Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Studying historical aircraft helps students understand the development of flight and learn from early engineers about problems of lift, propulsion, stability, and material constraints. Often touted as the first successful powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer (1903) clearly shows lift, propulsion, and control.

Drag

Northstar VFR

JUNE 8, 2025

Wake turbulence hit me in the air, and it felt like I had been T-boned from the left side. Environmental Factors Turbulence : Turbulence from wind shear, mountainous terrain, thunderstorms, or microbursts can put your aircraft into an unusual attitude. Performance degrades and could end in a stall and unusual attitude.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. Why does this increase the lift?

Aileron

AV Web

JUNE 10, 2025

Since Safe Flight invented the stall warning system lift detection system in the 1940s, its AoA tech leverages a similar wing leading-edge sensor for AoA and speed indexing. The theory in which Safe Flight’s system measures AoA boils down to the very basic fundamentals of wing lift. I’ve been a believer ever since.

Primary Flight Display

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This increases the load on the wings, requiring more lift to maintain altitude. Practicing this technique enhances your ability to handle the aircraft smoothly in various flight conditions, including turbulence or tight airspace. When performing steep turns, you typically bank the aircraft between 45 and 50 degrees.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Stalls Cause a Loss of Lift A stall is not related to engine failure. This misunderstanding can lead to confusion and, in some cases, accidents, as some pilots concentrate on engine performance instead of addressing the actual problem, a loss of lift. Now, the wings have to produce more lift to support this weight.

Lift

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 19, 2024

You can take either the escalator or lift up to the departure hall. The usual welcome announcement and a weather report of some expected turbulence along the way and meal service to be served after taking off was made by the inflight supervisor. This aircraft flew in from Seoul and departed a few hours later for Bangkok.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. This means pitchingmoment changes are small, but lift still rises and falls with airspeed. Turbulence or gusts: Bumps from wind gusts or turbulence give an initial disturbance in pitch that induces phugoid. Thats completely different.

Stability

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Pilots should anticipate heavy rain, storms, icing, and turbulence with occluded fronts. Turbulence and Wind Changes Occluded fronts often bring strong winds and sudden wind shifts. As air masses collide, turbulence increases, especially in storms embedded along the front. What Is a Weather Front?

Pilot

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing. Wind shear, turbulence, or gusty winds can create challenges during the landing phase, so knowing how to adjust for these factors is critical.

Descent

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Once you’re in the sky, you feel the lift of the wings, hear the engine’s subtle tone changes, and sense the aircraft respond to every input. Real-world flying includes surprises—weather shifts, unexpected traffic, turbulence, even radio congestion. And then there’s the unpredictability. Is motion necessary in a flight simulator?

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

In the summer months, this lifting action can trigger cumulonimbus clouds. The skies clear rapidly, leaving behind gusty, turbulent winds and colder temperatures. This can include light drizzle, poor visibility, thunderstorms, and severe turbulence. This type of front moves slowly, typically at about 10-25 miles per hour.

Weather

Air Facts

APRIL 14, 2025

One problem is turbulence. Lets cut to the chase and avoid the ugly math (which is easy enough for the geeks to derive from the lift equation). It seems to be more a case of, if you install it, they will figure it out.

Final Approach

Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

The engine responded smoothly, and Charlie lifted off into the calm morning sky. As I re-entered the clouds, turbulence increased. The turbulence wasnt extremelight to moderatebut inside that gray cocoon, time slowed. With takeoff clearance from the tower, I pushed the throttle forward. I climbed to 5,500 feet and leveled off.

Altimeter

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Part of that even lifts up, to expose a shallow, enclosed storage area, big enough for a phone or passport. Japan Airlines business class seat A350 Japan Airlines business class seat A350 Japan Airlines business class seat A350 Its not just that the seat is spacious, but theres also an impressive amount of storage, and the tech is top notch.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In this situation, the wings aren’t producing enough lift, and the aircraft essentially falls out of the sky while spinning. A stall occurs when the angle of attack (the angle between the wings and the airflow) becomes too high, causing the wings to lose lift.

Center of Gravity

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 18, 2025

On July 18, 1943, the third prototype, Me 262 V3 (callsign PC+UC), lifted off from an airfield in Leipheim, Bavaria, at 8:40 a.m. It featured conventional landing gear in a taildragger configuration, which led to aerodynamic issues: turbulence from the jet exhaust interfered with airflow over the tailplane, reducing its effectiveness.

Ceiling

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

The flying condition towards Barcelona was nice and there was hardly any turbulence on this flight. We lifted off with raindrops showering on our aircraft. The rain got a bit heavy at one point but it was hardly turbulent. Anyway, for the rest of the flight, the approach and landing was a smooth affair.

Runway

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

Our aircraft pushed back on time and the Captain made the usual welcome speech and also told us to expect some turbulence along the way. Once take off, we encountered some light turbulence during our climb but the cabin service started during our climb and this is where I find the service to be a bit disappointing.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

Moisture, instability, lift, and wind shear are needed to form and sustain a squall line. Squall lines can bring strong turbulence, heavy rain, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. Lifting Mechanism Squall lines tend to develop along cold fronts, warm fronts, or dry lines. It’s these areas that act as natural lifting zones.

Weather

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

Key Takeaways Variable-sweep wings adjust in flight to balance lift and speed. Straight Wings and Swept Wings At low speeds, like when you’re taking off or landing, you can extend the wings straight out to produce more lift. This is because straight wings have a higher aspect ratio, which also increases the coefficient of lift.

Weight-Shift-Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Additionally, only those events where aircraft have been reported as either substantially damaged or written off, or there has been a fatality onboard a public transport flight due to inflight turbulence, have been included. Inflight icing was heavily suspected as the cause of the accident, causing a loss of lift and a stall-induced spin.

Runway

Flight Training Central

JUNE 30, 2025

Baffled by Bernoulli A CFI applicant was asked to teach lift during their practical exam. When he created his principle of differential pressure, he had no thoughts about its future application to the development of airfoils and lift production. This lower pressure on the top of the wing is a part of the lift production.

Airfoil

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

With lateral options dwindling, the Bell 47D went into a vertical lift. After one full revolution, the helicopter lifted rapidly from the ground and climbed immediately. The helicopter pilot assumed that the Cessna would turn onto another taxiway however the Cessna continued toward the helicopter. Feliz ao nuevo! pole dancer.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 2, 2025

Photo by Karolina Marek Despite battling turbulent skies over Normandy, the aircraft fulfilled one of its most important missions—dropping paratroopers over historic WWII drop zones and flying alongside USAF MC-130s above Sainte-Mère-Église and Utah Beach. On Monday, June 16, Ready 4 Duty lifted off once more, this time bound for the U.K.

Tarmac

AV Web

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Some boisterous turbulence turned into an emergency on Thursday for the crew of an SAS A330. Video shows passengers being lifted in their seats to the limits of their belts and service items hitting the ceiling. The post Turbulence Shuts Down Engine On SAS A330 appeared first on AVweb.

Turbulence

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A hazardous phenomenon that all pilots learn to avoid when operating at airports is wake turbulence. This invisible turbulence is caused by a pair of counterrotating vortices behind an airplane’s wingtips, generated whenever a wing develops lift.

Turbulence

Air Facts

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Turbulence Air Facts Journal Space is infinite in its complexity. And tampering our mental reserves with turbulent mischief. Turbulence is unpredictable. All three axis of an aircraft are subject to the vagaries of turbulence. Space is also infinite in its potential. And there in lurks the adventure.

Turbulence

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While many believe that down-pull blinds are simply more susceptible to turbulence or heavy landings, making them more likely to simply drop down, there is an even more logical explanation than this. This again is a safety feature, but one which has traditionally been misinterpreted.

Cabin Crew

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Often, turbulence is the harbinger of mountain waves, not the ideal ceiling—and visibility unlimited—day. We had been lifted above our assigned altitude.” We experienced moderate turbulence even at our gate. If the velocity of water increases over the rock, so does the turbulence. Airspeed was approaching VMO.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Proper AOA management affects lift generation and stall prevention. It is one of the main factors affecting lift, and airplanes need a constant source of lift to fly. As we stated a little while ago, understanding the angle of attack is fundamental to understanding aerodynamics and how lift is generated.

Lift

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. This pressure difference produces lift, allowing the aircraft to ascend. Each rotor blade acts as an airfoil, and as it rotates, it moves air over its surface, generating lift.

Torque

Professional Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When humid air becomes unstable, either through heating from the surface or by lifting it to where it is warmer than its surroundings, it can produce cumulus clouds that grow vertically instead of horizontally. When they appear in rows, it is a sign of waves moving through the upper air – and the presence of turbulence.

Turbulence

iPad Pilot News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Keeping your iPad secure and easy to reach is essential for safety in flight—if you’ve ever seen your beloved tablet go flying to the back seat after hitting turbulence, you know what we mean. Watch our video review for more details: Flight Outfitters Lift 2.0 Bag The Lift 2.0 The Flight Outfitters Lift 2.0

Lift

Flight Training Central

JULY 29, 2024

They’re routinely reviewing pilot reports and asking Air Traffic Control (ATC) for reports of turbulence, and they’ll go so far as to change their route of flight or altitude fairly dramatically to find smooth air. Strong winds by themselves don’t necessarily mean turbulence, but gusty winds almost always do.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Lift : The aerodynamic force generated due to airflow over the wings. The aircraft’s deceleration reduces the airflow over the wings, which reduces lift. When the lift force is less than the force of gravity, the aircraft descends. So, how do we increase lift to maintain altitude? Why does this happen?

Lift

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

This operation was carried out routinely with the little fighters launching from the airship, flying their mission, and then hooking up on a trapeze that lifted them inside the hull. Navy had equipped both the USS Akron and Macon airships with a hangar deck and trapezes to carry and launch Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes.

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