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Parnall Puffin (1,059 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unusual features, principally a single central float and an inverted vertical stabilizer and rudder, and showed promise, but at that time no new aircraft

Martin B-26 Marauder (6,585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

angle-of-incidence to give better takeoff performance, and a larger vertical stabilizer and rudder). The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss

List of airline liveries and logos (3,707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indonesia's state insignia. Georgian Airways: Flag of Georgia on the vertical stabilizer and a Borjgali on the logo which is a Georgian symbol of the sun

Lockwood Aircraft (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

leaned towards a twin engine. The twin engine design required a huge vertical stabilizer which required a big-torsion resistant fuselage tail. The resulting

Oman Air (2,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

respectively. Oman's national symbol, the Khanjar, is painted in red on the vertical stabilizer.[citation needed] In the late 1990s, the livery was revised, with

Vultee V-11 (2,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

small size of the vertical stabilizer caused yaw instability so the last YA-19 (S/N 38-555) was equipped with enlarged vertical stabilizer. Service tests

Saab 90 Scandia (1,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the DC-3 had a tailwheel. The Scandia also had a quite different vertical stabilizer shape, and numerous more subtle differences. The 90 had to compete

Cruciform (770 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

design, wherein the horizontal stabilizer is positioned midway up the vertical stabilizer, forming a cruciform shape when viewed from the front or rear. Some

Saqqara Bird (775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of balsa wood (rather than the original sycamore), and then add a vertical stabilizer (not present in the original) to the tail, you get a so-so version

United States military aircraft serial numbers (1,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the last four digits of the serial are painted on the fuselage or vertical stabilizer fin. Sometimes the last three digits are used as the side codes also

VanGrunsven RV-2 (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as the Backstrom EPB-1C and Marske XM-1D, although with a swept vertical stabilizer similar to that of the Marske Pioneer.[citation needed] Fabrication

Beechcraft Travel Air (963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

took its basic design from the Model 35 Bonanza, fitted with the vertical stabilizer from the T-34 Mentor, and two four-cylinder engines. Its wing spar

CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder (17,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer, is produced in Pakistan, whereas forty-two percent is produced in

PZL.37 Łoś (4,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

single vertical stabilizer, and a metal-covered airframe. The late A series (designated Abis) and B series aircraft received a double vertical stabilizer which

USAAF unit identification aircraft markings (3,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

letters, geometric symbols, and colors painted onto the tails (vertical stabilizer fins, rudders and horizontal surfaces), wings, or fuselages of the

Heinkel P.1080 (253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

based on that of the Heinkel P.1078, and would have had a single vertical stabilizer. The cockpit was located far forward in the fuselage, and the two

Sewart Air Force Base (2,043 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

green band on the vertical stabilizer 62d Troop Carrier: 1 July 1966 – 31 May 1971 (Tail Code: ST), blue band on the vertical stabilizer At Sewart, the 64th

Harlow PJC-2 (686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aileron travel with full aft-stick and incorporated a slightly larger vertical stabilizer. This became the PJC-2 model, serial number 1 certified on 20 May

Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z (1,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

low-altitude breakup inferred from the wreckage distribution. The vertical stabilizer showed signs that it had been struck by "at least one body and possibly

Air Vanuatu Flight 241 (1,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The aircraft belonging to Air Taxi was severely damaged, with its vertical stabilizer ripped off. It was damaged beyond repair. The other plane, of Unity

Vought V-326 (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The engine's carburetor was fed by a scoop situated ahead of the vertical stabilizer. The V-326 made its first flight on June 18, 1943 at the hands of

Keel effect (322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lateral stability. Examples of sideforce-generating surfaces are the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and parts of the fuselage. When an aircraft is in a sideslip

Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (2,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

F-84 markings consisted of a solid geometric shape painted on the vertical stabilizer, just above the radio call number, with a capital letter specific

Peach Aviation (2,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consists of a pink, purple and white colour scheme. The fuselage and vertical stabilizer are painted in pink and purple except for the front fuselage, which

Grumman E-1 Tracer (1,948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

axis without the implementation of one large unwieldy space-taking vertical stabilizer. It also provides a degree of redundancy, allowing a pilot to maintain

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk variants (3,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

problems were remedied sometime late in production by enlarging the vertical stabilizer and changing how the ammunition was stored. P-40's were more a powerful

Space Shuttle Challenger (2,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

STA-099, including the payload bay doors, body flap, wings, and vertical stabilizer, also had to be returned to their individual subcontractors for rework

Ryan XF2R Dark Shark (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

auxiliary turbojet for the XF2R-1. The XF2R-2 also had a squared-off vertical stabilizer and jet intakes moved to the sides of the forward fuselage with NACA

Tupolev TB-6 (627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have had three vertical stabilizers on the tailplane, the center vertical stabilizer taller than the others. An alternative TB-6 design featured a bomber

Airbus MAVERIC (410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

engines mounted over the rear of the aircraft, with each having a vertical stabilizer, creating a twin tail arrangement. According to Airbus, a full-scale

Wake turbulence (2,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Boeing 747, resulting in the overstressing and separation of the vertical stabilizer. 8 July 2008 – A United States Air Force PC-12 trainer crashed at

Tupolev Tu-130 (656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the fuselage. Brake flaps were installed on both halves of the vertical stabilizer. The wing and controls had a wedge-shaped profile. Due to aerodynamic

ADM-141 TALD (886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

resembles conventional aircraft with two horizontal stabilizers and one vertical stabilizer. This configuration causes the stabilizers, which are at 90 degree

Project RAINBOW (1,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Trapeze." To reduce low-frequency reflections from the fuselage and vertical stabilizer, wires were strung horizontally from the nose of the aircraft to

DRS RQ-15 Neptune (268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

000 ft (2,400 m) The most remarkable design element is the double vertical stabilizer with the piston engine housed inbetween. This arrangement reduces

Lockheed XF-90 (1,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fly supersonic, albeit in a dive. It also incorporated an unusual vertical stabilizer that could be moved fore and aft for horizontal stabilizer adjustment

Cornelius XFG-1 (729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

XFG-1 was a high-wing monoplane, its wing set far back towards its vertical stabilizer. The wing was quite high aspect ratio and of modest forward sweep

RWD 16 (591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with stronger 60 hp Avia 3 engine in a lengthened nose, while the vertical stabilizer and rudder were made smaller. Most significant feature became a front

Bell X-5 (975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flawed aerodynamic layout, particularly a poorly positioned tail and vertical stabilizer which, in some wing positions, could lead to an irrecoverable spin

Robinson 77 (564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Singapore Airlines' logo. The roof of the building also incorporates a vertical stabilizer design, similar to that of an airplane. In 2006, Singapore Airlines

PWS-35 Ogar (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

issues. By the end of the summer a second prototype, with an enlarged vertical stabilizer and a stronger PZInż. Major engine was completed and sent to the

Tupolev Tu-98 (1,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sight, the antenna unit of which was placed in the upper part of vertical stabilizer. An additional AM-23 cannon was mounted in the forward right fuselage

Static wick (410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(electrically grounded) ailerons, elevators, rudder, wing, horizontal and vertical stabilizer tips. Static wicks are high electrical resistance (6–200 megaohm)

Boeing Vertol YUH-61 (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vector of lift produced by the tail rotor was directed towards the vertical stabilizer, while the Sikorsky's was away from it. Model 237: naval version

Tiara Air (2,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grey belly, the logo's signature T, and the crown featured on the vertical stabilizer and Tiara Air written above the forward emergency exits along with

Cessna XMC (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

replaced by a wheel fairing, as was the main gear. An increased vertical stabilizer area and revised wing tips were also tested. Data from The Cessnas

Grumman F8F Bearcat (3,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bubble canopy, the first to be fitted to a US Navy fighter. The vertical stabilizer was the same height as the Hellcat's, but had an increased aspect

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 (714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

intake for a single Kolesov turbojet was mounted beneath the central vertical stabilizer. This was protected during launch and re-entry by a clamshell door

Air Koryo (4,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

painted above the windows and a North Korean flag is painted on the vertical stabilizer. Now most of their planes are painted in new livery. It consists

Malaxa (car) (302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was fixed on the chassis through four "saddles" and had a special vertical stabilizer. Malaxa offered a high level of comfort, and could carry five persons

Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 (872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

point of impact was at the top front right section of the DC-9's vertical stabilizer, just underneath the horizontal stabilizer. On the Piper, the impact

Vought YA-7F (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flaps, leading edge extensions and automatic maneuvering flaps. The vertical stabilizer height was increased about 10 in (25 cm), the unit horizontal tail

Space Shuttle thermal protection system (4,118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forward fuselage, parts of the orbital maneuvering system pods, vertical stabilizer leading edge, elevon trailing edges, and upper body flap surface

Air Koryo (4,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

painted above the windows and a North Korean flag is painted on the vertical stabilizer. Now most of their planes are painted in new livery. It consists

Jamaica Bay (4,632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an Airbus A300, crashed after takeoff from JFK Airport after its vertical stabilizer separated in-flight and landed in Jamaica Bay. The aircraft crashed

Stearman C3 (780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the aft cockpit, and slightly increased chord of the rudder and vertical stabilizer.[citation needed] Although there were several versions of the C3

RAF Grove (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Transport Group Douglas C-47B-25-DK Skytrain 44-76404, Summer 1944. Note the D-Day invasion stripes and partial camouflage paint on the vertical stabilizer.

LFG Roland C.II (768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

C.II, but fitted with revised and reinforced wingtips and larger vertical stabilizer. C.III : Development with two bay wings and a 200 hp (149 kW) Benz

Spezio Tuholer (357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trim. The rear headrest can be built streamlined flush with the vertical stabilizer or tapered. The designer flew the prototype 16 years. Data from http://www

PZL M26 Iskierka (853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

PA-34 Seneca II, built under licence in WSK-Mielec). It shares the vertical stabilizer, rudder and main landing gear with the Mewa, while the wings and

Yakovlev Yak-17 (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the aircraft could still maintain a load bearing of 12g. The vertical stabilizer was enlarged and a periscope was also added above the windscreen

UPS Airlines (4,606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft livery, featuring the redesigned company "shield" logo on the vertical stabilizer. In January 2005, UPS Airlines became the second airline (behind

Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos (1,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assigned to NARTU Los Alamitos carried to the tail code "L" on their vertical stabilizer or empennage. This tail code was changed to "7L" in 1956 and continued

STS-38 (1,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

satellite deployed during STS-38. A publicly released image of Atlantis' vertical stabilizer and upper aft bulkhead, similar to the one released from STS-53,

Air Transat Flight 961 (617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inspection revealed that the entire rudder had broken away from the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft. Although most of the cockpit voice recorder and

All Nippon Airways Flight 60 (648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the aircraft, including at least two of the three engines, the vertical stabilizer, and the horizontal stabilizer were recovered mostly intact. The

AN/ALQ-99 (988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the bomb bay, while the receiving equipment was mounted to the vertical stabilizer, similarly to the EA-6B. It featured a 70% commonality with the AN/ALQ-99F

Fokker C.IV (919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

large fuel tank. They also put a small cockpit just in front of the vertical stabilizer with a hand-powered fuel pump inside. In flight, the crew member

STS-28 (1,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The cylindrical pod and surrounding black tiles on the orbiter's vertical stabilizer housed an imaging system, designed to map thermodynamic conditions

Fokker C.IV (919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

large fuel tank. They also put a small cockpit just in front of the vertical stabilizer with a hand-powered fuel pump inside. In flight, the crew member

LKS (spacecraft) (902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

concept had two V-type vertical stabilizers, similar to the F/A-18 vertical stabilizer arrangement. This was later changed to the conventional arrangement

BJJR Bulldog (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

employs an unusual curved main rotor mast that also serves as a vertical stabilizer. Data from Tacke General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one

Long Anzani Longster (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft with lower wing struts. The rudder is balanced without a fixed vertical stabilizer. One replica of the Longster has been built from the original plans

Skyeton K-10 Swift (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

behind the rudder hinge. A small triangular underfin provides more vertical stabilizer area. A fixed tricycle undercarriage is mounted on the lower fuselage

Scaled Composites Pond Racer (992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flight testing. In fact, a vibrator was still attached to the left vertical stabilizer to initiate flutter as part of the planned flight test program. There

TACAMO (955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

characteristics; the tail was redesigned after a catastrophic failure of the vertical stabilizer during flight tests. The cockpit was copied from the Boeing 737NG

1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash (1,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mussels are estimated to have accumulated; as of September 2021, the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft has broken and toppled, possibly related to mollusk

Cessna 170 (1,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(c/n 609), was built in November 1954 with a redesigned squared vertical stabilizer. No production followed, and the prototype was converted to 170B

Alaska Airlines fleet (1,764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the fuselage, with an image of a native Alaskan Eskimo on the vertical stabilizer as a logo. The image of the Eskimo first appeared in 1972 alongside

AirTran Airways (3,787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

until they reached the top side of the plane at the back of the vertical stabilizer. The nacelles were royal blue, with "airtran.com" written in white

Lockheed NF-104A (1,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modifications, most visibly the angled-up rocket engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer. United States United States Air Force Data from Libis. General

Head-up display (5,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

installation, the camera is actually installed at the top of the vertical stabilizer rather than "as close as practical to the pilots eye position". When

LearAvia Lear Fan (773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at an angle, similar to those on a V-tail aircraft, and a short vertical stabilizer pointed downward. However, unlike conventional V-tails, there was

Rolladen-Schneider LS4 (874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

further inboard and the tailplane span was increased. The fuselage and vertical stabilizer were taken from the LS3 moulds. Other notable features of the design

Trailing cone (313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A Boeing 787-8 during a test flight with a trailing cone attached to the vertical stabilizer

Wire strike protection system (1,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the skids, landing gear, and tail boom (including the rotor and vertical stabilizer) was also tested, but was found to be ineffective.: 11, 15–19, 41

Lippisch DM-1 (1,099 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the NACA study and the modified DM-1. The large and even thicker vertical stabilizer was removed and replaced with one of much smaller size, along with

Miles M.35 Libellula (1,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with a second wing with tip rudders in place of the conventional vertical stabilizer and tailplane arrangement (The wing was added to carry a heavy four-gun

Etihad Airways (6,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It features a golden and silver triangular tessellation on the vertical stabilizer and rear fuselage. A golden Etihad logo and a UAE emblem over the

Clear-air turbulence (1,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

downwind of Mount Fuji, Japan. The sequence of failure started with the vertical stabilizer getting ripped off.[citation needed] On December 28, 1997, on United

STS-61-C (1,458 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing) pod atop Columbia's vertical stabilizer, which used an infrared camera to observe reentry heating on the

Northrop F-89 Scorpion (4,914 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horizontal stabilizer was mounted just above the junction of the vertical stabilizer with the fuselage and had some dihedral. On 13 June 1946, an initial

Vehicle Assembly Building (2,447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preparations for STS-89. At the top of the doorway is the slot for the vertical stabilizer. The VAB as viewed from the nearby parking lot, 19 January 2022 Space

Advanced Aeromarine Buccaneer (698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brackets, flying wire shackles and tail boom tubes. Cracked aft vertical stabilizer tubes and main bulkheads are also common. All of these deficiencies

Autogyro (6,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

engine, an un-powered rotor mounted on a mast, and a horizontal and vertical stabilizer. His aircraft became the predecessor of the modern helicopter. After

Martin 4-0-4 (2,050 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

monoplane with a standard tail unit (cantilever tailplane and single vertical stabilizer). It had an airstair in the lower tail section for passenger boarding

Aermacchi AL-60 (1,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with conventional landing gear, a separate pilot's door, a larger vertical stabilizer, and powered by a geared 340 hp (254 kW) Lycoming GSO-480-B1 engine

Sukhoi Su-9 (1946) (1,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

speed and it lacked enough directional stability. Enlarging the vertical stabilizer cured this last problem and hydraulic boosters were fitted for the

AeroKuhlmann Scub (508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

structure, Dacron covered and flat sided. The tapered, square topped vertical stabilizer has a horn balanced rudder. The starboard elevator carries a trim

Douglas DC-5 (2,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unusual optical trick was applied to the prototype. The top of the vertical stabilizer and the outline of the engine nacelles were painted a darker color

LIPNUR Belalang (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of welded steel construction covered with fiberglass, while the vertical stabilizer was fabric-covered welded steel. Three pre-production NU-90 were

Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet (1,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

traced to a lack of aerodynamic stability, and to fix this the upper vertical stabilizer was enlarged from a mere stub, to one virtually matching the ventral

Fairey Stooge (1,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with the target. Control was via the ailerons and elevator, the vertical stabilizer did not contain a movable rudder. The first prototypes, with fixed

Boeing 737 Next Generation (6,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in a special dual paint scheme combining Lion Air's logo on the vertical stabilizer and Boeing's livery colors on the fuselage. A total of 505 -900ERs

Pfalz D.XII (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and weight, the D.XIV featured longer span wings and an enlarged vertical stabilizer. Enlarged ailerons were used to maintain rate of roll. A few prototypes

Cavalier Mustang (1,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ammo/gun bay fuel tanks, autopilot and a 14-inch (360 mm) taller vertical stabilizer. Between 1964 and 1965, Trans Florida completed an IRAN inspection

24th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

types. These aircraft carried a yellow stripe on the tip of the vertical stabilizer, the lip of the jet intakes and the "nose cone" of the jet itself

Lockwood Aircam (702 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m) Height: 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) to top of vertical stabilizer Empty weight: 1,040 lb (472 kg) Gross weight: 1,680 lb (762 kg) Fuel

Værøy Airport (1,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exceeded the plane's structural tolerance, causing the tail rudder and vertical stabilizer to crack, and the plane to crash in the sea after eight seconds.

Operation Credible Sport (1,855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

control system expert. The dorsal fin is a forward extension of the vertical stabilizer, while the dorsal fins were forward extensions of the horizontal

Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum (1,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Alcoa, Tennessee Only the vertical stabilizer was preserved. Built as a KC-97G, later converted to C-97G. Formerly

James H. Williams Jr. (6,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and (2) the aircraft's vertical stabilizer of the tail section, a complex structure of advanced composites. The vertical stabilizer on Flight 587 snapped

Piccadilly Lilly II (1,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the horizontal and vertical stabilizers and related fairings. The vertical stabilizer is ready for remounting. Radio mounting brackets and landing light

Hooters Air (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring the company logo, and mascot ("Hootie the Owl"), on the vertical stabilizer. Also, at a time when many low-cost carriers were eliminating in-flight

Airbus A400M Atlas (8,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

percent mean aerodynamic chord. The A400M has a T-tail empennage. Its vertical stabilizer is 8.02 m (26.3 ft) tall. The horizontal stabilizer spans 19.03 m

AAI Corporation (1,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

device is a mock-up of the left side wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, engine bay, forward engine bay door, and aft engine bay door, as

RAF Woodbridge (2,388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

78th TFS were a red tail with silver star pattern design on the vertical stabilizer. In November 1965, the 78th TFS received McDonnell F-4C Phantom IIs

Cessna 185 Skywagon (1,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spray system, windshield wire cutters, and a cable deflector on the vertical stabilizer. Certified on 24 September 1965. 988 total built; 138 (1966 185E)

Commonwealth Skyranger (1,221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(heavy controls, exceptional stability). With an unusually large vertical stabilizer for its size, the Skyranger was exceptionally susceptible to crosswinds

SRT Tomahawk (1,718 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prototypes, with a multi-element fixed wing, dive planes, and a vertical stabilizer, although the GTS-R's body shape has been carried over. The Group

Piper PA-23 (1,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The aircraft performed poorly, so it was redesigned with a single vertical stabilizer and an all-metal rear fuselage and more powerful 150 hp Lycoming

Dutch roll (2,077 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

until the yaw angle of the aircraft reaches the point where the vertical stabilizer effectively becomes a wind vane and reverses the yawing motion. As

Scandinavian Airlines (6,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

displayed prominently across the height of the front section. The vertical stabilizer and adjacent parts of the fuselage are blue, with the SAS logo in

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (2,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

debris. Some of the metal debris had also struck the aircraft's vertical stabilizer, causing slight damage. The leading edges of both wings and both

Herrick HV-2A Vertaplane (1,343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

autogyro, but when the upper wing was launched in flight, it struck the vertical stabilizer and stopped in the position parallel to the fuselage. Although the

North American A-5 Vigilante (5,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

surfaces, which were paired with a relatively large all-moving single vertical stabilizer. The use of aluminum-lithium alloy for wing skins and titanium for

Snowflake (airline) (1,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Airlines, but retained a distinctive livery with a lemon-colored vertical stabilizer and otherwise white body. They had single-class seating in a more

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 (1,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

virtually symmetrical. The forward fuselage broke upward and the vertical stabilizer failed to the left. All four engines generally separated before the

Aviation accidents and incidents (9,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aft pressure bulkhead, leading to the destruction of most of its vertical stabilizer and severing all hydraulic lines, rendering the 747 nearly uncontrollable

126th Air Refueling Wing (1,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Light). The aircraft were marked by various color bands on the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Black/Yellow/Blue for the 108th; Black/Yellow/Red for

Aviation accidents and incidents (9,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aft pressure bulkhead, leading to the destruction of most of its vertical stabilizer and severing all hydraulic lines, rendering the 747 nearly uncontrollable

Braniff International Airways Flight 250 (1,312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

upward and in a left roll. At this time the right tailplane and the vertical stabilizer failed. The aircraft then pitched nose down and within one or two

108th Air Refueling Squadron (2,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Light). The aircraft were marked by various color bands on the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Black/Yellow/Blue for the 108th; Black/Yellow/Red for

Morane-Saulnier M.S.225 (1,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Squadron based at Étampes used five modified M.S.225s, with a larger vertical stabilizer, while the last unit of the Air Force to operate this aircraft was

VP-62 (1970–present) (5,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

squadron's aircraft can be identified by the stylized letters "LT" on the vertical stabilizer, the letter "L" being common to all U.S. Atlantic Fleet patrol aircraft

Cessna 182 Skylane (3,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1967 model year with short-stroke oleo strut nose gear, increased vertical stabilizer tip length, and "Omni-Flash" rotating beacon. Certified on 3 August

Air North (1,659 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

painted white except for the lettering on the fuselage, wings and vertical stabilizer. On the fuselage, the words "Air North" and "Yukon's Airline" are

List of aircraft operated by Maersk Air (1,051 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The star appeared on the front sides of the fuselage and on the vertical stabilizer. Due to the franchise agreement with British Airways, Maersk Air

Lockheed CP-140 Aurora (2,678 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Data Link 16 system, and a new anti-collision light on top of the vertical stabilizer. Block IV reached Full Operational Capability in the summer of 2024

Delta wing (4,079 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

typically to lower its drag, resulting in the replacement of its large vertical stabilizer with a smaller and more conventional counterpart, along with a normal

AccessAir (763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

window line which continued to the rudder (but not the rest of the vertical stabilizer). There was also a black stripe under the red one on the fuselage

Powered parachute (2,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were made during those test flights, including the addition of a vertical stabilizer, flaps, ailerons, and optimization of the parafoil trim. Ram air

Boeing B-29 Superfortress variants (3,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more powerful than the usual Duplex-Cyclone. It also had a taller vertical stabilizer and a strengthened wing. The XB-44 was the testbed designation for

Las Américas International Airport (2,235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from John F. Kennedy International Airport due to separation of the vertical stabilizer after the first officer overused the rudder while trying to counter

Grumman C-2 Greyhound (2,945 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vertical stabilizers, of which three are fitted with rudders. A single vertical stabilizer large enough for adequate directional control would have made the

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (2,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The pilot complained of excess torque pull to the right so the vertical stabilizer was enlarged by 0.63 m2 (6.8 sq ft), but this was just one of numerous

Air Moorea Flight 1121 (1,371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

9 August 2007 (2007-08-09) Summary Loss of control due to deterioration and vertical stabilizer failure Site 1.5 km (0.9 mi; 0.8 nmi) off Moorea-Temae Airport (MOZ)

United Airlines Flight 232 (8,926 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subsequently rushed out of the bulkhead and blew off the plane's vertical stabilizer, also severing all four of its hydraulic control systems. The pilots

Korean Air Flight 631 (1,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

HL7525 remained at the end of the runway with its livery, logo and vertical stabilizer removed. After two months of constructing a road to tow out the aircraft

Prandtl-D (953 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The aircraft is centered around the testing of yawing without a vertical stabilizer. The manager of the project, Albion Bowers, said that the aircraft

Kam Air Flight 904 (1,476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

most prominent and recognizable piece of wreckage present was the vertical stabilizer and a small portion of the rear fuselage. Most of the visible wreckage

2002 Überlingen mid-air collision (5,344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

angle, at an altitude of 10,630 m (34,890 ft), with Flight 611's vertical stabilizer slicing completely through Flight 2937's fuselage just ahead of the

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (2,757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

balanced by an additional 14 inches (36 cm) of height added to the vertical stabilizer. Like its predecessor, the D558-1, the D558-2 was designed so that

All Nippon Airways (9,325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

colour scheme painted as strip sections on the fuselage, with a blue vertical stabilizer with the former ANA logo. All aircraft wearing this livery are either

U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft tail codes (1,480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sides of the vertical stabilizer, on the top right and on the bottom left wings near the tip. Although located both on the vertical stabilizer and the wings

American Airlines Flight 1420 (3,271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thrust, which reduced the effectiveness of the plane's rudder and vertical stabilizer.: =135–136 The aircraft continued past the end of the runway, traveling

Curtiss P-60 (2,122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

original XP-60 with a four bladed propeller and the larger XP-60A vertical stabilizer; this aircraft was redesignated XP-60D. The XP-60A first flew on

9th Special Operations Squadron (1,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron operating both types. Carried red stripe on the tip of the vertical stabilizer; the lip of the jet intakes and the "nose cone" of the jet itself

Unapproved aircraft part (1,242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of counterfeit aircraft parts. Counterfeit bolts, attaching the vertical stabilizer of a Convair CV-580 to the fuselage, wore down excessively, allowing

99th Air Base Wing (3,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to as the Diamondbacks, due to a diamond insignia painted on the vertical stabilizer of their B-17s. The 99th flew its first combat mission on 31 March

KLM (13,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of blue on a white upper fuselage and angled blue stripes on the vertical stabilizer. The tail stripes were later enlarged and made horizontal, and the

Bede BD-10 (2,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fox had not performed any testing to verify the redesign of the vertical stabilizer spars before continuing flight testing, instead relying upon the

Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 (1,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flipped over, damaging the right wing and the upper half of the vertical stabilizer. Careering rearwards and on its right side, flight 600 slid tail-first

Lewis Ascender (484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horizontal stabilizer with a symmetrical airfoil and an enlarged vertical stabilizer. The Ascender's landing gear is fitted with 35-inch tires and oversized

Boeing 737 Classic (2,851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to those on the Boeing 757. The family also featured a redesigned vertical stabilizer with a dorsal fin at the base. In March 1981, USAir and Southwest

McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk (3,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fuselage aft of the cockpit, along with the air inlets, and the vertical stabilizer of the T-45 at their Samlesbury facility, while the wings were produced

Messerschmitt Me 209 (1,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performance, such as through the adoption of longer wings, a taller vertical stabilizer, and installing a pair of synchronized 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine

Denney Kitfox (2,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

carry-through tubes, which allow a gross weight of 1,200 lb (544 kg). The vertical stabilizer and rudder height was increased by 10 inches (25 cm), and the rudder

Pagani Zonda R (1,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

components include new and updated canards on the front, as well as a vertical stabilizer supporting the main rear wing. Beside using the R Evolution's body

Mooney M20 (7,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

replaced with a two-seat cockpit with a sliding bubble canopy, and the vertical stabilizer was lengthened by 6 in (15 cm). Only a single prototype was built

David J. Farrar (995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

responsible for three British teams designing the payload bay doors, vertical stabilizer, and instrumentation in Rockwell's winning bid for development. In

The Delta Force (3,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

program. The U.S. Air Force acquired it later on and parted its vertical stabilizer and engines for the Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker. N778PA was destroyed

B-25 Mitchell aircraft in Catch-22 (1,085 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Museum, Sevierville, Tennessee, (D) All the B-25s had the tip of the vertical stabilizer painted blue. For the film, mock upper turrets were installed. To

GippsAero GA8 Airvan (2,095 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for 92,000 hours; the lowest lifetime structural fitting, the aft vertical stabilizer fitting, have to be replaced at 15,000 hours. Avionics include a

Petlyakov Pe-8 (3,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with Charomskiy ACh-30B engines and a fillet at the base of the vertical stabilizer. These were special VIP transports with a seating capacity of twelve

Shahed 129 (2,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Shahed 129's distinctive V-tail vertical stabilizer.

Piper Flitfire (2,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and fuselage; a red, white and blue fin flash was painted on the vertical stabilizer. NC1776 was distinguished from the other 48 Flitfires by the full

Aeronca C-3 (2,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tubular fuselage frame construction, the C-3 Master featured a smaller vertical stabilizer and rudder with a “filled out” fuselage shape that created the new

Kelly Johnson (engineer) (4,553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

participated in the design of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra, testing a model with a single vertical stabilizer in the wind tunnel of the University of Michigan.

494th Fighter Squadron (1,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commander's aircraft. Note the blue, yellow and red stripes on the vertical stabilizer symbolizing the colors of the 492d (blue), 493d (yellow) and 494th

Cathay Pacific fleet (1,864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

50th Anniversary. The aircraft had a special decal placed at the vertical stabilizer. The sticker features a stylized "50". The green band around the

Northrop P-61 Black Widow (12,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

investigated before finalization. Among them were: conversion to a single vertical stabilizer/rudder; the shifting of the nose and tail gun turrets to the top

British European Airways Flight 706 (2,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

caused the rapid separation of the horizontal stabilizers and the vertical stabilizer. The loss of the aircraft parts caused the aerodynamic forces to

Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter (4,974 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stabilizer and elevator, the rudder, and the upper quarter of the vertical stabilizer. The crew made a no-flap, electrical power off landing at night at

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 (3,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aft-looking radar mounted in a cigar-shaped fairing at the top of the vertical stabilizer. This latter system was intended to test the mid-course guidance

1985 in aviation (4,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accident seven years earlier. The resulting decompression blows off the vertical stabilizer and severs all of the aircraft's hydraulic lines. The pilots struggle

IAI Kfir (4,973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enlarged, and a large air inlet was installed at the base of the vertical stabilizer, so as to supply the extra cooling needed for the afterburner. The

AGM-158C LRASM (3,942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

target) Steering system Moving wings, 2 horizontal tailplanes & 1 vertical stabilizer Accuracy 9 ft 10 in (3 m) CEP Launch platform Air launched: – B-1

Cessna 310 (3,780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cessna 310D with early rounded nose, swept-back vertical stabilizer and "tuna" style wingtip fuel tanks

Northrop T-38 Talon (5,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

configuration, with a small, low-mounted, long-chord wing, a single vertical stabilizer, and tricycle undercarriage. The cockpit accommodates a student pilot

PteroDynamics (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scalable from 4 feet (1.2 m) to 34 feet (10 m) Tail: 1 inverted angled vertical stabilizer Landing gear: Retractable wheeled landing gear Safety: multiple propellers

Post-PFI Soviet/Russian aircraft projects (2,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Blinder, it featured twin engines above the fuselage, connected to the vertical stabilizer. A relatively large aircraft, 30–31m long, with a 19m wingspan (including

Aeroméxico Flight 498 (1,989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The DC-9, with its horizontal stabilizer, rudder, and half of its vertical stabilizer torn off, over-banked to the right until it became inverted, and

Minimum control speeds (1,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

regulations and in military specifications. The vertical tail or vertical stabilizer of a multi-engine aircraft plays a crucial role in maintaining directional

327th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (1,256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Convair F-102A-30-CO Delta Dagger, serial 54-1396. Note the short vertical stabilizer of early model F-102s. This aircraft crashed on 14 March 1960 near

Spin (aerodynamics) (5,061 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

airflow over the empennage. The increase in lateral flow across the vertical stabilizer/rudder brings it to its critical angle of attack stalling it. The

1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash (3,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

jettisoned during his attempt to eject, can be seen near the tip of the vertical stabilizer. Accident Date 24 June 1994 Summary Pilot error, stall Site Fairchild

Delta Air Lines (7,567 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fuselage with the company's name in blue lettering and a widget on the vertical stabilizer. Delta introduced its current livery in 2007 as part of a re-branding

168th Air Refueling Squadron (3,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

another wing. The aircraft were marked by various color bands on the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Black/Yellow/Blue for the 108th; Black/Yellow/Red for

40th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron operating both types. Carried blue stripe on the tip of the vertical stabilizer; the lip of the jet intakes and the "nose cone" of the jet itself

Bort number (518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

typically near the cockpit. On bombers the bort number is shown on the vertical stabilizer and nose wheel door. Bort numbers serve the same purpose as the US

RVAH-12 (1,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of two aircraft, BuNo 148933 and BuNo 151727, just ahead of the vertical stabilizer. The purpose of Snare was to obtain laser emitter and other related

Thomas McGuire (2,349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

AMW carry the image of a P-38 in the fin flash of each aircraft's vertical stabilizer San Jose Airport in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, formerly

Quartier La Horie (2,327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Phalsbourg. They were marked with a red and black sunburst on their vertical stabilizer/rudder with an eagle emblem. The Squadron commander during that era

2016 Halim Airport runway collision (2,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

TransNusa ATR was damaged beyond repair and was written off, losing its vertical stabilizer and left outer wing. The Batik Air 737 suffered structural and fire

German Air Force (7,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the fuselage and a small tricolor German flag painted on the vertical stabilizer. Each aircraft also carried a serial number consisting of two letters

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (16,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

serious damage to both the starboard horizontal stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer, and being knocked out of formation by the impact. The B-17 was reported

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt variants (3,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1,800 built. P-47D-40-RA, with dorsal fin added forward of the vertical stabilizer along with a tail warning radar. 665 built. Thunderbolt Mk II, designation

Lofting coordinates (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the edge of the flap; Nacelle station (NS); Elevator station (ES); Vertical stabilizer station (VSS). Takahashi 2017, Coordinate Frames. FAA 2012, p. 1-39