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 52

Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. The hull was also redesigned to improve hydrodynamic performance.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Developments in aircraft design and engine technology have allowed us to fly farther, faster, and carry more payload. Rudder The rudder is the panel on the vertical part of the aircrafts tail. This is where the rudder comes in. If you press the left pedal, the rudder turns to the left. It provides yaw control.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability. The aircraft took off from Villacoublay and landed 45 minutes later at the Flight Test Centre in Brtigny-sur-Orge for further evaluation.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 63

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). The only unconventional thing I noticed (as did the folks in back) was the rudder has a dead spot mid-travel. lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32 Overall, the controls were wonderful.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79