Airplanes Firewall Tail 
Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. Current L-4/J-3 Cub owners are not inexperienced cadets, so they often choose to accept the nose-over risk and retrofit their airplanes with Grove disc brakes under an FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 6, 2024
Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England. Left unchecked, the fire consumed most of the aircraft; just the tail and outboard wing sections survived the blaze.
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Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 28, 2024
According to the Navy accident report, the airplane hit the water at a near vertical angle on its back. In the process, she lost her outer wing panels, engine section and a number of other components, so what remains today consists mostly of the fuselage, from the firewall back, and the tail feathers. SBD-5 BuNo.36175
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Under its wings, stood Garry and Janne Ackerman of Plano, Texas, the owners of this magnificent machine, who told attendees all about the story of this airplane and the effort they helped start to return a basket case of an airplane back to its former glory. The last owner prior to the Ackermans was Wilson Cary Selden of San Jose, CA.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 21, 2024
During the 18-month restoration, Frank replaced TG114’s damaged cockpit section with the piece from VR919 and the tail section of VR918. It was repaired and mated to the wing center section of ex-German target tug, and the tail section was from an ex-Iraqi Sea Fury. People didn’t have that kind of equipment to do that type of work.”
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 16, 2024
A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. We had eight airplanes partially built so they had to be taken out too.
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