In this explanation video you'll learn how an aircraft is controlled with the help of great graphics, you'll understand the ...

Control surfaces on aircraft — the moving elevators, flaps, and ailerons on the trailing edges of the wings and tail — have long been used by pilots to control a plane’s pitch, roll, low-speed lift, ...

Dan Taylor knows the Blériot XI inside and out. As a pilot and historian at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York, he helped restore an original 1909 model to flyable condition and serves as ...

When elevator is in up position to climb, the trim tab is neutral. The trim tab adjusted down keeps the airplane in a stable climb. Harry Whitver At the 2011 National Championship Air Races in Reno, a ...

Wilbur Wright at the controls of the 1903 Wright Flyer, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 14, 1903. NASM Even to pilots, the 1903 Wright Flyer is a mysterious bundle of wire and cables that has ...

While not as methodical in his approach to airplane design as the Wright Brothers, Louis Blériot tried to learn something from each of his designs as he sought to make an airplane that would stay ...

UK investigators have been unable to determine why a Pilatus PC-24 jet’s elevator jammed during climb out of Liverpool, but point to the possibility that accumulated ice obstructed the aircraft’s ...

Much like tapping the brake pedal in a car to disengage cruise control, a sharp tug on the controls of older models of Boeing Co’s 737 used to shut off an automatic trim system that keeps the plane ...

FAA issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive calling for operators of 737-600s, -700s, -800s, -900s and -900ERs to inspect elevator tab control mechanisms following "severe elevator vibration" on a ...