Aerotime

MARCH 17, 2025

The aircraft originally featured the carriers sunrise livery featuring a predominately white fuselage with a thin red stripe merging into a red tail with the carriers sun logo emerging from the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer. Air India titles in both English and Hindi are featured on either side of the aircraft.

Wide-Body Aircraft

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 19, 2025

Image via Wikipedia Restoring the Airframe: Piece by Piece The hands-on structural rebuild is taking place in the Czech Republic, where the focus so far has been on the tail and wings—especially the badly corroded right wing. “We We started on the worst parts first,” said Collings. The left wing, by contrast, was in surprisingly good shape.”

Horizontal Stabilizer

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The initial version had a “fastback” fuselage that lacked a rear window and a large, unswept vertical stabilizer. The most modern versions incorporate a rear window and swept tail. This example, built in 1960, combines the fastback of earlier models with the swept tail of later ones.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

Armed with two 20mm cannons in the tail and capable of carrying up to 72,000 pounds of bombs, the YB-60 had formidable firepower. The YB-60 suffered from flight control and handling issues and lacked the speed and stability of its Boeing counterpart.

Ceiling

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 9, 2025

Hangar Thirteen has a wide array of wreckage: a bomb bay and stabilizer here, a tail section and stinger there—each from different aircraft. Still, the goal is to have working displays of the radios, nav gear, turrets, and autopilot system (they only lack a bombsight stabilizer) to help educate the public and build support.

Hangar

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This version was equipped with modified flight controls based on lessons learned from the initial prototype, had a larger vertical stabilizer, and several other minor improvements. The large vertical tail completes the picture. Undeterred, Harlow and his merry band of students constructed a second prototype, the PJC-2.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 3, 2025

Early helicopters required pilots to manually synchronize engine RPM with both main rotor and tail rotor collective pitchesa complex and demanding task. Carlson demonstrates the stability of the Model 47 by taking his hands off of the flight controls during a hover. Bell Aircraft Corp. test pilot Floyd W.

Payload

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Numerous parts have been fabricated for the outer wing panels, and they will soon be covering the tail control surfaces using a new water-based system.” Additionally, the team has begun laying out the damaged left horizontal stabilizer to assess the necessary repairs.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power. Within a couple of seconds, I could feel that the tail was ready to come up, so I added just a touch of forward stick pressure. Within a couple of seconds, I could feel that the tail was ready to come up, so I added just a touch of forward stick pressure.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 16, 2025

Blume elaborated, She was equipped with two Boulton Paul turretsa Type A on top and a Type E in the tail. One of the vertical stabilizers from Maid of Athens, still in her Morrison-Knudsen colors. This airplane did have a bomb bay. It wasnt just a cargo plane, which is a common misconception. Only one other example is known to exist.

Hangar

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

Tail Wheel and Structural Components At the rear of the aircraft, progress has been made on the metal tail wheel well and surrounding structure. On the subject of landing gear, the team is expecting the return of the refurbished tail wheel assembly and main gear oleo struts in the coming months.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. ” “I guess we surprised them!”

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

When you reach around 36,000 feet (11,000 m) near the tropopause, the temperature stabilizes at around -56.5 °C. The problem is that the tail itself might be in trouble. The tailplane (horizontal stabilizer) at high Mach can also develop shocks or experience disturbed airflow from the wings.

True Airspeed

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

The F-14s unique roll control setup, which relies on differential horizontal stabilizers and spoilers rather than traditional ailerons, provided effective control at various speeds but also introduced side forces that could contribute to spin entry. View of the cockpit of NASA’s F-14, tail number 991.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

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. Thorp joined the Piper design team during the Cherokees development; his own Sky Scooter used a stabilator.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The airship initially recovered, dumping ballast and stabilizing at 700 feet above the sea and returning to its cruising altitude of 1,600 feet, but the ship was sent into another plunge, falling a rate of 14 feet per second tail-down.

Lift

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

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

As the propeller spins, it creates a spiral pattern of airflow that wraps around the fuselage and strikes the left side of the vertical stabilizer (rudder). This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. So what does that mean exactly?

Airplanes

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

A large portion of the tail section was found on the runway, around 1,680 feet from the threshold, and 235 feet from the main wreckage. Obviously it was gusty, but if youre not able to stabilize an approach, thats when a go around would ordinarily be performed. The right wing came to a rest around 215 feet beyond the main wreckage.

Descent

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

As first designed, the plane had a sharp upper line to the top of the fuselage from the cockpit to the tail, resulting in the “razorback” nickname. The “bubbletop” was less laterally stable than the “razorback,” so starting with the P-47D-27-RE a shallow fillet was added ahead of the vertical tail.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Unlike the Cessnas all-aluminum airframe construction, the Stinson uses a steel tube fuselage with fabric covering the fuselage, wing, and tail. This particular 108 is the dash three model, identifiable by the large vertical stabilizer. It has a low 2,221 hours on the airframe with no known damage history.

Transponder

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

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. Pilots stepping up to the Bonanza immediately notice higher control forces.

Gross Weight

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Helicopters use a small rotor mounted on the tail that produces sideways thrust to counter the main rotors torque reaction. The tail rotor pushes air to one side ( action ), and the tail moves the other way ( reaction ). Other Designs The tail rotor is not the only way to solve the torque reaction problem.

Torque

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

feet high at the tip of the vertical stabilizer. At the center is the Douglas X-3, surrounded clockwise by the Bell X-1A (AF serial 48-1384), the third Douglas D-558-1 (NACA tail number 142), Convair XF-92A, Bell X-5, Douglas D-558-2, and Northrop X-4. feet long, had a 31.3-foot foot wingspan, and was 17.5 Photo NACA/NASA

Airfoil

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Two of the most radical configurations was a P-63A modified with a V-tail similar to that seen on the Beechcraft Bonanza, and the L-39, a swept-wing development of the P-63 built for NACA and the US Navy in order to test swept wing flight characteristics for the next generation of American fighter jets.

Airfoil

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot. Its also the anchor point to which the wings and tail are attached.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 28, 2025

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. The A-3 had rhombic wings (replacing the A-1s tapered planform), twin underwing rocket boosters (instead of one tail-mounted unit), and was launched from a modified B-50 bomber.

Thrust

Aerotime

MARCH 4, 2025

According to hr FAA, the use of such brackets can prevent exhaust nozzles from becoming loose or detaching entirely from the engine during catastrophic failures, which can detach and cause further damage to the aircraft fuselage, tail section, or horizontal stabilizer.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

At first, you might experience a strong headwind, which briefly increases your airspeed and gives you a false sense of stability. A massive explosion followed, and the tail section skidded backward. Flying Into a Microburst From your point of view, what happens if you fly into a microburst? Within seconds, everything changes.

Wind Shear

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 3, 2025

The tail section and part of the fuselage of an AJ-2 Savage of Composite Squadron (VC) 6 overhangs a deck edge elevator on board the aircraft carrier Yorktown (CVA 10) during operations at sea in 1954.

Ferry Flight

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

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

Close-up view of the reconnaissance component of the General Atomics MQ-1L Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which included a satellite data link system, an Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) stabilized gimbal containing two color video cameras and a forward looking infrared (FLIR) as well as synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

Hangar

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Because the aircraft would be hanging from the structure of the Transportation Gallerys balcony, the left wing was removed from the aircraft, with only the right wing brought inside for reattachment, along with the tail stabilizers and the engines.

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

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

Once on the terminal ramp, it was time to look over the airplane and try to decide how to break off the iceas much as six inches on all the struts and even worse on the high tail and vertical stabilizer. It was quite a load of extra weight, but as important was the disrupted airflow over the control surfaces and wings.

Weight-Shift-Control

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 horizontal tail has morphed into a traditional fixed horizontal stabilizer and elevator with an electrically actuated trim tab. The stabilator from the prototype is gone.

Tail