What Makes an Aircraft Stable - Stability & Control 01:17 Fix Your Landings - Floating Down the Runway 04:25 How to Judge Your Landing Approach - Landing Aiming Points 02:35 Why You Can't Hold Centerline on Landing - Coordinating Rudder and Aileron ...
What Makes an Aircraft Stable - Stability & Control 01:17 Fix Your Landings - Floating Down the Runway 04:25 How to Judge Your Landing Approach - Landing Aiming Points 02:35 Why You Can't Hold Centerline on Landing - Coordinating Rudder and Aileron 03:58 How to Fly into Oshkosh th...
The rudder, as in conventional aircraft, is controlled using foot pedals. Ailerons Ailerons are the movable sections cut into the trailing edges of the wing. These are used as the primary directional control and they accomplish this by controlling the roll of the plane (tilting the wing tips...
Twin rudder or twin tail as mentioned earlier is a special arrangement in an aircraft, where instead of one, two rudders control the movement of the airplane along its vertical axis. Also known as H-tail arrangement, the twin rudder arrangement has two smaller rudders instead of the conventio...
Now imagine an invisible vertical line intersecting the center of gravity, shooting down through the top of the aircraft and out through the belly. This is called the yaw axis, and it comes into play when a pilot manipulates the aircraft's rudder. The rudder's deflection results in a side...
Now imagine an invisible vertical line intersecting the center of gravity, shooting down through the top of the aircraft and out through the belly. This is called the yaw axis, and it comes into play when a pilot manipulates the aircraft's rudder. The rudder's deflection results in a side...
“You keep on the path all the way to the runway, then you make that correction to straighten up by pushing the rudder, maintaining wings level and lining everything up by pushing off the drift,” says Captain Toye. “Getting that height right is where technique and fi...
Using The Method That Works For You Finding the landing method that works best comes down to trying both out, as well as some repetition. In most cases, the wing-low method is easier in light aircraft. To fly it, keep your nose aligned to the runway with your rudder, and use your ai...
The widespread use of aviation recorders didn't begin until the post-World War II era. Since then, the recording medium of black boxes has evolved in order to log much more information about an aircraft's operation. Older black boxes used magnetic tape, a technology that was first introduced...
The slender fuselage and inverted-V tails help the aircraft with stability, and a single rudder housed beneath the propeller steers the craft. The fuselage of the Predator is a mixture of carbon and quartz fibers blended in a composite with Kevlar. Underneath the fuselage, the airframe is ...