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?

Camber

WayMan

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Commercial airliners, private jets, and military aircraft each operate at different altitudes to optimize safety, fuel efficiency, and performance. 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.

Turbulence

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace’s offerings include Jet ConneX, SwiftBroadband (SBB), Viasat Ka-band, Viasat Ku – Advanced, Iridium Certus, LuxStream, and SwiftJet. Jet ConneX delivers highly robust inflight connectivity tailored for business aviation with global coverage – excluding the polar regions.

Jet

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Why do jet pilots talk about speed in terms of Mach number? Jet aircraft often fly at speeds close to the speed of sound. Lift, drag, and handling correlate well with IAS in the lower atmosphere. This type of wing redirects the shockwaves further aft on the wing, reducing drag. Here’s why. roughly) up to about Mach 5.0.

True Airspeed

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.

Drag

Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

Bernoullis principle also applies to how carburetors and jet engine inlets work. Jet Engine Inlets Jet engine inlets also rely on Bernoullis principle, although they use it differently than carburetors. Jet engines need stable, high-pressure airflow at the compressor face to operate efficiently.

Pilot

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Throttle Mismanagement: A T-38 Lesson That Stuck Air Facts Journal An Air Force instructor teaches a powerful lesson on throttle finessein a jet that doesnt forgive overcorrections Have you ever been in a car or plane where the person driving or piloting is constantly adjusting the throttle? He replied, Ive got the jet.

AGL

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

Subscribe Now I texted my twin jet crew to get to the airport as soon as possible, then quickly planned the flight, ordered the fuel, and completed the preflight while my fellow crewmates arrived and got their pre-mission tasks accomplished. Full flaps are mostly about drag, not lift. I saved the final flap position for this scenario.

Knot

Flight Training Central

JUNE 30, 2025

In a jet airplane, the engine pushes a blast of hot gases backward; the force of equal and opposite reaction pushes against the engine and forces the airplane forward. Detrimental Drag Drag is the force that resists movement of an aircraft through the air. There are two basic types: parasite drag and induced drag.

Airfoil

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.

Aileron

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

In high-speed and high-altitude scenarios, like for military and commercial jets, compressibility affects the accuracy of your IAS. 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.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

The principle is the same whether the aircraft gets thrust from propellers or jet engines. A propeller forces air backward, while a jet engine ignites a mixture of air and fuel to generate hot gases that eject backward. In jet engines, increasing throttle increases the fuel flow, producing more exhaust gases that can be flung backward.

Torque

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. Unable to recover, the jet struck approach lights short of the runway and then towers 8 and 9. Keep wings level to prevent unnecessary drag or instability. A strong downward rush of air sent it plunging uncontrollably.

Wind Shear

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Winglets and Sharklets Both Airbus and Boeing operate aircraft with wingtip devices that are designed to increase aircraft efficiency by removing drag. The devices would prove to “reduce wingtip drag” and increase “fuel efficiency by 6-7%” but would need be positioned uniquely for each aircraft type.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 14, 2025

In the late 1940s, surplus unlimited class World War II fighters, and for a while military jets, soon pushed 400 mph air race speeds out of reach. However, the technical advances during World War II changed all that. That is until 2007 when the husband-and-wife team of Jon and Patricia Sharp took on the 400 mph mark in their Nemesis NXT.

Airfoil

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 7, 2025

Certifications were awarded as follows: 17 pilots in the Biplane class, 11 in Formula 1, 8 in the Jet class, 17 in the Sport class, 7 in T-6, and 1 in the Unlimited class. STOL Drag, the event’s seventh race category, uses a separate certification process due to its distinct format and course layout.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2025

Designated “Camel” by NATO, the Tu-104 was a narrow-body, twin-turbojet Soviet airliner that became the second jet-powered airliner to enter commercial service, following the British de Havilland Comet. Nonetheless, the Tu-104 remained in commercial use for a quarter-century—a testament to its pioneering role in early jet travel.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Intended to be a long-range escort fighter, the Consolidated XP-81 also represented a departure from conventional aircraft, but the rapidly evolving nature of both the Second World War and jet engines would see the XP-81 becoming nothing more than a footnote in American aviation history.

Thrust

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

One notable shootdown accredited to Yeager was one of historys very first air-to-air victories against a jet-powered fighter aircraft. These helped to minimize drag and ensure aerodynamic efficiency at high speeds. Yeager managed to catch a German Messerschmitt 262 just as it approached to land, shooting it down in the process.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 8, 2025

Too Much Airplane Another common push is the fledgling aviator who wants to do all their training in a turboprop, jet, or multiengine aircraft.

Wind Shear

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In order to trace the origins of the FJ-2 and the FJ-3, one must look back to the US Navy’s first carrier-borne jet fighters. In order to trace the origins of the FJ-2 and the FJ-3, one must look back to the US Navy’s first carrier-borne jet fighters. Navy Naval Aviation News, May 1952.)

Jet

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Boom boasts that XB-1 is the first privately developed jet to break the sound barrier. Approaching and passing through Mach 1, however, an airplane acquires, in addition to the drag it already has, a new kind of drag, called wave drag. The problem for boomless cruise is that it takes place within the transonic drag rise.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

In the world of aviation, Howard Hughes is known for such films as Hell’s Angels and Jet Pilot, the H-4 Hercules flying boat (better known by its derisive nickname, the “Spruce Goose”), helicopters such as the OH-6 Cayuse, and spacecraft such as the Surveyor landers and the Magellan satellite.

Cockpit

Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

On paper, the fastest fighter jet of 2025 is the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-25, which sets a pace of Mach 2.83. In terms of widely-used, theater-ready fighter jets, the F-15 Eagle takes the crown. However, in their day-to-day operations, the jets tend to fly significantly slower. It is followed by its sistership, the MiG-31.

Jet

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

While commercial airliners are made up of millions of individual components, the foundation of every airplanewhether a Boeing jet or a training aircraft like a Cessna 172 starts with the same key parts. Ever looked out the window before takeoff and wondered what exactly goes into making that aircraft stay in the air?

Lift

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

Aircraft that transform their wing shape mid-flight might sound like something out of a futuristic sci-fi, but they’re actually as old as the jet age itself. Modern jets favor simpler, stealthier fixed-wing designs. This aircraft was an experimental jet fighter with wings that could be adjusted to different sweep angles on the ground.

Weight-Shift-Control

World Airline News

APRIL 24, 2025

The company is creating an aircraft design that has the potential to deliver jet fuel efficiency and a greatly enhanced customer experience. The JetZero Z4 airplane is designed to accommodate 250 passengers and fly on conventional jet fuel, with propulsion systems able to utilize sustainable aviation fuel blends.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board. The official maiden flight of the Sea Dart took place on April 9, 1953.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Live bands there were an occasional treat, and until the safety-nicks banned it, drag racing the aircraft tugs after hours was a real thing. So will Biplane, Formula 1, plus the jets, T-6s, and the Unlimiteds. A crew pass got you past the safety line, and after hours the unrestricted ramp was a party.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 4, 2025

And a big investment it is, with shop labor and supplies totaling as much as $7,000 for big piston and twin models and close to $20,000 for professionally coating a business jet. With its nonporous cure, filling properties, and high resilience, ceramics offer protection from surface oxidation, parasitic drag, and UV damage.

Airplanes

Air Facts

JULY 30, 2025

However, we didn’t have to hook up a long hose, drag a bucket of soapy water, sponges, and a chamois cloth out on the ramp, then sweat under the Florida sun to complete the task. The underside of the jets and open gear wells were directly rinsed down, while arcs of water cascaded over the upper surfaces. I’ll tell you.

Runway

Airline Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Freighter airlines are using a new coating that mimics the structure of a shark’s skin to reduce aerodynamic drag and fuel consumption.

Drag

Aerotime

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Once several hundred square meters of the film are applied to the aircraft fuselage and engine nacelles, it reduces drag, thereby leading to reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. LATAM’s decision confirms once again: AeroSHARK works.

Drag

Simple Flying

MARCH 3, 2025

The Gulfstream G550 is a twin-engine business jet designed and developed by Gulfstream Aerospace in the early 2000s. The engineered wing and other advances in reducing overall aerodynamic drag on the aircraft boost its operations range to a maximum of 6,750 NM (7,770 miles, 12,500 km).

Drag

Aerotime

JULY 26, 2024

The UK has a rich and deep history in engineering, invention, and innovation, and in the 18 th century it was the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution which dragged the world into the new age of industrialization. Aerospace is undergoing its biggest revolution since the jet engine era.

Lift

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Although the company built and flew two examples, the military quickly lost interest in piston engines, and Douglas pivoted, ultimately reworking the XB-42 into the jet-powered XB-43. While more airflow could be ducted onto the engines easily enough, this would come at the expense of significant drag.

Drag

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

The most significant visual differences were the T-46’s high wing and the “H” tail, with twin vertical stabilizers mounted to the ends of the horizontal stabilizer that strongly resembled those of the company’s previous jet, the A-10 Thunderbolt II. As outlined in a U.S.

Horizontal Stabilizer