Hi. I am doing my tail incidence angle calculations and it is coming out at minus 5 degrees.
I know it can be negative sometimes, but 5 degrees sounds a bit much.
Does anyone know of any aircraft with such a large negative angle of incidence on the horizontal stabilizer?
Thanks
We all know how MD shrunk the MD-11 tailplane. But I was wondering....
what if we do that...
BUT MORE!
If you continue to shrink the tailplane, at what point would an MD-11 become basically unlandable?
I'm thinking, in particular, of the contrast between the Vought F4U Corsair, which has its tailplane well back of the fin, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, which has a tailplane much farther forward.
I'll be honest. I'm a lazy son of a gun, and I know the answer is somewhere online but I am having trouble. So here it is: How do I custom-control the tailplanes to exert elevator power vs yaw power? It seems like the tailplanes can only be made to pitch up/down.
I've slipped C172s with full flaps with no issues. Most of us likely have. However, after learning WHY you're not supposed to, I've reconsidered such slips.
What I would like to do, just like stall training, is experience a tailplane stall in a controlled and anticipated situation, rather than first experience it on final approach. Not one of my instructors has ever even mentioned such events. Why is this? Is it SO uncommon as to not really be worth even a mention (until IFR tailplane icing is mentioned anyway)?
Is there a way I could safely achieve a tailplane stall intentionally? I doubt my flight sim will produce any useful results....
Thanks guys, fly safe up there.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
