WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

They also become familiar with systems like the Flight Management System (FMS) and transponder , which helps air traffic control identify and track aircraft. Empennage: The Tail Assembly Located at the back of the aircraft, the empennage (or tail assembly ) includes the vertical stabilizer , horizontal stabilizer , rudder , and elevator.

Lift

Flying Magazine

JULY 21, 2025

Such features, along with its strut-braced horizontal stabilizer, led some to regard the design as out of date. The Viking debuted in 1967 and continued to use a fabric-covered fuselage and plywood-skinned wing like its early predecessors. Its useful load is 839 pounds.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Flying Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

inch display, GTR 20 comm, GTX 345R transponder, G5 attitude indicator, GDL 84 ADS-B package, Garmin dual-axis autopilot, and stereo intercom. There are gap seals between the elevator and horizontal stabilizer, and the rudder and vertical stabilizer.

Gross Weight

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. The aircraft sustained damage to the leading edge of the right-hand horizontal stabilizer and was subsequently repaired. No hay heridos. There were no injuries to those onboard.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

Rudder