Federal accident investigators on Saturday said the commercial plane involved in Wednesday’s deadly crash in Washington appears to have tried to pull up a second before it collided with a U.S ...

With this control the pilot could adjust the tilt of the elevator and alter the plane's "pitch," or its nose-up/nose-down orientation relative to level ground. To assist in making a turn ...

They approached the issue methodically, working out ways to control a glider's tendency to pitch up and down ... To make a self-powered airplane, they needed to develop a very light gasoline ...