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Avro RJ-85 of SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium) McDonnell Douglas MD-90 Piper PA-44-180 Seminole Grob G 109 motor glider Beechcraft 1900D of the Swiss Air Force T-tail of aircraft . A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital letter T, hence ...
Normal flight (above), Deep stall condition - T-tail in "shadow" of wing (below) A Schweizer SGS 1-36 being used for deep-stall research by NASA over the Mojave Desert in 1983. A deep stall (or super-stall) is a dangerous type of stall that affects certain aircraft designs, notably jet aircraft with a T-tail configuration and rear-mounted ...
The placement of the remaining two engines varies. Most smaller aircraft, such as the Hawker Siddeley Trident and the Boeing 727, as well as the intermediate-sized Tupolev Tu-154, have two side-mount engine pylons in a T-tail configuration. The larger widebody Lockheed TriStar and DC-10/MD-11 mount an engine underneath each wing.
In addition, the tail is located in the flow field of the main wing, and consequently experiences downwash, reducing its angle of attack. In a statically stable aircraft of conventional (tail in rear) configuration, the tail-plane force may act upward or downward depending on the design and the flight conditions. [14]
In aircraft with high-mounted tailplanes, like the F-101 Voodoo, recovery was especially difficult because the tailplane was placed directly in the wing wake during the pitch-up, causing deep stall (although the T-tail was meant to prevent pitch-up from starting in the first place). Deployment of the braking parachute and a considerable height ...
Pages in category "Aircraft tail configurations" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. P.
Carrier Air Wing 15 tail code "NL" is prominently displayed on this A-7E Corsair II. Tail codes on the U.S. Navy aircraft are the markings that help to identify the aircraft's unit and/or base assignment. These codes comprise one or two letters or digits painted on both sides of the vertical stabilizer, on the top right and on the bottom left ...
Though the aircraft first flew with a standard tail configuration, by the time it entered production, a T-tail configuration had been adopted, giving it an appearance very similar to its close competitor, the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk introduced in 1978. [1] [2]