Ask an Explainer - Flight Dynamics

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Q: Can a pilot turn an airplane using yaw without the ailerons?
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Q: What happens if you take off one of the main rotors of a two-rotored helicopter (excluding the tail rotor from the two main ones)?
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Q: In a delta wing aircraft, how do elevons help in doing roll and pitch?
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Q: How can we design our own paper planes?
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Flight Dynamics
Q: How do flight controls work in modern aircraft?
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Q: Can you state Kepler's three laws and how they apply to Earth's orbital motion around the sun?
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Flight Dynamics
Q: Can you discuss the shape of orbit of the Earth around the Sun?
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Q: How efficient tailless airplane is better than tail plane?
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Q: What is the practical use of a gyroscope?
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Flight Dynamics
Q: I understand that a helicopter uses the tail rotor in order to stop the helicopter from spinning in the same direction as the main propeller, but how does a airplane such as the Cessna that has one propeller in the front stop the aircraft from spinning
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Flight Dynamics