Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Model PG featured larger ailerons and adjustments to the tail design and would be shipped from East Boston to Hazelhurst Field [later known as Roosevelt Field] in Mineola, NY, the intended destination for the Model G Scout back in 1915. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

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Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. distributor for Flight Design aircraft. Owned by Tom Gutmann Jr.,

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The wing’s dead-smooth surface plus the tight-fitting aileron and flap brackets plus aileron gap seals give the build a professional factory look (left). At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

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 By 2012, the wing spars were reconstructed inside the museum’s carpentry shop.

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Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 122