Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

Left-turning tendencies are primarily caused by four aerodynamic effects:torque, spiraling slipstream, gyroscopic precession, and P-factor (asymmetric thrust).Each 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). The result?

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Thrust, produced by the engine, propels the plane forward, overcoming drag, which is the resistance caused by air. These forces must work in harmony to maintain flight stability.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 28, 2025

This air is then mixed with fuel and ignited in the combustion chamber, generating hot, high-energy gases that expand through a turbinepowering the compressorand then exit the rear of the engine as thrust. This air is mixed with fuel and ignited, and the resulting hot gases are expelled through a nozzle to produce thrust.

Thrust

Flight Training Central

MARCH 3, 2025

When the airplane is stabilized in the approach attitude and speed, begin to smoothly and slowly bring the nose up to an attitude which will cause a stall. This is because the vertical component of thrust reduces the wing loading, and the propeller slipstream tends to maintain airflow over the center sections of the wings.

Rudder

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

Obviously it was gusty, but if youre not able to stabilize an approach, thats when a go around would ordinarily be performed. degree bank Two seconds before touchdown, the planes bank angle to the right increased, to 5.9 degrees to the right, and a rate of descent of 1,110 feet per minute The plane touched down at a bank angle of 7.5

Descent

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Although he was flying at or near the proper airspeeds for an overhead pattern, he was constantly moving the throttlesfrom near idle to near full thrust within seconds. At pattern altitude, I leveled off, and our airspeed stabilized at 300 KIAS. I once had a T-38 student pilot who flew the traffic pattern the same way.

AGL

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.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Instead, the focus is on mastering the skills and procedures that are unique to multi-engine aircraft—things like managing asymmetrical thrust, understanding the concept of VMC (minimum control speed), and responding to engine-out scenarios. This rating plays a crucial role in career development.

Checkride

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 tailplane (horizontal stabilizer) at high Mach can also develop shocks or experience disturbed airflow from the wings. on dry thrust alone. As you go higher, the air usually gets colder.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

This principle is fundamental in generating lift, thrust, and maneuverability, allowing aircraft to fly. Thrust (how it moves forward). Thrust and Propulsion Systems A wing has to move fast enough through the air to generate lift effectively. That force is called thrust. Thrust relies on Newtons Third Law as well.

Torque

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. What Materials Are Used in Ailerons? What Is Aileron Trim?

Aileron

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

The engine is what provides the thrust needed to move the aircraft forward. Propeller: Creating Thrust The propeller is an aerodynamic device that converts rotational motion into linear thrust. The angle and speed of the blades determine how much thrust is produced.

Lift

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The ice was simultaneously adding weight while destroying the shape of the wing and stabilizer air foils. It was also destroying the propellers air foils causing a loss of thrust. This reduced the amount of airspeed I could convert to rate of climb. Our Cessna 172 labored under the increasing weight of the clear ice.

VOR

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This configuration provides the necessary power for both climb and cruise, while also offering valuable training for managing asymmetric thrust in the event of an engine-out situation. Full flaps provide maximum lift and stability, allowing the aircraft to fly slower without stalling.

Descent

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 3, 2025

It was powered by two wing-mounted Pratt & Whitney R-2800-44W Double Wasp radial engines, each producing 2,400 horsepower, and a single rear-fuselage Allison J33-A-10 turbojet generating 4,600 pounds of thrust. This combination allowed the aircraft to reach a top speed of 471 mph. The XAJ-1 prototype first flew in 1948 U.S.

Ferry Flight

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. Calm down and follow these steps: Apply maximum thrust immediately. Flying Into a Microburst From your point of view, what happens if you fly into a microburst? Within seconds, everything changes.

Wind Shear

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

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

It’s mainly due to the effects of thrust and the high-energy slipstream from the propeller preventing boundary separation. But in a power-off stall, you have to pitch down to allow the airspeed to increase and stabilize the aircraft. In comparison, during a power-off stall, the power will be idle.

Descent

Professional Pilot

MARCH 14, 2025

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Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The aircraft exhibited poor directional stability (which was solved through the later addition of a ventral tail fin) at low speeds and oil sometimes splattered on the canopy’s windscreen. On May 18, 1945, the T-31 turboprop was finally ready and by June 11, the aircraft was ready to begin testing with its intended engine at Muroc.

Thrust

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Inside the aircraft were two rocket propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilots pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing spar structure, a 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 26, 2025

Certifying Powered-Lift The AC defines powered-lift as heavier-than-air aircraft that use “engine-driven lift devices” or engine thrust for vertical takeoff and landing and low-speed flight. The new AC is intended to clarify the certification process. For lift during horizontal flight, they use rigid airfoils such as wings.

Lift

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Overture, with a double-delta wing, aft stabilizer, and four engines in separate cylindrical nacelles slung under the wings, differs from the final version of the 2707 mainly in size. The Boeings fuselage was nearly 300 feet long, while Overture’s is 200. it would have made an impressive case for Booms capabilities.

Drag

Aerotime

MAY 8, 2025

Most notable is thrust vectoring, which has been around since the 1950s but has only really been perfected for supermaneuverable fighters since the turn of the millennium. Two Russian aircraft, the Su-57 and Su-35, use three-dimensional (3D) thrust vectoring, giving the pilot unrivalled control in any direction. G-limits +9.0 / -3.0

Jet

Plane and Pilot

JULY 30, 2025

The contra-rotating blades negated the P-factor and produced enough thrust to lift the Pogo vertically. In order for the XFY-1 to stand on its tail, its designers equipped it with two 52-degree swept wings and a large vertical stabilizer and ventral fin, each equipped with full-span trailing edge control surfaces.

Lift

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

The improved stability at high speeds also contributes to steady flight, and overall better performance. Supercritical wings reduce this effect, lowering drag, thrust requirements, and takeoff and landing distances. Lower required thrust, and shorter takeoff and landing rolls. What does this mean?

Weight-Shift-Control

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This ensures the aircraft gains enough thrust to climb away from the runway safely. Retract flaps to the go-around setting per POH, then raise remaining flaps as climb speed is stabilized. Once students consistently fly stabilized approaches—typically mid-training—CFIs introduce go-around drills during pattern work.

Air Traffic Control

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

2c was developed, which replaced the wing warping system for ailerons on the wings, a new tailplane design added, and a triangular stabilizing fin was fitted to the rudder, which made the B.E.2c 2 family’s stability in flight – causing poor maneuverability, prevented the B.E.12 The first was the B.E.2b But the B.E.2

Cockpit

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. The aircraft sustained damage to the leading edge of the right-hand horizontal stabilizer and was subsequently repaired. The copilot selected the thrust reversers. There were no injuries to those onboard.

Runway

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

After takeoff, the airplane impacted the ground about 600 yards from the end of the runway… Although estimated takeoff weight was below maximum, the airplane was loaded with an aft CG (hint), which would have reduced the longitudinal stability during the climb out. Post-almost-flight investigation proved embarrassing.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 2, 2025

” One of the most challenging aspects of the restoration was in refabricating a vertical stabilizer for the Osprey, as related by Stathatos: “The drone had a complete vertical when it was in Quartzite, AZ until a gust of wind blew it off of the makeshift cradle and crushed it beyond saving.”

Descent

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

The pilot flyingpulled back the thrust levers, and as a result, over the following 5seconds, N1 decreased from 64% to approximately 43%, where it remained until touchdown. The engine thrust was steady at approximately 43%N1, the TSB report explained. The air speed began to decrease, the TSB report said.

Indicated Airspeed

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

It features a forward-swept main wing, plus a smaller set of horizontal canard-style stabilizers mounted on the forward fuselage. The aircraft also has twin-boom vertical stabilizers to the rear and a monocoque cabin that can accommodate up to six passengers, plus the operating pilot.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

READ MORE: Interstate TDR Developed as Unusual Kamikaze Machine Moulton Taylor, the designer of the similarly configured roadable “Aerocar” that would fly a couple of years later, added that at idle a propeller mounted to the extreme aft end of the fuselage has the effect of an anti-spin drag chute, adding stability and aiding recovery from spins.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The production aircraft’ comprised an ejection seat, a reformed vertical stabilizer, and two auxiliary fins. These fins were installed on the tip of each side of the tailplane in an attempt to improve the directional stability of the aircraft. This technology burned extra fuel in order to increase engine thrust.

Thrust

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 14, 2024

The first officer also noticed the red airspeed tape, and pulled back on the thrust levers. When you push forward the control column and reduce thrust, there’s only one direction the plane is going, and that’s down. During the go around, the first officer inadvertently pushed forward on the control column. above the Pacific Ocean.

Thrust

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Flaps, which help to lower an aircrafts speed while providing additional lift at those lower airspeeds, are lowered in stages, as adding too much flaps at once can upset the aerodynamics and thus stability of the aircraft.

Cabin Crew