Aileron Cockpit Hangar 
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 3, 2024
The front control column and aileron drum have been fitted. The aileron cables are in. MJ444’s front cockpit showing the Spitfire’s distinctive control column. The rear face of MJ444’s front cockpit instrument panel. We plan to carry this out around the 20th of April.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 26, 2024
who in 1964 traded it to Richard Bach for the latter’s recently-rebuilt, “modern” 1946 Fairchild F-24. “Before the Parks was completely disassembled for restoration, I enjoyed reading passages from some of these books while sitting in the aft cockpit. It made its way to Lumberton lawyer Evander Munn Britt Jr.,
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Air Facts
OCTOBER 7, 2024
It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. I had a total knee replacement. Then the CFI gave me a few unusual attitudes, and all was well.
Fear of Landing
OCTOBER 4, 2024
He went to the hangar and did a pre-flight walkaround of the 172, including checking the fuel. Satisfied, he pulled the 172 out of the hangar and started the engine. He briefed the pilot on the cockpit instruments and best speeds for take-off, climb and glide. They were finally good to go. They accelerated along the runway.
Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.
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