Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
This is called lift. Wingtip vortices are a byproduct of lift. Once the wing stops producing lift, the vortices dissipate instantly. Wing spoilers drastically reduce the lift generated by the wing. Its important because the lift is always produced perpendicular to the relative wind. Why is this important?
Plane and Pilot
JULY 10, 2025
Photo: Cayla McLeod Effects We learned in the private pilot course that increasing the density altitude reduces the effectiveness of the propeller, the lift produced by the wings, and the power output of the engine. However, there is an additional effect we do not often think about. It all adds up. OK, more on that later.
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Fear of Landing
JANUARY 17, 2025
This was done early in the program (737-100/200) because it was discovered the 737 was prone to float in ground effect enough that it could prevent WoW from going true after touchdown – same with wheel speed. The 737 does not use Weight on Wheels (WoW) to enable the thrust reversers.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 1, 2025
A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. He had no further memory of the event.
Air Facts
MARCH 17, 2025
There were thousands and thousands of original photographs of every conceivable type of flying machine including monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, multiplanes, discoplanes, gliders, sailplanes, paraplanes, balloons, blimps, dirigibles, helicopters, autogyros, tilt-rotors, lifting bodies, rockets, missiles, spacecraft, satellites, space stations, wing-in-ground-effect (..)
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 2, 2024
It’s not magic—it’s ground effect. When you’re flying near the ground, within one wingspan, the aerodynamic forces start to change. Your wings don’t create as much drag as they would at higher altitudes, which gives you extra lift. Ground effect is a phenomenon that every pilot must master.
Flight Training Central
MAY 6, 2024
This meant the airplane, if were to carry anything, had to be built from very light materials incapable of providing support for a wing long enough to generate the needed lift. The bi-wing design allows two shorter wings to be braced against one another with a series of struts and wires providing the strength and lifting surface required.
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