Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. 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. The rest of us fantasize about swinging a Piper Cherokee.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 28, 2025

Then came the ramjetan even simpler jet engine. At the end of each flight, the X-7 deployed a drogue parachute to stabilize and slow down, followed by a main parachute for recovery. Unlike turbojets, which rely on atmospheric oxygen, rockets carry both fuel and oxidizer, enabling operation at high altitudes and even in space.

Thrust

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. This means that they have to be effective enough to counter the aircrafts inherent lateral stability. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state.

Aileron

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. Its also the anchor point to which the wings and tail are attached. These parts help the aircraft maintain its stability in flight.

Lift

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

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 7, 2024

After the war, the thousands of P-63 Kingcobras remained in Soviet service, and were later referred to by NATO with the codename ‘Fred’, serving as transitionary fighters and instructional airframes as the Soviets shifted towards advanced jet fighters such as the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15.

Airfoil

Aerotime

JUNE 11, 2025

The company will be hoping to draw more attention to its next-generation regional jet and may also be announcing more orders for the type during the show. Military transporters and fast jets As is now tradition at the Paris Air Show, there will be a fantastic representation of military fast jets on display at PAS2025.

Jet

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

jet ace, Lebanese-American Major James Jabara). 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.

Hangar

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. At first, you might experience a strong headwind, which briefly increases your airspeed and gives you a false sense of stability. Unable to recover, the jet struck approach lights short of the runway and then towers 8 and 9.

Wind Shear

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Intended to be a long-range escort fighter, the Consolidated XP-81 also represented a departure from conventional aircraft, but the rapidly evolving nature of both the Second World War and jet engines would see the XP-81 becoming nothing more than a footnote in American aviation history.

Thrust

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. Phugoid Motion and Aircraft Stability Phugoid motion is closely related to an aircraft property called longitudinal stability. What can make an aircraft do that?

Stability

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Following D-Day, as the war began to tail off, Yeager returned to fly combat missions, as Eisenhower yielded to Yaeger’s demands. One notable shootdown accredited to Yeager was one of historys very first air-to-air victories against a jet-powered fighter aircraft. Eisenhower himself.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Codenamed the “Fagot” by NATO, the MiG-15 was a shock to Western observers when it first entered Soviet Air Regiments in 1949, and would earn a reputation for its firepower, maneuverability, and ruggedness during the Korean War, was the first Soviet jet fighter to be an equal to Western designs.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As reported by Vintage Aviation News earlier this year, Folland Gnat XR987 — now with the New Zealand civil registration ZK-RAJ, for “Red Arrows Jet” — is being returned to airworthiness at the workshops of Aero Restoration (Aero R) south of Auckland in the North Island for owner Matt Wilcock.

Jet

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

Plane and Pilot

JULY 30, 2025

Long before the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Hawker Siddeley Harrier , or the more recent Lockheed Martin F-35B jump jets, the concept of a fighter that could launch from a ship’s deck, fight off the enemy, and return was high on the priority list for the U.S.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board. It was also hoped that a seaplane fighter could also operate from remote areas that had no airbases but enough water for seaplane operations.

Cockpit

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

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Indeed, standing as a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors.

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

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 26, 2025

The tail boom is a new build, with the damaged original retained for display, and the tailplane is approximately 25% original. 53 XD145, powered by a Spectre rocket and Armstrong Siddeley Viper jet, which flew only briefly in 1957–58 before being displayed at Cosford since 1982; and the dumpy Hunting H.126

Hangar

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

Touchdown The TSB explained that as the Delta Connections flight reached touchdown the side-stay attached to the right MLG fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire.

Indicated Airspeed

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft). The Space Shuttle Carriers are easily recognizable from the extra stabilizers placed on the tail of the 747s as well as the struts on top (where the orbiters were attached).

Stability

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

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Although the company built and flew two examples, the military quickly lost interest in piston engines, and Douglas pivoted, ultimately reworking the XB-42 into the jet-powered XB-43. A ventral stabilizer doubled as propeller protection in the event of over-rotation or tail strikes.

Drag

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.

Tail

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane. Vital Components of a Plane in the Tail Assembly The primary function of the empennage or tail assembly of an airplane is to keep the aircraft stable despite the rotational energy of relative wind. What are the basic parts of this section?

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. 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. It could not be made official because of a failed FAI camera. IMPOSSIBLE.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. 1127 Kestrel, the aircraft that was to be the basis for the Harrier jet-jump fighter-bomber flown by the Royal Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

Thrust

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Speaking of its positive qualities, they felt the cockpit layout was descent, its ground handling was good, the controls were light, the roll rate was adequate, and control and stability was generally effective. However, the overall performance was still underwhelming. Elliot was able to make an emergency landing at Lambert Field.

Gross Weight

Ask the Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

One small hazard might’ve been broken material striking the rear stabilizers. Worst case would’ve been the slat breaking apart further, or detaching completely, unlikely as that might be, but even this wouldn’t crash the plane, so long as the stabilizers or tail weren’t struck and badly damaged. The B-word is what counts.

Stability

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

TURBO-AE Code During the 1990s, NASA developed a computer code that generates two-dimensional simulations of potential aeroelastic (AE) problems that can occur in jet engine blades. Jet Engine Combustors During the 1990s and early 2000s, NASA improved the technology associated with jet fuel combustion to help engines burn fuel more cleanly.

Wind Shear

Aerotime

MAY 30, 2025

According to reports, Delta Air Lines is now facing 11 separate lawsuits arising from a landing accident involving a CRJ regional jet operating on its behalf in Toronto on February 17, 2025. These include examining the wing structure of the jet, as well as landing techniques, pilot training, and certification of the landing gear.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Boeing 747 is an icon of the jet age, a giant aircraft that democratized air travel for the masses and shrank the world throughout the latter 20th century. Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. In commercial service, it flew more than 2.5

Cargo

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. One of the first of these was the Model 73 Jet Mentor. The Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor in flight.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Using the new Bonanza as a basis for this design, there was some talk of adding the Bonanza’s V-tail on the aircraft before that was abandoned in favor of a more conventional vertical and horizontal stabilizer design. One of the first of these was the Model 73 Jet Mentor. The Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor in flight.

Horizontal Stabilizer