Dramatic footage captured by an airport employee of a small aircraft circling the skies before it span out of control and ...

The cradle was also connected to the rudder, which controlled the plane's "yaw" (rotation around a vertical axis). This lever, operated by the pilot's left hand, was connected by a pulley system ...

That makes the left wings fall slightly behind the right wings, pulling the nose to the left as the airplane rolls right. The Wrights corrected for this “adverse yaw” by connecting the rear ...

Ships had had rudders for millennia, and a rudder could be used to control the airplane in the yaw axis—nose right, nose left. The idea of an elevator, a rudder that sat horizontally on its side ...

Brendon Pelser said he saw pure terror in the faces of his fellow passengers after an engine fell from a wing as it took off from Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday. Men were sweating profusely, women ...

Roll is achieved by tilting the rotors on either side of the plane’s central axis, and yaw control is provided by differential thrust. In the transitional period between modes, simple ...

Yaw wag usually occurs on flying wings that ... he built a V2 to closely match the looks of the B2 bomber. Both aircraft were cut from EPP foam with an interesting-looking CNC hot wire cutter ...

New imagery of China's Shenyang J-XD and Chengdu J-36 tailless stealth aircraft have emerged, showing their design features ...