Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

To some extent this was carried out with the Cherokee, though the key design elementuse of a stabilator in place of a conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizeris likely the influence of John Thorp. Thorp joined the Piper design team during the Cherokees development; his own Sky Scooter used a stabilator.

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Approach Airplanes Stability Weight-Shift-Control 73

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design. The prototype Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, N67900 over Burbank.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

As first designed, the plane had a sharp upper line to the top of the fuselage from the cockpit to the tail, resulting in the “razorback” nickname. The “bubbletop” was less laterally stable than the “razorback,” so starting with the P-47D-27-RE a shallow fillet was added ahead of the vertical tail.

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Tail Cockpit Pilot Approach 95

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

The provision of stabilizer floats at the ends of each wing, which could be retracted for streamlined flight, added to the design’s efficiency. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged.

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Pilot Tail Ferry Flight Clearance 293

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

F-86F Sabre 52-4689/FAB 658 under restoration at the Mary Baken Engen Restoration Hangar of the Steven F. The gallery will feature Campbell’s flight gear that she wore on that mission, and a battle-scarred piece of the tail of her A-10. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Udvar-Hazy Center, November 22, 2022.

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Hangar Stability Tail Aviation Technology 97

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

At approximately 30-40 feet agl, the spinning stopped and the helicopter appeared to stabilize for a brief moment before continuing a nose-low, forward descent into the grass north of Runway 28. The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. As it descended it spun around 2-3 times.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But space in the main hangar is incredibly limited and that relegates several other aircraft to sitting out in the weather. Unfortunately, the close confines of the MAAM hangar made getting a good photo of the unique artifact quite challenging. There is no room in the hangar to attach the Black Widow's wings outboard of the tail booms.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Expect to put down 20 to 25 percent of the purchase price as your demonstration of financial stability. You may lust after a vintage Beech Staggerwing , but a radial-engine tail-wheel airplane with unique quirks will need to be approached with a careful transition.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. Albree would consider this design to be his “make or break” aircraft to validate his theory for the Flying Tail design he and Roscoe P. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310 By 2012, the wing spars were reconstructed inside the museum’s carpentry shop.

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Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 122

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 63

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

While the layout for a cabin to accommodate 10 passengers and two pilots was settled upon, the original design of the Electra was to feature a single vertical stabilizer on the tail. A young Clarence “Kelly” Johnson with a wind tunnel model of a Lockheed Electra with its original single tail design.

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Tail Stability Airlines Airline 109

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. F6F-3 40467 at Earl Reinert’s Victory Air Museum in Illinois, with restoration work underway on the tail.

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Most of them sleep on WWII Army cots in a hangar. They attend classes in a hangar surrounded by WWII aircraft equipment, training devices, and publications. The secret weapon of a bombardiers tool kit was the Norden bombsighta gyro-stabilized, mechanical, analog computer with downward-aimed optics. The tail gunner manned twin.50s,

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Airplanes Descent Pilot Weather 105

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

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Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Scott had intended to restore 52-4608, but the aircraft would spend much of its post-USAF life in storage in a hangar at Hollister Municipal Airport. Scott of Gilroy, CA, who had it registered with the FAA as N57963.

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Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail 98