Airplane means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.
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You'll never forget the first airplane you fly. No matter how many other aircraft you may pilot, that first trainer will always have a special place in your heart and your logbook.
S-plane: Continuous complex frequency plane; S-plane is used in control systems engineering in the design of control laws.
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The pilot is highly cognizant of the existence of the short period made since it is felt only as a bump when a gust is encountered or the airplane responds to an abrupt control movement.
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A plane's wing is coated in ice. In-flight icing can alter instrument readings and compromise the pilot's control of their aircraft.
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In their search for an outstanding fighting aeroplane, the Sopwith experimental department decided in early 1916 to build an entirely new design--a triplane.
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Seaplane
A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft designed to take off and land (or "alight") upon water.
An airplane is in a climb when an airplane is gaining altitude in a constant speed and rate. To demonstrate how the equilibrium is maintained, once again two sets of forces are considered. Namely, the Gravity Set and the Lift Set.
Locate the airplane's center of gravity and use the onboard battery pack to help obtain the correct balance. Mount the battery pack securely using rubber bands or hook and loop fasteners.
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Control Of Our Airplane
By Chris Heintz
In a previous article (Airfoils, Part 2) we have seen that the lift of an airfoil can be summarized as a force acting at the greater chord. This applies to the wing as well as the horizontal tail.
You can learn to fly, do a Pilot-A-Plane (fly the airplane yourself under guidance of an experienced instructor), Whale Watch flights and see Sperm whales and Dusky dolphins swim close to the coast.
Biplane - An airplane having two wings, one placed above the other.
Blade Angle - The angle between the plane of propeller rotation and the face of the
propeller blade.
deplane - The process of passengers exiting the aircraft.
descend - To come down under control from a higher to a lower altitude.
descent - The action carried out in flying an aircraft from a higher to lower altitude.
Biplane. An aeroplane or glider which has two mainplanes (main wings) one above the other.
Bise. A cold, dry wind which blows in the winter from a northerly direction in Southern France.
AIRPLANE APPROACH CATEGORY (AAC) - One of two design standards related to airport geometry.
Seaplane An airplane that has floats, or pontoons, attached to allow it to land on water.
Servo The radio component which does the work of moving a control surface.
SEAPLANE - A water-based aircraft with a boat-hull fuselage, often amphibious.The term is also used generically to define a similar Flying Boat and a pontoon FLOATPLANE.
foreplane
A horizontal aerofoil mounted on the nose or forward fuselage of an aeroplane to improve take-off and low-speed handling. It can be fixed or retractable, non-moving or adjustable, and can have slats, flaps or elevators.
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Sailplane
See glider.
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Gyroplane
A rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-driven, except for initial starting, but are made to rotate by action of the air when the rotorcraft is moving; and whose means of propulsion, consisting usually of conventional propellers, ...
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PLANE SIDE ISSUE (PSI). Parachutes issued to paratroopers from the planeside or off the ramp on an aircraft for the purpose of chuting up and boarding the aircraft to participate in a subsequent airborne operation.
Z-PLANE
Discrete complex frequency plane; Z-plane is used in control systems engineering in the design of control laws See Also: Z transform;
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AIRPLANE (AEROPLANE) - Meaning in modern usage a heavier-than-air powered craft, as opposed to a balloon or glider.
AIRPORT - More modern term for aerodrome, and applying more particularly to one used for civil transport operations.
Airplane - The infernal machine invented by two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio and perfected on the sands of the Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Precursor of the Frisbee.
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Airplane Performance Operating Limitations
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Airplane designers always make sure the airplane has a certain amount of slip-roll coupling, for exactly this reason.
Gyroplane pioneer Juan de LeCervia (TBS - spelling) solved this by installing a flapping hinge. This hinge allows the blade to move up and down, changing the angle of attack and thus the amount of lift being generated.
Tailplane The horizontal, fixed tail surface of a plane
Take off The movement of aircraft from a position of rest to the moment they are airborne
TAS The speed of an aeroplane through the air in which it is flying ...
HYDROPLANE - An airplane designed to land long on a short and wet runway.
IFR - A method of flying by needle and horoscope.
LEAN MIXTURE - Nonalcoholic beer.
A triplane built by George Cayley flies 900 feet (275 m) across a small valley
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Spot Plane view ZOOM factors depend on the size of the display screen (the degree of reduction, if any, of the instrument panel). For the NAV-capable panel described in "Opening Up," below, the author standardizes on a zoom factor of 0.
Bush planes need to be rugged, reliable and simple to maintain. "Field maintenance" takes on a new meaning where the pilot literally needs to be able to perform basic maintenance and repair functions in the field.
The airplane is a device for pushing downward millions of little, bullets, made out of air and exceedingly small and light.
The airplane and flying bug bit me at a very early age. Growing up on a farm in rural southwestern Minnesota, we were located under the flight path of North Central Airline's daily round trip DC-3 flight from Minneapolis to Brookings, South Dakota.
Once a plane is in the air, it continues to climb until it reaches its cruising altitude, which is determined by the pilot and must be approved by Air Traffic Control.
Every airplane has its own particular flight characteristics. The purpose of primary and intermediate flight training, however, is not to learn how to fly a particular make and model airplane.
By keeping planes in excellent condition, maintenance programs keep aircraft in safe, working order; ensure passenger comfort; preserve the airline's valuable physical assets (its aircraft); and ensure maximum utilization of those assets.
Large Airplane: An airplane of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight.
Localizer (LOC): An ILS navigation facility providing horizontal guidance to the runway centerline during approach and landing.
Behind the plane:That sad state of affairs when things are happening faster than you can cope with them, and undone tasks are accumulating. Not healthy when you're the PIC.
Lilienthal biplane glider in flight, 1895. Shows structure of the glider with the double sailing surface.
Sea Plane - A water-based aircraft (also known as a flying boat) has a fuselage that is actually a hull for landing on water rather than the pontoons of a floatplane.
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Denied-Boarding Compensation
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Forces on an Airplane There are four forces that act on an airplane. The motion of an aircraft depends on the relative magnitude of the forces.
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In nearly all small planes, an IAP will not take a pilot clear to the ground, as commercial jets can.
TURBOPROP An airplane using a turboprop engine, a jet rather than piston engine connected to a propeller. Such aircraft can be single- or multi-engine.
Bank: Aspect of Rotation of airplane about its longitudinal axis.
Barrel Roll: Airplane rolled about a line offset but parallel to its longitudinal axis.
BC: Bomber Command
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Instrument Flight Rules (see below) PP Private Pilot PVT Private (pilot certificate) (see suffixes, below) VFR Visual Flight Rules (see below) Pilot and instructor certificates may be suffixed with certain combinations of the following: A Airplane ME ...
Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane. Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity; an airplane flies because of money.
aileron - A small hinged portion of an airplane's wing, used to make an airplane roll, or turn around its long axis.
Airspeed - Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a Navy pilot.
Angle of Attack - Pick-up lines that pilots use.
Arresting Gear - A Policeman's equipment.
Bank - The folks who hold the lien on most pilots' cars.
As for a private plane, it could be something like "Cessna 13 Whisky", "Baron 232 Zulu" or "November 17 Victor".
If the spider center maintains its location relative to the rotor shaft but its plane tilts, then it can be seen that as the blade rotates around the shaft as the rotor turns, the spider arm moves up and down once per rotor revolution.
Unlike an airplane, helicopters do not fly constant airspeed approaches. That's partly because they don't have to. If an airplane attempts to decelerate too much on approach, it stalls. A helicopter doesn't have that problem.
If the LD angle is increased the plane will take on a more nose up pitch attitude,
whereas with a decreased LD angle the plane will take on a more nose down
pitch attitude.
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