Vintage Aviation News

MAY 4, 2025

It was powered by eight Allison J35-A-15 turbojet enginesupgraded to J35-A-19s in the YRB-49A varianteach producing 4,000 pounds of thrust. 50 caliber machine guns mounted in a rotating tail “stinger” turret, along with a bomb capacity of up to 16,000 pounds. Planned armament included four.50

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Payload Thrust Tail Pilot 69

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 This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. Each plays a unique role, especially at high power settings and low airspeeds, such as during takeoff.

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

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.

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Thrust Stability Payload Tail 90

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

An unbuilt concept, the Douglas DC-8 Skybus aimed to position two V-12 piston engines in the forward fuselage and link them with two contra-rotating propellers in the tail. A ventral stabilizer doubled as propeller protection in the event of over-rotation or tail strikes. Neither aircraft would advance beyond the development stage.

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Drag Thrust Stability Tail 133

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. 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

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Descent Threshold Knot Flight Deck 87

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

The aircraft also participated in studies involving low-altitude flight with asymmetric engine thrust. This photo shows NASA’s F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14. View of the cockpit of NASA’s F-14, tail number 991.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It was in the process of turning, but the 200-foot long machine’s floodlit tail, now swung out across the runway, had not even reached its centreline, and this aircraft moved with caution in the darkness of the airfield’s remote west. He was not completely wrong. A child uses the same cerebral function when mastering Chopsticks on the piano.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 104

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Principles of Flight: Lift, Weight, Thrust, and Drag Flying a plane for the first time requires a basic understanding of the forces that make flight possible. Thrust, produced by the engines, moves the plane forward, while drag, or air resistance, slows it down.

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Aileron Drag Rudder Descent 52

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The autobrake engaged, reverse thrust was deployed and they began to decelerate. avoided the wheel brakes and cancelled the reverse thrust. With the crosswind, the wet runway and no autobrake or reverse thrust, they needed a lot more runway than usual but they still had enough distance to come to a halt, if only they could stay on it.

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Crosswind Rudder Knot Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Welcome to LaGuardia, Tom,” I said. You’ve checked that box now.”

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Runway Approach Knot Crosswind 70

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Around this time, the USAAF was also developing its first jet fighters, but knew that all-jet aircraft at this time were short-ranged and burned fuel quicker than propeller-driven aircraft, and so the optimal design was to feature a propeller-driven engine in the front for long range performance and a jet engine in the tail for high speed in combat.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. A mechanic had found a worn feathering bearing in the tail rotor hub and blade assembly. The tail rotor’s responses and vibrations are measured in order to adjust the weights of the rotor blades and/or the alignment of the rotor assembly.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Air Force and NASA to explore using vectored thrust to transition from vertical and horizontal takeoffs to achieve level flight before making a vertical landing. It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. He compared its glide rate to that of a Cessna 206.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Aileron 90

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

As the airplane contacts the ground, the tail will be forced down very rapidly by the back-elevator pressure and by inertia acting downward on the tail. Recovery from this situation requires prompt and positive application of power prior to occurrence of the stall.

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Airplanes Runway Accelerated Stall Lift 89

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

The “Model 27,” as it was originally called, was powered by the experimental Westinghouse J34 jet engine, which produced 3,000 pounds of thrust. Its five tail surfaces, one vertical, two angled, and two ventral, fit neatly within the B-36 bomb bay and featured ruddervators similar to a contemporary V-tail Bonanza.

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Jet Tail Pilot Turbulence 86

Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10, crash-landed at Sioux City Airport after a catastrophic failure of its tail engine had caused a loss of all hydraulic control. He then resorted to unconventional methods, using asymmetric thrust to make minimal directional changes.

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Runway Descent Thrust Tail 59

Flight Training Central

MAY 6, 2024

Then in 1956 Cessna moved the tail-wheel on the 170 to the nose and the resulting high wing 172, with well over 40,000 copies, became the best-selling civilian aircraft in history. Both low wing and high wing aircraft will be affected by lift, weight, thrust and drag. Why the success of high wings?

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Lift Drag Airplanes Ground Effect 97

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. Even with 1,100 gallons of fuel the 18,000 pound thrust J79-GE-10 engine gave the Red Baron a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1, better than any fighter of the day including the F-15 Eagle.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Vital Components of a Plane in the Tail Assembly The primary function of the empennage or tail assembly of an airplane is to keep the aircraft stable despite the rotational energy of relative wind. Of all the sections of an aircraft, the tail assembly is perhaps the most important for keeping an airplane in the air safely.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. As seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. Whats Happening Inside the Vortex?

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The engines were also coupled with the General Electric D-23 turbosupercharger to utilize the engine exhaust as additional thrust. The aircraft would be fitted with two Continental XI-1430 inverted V-12 engines that were expected to produce 1,350 hp. Elliot was able to make an emergency landing at Lambert Field.

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Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent. The rudder, attached to the vertical tail fin, manages yaw, enabling the nose to move left or right. These controls work in harmony to navigate the aircraft through various flight maneuvers.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

As air flows over it, a force like lift results, and the tail is pulled in the opposite direction of the deflection. But instead of an upward force of lift on a wing, it’s a horizontal force pushing the tail of the plane causing the nose of the plane to move left and right. The pilot controls the throttle to create thrust.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Stability 52

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Between circular plates at each end, 6 blades provide both lift and vectorable thrust as they change pitch angle during each rotation. It has 4 lift propellers on booms connecting the gull wing with a wide V-tail. In Linz, Austria, CycloTech has opted for a unique propulsion technology. They make for uncommon maneuverability.

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Lift Payload Cargo Pilot 68

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Welcome to LaGuardia, Tom,” I said. You’ve checked that box now.”

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Runway Approach Knot Crosswind 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Each had conventional straight wings and tails, with power coming from an Allison J35-A-11 turbojet engine producing some 5,000lbs of thrust. The Skystreak, unlike most American high-speed aerial research vehicles of the day, took off from the ground under its own power. Only three of a planned-for six Skystreaks were completed.

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Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy. Tail-heavy ailerons droop downwards when they arent being pulled by the control system. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state. These aircraft have three engines; one on each wing and one mounted on the tail ahead of the rudder.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

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.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

Anyway, for our flight, we were flying with the tail wind reducing our flight time, therefore the flight time was shorter but due to the heavy traffic at Singapore, we had to circle around for a few times before being given the green light to land at the airport, so even with the delay, we arrived about 40 minutes ahead of schedule.

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Runway Airlines Airline Final Approach 52

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The description of the event clearly represents what was understood at the time: During the takeoff from RWY35L, the aircraft suffered a tail strike after the rotation. This transition of lifting off is called rotation.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Reverse thrusts were deployed and our aircraft slowed down to taxi speed. This Air India's A320neo's tail design features Mahatma Candhi. At this point, we were on final approach as landing gears were deployed and flaps were set. On final approach onto runway 20R. Welcome to Changi Airport! The home of Singapore Airlines!

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 59

Aerotime

JULY 26, 2024

At approximately 17:47 local time, the B-1B supersonic bomber, tail number 85-0085, crash-landed outside Runway 13 at Ellsworth Air Force Base. However, the aircraft experienced wind shear, dropped below the glideslope and became thrust deficient.

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Wind Shear Instrument Landing System Final Approach Runway 274

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

In 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123s tail section blew out from explosive decompression, cutting all the aircrafts hydraulic lines. This disabled all flight controls, leaving the crew to maneuver the aircraft with engine thrust only. The pilots used differential thrust to navigate to Sioux City airport.

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Stability Tail Pilot Turbulence 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 27, 2025

Powered by two Mikulin AM-3 M-500 turbojet engines, each producing 21,000 pounds of thrust, the Tu-16 could reach speeds of up to 650 mph, with a maximum range of 4,500 miles and a service ceiling of 42,000 feet. The aircraft typically carried a crew of six or seven, depending on the mission.

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Payload Ceiling Thrust Tail 64

Simple Flying

MAY 12, 2024

The Mitsubishi X-2 is a twin-engine, fixed-wing demonstrator with canted tail fins and thrust vectoring. It is the first home-grown Japanese experimental stealth fighter, making Japan the fourth to develop and test a stealth fighter (after the US, Russia, and China).

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Thrust Tail 115

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. Hartman, and a tachometer and an ice scale used by Hartman to measure the pounds of thrust generated by the engine before takeoff.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105