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47-684: The M10 is similar to the Alon A2-A, and indeed a handful of "Mooney A2-As" were built in Kerrville in 1968 before changeover of Mooney's production line was completed. According to the FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet, the "Model 10 is similar to Model A2-A except for new design empennage, ailerons and fuel tank vent." The most obvious difference is that the M10 replaces the iconic Ercoupe-style dual vertical stabilizer with

94-409: A tapered swept wing design. To provide a characteristic figure that can be compared among various wing shapes, the mean aerodynamic chord (abbreviated MAC ) is used, although it is complex to calculate. The mean aerodynamic chord is used for calculating pitching moments. Standard mean chord (SMC) is defined as wing area divided by wing span: where S is the wing area and b is the span of

141-628: A LEX fence significantly reduces the buffeting and increases fin fatigue life. Aircraft with all-moving fins, but which did not enter service, were the North American F-107 and the BAC TSR-2 . The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and North American X-15 used fixed stubs for the fins and rudders for the remaining height. Conventional rudders would have been inadequate for the SR-71 because excessive deflections would have been required for

188-407: A determining role in yaw stability, providing most of the required restoring moment about the center of gravity when the aircraft slips. Yaw stability is typically quantified using the derivative of moment coefficient with respect to yaw angle. The airflow over the vertical tail is often influenced by the fuselage, wings and engines of the aircraft, both in magnitude and direction. The main wing and

235-488: A fixed vertical stabilizer or fin on which a movable rudder is mounted. A trim tab may similarly be mounted on the rudder. Together, their role is to enable trim in the yaw direction (compensate moments in yaw generated by any asymmetry in thrust or drag ), enable the aircraft to be controlled in yaw (for example, to initiate side slip during a crosswind landing ), as well as provide stability in yaw (weathercock or directional stability). The greater its position away from

282-416: A horizontal stabiliser, such as North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco or Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy transport. A variation on the twin tail, the triple tail has three vertical stabilizers. The WW II era Avro Manchester was given a third fin when the original twin fin proved insufficient. The Lockheed Constellation used three fins to give the airplane the required vertical stabilizer area while at

329-410: A straight line, or leading in or out of a turn, before applying the tiller, to keep the turn smooth. With the controls in the neutral position, a plane may still gently yaw to one side. This is corrected through the setting of a trim surface, often a separate trim tab mounted on the rudder but sometimes the rudder itself, to counteract the yaw and ensure the plane flies in a straight line. Changing

376-527: A tail designed to allow the airplane to spin . Changes to the ailerons, along with replacement of the A2-A's tail, were motivated by Mooney's intent to market the M10 as a trainer: student pilots receiving training in a non-spinnable airplane, as the Ercoupe was, were issued FAA pilot certificates carrying the restriction that they could only fly airplanes which were "characteristically incapable of spinning"; thus

423-414: A turbine aerofoil the chord may be defined by the line between points where the front and rear of a 2-dimensional blade section would touch a flat surface when laid convex-side up. The wing , horizontal stabilizer , vertical stabilizer and propeller /rotor blades of an aircraft are all based on aerofoil sections, and the term chord or chord length is also used to describe their width. The chord of

470-428: A wake its effectiveness is reduced because the wake has a lower dynamic pressure than the free stream. The fin height may need to be increased to restore its required effectiveness in certain flight conditions. The Panavia Tornado had a tall fin for directional stability at high angles of incidence. The rudder is the directional control surface and is usually hinged to the fin or vertical stabilizer. Moving it allows

517-408: A way to disrupt the airflow to the rear wing reducing drag, the most radical system being the "F-duct" found in the 2010 McLaren MP4-25 and Ferrari F10 . On demand by the driver, this system diverted air from a duct in the front of the car through a tunnel in the vertical fin onto the rear wing to stall it and reduce drag on the straights on which downforce was not needed. The system was banned for

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564-413: A wing, stabilizer and propeller is determined by measuring the distance between leading and trailing edges in the direction of the airflow. (If a wing has a rectangular planform , rather than tapered or swept, then the chord is simply the width of the wing measured in the direction of airflow.) The term chord is also applied to the width of wing flaps , ailerons and rudder on an aircraft. The term

611-547: Is a critical issue for fighter aircraft with twin or single fins because the fatigue life of the fin structure is reduced by the fluctuating loads caused by burst vortices impinging on the fin. The single fin on the Eurofighter Typhoon experiences buffet loads caused by burst vortices which originate from the canard and wing leading edges at high angles of attack. The sides of the top-mounted airbrake, when deflected, also shed vortices which impinge, after bursting, on

658-471: Is a special tiller controlling the wheel steering and the pedals control the rudder, and a limited amount of wheel steering (usually 5 degrees of nosewheel steering). For these aircraft the pilots stop using the tiller after lining up with the runway prior to take-off, and begin using it after landing before turning off the runway, to prevent over correcting with the sensitive tiller at high speeds. The pedals may also be used for small corrections while taxiing in

705-447: Is also applied to compressor and turbine aerofoils in gas turbine engines such as turbojet , turboprop , or turbofan engines for aircraft propulsion. Many wings are not rectangular, so they have different chords at different positions. Usually, the chord length is greatest where the wing joins the aircraft's fuselage (called the root chord ) and decreases along the wing toward the wing's tip (the tip chord ). Most jet aircraft use

752-402: Is complex and coupled with the effect of wing sweep and flow about the fuselage. Propellers , especially when they are advancing so that their axis makes an angle to the freestream velocity , can affect the static stability of an airplane in yaw. The vertical tail affects the behavior of the aircraft in roll , since its aerodynamic center typically lies far above the center of gravity of

799-687: Is to provide control, stability and trim in yaw (also known as directional or weathercock stability). It is part of the aircraft empennage , specifically of its stabilizers . The vertical tail is typically mounted on top of the rear fuselage, with the horizontal stabilizers mounted on the side of the fuselage (a configuration termed "conventional tail"). Other configurations, such as T-tail or twin tail , are sometimes used instead. Vertical stabilizers have occasionally been used in motor sports , with for example in Le Mans Prototype racing . The vertical tail of an aircraft typically consists of

846-454: Is typically the mean aerodynamic chord ). Values for the vertical tail coefficient vary only mildly from aircraft one type of aircraft to another, with extreme values ranging from 0.02 (sailplane) to 0.09 (jet aircraft transport). The tail efficiency is the ratio of the dynamic pressure at the tail to that in the freestream. The tail has its maximum capability when immersed in the free stream with an efficiency of one. When partially immersed in

893-412: The 2011 Formula 1 season . Chord (aeronautics) In aeronautics , the chord is an imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil . The chord length is the distance between the trailing edge and the point where the chord intersects the leading edge. The point on the leading edge used to define the chord may be the surface point of minimum radius. For

940-625: The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk . Winglets on the canard pusher configuration Rutan VariEze and Rutan Long-EZ , acting as both a wingtip device and a vertical stabilizer. Several other derivatives of these and other similar aircraft use this design element. The top part of the vertical fin on the North American A-5 Vigilante folds to the side due to the hangar deck height restriction. Devices similar to vertical tails have been used on cars such as

987-628: The Vought F-8 Crusader ), or folding-down wingtips (such as on the North American XB-70 Valkyrie ). If a bigger tail is not acceptable automatic rudder deflections may be used to increase the tail side force and restore directional stability. This method was used on the Avro Arrow . The vertical tail sometimes features a fillet or dorsal fin at its forward base, which helps to increase the stall angle of

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1034-418: The center of pressure of the trim tab is further away from the axis of rotation of the control surface than the center of pressure of the control surface, the movement generated by the tab can match the movement generated by the control surface. The position of the control surface on its axis will change until the torque from the control surface and the trim surface balance each other. The vertical tail plays

1081-478: The 1942 Douglas DC-4 , predating the wing strakes of the fighter aircraft developed in the 1970s, such as the F-16 . The rudder and fin on a large, or fast, aircraft are each subject to a considerable force which increases with rudder deflection. An extreme case occurs with a departure from controlled flight, known as an upset, which in the context of fin and rudder is excessive sideslip. For large transport aircraft

1128-422: The 1955 Jaguar D-type or the 2013 Lamborghini Veneno . On race cars, its primary purpose is to reduce sudden high-speed yaw-induced blow-overs that would cause cars to flip due to lift when subject to extreme yaw angles during cornering or in a spin. Since 2011, the vertical stabilizer has become mandatory for all newly homologated Le Mans Prototypes . Some Formula 1 teams utilized a vertical stabilizer as

1175-629: The Mooney M10, are currently owned by Univair Aircraft Corporation , in Aurora, Colorado , USA. Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1969–70 General characteristics Performance Vertical stabilizer A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft . The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed surface and one or more movable rudders hinged to it. Their role

1222-436: The actuating mechanism. Multi-engined aircraft, especially those with wing-mounted engines, have large powerful rudders. They are required to provide sufficient control after an engine failure on take-off at maximum weight and cross wind limit and cross-wind capability on normal take-off and landing. For taxiing and during the beginning of the take-off, aircraft are steered by a combination of rudder input as well as turning

1269-492: The aircraft. When the aircraft slips to the right, the relative wind and side force on the vertical tail translate into an anti-clockwise moment in roll. In supersonic flight, the vertical tail becomes progressively less effective with increasing Mach number until the loss of stability may no longer be acceptable. The stability is reduced because the lift, or side force, generated by the tail reduces with speed for each degree of sideslip angle (lift-curve slope). This results from

1316-552: The case of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor which uses differential rudder, together with other control surface deflections, for speed control as it has no dedicated airbrake. A twin tail may be either H-tail, twin fin/rudder construction attached to a single fuselage, such as North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber or Avro Lancaster , or twin-boom where the rear airframe consists of two separate boom structures each with one single fin and rudder joined by

1363-494: The center of gravity, the more effective the vertical tail can be. Thus, shorter aircraft typically feature larger vertical tails; for example, the vertical tail of the short Airbus A318 is larger than that of its longer counterparts in the A320 family . The effectiveness of the vertical tail depends on its efficiency and the vertical tail volume coefficient (also called volume ratio ), which non-dimensionalizes its area and arm with

1410-563: The dimensions of the main wing: V v = S v L tail-CG S w L w {\displaystyle V_{\text{v}}={\frac {S_{\text{v}}L_{\text{tail-CG}}}{S_{\text{w}}L_{\text{w}}}}} (where the indices V {\displaystyle V} and W {\displaystyle W} stand for vertical tail and wing respectively, S {\displaystyle S} stands for area, and L w {\displaystyle L_{\text{w}}}

1457-622: The engine-out case causing unacceptable trim drag. Early configurations put forward for the X-15 show a conventional fixed fin and trailing rudder, and a ventral fin. This was changed to dorsal and ventral fins each with the outer half acting as a rudder. Twin tail aircraft have two vertical stabilizers. Many modern combat aircraft use this configuration. The twin rudders may be used in the gear-down configuration for additional longitudinal control with toe-in or flare-out ( McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet ). Twin rudders are also used as an airbrake as in

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1504-465: The figure to the right implies that the MAC occurs at a point where leading or trailing edge sweep changes. That is just a coincidence. In general, this is not the case. Any shape other than a simple trapezoid requires evaluation of the above integral. The ratio of the length (or span ) of a rectangular-planform wing to its chord is known as the aspect ratio , an important indicator of the lift-induced drag

1551-410: The fin. Buffeting from the extended airbrake is highest when the airbrake effective angle of attack is greatest, which for a fully-extended airbrake is greatest at low aircraft angle of attack and least when manoeuvring. The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet twin fins are subject to buffeting from the breakdown or bursting of the leading-edge extension (LEX) vortex in front of the tail. The addition of

1598-399: The horizontal stabilizer, if they are highly swept , can contribute significantly to the yaw stability; wings swept backwards tend to increase yaw stability.  Sweep in the wing and horizontal tail of a conventional airplane, however, does not affect airplane trim in yaw. Dihedral in the main wing and horizontal tail can also have a small effect on the static yaw stability. This effect

1645-415: The nosewheel or tailwheel. At slow speeds the nosewheel or tailwheel has the most control authority, but as the speed increases the aerodynamic effects of the rudder increases, thereby making the rudder more and more important for yaw control. In some aircraft (mainly small aircraft) both of these mechanisms are controlled by the rudder pedals so there is no difference to the pilot. In other aircraft there

1692-406: The pilot to control yaw about the vertical axis, i.e., change the horizontal direction in which the nose is pointing. Maximum rudder deflection is usually controlled by a rudder travel limiter . The largest achievable angle of a rudder at a particular flight condition is called its blowdown limit . It represents a balance between the aerodynamic forces on the rudder and the mechanical forces from

1739-486: The pilot used full rudder deflections while following in the wake of a very large jet. Clear air turbulence caused the failure of the complete fin and rudder assembly on a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress after which the pilots made a successful landing. B-52 bombers instrumented for gust and manoeuvre loads recorded gusts from clear air turbulence considerably more than the design limit with highest loads at 34,000 feet. The English Electric Lightning T4 prototype fin failure

1786-422: The same time keeping the overall height low enough so that it could fit into hangars for maintenance. A V-tail has no distinct vertical or horizontal stabilizers. Rather, they are merged into control surfaces known as ruddervators which control both pitch and yaw. The arrangement looks like the letter V, and is also known as a "butterfly tail". The Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35 uses this configuration, as does

1833-406: The setting of a trim tab adjusts the neutral or resting position of a control surface (such as an elevator or rudder). As the desired position of a control surface changes (corresponding mainly to different speeds), an adjustable trim tab will allow the operator to reduce the manual force required to maintain that position—to zero, if used correctly. Thus the trim tab acts as a servo tab . Because

1880-613: The spinnable tail was necessary to turn the A2-A into a general-purpose trainer. Given that they were replacing the tail, Mooney's engineers opted to give it the "backward" profile characteristic of the M20 series. Although the M10's empennage has the same silhouette as the "big Mooneys", it does not swivel the way the M20's does; the Cadet's tail is a conventional design with fixed horizontal stabilizer, hinged elevator, and trim tabs. The two type certificates that cover all Ercoupe variants, including

1927-419: The stabilizing moment necessary for recovery comes from the fin with little requirement for rudder deflection. These aircraft do not have a requirement to withstand near-full rudder deflections in these circumstances because the structural weight required to prevent structural failure would make them commercially unviable. Loss of the complete fin and rudder assembly occurred on American Airlines Flight 587 when

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1974-406: The vertical surface (resulting in vortex lift), and in this way prevent a phenomenon called rudder lock or rudder reversal. Rudder lock occurs when the force on a deflected rudder (e.g. in a steady sideslip ) suddenly reverses as the vertical tail stalls. This may leave the rudder stuck at full deflection with the pilot unable to recenter it. The dorsal fin was introduced in the 1940s, for example on

2021-505: The very different pressure distribution, with shock waves and expansion waves, compared to subsonic. To achieve the required stability at the maximum operating speed of the aircraft the vertical tail may be enlarged, such as on the North American F-100 Super Sabre (the initial fin area requirement was underestimated). Extra area may be added by installing ventral fins (such as on higher-speed, later versions of

2068-461: The whole wing. The pressure distribution over the entire wing can be reduced to a single lift force on and a moment around the aerodynamic center of the MAC. Therefore, not only the length but also the position of MAC is often important. In particular, the position of center of gravity (CG) of an aircraft is usually measured relative to the MAC, as the percentage of the distance from the leading edge of MAC to CG with respect to MAC itself. Note that

2115-470: The wing will create. (For wings with planforms that are not rectangular, the aspect ratio is calculated as the square of the span divided by the wing planform area.) Wings with higher aspect ratios will have less induced drag than wings with lower aspect ratios. Induced drag is most significant at low airspeeds. This is why gliders have long slender wings. Knowing the area (S w ), taper ratio ( λ {\displaystyle \lambda } ) and

2162-453: The wing. Thus, the SMC is the chord of a rectangular wing with the same area and span as those of the given wing. This is a purely geometric figure and is rarely used in aerodynamics . Mean aerodynamic chord (MAC) is defined as: where y is the coordinate along the wing span and c is the chord at the coordinate y . Other terms are as for SMC. The MAC is a two-dimensional representation of

2209-507: Was caused by inertial roll coupling while doing high-rate rolls. The fin was enlarged, strengthened and roll-rate limitations were imposed. However, the first T5 also had a fin failure while doing rapid rolling trials with rocket pack extended. A Lightning lost its fin due to interaction between aircraft in close proximity at low level when flying in formation at M 0.97, an aerobatic display routine. Limitations were imposed including separation between aircraft when in formation. Fin buffeting

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