He did not have a lot of experience in the make and model airplane, so he hired the accident pilot to conduct the first ...

I raise the wheels and set trim, propeller pitch ... aircraft”. Once I get accustomed to how hard you have to pull and push, I realise the 172 is actually quite a manoeuverable beast, and the view, ...

There’s a revolution going on in propeller design ... nominal blade pitch (normally measured at 70 per cent radius), blade chord, thickness/chord ratio, aspect ratio, twist, pitch distribution or ...

These aircraft have a maximum pitch/bank angle limitation for the touchdown ... Is the training process sufficient to transition a pilot from a propeller-driven aircraft to a jet?

Regardless of the aircraft’s attitude ... airplane has either a fixed-pitch or constant-speed propeller. The pitch of the blades is the angle at which they “bite” into the air.

Today's passenger aircraft ... Propeller Interface Unit (PIU) that houses the propeller governor, which fine-tunes the prop's rpm. It performs this function by utilizing oil pressure to change the ...

They realized that if the wing on one side of the aircraft met the oncoming flow of air at a greater angle than the opposite wing ... had made in wing curvature was causing both the lift and pitch ...

For a propeller-driven aircraft, variable pitch propeller (VPP ... a hydraulic type VPP may not allow a large range variation of the pitch angle. On the other hand, regarding electric aircrafts, its ...

A great emphasis was put on the acoustic signature and the pusher propeller ... with a bank angle of 60°. As the aircraft exits the turn, forward thrust is reintroduced to regain speed efficiently.

which will immediately begin reducing the blade pitch on the prop. This reduces power demand and creates a decelerating effect on the aircraft, causing air to flow through the propeller and feed ...