’s vital to have a stabilized approach. If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around. High-wing aircraft might need more power or pitch to arrest the descent.
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