Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

Though not quite finished, she is on display, warm and cared for in the museums hangar. “We were able to trade the oil coolers and exhausts to Chuck Whal for non-airworthy parts and ailerons.” The cockpit in 2015. From the cockpit back to the tail, 92460 is looking the part with the new painted control surfaces.

Rudder 105

Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar.

Knot 111

Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

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.

Aileron 131

Aileron Firewall Cockpit Hangar 131

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.,

Airplanes 105

Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

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.

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. One of the major changes introduced to the Tiger Moth, at RAF insistence, was folding door panels that made it easier to enter and exit both cockpits. Red shows typical stall speed range (below 45 mph).

Airplanes 115

Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

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.

Pitot Tube 86

Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 86