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. What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design. What Is Aileron Trim?

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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. If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. Longitudinal stability is an aircrafts stability in the pitch axis.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

2 with larger Wings for better lift and stability, a strengthened undercarriage for better support while carrying heavier payloads, updated avionics, which handled increasing demand for electronic combat and navigation and electronic countermeasures which improved survivability against radar and missile systems. kg Maximum Take-off 90,718.4

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

The improved stability at high speeds also contributes to steady flight, and overall better performance. On top of that, the hinge points of the swing-wing mechanism can become sources of turbulence and flow separation. Supercritical wings reduce this effect, lowering drag, thrust requirements, and takeoff and landing distances.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

During the takeoff mode, the biggest one of these emergencies being loss of thrust (loss of engine power). And possible out of nowhere, we may encounter teeth-chattering clear air turbulence. This is culled by both the anticipation of the flight and by the potential unknowns that might occur.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Stalling with a high-power setting takes more effort since there is thrust and a high-energy slipstream from the propeller, which prevents boundary layer separation. The turbulent air hits the horizontal stabilizer, which causes a vibration that can be felt throughout the aircraft. Buffeting is like flying in rough, choppy air.

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Pilot Institute

JANUARY 15, 2025

VFC Maximum speed for stability characteristics. For example, if you encounter turbulence, the bumps you experience will increase the load factor. V1 is where the pilot must take the first action (such as reducing thrust) to stop the aircraft or risk a runway overrun. VD Design diving speed. VDF Demonstrated flight diving speed.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Power is turned into thrust by three-bladed Hamilton Standard constant speed, full-feathering propellers. The secret weapon of a bombardiers tool kit was the Norden bombsighta gyro-stabilized, mechanical, analog computer with downward-aimed optics. The R-1820 was one of the most widely used engines of the era.

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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. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Somewhere over Pennsylvania a Cessna 208B Caravan with two pilots and the three passengers [was] going to a business meeting in the float-equipped airplane when they encountered clouds and turbulence. The flight descendedbecause its scary to fly inside cloudsand flew along a riverbed, at times below the surrounding trees and terrain.

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