Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This horizontal component of lift is called Induced Drag. Its called induced drag since it only exists as a consequence of lift. If youre generating lift, youre stuck with induced drag as well. Increased Drag Moving air around is hard work! What Does the Vortex Strength Depend On? How to Reduce Wingtip Vortices?

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

This climb speed is determined by minimizing the two sources of drag acting against the airplane. If speed is too low, meaning angle of attack is too high, induced drag builds up, as the wing is working extra hard to make lift. If speed is too fast, parasite drag becomes excessive, created from the increased wind resistance.

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Aerotime

APRIL 8, 2025

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Cabin Crew Drag Airline Airlines 161

Simple Flying

APRIL 5, 2025

While brakes and aerodynamic drag contribute significantly to this process, another critical component is reverse thrust. When an aircraft lands, it needs an effective way to decelerate and come to a complete stop safely.

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

This setup makes the wing less efficient overall, but it can reduce drag, weight, and cost compared to using a separate tail. High aspect ratio wings reduce drag and improve performance during climb or slow flight. On the flipside, a decrease in aspect ratio will result in higher drag. Short, wide wings have a low aspect ratio.

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Cranky Flier

MARCH 4, 2025

If things continue to drag on or even get worse, then I’d imagine American will have to take an even harder look at what it is planning to fly. Looking at a sample week using Cirium data, that cuts about 2.5 percent of departing seats for the airline at DCA. This is not a big number, but it’s also an easy cut to make.

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Northstar VFR

MAY 26, 2025

When deployed, they increase the wings lift and drag, allowing the airplane to fly safely at slower speeds. At the same time, flaps create extra drag, which helps slow the airplane down. By increasing the camber (curvature) of the wing, it produces more liftat the cost of additional drag. Why Do Aircraft Need Flaps?

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Flatter approach angle (due to less drag). Lift and Drag Modifications A no-flaps landing significantly reduces drag and lift, which is why the approach is flown at a higher speed. Adjust Your Aim Point : Modify your sight picture so your touchdown point factors for the reduced drag, lift, and longer float.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Davis, who had developed a new wing, whose airfoil had a lower drag co-efficiency than other wing designs of the time, and which had already been used on the company’s Model 31/XP4Y Corregidor flying boat. The company had hired a freelance aeronautical engineer, David R.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 7, 2025

The larger diameter of a turbofan, including all the additional components, increases the drag and weight of the aircraft. More parts create more components that require regular inspection, servicing, and maintenance.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Particularly in battle aerodynamics, drag reduction, and structural durability, early aircraft teach engineers today important insights. Replacing the slower, drag-heavy biplanes of previous years, monoplane aircraft emerged during this time. Aircraft from this age stress the need of simplifying and fuel economy.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 11, 2025

They flew a total of 313 missions, collecting invaluable data on pitch stability, lift, drag, and buffeting in transonic and supersonic flight. The jet- and rocket-powered aircraft exceeded expectations, performing better than predicted in high-speed wind tunnel testsparticularly in drag performance above Mach 0.85.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Thrust, produced by the engine, propels the plane forward, overcoming drag, which is the resistance caused by air. These forces must work in harmony to maintain flight stability.

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Ask Captain Lim

JUNE 18, 2025

For instance, staying at a lower altitude, where fuel consumption is higher due to increased engine thrust needed to overcome greater drag and denser air. Flying at a higher speed also burns more fuel per minute, while extending the landing gear can increase drag, further accelerating fuel burn.

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WayMan

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This range, also known as the stratosphere, is ideal for several reasons: Fuel Efficiency : The thinner air at high altitudes reduces drag, helping aircraft consume less fuel. Commercial planes typically cruise at altitudes between 30,000 and 40,000 feet above sea level.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

They adjust wing camber, thickness, and aspect ratio to balance lift, drag, and stall characteristics for different aircraft roles. Designing for Efficiency While increasing airspeed boosts lift (per Bernoulli), it also increases drag. Engineers try to design wings that maximize lift while minimizing drag.

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Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 10, 2025

Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ridge Shan) Pardo attempted to push Amans Phantom by contacting its drag chute compartment, but turbulence made this impossible. Pardo visited Luke to speak at the graduation of the latest 310th FS F-16 Basic Course class.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 23, 2025

Well, ever since the story of David Dao being dragged off a United flight after he refused to give up his seat, airlines have tried to be a lot more careful about how they bump passengers, and the optics surrounding it. So, why would Delta be so generous, and offer way more compensation than it legally has to?

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Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 2, 2025

Its tailless ogival delta wing was optimized for supersonic efficiency, while its slender fuselage minimized drag. (Image Credit: Bristol Aerospace Centre) Beyond its speed, Concorde’s engineering was a marvel. Every aspect of its design was focused on performance, making it one of the most recognizable aircraft in history.

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Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

This prevents tip vortices—a phenomenon where air leaks around blade tips, causing thrust loss and increased drag. Unlike traditional shaft-driven rotors found in helicopters and conventional eVTOLs, HyperDrive directly drives the blade tips. Per MagLev, HyperDrive will be quieter than both helicopter and eVTOL propulsion systems.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 14, 2025

Flight attendants have accused management of dragging their feet in making a fair offer. This is in reference to flight attendants not yet having a new contract, nearly four years after their previous contract became amendable. Below you can see a small part of the protest. The flight attendants were ultimately escorted out by security.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 25, 2025

Fortunately there were two military veterans seated nearby, who dragged him away from the exit, and pinned him down, so that he was restrained. At that point, a passenger reportedly jumped up and tried to open the emergency exit, without any sort of warning. The crew and the two men then used zip ties to restrain the guy.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. Adverse yaw is created due to the drag differential between the two sides of the aircraft. The downward moving aileron produces more lift, but also generates more induced drag. This creates drag.

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AV Web

DECEMBER 26, 2024

AIRCRAFT The old drag-racing sentimenttheres no replacement for displacementalso rings true in personal aviation. By the same token, the jaunt across Lake Michigan to get to Oshkosh from the East Coast is a lot less risky at 10,000 feet than it is at 4,000. Im a strong advocate of using as much airplane for the task as you can afford.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

Radiosonde package, balloon, string and parachute being dragged out of the shelter for a launch at 23Z. This includes launches at Kotzebue, Alaska; Gray, Maine; and Albany, New York. Further staffing cuts and early retirements will undoubtedly cause more suspensions to occur in the coming months.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 25, 2025

The theft was bad enough, but the way theyve responded, and how long its dragged on, has been exhausting. Lastly, hes not happy that he was offered no compensation for the disruption to his work, as he had meetings canceled, had to go to the police, had to lock accounts, etc.

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Aviation Bussiness News

APRIL 29, 2025

AeroSHARK, inspired by the texture of shark skin, reduces aerodynamic drag, leading to lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions – an improvement ANA has verified since the technologys initial introduction. ANA has already been operating a Boeing 777 Freighter (JA771F) with the riblet technology since September 2024.

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One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 23, 2025

United management has really been dragging its feet with agreeing to a new contract. While flight attendants at both American and Delta have received significant pay increases , United flight attendants are still working on a pre-pandemic contract.

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Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The system is well-suited for aircraft of any size, and offers low power consumption and reduced drag from its low-profile antenna. Applications range from complementing existing Ku-/Ka-band service in large cabins to introducing cabin Internet to small and medium-size aircraft.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

The reaction in the form of increased thrust allows the aircraft to overcome drag and accelerate or climb. Spoilers are panels on the top of wings that pilots can raise to spoil lift and increase drag. The mass of air and exhaust gases thrown ahead push back on the aircraft ( reaction ), effectively increasing drag.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

For instance, an aircraft maintaining a steady IAS at 30,000 feet will have a faster TAS than at sea level due to reduced drag from thinner air. This means less drag and faster ground speed. Higher altitude, with its lower air density, reduces drag on the aircraft. Also, remember that density decreases with altitude.

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Fear of Landing

APRIL 11, 2025

Instead, they had to drag the aircraft tail first off of the grass and back to the hangers. The nose gear of the F27 was so damaged that even when they restarted the engines, it was not possible to taxi forward or even to tow it by the nose back onto the runway. How can we explain such an elementary mistake?

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Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

The power reduction, the induced drag of the level turn (2 Gs necessary to maintain level flight), and the parasitic drag of the speed-brakes slows the aircraft below the gear-limiting speed of 240 knots. Sadly, Ali did not survive. Another international student I flew with was a Saudi Arabian named Bander ( Bahn -der).

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Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

The G-loading and added drag slowed us below the gear limit speed (240 KIAS). I have 230 gallons times 6.5 pounds carry the 6 is necessary? Back in the cockpit, I made a level, 60-degree banked turn to inside downwind while lowering the speed brakes. I dropped the gear and flaps and asked, Throttles still at 1000 pounds per hour?

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Aviation Bussiness News

APRIL 4, 2025

Comprising fine ribbed textures – known as riblets – each measuring around 50 micrometers, the film optimises aerodynamics by reducing frictional drag on the aircrafts surface. Developed by Lufthansa Technik in collaboration with BASF, AeroSHARK is a biomimetic surface film that mimics the structure of sharkskin.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Keep wings level to prevent unnecessary drag or instability. Your top priority is to regain and maintain airspeed. Maintain pitch attitude based on wind shear escape guidance. Dont lower the nose! Avoid abrupt maneuvers. Be ready for a go-around. The FAA advises pilots to initiate a missed approach at the first sign of a microburst.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 4, 2025

With a simple drag-and-drop interface, pilots can insert waypoints and alternate airports, check elevation profiles, and even run simulated flights to preview their trip. METARs and TAFs are integrated into the route planning interface, allowing a quick check of weather conditions along the route or at the destination.

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