One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1

Descent

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Since it’s a ratio, it doesn’t matter if you measure speed in knots, miles per hour, or meters per second. At sea level on a standard day (15 °C or 59 °F), sound travels about 661 knots (approximately 761 mph or 1,225 km/h). Here, Mach 1 is roughly 573 knots (about 659 mph). The Mach value stays the same.

True Airspeed

Flying Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

Even after stretching the fuselage and adding so-called family seats to the S35 V-tail model, the Bonanza wasn’t capable of seating six full-sized adults. But the 1968 model year brought a true six-place Bonanza with aft cabin doors and a conventional tail. Older models might sell for around $500,000 and later ones closer to $800,000.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

Beta Technologies Alia, tail number N916LF, taxis on the runway at Modern Aviations JFK FBO terminal. The models cruise speed of about 150 knots, demonstrated range of 336 nm, and charge time of less than one hour make it suited for regional trips with minimal downtime. It’s just another step toward certification.

Air Traffic Control

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As they descended towards Leeds, the crew calculated the landing performance with the wind at 060 at 19 knots. The approach controller gave them the current wind as 070 gusting 33 knots and let them know that a Boeing 737-800 had just landed. And sometimes its 35 knots across *and* thick fog. It’s not *always* like that.

Crosswind

Flying Magazine

MAY 23, 2025

CX300 Lands in Europe The CX300, tail number N214BT, debuted to an audience of Irish government officials, aviation regulators, and industry leaders at Shannon Airport. The model has a top cruise speed of 135 knots and demonstrated range of 336 nm, positioning it as an option to decarbonize city-to-city flights.

Cargo

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

It is designed for a pilot to fly as many as four passengers at up to 200 mph (174 knots) on short trips within cities such as New York and Dubai. entry into service is planned for 2025 in partnership with Delta Air Lines. A few Joby competitors have also completed full-scale crewed transition flights.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

Turns out there was a Cessna 172’s tail sticking out of some heavy brush toward the end of the runway. For example, it shouldn’t be that difficult to maintain 100 knots and 1,200 feet msl, but it is for many. 2 airplane might be asked to land on the dot while Tail-end Charlie touches down on the numbers. Slow flight, for one.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2025

These include a new nose bowl and dorsal fin/tail root fairings from Lasar Speed Mods. While individual upgrades like these often return only a few knots each, they can collectively boost a stock airplanes cruise speed noticeably.

Transponder

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Other relevant numbers for the E1000 AX are its max cruise speed of 333 knots, max operating altitude of FL 340 and NBAA range of 1,560 nm. The deicing boots seem to mate so smoothly with the wings and tail that the only way to tell where that happens is that they are different colors. Then, pitch up a long way—12.5 gph fuel burn.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 7, 2025

It was short, stubby, very tall, and had two wings and two tails. To that he added wings and tail, and placed the pilot behind all this. The unique twin tails completed this one-of-a-kind design and became the signature feature of the entire line. Then suddenly, out of the sky, swooped a most bizarre-looking flying machine.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Go-around , flaps 13,” I called.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

As seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. Whats Happening Inside the Vortex?

Turbulence

CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

climb or approach) and the pilot suddenly applies full power, causing an excessive pitch-up due to the trim setting and increased propwash over the tail. 65 knots in a Cessna 172). times stall speed, like 80-90 knots in a Cessna 172). How to Perform: Trim the airplane for a climb or approach speed (e.g.,

Aileron

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire. The wing tip then struck the ground, at which point the wing and the tail section broke. The wing and tail on runway 23 as photographed by Brennan Milroy (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Runway

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Increasing The Aircraft Speed Small, light, and low-powered aircraft such as the Cessna 172 have a relatively narrow operational speed range ranging from 40 knots up to about 160 knots. Commercial airliners fly at speeds above 300 knots but also need to be controllable at speeds below 150 knots.

Aileron

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Horizontal wind speeds near the surface can be as fast as 45 knots, resulting in a 90-knot wind shear from headwind to tailwind across the microburst. A massive explosion followed, and the tail section skidded backward. During final descent, it flew into a microburst, causing a rapid loss of altitude.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes.

Weather

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

As you can see, the plane doesnt yet have the full Austrian livery, but instead has an all-white fuselage, except for the Austrian name written across the front of the plane, and the Austrian logo on the tail. He warned of some turbulence on approach, and of strong winds at Washington Dulles, which were gusting up to 30 knots.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

The aircraft had to land into a 15-knot crosswind, and the plane landed at a speed of 115 mph, well below the standard landing speed of between 150-175 mph. (Historic Chicago) On September 28, 1992, the Boeing 727 took off from Chicagos OHare International Airport on the short flight to Meigs.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The weapon was guided by the launch aircraft through the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) method, with the pilot tracking the flight of the missile via two bright flares on the weapon’s tail and making corrections using a small joystick in the cockpit.] Each Thud is loaded with a pair of AGM-12C Bullpup B air-to-ground missiles.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

By the time the aircraft decelerates below roughly 80 knots, the pilot moves the reverser controls to the idle reverse position. Aircraft with tail-mounted engines, such as the DC-9, could get away with using buckets. This explains why you hear the engines roar at touchdown as a passenger. Newer engines moved to high-bypass designs.

Thrust

Fear of Landing

JUNE 27, 2025

The Citation II was flying at 167 knots at the final approach fix, slowing to 117 knots before hitting the power lines at 500 feet above mean sea levels. The report confirms that the flaps remained at 0° while the passengers evacuated from the wing, but does not explain why. The descent profile matches what we saw from the ADSB data.

Descent

AOPA

JULY 21, 2025

Wing kit deliveries are expected by the end of the year, with the tail, fuselage, and finishing kits to follow in 2026. The aircraft has a useful load of just over 900 pounds, and a stall speed below 45 knots. The RV–15 will cruise at 140 knots and needs less than 400 feet for takeoff and landing.

Tail

CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

climb or approach) and the pilot suddenly applies full power, causing an excessive pitch-up due to the trim setting and increased propwash over the tail. 65 knots in a Cessna 172). times stall speed, like 80-90 knots in a Cessna 172). How to Perform: Trim the airplane for a climb or approach speed (e.g.,

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2025

In order to handle the enormous P-factor, and the turbulence caused by the propeller, a T-tail and a small triangular aerovane just behind the pilot’s canopy were added to the original F-84F airframe. Thrust was increased or decreased by varying the pitch of the propeller. However, everything was not going well.

Jet

Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

I cancelled the flight to my hometown due to a combination of strong winds aloft, surface winds forecast at 20-something knots gusting to 30-something knots, and potential for IFR conditions and icing to boot. When Mike provided my tail number, the lineman said, "Oh, he literally just landed." Too many strikes. Photo by Mike K.

OAT

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The white light is located on the aircrafts tail and sometimes additionally on the wingtips, facing backward (aft). Suppose the switch is set to taxi, and the aircraft is flying above 40 knots. When aircraft were invented and became more advanced, they were added to them in the same places.

Airplanes

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

The max stall speed is 45 knots and the max full-power cruising speed is 120 KCAS. Van’s has made a lot of improvements to the RV-12 over time, including ones that beef up vulnerable components like the landing gear, tail section and engine mounts. GPH on 92 knots.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. The plane was one of the earliest of its model built by Tecnam, and the tail number was an homage to former Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti. Tail number I-GITR. At 55 knots, I eased back on the stick. Yes,” came the reply. Throttle full open.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The IJN laid down the specifications for an interceptor that would fly at a maximum speed of 340 knots (629.7 Yet naval officials and aircraft engineers foresaw the need for a new land-based interceptor (or ‘Local Fighter’ (Oto-sen) in Japanese naval terminology) to defend Japan’s skies from high-altitude bombers.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane. The pilot continued to mush along at 55 knots, passing three open parks that could have served as relatively safe drop locations. Its cool flying. Right after takeoff, you throw a grappling hook at the end of a short rope out of the cockpit.

Drag

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 19, 2025

Construction of these sturdy birds is quite similar to the Mooney M20 line with an SAE 4130 Chrome-Moly Tubing cabin structure mated to a semimonocoque tail cone. The final version of the Aero Commander line, the Lark Commander, featured a more aerodynamic cowling, stylish swept tail fin, and a Lycoming O-360, 180 hp engine.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JULY 1, 2025

But it will be piloted at launch and cruise at about 174 knots. The company’s test campaign has included several piloted transition flights, simultaneous flight of two air taxis , and type inspection authorization testing of the S4’s tail structure—its first for-credit certification work with the FAA.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In order to land on the Furious , Dunning flew parallel to the ship off the Furious’ portside while the ship was steaming at 26 knots into a 21-knot wind. After altering his course to fly ahead of Furious , he lowered his speed until he was virtually hovering over the flight deck.

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

JULY 24, 2025

The challenge was to lay out a design separately onto a fuselage of a Gulfstream and onto its tail that was not actually attached, so that when the two were assembled, there would be no discontinuity of design. According to Davis, some owners of small planes that he has painted have reported a 3-knot speed increase.

Airplanes

AV Web

JULY 22, 2025

The timeline for follow-on kits includes the tail kit ($9,000)—due to go on sale in December with deliveries in March next year. The RV-15 is capable of cruising at 140 knots while also feeling comfortable on short, challenging remote airstrips.” Introductory pricing is $19,650.

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