Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Weather 
Flying Magazine
MAY 2, 2025
The horizontal stabilizer structure adjacent to the elevator position where the counterweight plug would have been installed displayed dents and paint scrapes consistent with contact with the counterweight plug. The weather at the time of the accident was reported as visual meteorological conditions (VMC).
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. With this type of aircraft, the functions of longitudinal stability and control are incorporated into the main wing. A tailless airplane is one where everything needed to fly, like lift, control, and stability, is built into the main wing.
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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. The planes did see combat, however.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 20, 2025
The weather at the time of the accident included an AIRMET active for IFR conditions with ceilings below 1,000 feet and visibility less than 3 miles due to fog and mist. The LPV has lower weather minimums of the two, as it requires a ceiling of 673 feet versus 750 for the LNAV. nautical miles from the runway.
AOPA
JULY 21, 2025
The horizontal tail has morphed into a traditional fixed horizontal stabilizer and elevator with an electrically actuated trim tab. The stabilator from the prototype is gone. They also changed the flap tracks, and now they say the force required to deploy the flaps is greatly reduced.
Professional Pilot
JULY 7, 2025
They include 3 AW169s for EMS duty in the UK, 4 AW139s that will go to LifeFlight Australia, where they will serve EMS, SAR, and LE missions, and 2 all-weather AW189s ordered by Alaska’s North Slope Borough for EMS and SAR in the Arctic Circle. TCAS II, EGPWS, weather radar, and ADS-B Out are standard.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 30, 2025
It is as far forward as possible for stability under heavy braking and absorbs serious shock loading through a trailing-beam design. The autopilot includes a “level” feature, so should things start going wrong due to weather and/or pilot disorientation, one push brings the aircraft into level flight. What about the nosewheel itself?
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