Improvements on the Cesna 150

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The Cessna Aircraft Company is an American general aviation aircraft created in 1927 by Clyde Cessna in Wichita, Kansas, which is currently where headquarters located. The Cessna Aircraft Company is best known for small piston-powered aircraft. Cessna 152 first introduced in 1977 after its successor, Cessna 150. Both Cessna 152 and Cessna 150 are an all metal high wing two seat aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear widely used for flight training and personal use. The Cessna 152 is insignificantly improved from Cessna 150 with more economical to operate and increased the maximum certified gross weight.
The purposes of Cessna 152 are reliable, durable, economical and performance for training. To satisfy that purposes, Cessna 152 designed with all strong metals but light. The aircraft fuselage is semi-monocoque design with conventional formed sheet metal bulkhead, stringer, and skin. The wings are externally braced with a13 gallons gas tank in each side of the wing. The front and rear spar of the wing constructed with formed sheet metal ribs, doublers and stringer. In each wings attacked conventional hinged ailerons and single-slotted flaps that can extended 0 degrees to 30 degrees. Each wing is balanced to each other. With the heavy engine in the front, the tail must weight balance to the front. Therefore, the empennage, tail assembly, are designed with longer length consists of a conventional vertical stabilizer, rudder, horizontal stabilizer and elevator. For the strength and duration purpose, the entire empennage control surfaces are mostly formed with sheet metal ribs and reinforcement, a wrap around skin panel, sheet metal ribs and stiffeners.
Cessna 152 designed with 8 foot 6 inches tall from the ground, 24 foot one inc...

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...dicator to operate. The vacuum system is an engine-driven vacuum system consists of a vacuum pump, a vacuum relief valve and vacuum system air filter. The air goes through the vacuum system air filter that delivers to attitude indicator, directional indicator and suction gage, mounted on the instrument panel, by the vacuum pump. The directional indicator is also connected with low-vacuum warning switch, which pop the circuit breaker, if the vacuum system failure.
In addition, the control surface system are also necessary to flight the aircraft. The aircraft must be able to pitch, roll or bank and yaw. To accomplish that, each aircraft are equipped with elevator, aileron and rudder. The elevator is control the aircraft pitch about the vertical axis by push or pull the yoke. Elevator is mounted on the emmaAileron is the control of rolling about the longitudes axis.

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