Cockpit Payload Rudder 
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). Like in a conventional aircraft, youll still have a yoke or stick in the cockpit to control pitch and roll. The rudder allows you to make controlled yaw movements. Its got no other horizontal aerodynamic surface besides its main wing.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. Note the radome above the cockpit. Mission accomplished!” Photo via U.S. Navy) A U.S.
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Air Facts
AUGUST 1, 2025
I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. I’d served as the legal advisor in targeting cells that put “warheads on foreheads” in Syria during the fight against ISIS—but we were always the “ground customers,” waiting for the right platform to deliver the payload. I noticed I was a little low.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability. The aircraft took off from Villacoublay and landed 45 minutes later at the Flight Test Centre in Brtigny-sur-Orge for further evaluation.
Flying Magazine
JULY 17, 2025
Anyone contemplating buying one should be ready to pay what we consider to be substantial maintenance bills, with the reward being fast cruise speeds above the weather in pressurized comfort and with reasonable payload. Climbing aboard and starting up front, however, the cockpit isn’t exactly cavernous.
Flying Magazine
JULY 11, 2025
However, the DC-6 offered airlines increased range, higher cruising speed, and cruising altitudes of up to 25,000 feet (depending upon payload and fuel load) in pressurized comfort for a full 3,000 miles, making it a versatile hauler of both passengers (DC-6B) and cargo (DC-6A).
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). 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.
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