Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). Tailless Yaw Control Vertical Stabilizers and Rudders In conventional aircraft, directional stability and controlling yaw is done by the vertical stabilizer. The rudder allows you to make controlled yaw movements. How does it manage yaw control?

Tail

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

For buyers stepping up into the world of turboprops and jets, a significant part of the transition might be learning an unfamiliar avionics suite. Moreover, when deciding which aging jets it will pursue for an STC of this magnitude, Garmin also looks at obsolescence and the overall value of the aircraft.

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

Gary Dunn, of the Classic Jet Fighters Museum in Australia, visited several times, helping the crew fabricate special tooling to allow CASC to manufacture hat channels on their shops rolling machine. The newly painted rudder and horizontals now re-installed on 92460. Help started to flow from all over the globe.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 11, 2025

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. Its test flights provided data that shaped the designs of later swept-wing military aircraft, including the Century Series of jet fighters.

Drag

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. Unlike the elevators and rudder mounted close to the fuselage, the ailerons location at the end of the long, thin, and flexible wings makes them much more prone to flutter. This is where the rudder comes in. What Is an Aileron?

Aileron

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the standout aircraft in Drydens research history is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a legendary Navy fighter jet that played a key role in two major research programs at the center. The NACA Test Force at the High-Speed Flight Station in Edwards, California. The white aircraft in the foreground is a Douglas Skyrocket.

Horizontal Stabilizer

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

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. This reason is more important in jets than to us single-engine pilots, but it still applies. Flight controls and engine controls are the obvious ones.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Feet on rudder pedals. I felt I was strapped into a runaway jet. Lantana Traffic, Pulsar Experimental Four-Five-Six-Lima-Tango taking off, two-seven, Lantana, will stay in the pattern. My breathing quickened as I gripped the stick, applying power with my left hand. Throttle all the way in. I felt like I was being shot out of a rocket.

Runway

Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

On the 3rd of March 2023, a passenger in a private jet died after severe injuries in the cabin, which were originally reported as caused by severe turbulence. While the captain was waiting, he noticed an advisory on the Crew Alerting System: RUDDER LIMITER FAULT. mutters] Nav… flight director, rudder limiter fault.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. Depressions in the vertical stabilizer and rudder, as well as stabilator skins and ailerons, all help increase panel stiffness while allowing less under-skin structure. The rest of us fantasize about swinging a Piper Cherokee.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. One of the rarest aircraft in the museum is an example of the first American jet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.

Airplanes

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. The rudder helps control yaw (left or right movement of the nose), while the elevator manages pitch (up or down movement of the nose).

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

3,957 were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, by RAF fighter interception by Hawker Tempests, Spitfires, de Havilland Mosquitos and by Britains first jet fighter, the 400mph Gloster Meteor or hit the cables of barrage balloons tethered outside the capital. 7,488 crossed the south coast of England.

Rudder

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

With type ratings in Canadair Challengers and Embraer Phenom jets, plus lots of experience teaching in LSAs, gyroplanes and in the AirCam twin-engine LSA in both land and sea configuration, Wilkinson has seen all kinds come through the door—from senior astronauts to film stars to jamokes like me.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

I’d ridden in helicopters, C-130s, and even a white, unmarked Air Force jet outfitted with school bus seats and no toilet during various deployments. A crosswind gust nudged me left; I corrected with right rudder. As an Army officer—not Air Force—I was never deeply exposed to aviation. I noticed I was a little low.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

The Robin has a placard that reads: Rudder in fully opposed direction; Elevator control pulled fully back; Ailerons in neutral position. A hint of the Robins aerobatic pretensions might be the size of the rudder. You do need to apply a lot of right rudder on climbout, but if youre a tailwheel pilot, that should come naturally.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2025

At the time, anticipation ran high for the Very Light Jet (VLJ) market segment, personal jets that could be used by private owners or for air taxi operations. The Vision went on to become the first certified single engine civilian jet and that achievement earned it the 2018 Collier Trophy. So many Cubs! A working plane.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

Price: $899 ‘Flight: The Complete History of Aviation’ For readers looking for a broad overview that weaves together the tapestry of aviationfrom hot-air balloons in the 18th century to the sleek jets of the 21stR.G. Decades later, Stick and Rudder continues to shape the way pilots learn.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I chose a set of recently rehabbed tiedowns and parked there next to a Cirrus Vision Jet bearing a registration number ending in "BS". I entered the terminal building near a refueling jet and asked one of the FBO staffers if I was parked in an appropriate place. Uh-huh," I said, cool as a cucumber. "Oh, Oh, so, you too, then?"

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2025

Little-known to many, the Pirate was not as successful as its designers may have hoped for, but it still marked the first jet aircraft built and flown by Vought Aircraft, and the first aircraft built by the company after it moved from Stratford, Connecticut, to Dallas, Texas. The aircraft was armed with 4 × 20 mm (0.79

Horizontal Stabilizer

Flying Magazine

JULY 28, 2025

Material: Leather Sole: Rubber Pros: Designed to grip rudder pedals, semi-high-top design for extra support Special Features : Fire resistant liner Carbon midsole Nomex fire-resistant laces Pric e: $267.95 A carbon insole gives the show the necessary stiffness for support and all-around durability.

Pilot

AV Web

JUNE 5, 2025

Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C. The Army is also exploring a contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) model, where private industry would take over day-to-day training responsibilities.

Pilot

Flyertalk

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Issue Related to Rudders Built by Collins Aerospace The Safety Alert for Operators was issued as the result of a Boeing 737-8 flight “where the flightcrew was unable to move the rudder pedals during landing rollout.” The agency issued the alert on October 7, 2024 , potentially affecting the 737-600, 737NG, and 737-MAX models.

Rudder

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Former military fast-jet test pilot Davies explained that the VX4s production is a collaborative effort with Leonardo building the fuselage, Norco the wings and Honeywell the cockpit avionics. The stick and rudder skills are an order of magnitude less demanding than any traditional aircraft, said Davies.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Now, this might sound familiar, as this very idea that was born in Italy was an inspiration for modern-day jet propulsion. The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. The Stipa-Caproni in flight. II Editore F.

Airfoil

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

These were small pedals at the base of the rudder pedals that give the same differential control as toe brakes, but you push your heels in for brake application. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet. For that matter, we’re not all flying around with toe brakes.

Rudder

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.

Horizontal Stabilizer

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 13, 2024

This incident was so serious that the plane was flown to Paine Field in Washington after the incident for Boeing to investigate, and the jet hasn’t flown a passenger flight since. An inspection was performed on the aircraft upon landing, and damage was discovered with the PCU (the power control unit, which also controls the rudder).

Rudder

Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

Here’s a video of a 182 flipping in 30 knot winds at Las Vegas (with jet blast the deciding factor). In a left crosswind you need right rudder during your sideslip, then once on the ground you need left rudder to correct for the skipping and keep the aircraft centered. I approach using the wing low method in a crosswind.

Crosswind

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

You have to use a lot of rudder—I mean you have to be rabid as far as using the rudder to control the airplane, and it wheel lands very nicely.” It’s the rudder that is doing everything. And then when you get down near the threshold, you just hold it off and gently let the wheels down.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. Just before our appointed entry time, a privately owned performance jet somehow missed the approach to the 12,000-foot-long runway and then declared a low-fuel emergency.

Runway

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Number two cleared to land, runway one two behind the Citation jet,” was the call from Tower. I didn’t get the thumb into the wind and I didn’t immediately get on the left rudder pedal to steer us back to the centerline. Why aren’t you strong on the rudder pedals to steer us on centerline?” My hands were clammy on the controls.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

These were small pedals at the base of the rudder pedals that give the same differential control as toe brakes, but you push your heels in for brake application. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet. For that matter, we’re not all flying around with toe brakes.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

As the jet is slowed, the instructor pilot asks the entire flight crew to note the unnatural quiet in the cockpit, the sluggish control and power response, and the buffeting. However, the real focus of this maneuver is avoiding situations that might place the jet anywhere near stall speed.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Because I want to fly jets, sir!” I’ve been flying jets for years as a corporate pilot, but not real jets to some … like fighter jets. My goal in these Gauntlet jet-training sessions? But good jet flying is still demanding. built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit.

Knot