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Title: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: anwar on March 28, 2010, 09:37:49 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSsrh3bsM0
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: sriharishine on March 28, 2010, 12:53:22 PM A plane crash due to failure of Vertical Stabilizer. Check the attached image.
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: gauravag on March 28, 2010, 06:10:58 PM A plane crash due to failure of Vertical Stabilizer. Check the attached image. Is that paper clipping 25 years old ? as the JAL 123 had a crash in 1985 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123 Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: vinay on March 29, 2010, 09:09:58 AM Yesterday my cousin asked me why a tail(rudder) was required and I had no answers. He asked why cant we fly with just elevators and ailerons. Now I understand the importance of this.
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: atul_pg on March 29, 2010, 11:13:02 AM great video..thanks for sharing anwar..
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: ankur on March 29, 2010, 01:33:07 PM just wondering how do birds fly without a vertical fin/tail...
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: vinay on March 29, 2010, 03:01:13 PM I think you cant roll them at all, you cant even bank them. And if there is thrust in a wrong angle/ wind, then I think It cant be kept in the path at all.
Title: Re: Importance of vertical stabilizers Post by: praveen on March 29, 2010, 04:19:42 PM it all lies with the stability ,Vertical stablizer maintains longitudinal stability of the aircraft
thus making aircraft heading into one direction until & unless deflected using rudder! this is only in the case of conventional planes ,coming to delta the winglet may acts as v-stab, u may ask what about great B2B stealth with no V-stab ,one thing i can say what my instructor told me that design will be such that it doesnt need any sort of V-stab and other thing it has got lots n lots of computer to control stability! hope this helps :) :) :) |