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  2. Rotation (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    The main and nose-gear leg lengths are chosen to give a negative angle of attack relative to the ground. This ensures the wing will have negative lift until the pilot rotates the aircraft to a positive angle of attack. During landing, the reverse happens when the nose-wheel touches the runway and the wing assumes a negative angle of attack with ...

  3. Flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Flight dynamics is the science of air-vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions. The critical flight dynamics parameters are the angles of rotation with respect to the three aircraft's principal axes about its center of gravity, known as roll, pitch and yaw.

  4. Autorotation - Wikipedia

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    If the engine fails, the freewheeling unit automatically disengages the engine from the main rotor, allowing the main rotor to rotate freely. The most common reason for autorotation is an engine malfunction or failure, but autorotation can also be performed in the event of a complete tail rotor failure, or following loss of tail-rotor ...

  5. Spatial disorientation - Wikipedia

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    Spatial disorientation can also affect instrument-rated pilots in certain conditions. A powerful tumbling sensation can result if the pilot moves his or her head too much during instrument flight. This is called the Coriolis illusion. Because the semicircular canals are set in three different axes of rotation, if the aviator suddenly moves ...

  6. Aircraft principal axes - Wikipedia

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    The position of all three axes, with the right-hand rule for describing the angle of its rotations. An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail.

  7. This airport landing is so challenging only 50 pilots are ...

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    As a result, pilots can only see the runway from the air when they’re just about to land on it. Bhutan’s aviation industry. Things are changing in Bhutan, and the aviation industry is one of them.

  8. Aerobatic maneuver - Wikipedia

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    The pilot then uses the rudder to rotate the aircraft around its yaw axis until it has turned 180deg and is pointing straight down, facing the direction from which the aircraft came. The aircraft gains speed, and the pilot continues and returns to level flight, travelling in the opposite direction from which the maneuver began.

  9. Pilot Weighs in on Airplane Mode 'Conspiracy' and Explains ...

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    The pilot explained that, regardless of the number of passengers onboard, if a phone tries to connect to a radio tower, the radio waves can interfere with the radio waves of the pilots' headsets.