Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

By Josh Page, CFI Ever heard your flight instructor say, More right rudder? If uncorrected, it can cause a yawing movement to the left, requiring the pilot to use right rudder to maintain coordinated control. By now you should be able to answer this quickly Applying right rudder! How do you counter this left turning tendency?

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

(image via AirCorps Aviation) Over the past few months, most of the work on the AT-10 involved the cockpit section, the main fuselage, and the vertical fin. Indeed a major milestone saw the cockpit section mounted to the main fuselage! image via AirCorps Aviation) The cockpit section as it looked following painting prep.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying Wolfgang Langewiesche (1944) While not a history, per se, Stick and Rudder is a historic introduction to flight that has been used by flight students since some of the earliest days of organized flight training. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R.

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WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot. These parts help the aircraft maintain its stability in flight.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The restoration team removed, refurbished (or remade) and reinstalled each component from the original vertical stabilizer, one-at-a-time, so everything stayed in alignment, negating the need for a fixture. AirCorps Aviation’s CAD department has produced a rendering of the AT-10’s horizontal stabilizer.

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Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. Note the radome above the cockpit.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 13, 2025

Not Studying Enough Outside of Flight Lessons The Mistake: Many student pilots believe that learning to fly is all about time in the cockpit, neglecting the equally important ground school and self-study. This leads to unstable approaches, excessive pitch changes, and increased workload in the cockpit.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Because the aircraft would be hanging from the structure of the Transportation Gallerys balcony, the left wing was removed from the aircraft, with only the right wing brought inside for reattachment, along with the tail stabilizers and the engines. On the nose of the cockpit section, the aircraft also bears the name of Captain William R.

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Synchronizing available information from the Black Hawks flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is ongoing, as is the effort to transcribe audio from the cockpit voice recorders from both aircraft.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

These forces must work in harmony to maintain flight stability. Primary Flight Controls The primary controls of a small plane are the yoke, rudder pedals, and throttle. Primary Flight Controls The primary controls of a small plane are the yoke, rudder pedals, and throttle.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Full flaps provide maximum lift and stability, allowing the aircraft to fly slower without stalling. This is a critical step when learning how to land a Piper Seminole.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. Additionally, the aircraft had low, fixed, spatted main landing gear and a tailwheel with twin open cockpits. The Stipa-Caproni in flight. II Editore F.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before the aircraft begins to move, on the left-hand ( port ) side of the aircraft you may also notice the ground crew waving a thin red flag at the captain (who always sits, aviation convention dictates, in the left-hand seat in the cockpit of fixed-wing aircraft).

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

Photo by NASA The impetus for the program came from issues the Navy had encountered with inadvertent spin entries, which were traced back to the aircrafts aileron rudder interconnect system. View of the cockpit of NASA’s F-14, tail number 991. They were designed for maneuverability in air-to-air combat.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

These exercises aim to sharpen your skills and awareness in the cockpit. Use coordinated aileron and rudder pressures to swiftly, but not excessively, angle into this turn. Uncoordinated use of aileron and rudder, leading to slips or skids. Unfortunately, theyre infamously tricky. Inaccurate wind direction assessment.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, if you take a close look at the inboard upper wing surface of the B-52, you will see a neat row of vortex generators that correspond to the width of the horizontal stabilizer. These were added to manage the low speed air flow over the wings, stabilizer and elevators.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

So when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll know exactly what to do. Maintain Control and Increase Airspeed It’s important that you add right rudder to neutralize the aircraft’s left-turning tendencies. But in a power-off stall, you have to pitch down to allow the airspeed to increase and stabilize the aircraft.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. What Is an Aileron?

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Contemporary postcard showing Louis Bleriot flying the Bleriot VIII, a forerunner to the Bleriot XI (Wikimedia Commons) By 1908, Blriot developed the Blriot VIII, the first airplane to combine a hand-operated joystick for the aircraft’s pitch and roll axis and foot-operated rudder controls for the yaw axis.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. This allows you to configure appropriately and ensures a stabilized approach.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The primary flight controls on the DC-10 (ailerons, rudder, elevators, spoilers) were all operated by hydraulic pressure and the first officer was quick to realize that his controls were unresponsive to his inputs. Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Libeccio was of mixed construction, featuring a metal monocoque cockpit section attached to a welded steel tube fuselage frame covered in doped fabric, with wooden bars and panels on its top and bottom. 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

137, showcasing the ventrally mounted vertical stabilizer. Unlike traditional aircraft, the Puffin’s vertical stabilizer and rudder were mounted below the fuselage rather than atop it, providing an unconventional, inverted look. Further stability on water was provided by two large floats beneath the outer interplane struts.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

12-type fin giving more surface area for greater stability and to compensate for the extra fuselage length. This safety pilot handled engine starting, re-lighting and fuel control. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type feet this was the longest Meteor produced.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This early design, also called the “Standard Seven,” featured a vestigial vertical stabilizer, ground adjustable propeller, and tight cowling that featured fairings for each rocker arm. It sported a supercharged 450 hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior and an enlarged vertical stabilizer and rudder to match.

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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.

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Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck. Ten years later, we introduced the G3000, bringing the first touch screens to the light turbine cockpit, and revolutionary technologies like the award-winning Garmin Autoland.

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Airspeed Junkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Each nose has one antenna and three at the top of each vertical stabilizer. Boeing wanted to add stability to this jet fighter. However, rear fins stabilize the aircraft, and rudders allow the jet to turn. Inside Cockpit The F/A-18 fighter jet has advanced gadgetry inside the cockpit.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Forward flight was stabilized by a conventional rudder and elevator arrangement. Stone Cold Stearman College Park's Stearman was once owned by Gustavus "Gus" McLeod, who departed Gaithersburg, MD in this aircraft on April 5, 2000 and became the first pilot to reach the North Pole in an open cockpit airplane.

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Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 18, 2025

This view of the cockpit was captured in 2016 during the Allison rebuild and shows some work still to be completed. Randy Malmstrom photo] The tail fin has been made asymmetrical as per the late Bf 109 specifications (unlike that of the smaller Buchn rudder and vertical stabilizer).

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

That same day, 40467 was given the squadron code 19, which was applied in block letters to the engine cowling, landing gear covers, fuselage sides, and the vertical stabilizer, where it was underlined with a white bar. His wing tank and cockpit exploded.” On the cockpit section, the stencil “LT. Navy and U.S.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

He returned to the cockpit, no doubt embarrassed at his rookie mistake, but there was no harm done. While the captain was waiting, he noticed an advisory on the Crew Alerting System: RUDDER LIMITER FAULT. He figured the fault was actually in the rudder test, not in the rudder itself, as it cleared once the aircraft had warmed up.

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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). From the pilot’s seat it cruises near effortlessly and handles nimbly on land or water with a great combination of stability and modest control pressures.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. Well see about that.

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