AV Web

JULY 23, 2024

The aircraft, a successor to the Extra 330SC, features a wider cockpit, shorter fuselage, redesigned cowling, increased control stick clearance, and improved headroom compared to its predecessor. Extra said the 330SX model is much easier to fly— allowing pilots to achieve higher scores in aerobatic competitions.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

The small aileron “tabs” were not doing a great job in crosswind ability. In the CRJ you can not hear any engines from the cockpit, making for an odd audio sensation. I imagine this is how a real CRJ pilot must feel. I imagine MD80-style pilots are used to the same sensation. Taking off in violent winds was a task.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As World War II ended, self-taught design legend Albert Mooney was not surprised to learn that the Army Air Corps had graduated over 250,000 pilots. Would these pilots returning from the war want to own and fly a personal airplane, and if so, what would it look like? Accommodation for the pilot was, in a word, spartan.

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Tail Aileron Pilot Airplanes 75

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. Efforts like this freed male pilots for combat missions, and her dedication led to her appointment as commander of Reading Station. Images By Gary Figgins.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 86

Air Facts

AUGUST 2, 2024

My first and last flying road trip Air Facts Journal Pilots tend to be optimists and seem to lead a richer fantasy life than most. For example, how many pilots have at some point fantasized that one day they might be called to the cockpit in an emergency? With armored cockpits and big jets, this isn’t even a viable daydream.

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General Aviation Weather Pilot Cockpit 97

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’s curious to me that we pilots shoot LPV approaches, but ATC doesn’t know what they are. I’m focusing on the old pilot part, not the bold pilot. I had a total knee replacement.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 61

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

1910 Hartman monoplane (Adam Estes) By 1910, the Hartman monoplane was completed, and on May 10, 1910, at 5:00am, its 21-year-old pilot took off for a short hop in the presence of five witnesses (Henry Boyle, William Rheinschmidt, Tom Green, Hamey Winkler, and Will Apligate) at the Burlington Golf Course. Dittmer at the controls.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The dirt and gravel on the floor and the contents of the ashtray were now making their way to the top of the cockpit. Turning back to Lawson, I looked around the cockpit and checked the instruments for anything out of order. I then checked all the controls, elevator up and down, ailerons right and left, rudder right and left.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 68

Fear of Landing

MARCH 1, 2024

A reader contacted me about a fatal crash which killed a pilot and his instructor in November 2021. There were two on board, a private pilot and a flight instructor, both of whom were killed in the crash. The Cessna 172S crashed into the ground, destroying the cockpit. The flight was instructional.

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Descent Airplanes Knot Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. As a pilot, you will need time to master it. When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. A pilot must consider several things before landing.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

On the 19th of February 2023, a private pilot arranged to meet with a flight instructor at Birr Airfield to fly a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The club is a registered training facility with a membership of pilots, students and enthusiasts. He was a qualified pilot with 187 hours of flight time, though less than six hours in the last 90 days.

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Runway Pilot Knot Weather 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It can also cause control surfaces like ailerons and flaps to function improperly, making the aircraft harder to maneuver. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. The post The Hazards of Aircraft Icing: Explained appeared first on Pilot Institute.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Libeccio was of mixed construction, featuring a metal monocoque cockpit section attached to a welded steel tube fuselage frame covered in doped fabric, with wooden bars and panels on its top and bottom. 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Both the upper and lower wings included ailerons, maximizing maneuverability. Positioned beneath the trailing edge of the upper wing, the open cockpit provided the pilot with excellent all-around visibility. The Puffin’s wings were a two-bay configuration with parallel chord, equal spans, and a staggered design.

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Stability Tail Aileron Rudder 97

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. With a crew of three (pilot, copilot & flight engineer) and four volunteers aboard, Liberty Belle took off, bound for Indianapolis. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Our regular contributor Rudy sent me this thoughtful piece about his own journey with aerobatics, from a student who initially kept his eyes closed during spin training to a pilot with over 22,000 hours under his belt. One of the instructors, Gus Ashby, surprised me by telling me that for my Private Pilot Licence, I had to do spins.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. By World War I, de Havilland was working for Airco, where he designed a number of early warplanes, which enjoyed varying success, and flew as his own test pilot. Notice that there is no artificial horizon.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In 1928, he founded the Spartan School of Aeronautics to train pilots and mechanics and the Spartan Aircraft Company to design and build aircraft. Though not a pilot, Skelly saw a need for a fast and reliable executive travel machine. The post Spartan 7W Executive appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 63

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. The airplane will handle more than you want to.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 62

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. But you can see the change to separate ailerons and flaps is just one part of preparing the F2 to grow into a four-place airplanebuying aerodynamic benefits now to spend later on a heavier, more powerful model. More lessons learned. Well see about that.

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Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 87

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although it is sort of heavy on the ailerons,” Storo said. ” On takeoff and landing, the pilot’s seat is adjusted to the upward limit of travel. However, in cruise flight, the seat is moved as low as possible to get the pilot’s head out of the slipstream as the blasting wind quickly fatigues the pilot.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The first prototype He 111, the final design featuring a sleek airframe and all-metal construction, took its first flight on 24 February 1935 with test pilot Gerhard Nitschke. The left side had greater curvature to accommodate the pilot, while the bombardier was offset to the right. Ernst Heinkel (right) with Siegfried Günter.

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