Why Did Lockheed Martin Build The C-5 Galaxy With A T-Tail?

Here's why Lockheed did this. The contest that eventually created the C-5 Galaxy was formally initiated in 1964 as the CX-HLS ...
HeraldNet

Alenia wraps up 787 horizontal stabilizer testing

Boeing’s 787 partner Alenia Aeronautica says it has finished destructive testing on the Dreamliner’s horizontal stabilizer. After testing the stabilizer over the past seven months, Italy’s Alenia says ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Boeing unveils all-Utah-built airplane tail four months in the making

The first entirely Utah-made 787-9 horizontal stabilizer, or tail of the airplane, was shipped Friday as a crowd of more than 700 cheered from Boeing Salt Lake's warehouse at Salt Lake City ...
Yahoo

NTSB issues final report on 2023 plane crash in Maine

No distress calls were heard from the crew. The probable cause of the crash was determined as: “A horizontal stabilizer pitch trim anomaly that was not identified in the available evidence.” The plane ...
Business Wire

Boeing Selects Spirit AeroSystems to Replace KC-135 Horizontal Stabilizers

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) today announced a contract award from The Boeing Company to provide new horizontal stabilizers for U.S. Air Force KC-135R ...
Yahoo Finance

UPDATE - Robinson Helicopter’s Symmetrical Horizontal Stabilizer Now Approved for Select Models by European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Argentina, Japan, and India

Robinson R22 with improved empennage. TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil helicopters, secured approval ...
The National Interest on MSN

We Now Know America Is Still Secretly Flying the F-117 Nighthawk

Even with the computers allowing it to fly, the aircraft is a nightmare to operate, with pilots comparing it to flying a ...
seattlepi.com

Repair work under suspicion in crash of inventor's jet

Federal investigators are focusing on maintenance performed at Boeing Field as a possible cause for the crash of a private jet that killed millionaire Eastside inventor Peter La Haye and his two ...
Aviation Week

Alenia completes 787 horizontal stabilizer destructive testing

Alenia Aeronautica said yesterday that it successfully completed destructive testing on the 787's horizontal stabilizer in Naples with Boeing engineers and US FAA and EASA representatives on hand.
komonews

See the safety feature being added to float planes to prevent repeat of 2022 Mutiny Bay crash

President Trump says Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire just hours after Iran's retaliatory strikes on a U.S. base in Qatar. by Jeremy Harris, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: MUTINY BAY, Wash. — A ...
Flying

NTSB Probe Into Downed DHC-3 Seaplane Focuses on Tail

The investigation into the crash of a seaplane north of Seattle last month that killed 10 people is focusing on the tail of the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter turboprop. The National Transportation ...
Yahoo Finance

Robinson Helicopter’s Symmetrical Horizontal Stabilizer Now Approved for All Models by European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Argentina, Japan, and India

Robinson R22 with improved empennage. TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil helicopters, secured approval ...