Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In the world of certified aircraft, obtaining something thats younger than 25 years old and cruises at over 160 knots would likely involve a Mooney M20R or Bonanza A36 and would cost a quarter- to a half-million dollars. The prop was custom-designed and optimized for cruise speed, which the seller claims is over 160 knots.

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Knot Airplanes Hangar Pilot 93

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 14, 2025

With a 125-horsepower upgrade, this particular Grumman is even quicker, with cruise speeds approaching 120 knots. Reportedly always hangared with all logs, the seller reports that it has no hail damage, corrosion, or debonding of the airframe. The canopy can even be partially opened in flight to introduce fresh air into the cabin.

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Knot Approach Airplanes Hangar 52

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 28, 2025

He fretted about where to taxi the airplane at his home airport, which had a few taxiways that seemed to collect dirt and rocks. He gritted his teeth when other airplanes pulled out of transient parking without thinking about prop wash. I wanted to break the spell, but it was his airplane and he has a strong personality.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Descent 54

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. And on short final at Knoxville, I got chirps from a flock of unrecognized electronic birds, telling me something but not in airplane-speak. What else?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 73

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Good, honest bankers , brokers , and backers who have been through many airplane acquisitions before will know the ropes and can guide you through the rough spots. Many times, people have fallen in love with a certain airplane type early on and will rush out to buy it, any one of it, as soon as they’re able. Believe me, stuff happens.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

I cancelled the flight to my hometown due to a combination of strong winds aloft, surface winds forecast at 20-something knots gusting to 30-something knots, and potential for IFR conditions and icing to boot. All was quiet on the field as I taxied to my waiting hangar. Both were immediately on board, but the weather was not.

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OAT Descent Instrument Meteorological Conditions Runway 67

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. As I went through the preflight inspection, my wife strapped my daughter into the car seat and climbed into the airplane herself. No ceiling so no hold for us today!

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance.

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Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 87

Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The plan included several weeks poking around the natural treasures of both the North and South Islands via campervan, then hiring a light airplane and flight instructor for an aerial exploration of the rugged Southern Alps. The sea breeze was gusting at 30 knots. Just put out 20 degrees of flaps and slow to 65 knots.”

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Knot Weather Airplanes Ceiling 119

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

While I have done flight reviews in my airplane and demonstrated stalls, steep turns, and other basic maneuvers for various flight instructors over the years, my preference is to seek out new experiences, gain skills, learn from different instructors, and fly other aircraft types instead. "I Just Flew a Super Decathlon!" "I Photo by Don.

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Rudder Crosswind Airplanes Runway 83

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance.

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Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 75

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

If youre flying an airplane with a short wingspan, you should do everything you can to avoid severe wake turbulence. This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. This includes single or multi-engine prop airplanes including Cessnas and Pipers. Mass and inertia also matter.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. 164 airplanes.)

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 96

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No Buck Rogers,” Darryl says, “I thought if I used the airplane to break the 3km speed record held by the Navy, I could raise a sponsor for the altitude record.” ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

” Johnny at the controls of his first airplane. In a T-6, I don’t care what you do, realistically, normal conditions, you might get 140 knots. That P-64 will cruise around all day at 180, 190 knots. It is honestly one of the most fun airplanes I’ve ever flown.” ” Johnny related. It’s a rocket.

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Pilot Airplanes Runway Cockpit 105

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

Twenty years ago today, I bought an airplane. I'm in Oklahoma and I just bought an airplane." Compared to the tired, 100 horsepower, 2-seat Cessna I did my training in, this airplane was a veritable beast and it had a great paintjob, too. Also, weak batteries cannot start airplanes. Bill admonished out of embarrassment.

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When I had the endurance to drive 20 miles to an appointment, had good situational awareness of all the cars around me on the freeway, and when driving didn’t take 100 percent concentration, I had passed the first challenge before getting in the airplane. The newer 172 (46 years old) did and had a 3-G limit with flaps extended.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 79

Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

Flying to Sun ‘n Fun 2024 Air Facts Journal I’ve been flying since 1994 if you don’t count model airplanes, rockets, balsa wood and tissue paper rubber band powered models, control line, radio controlled (R/C) model aircraft and gliders. On the other side of the wave, the airspeed increased to 150 knots. During the trip I put 18.1

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Weather Knot Ceiling Turbulence 98

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. However, this airplane is also designed with systems simple enough—and handling qualities docile enough—to allow no-jet-time aviators to confidently solo in as little as 15 hours. My 200-knot steep turns begin at 14,500 feet with gentle banks. Morris was right.

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It was a fun hangar-flying session, right up until one of the local instructors got serious for a moment. A lot of reports come from air carrier pilots, which makes sense because they fly the most, but there are plenty of GA airplanes in the mix as well. This article first appeared in the Aviation Safety Magazine.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Airplanes Pilot Indicated Airspeed 69

Flying Magazine

JUNE 5, 2025

While owning your own airplane might seem financially out of reach, its actually more attainable than you might think. These airplanes offer additional performance capabilities but come with higher operational costs and more complex training requirements.If These features come at a priceboth in purchase cost and ongoing expenses.

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Airplanes Cargo Knot Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Even slowed by a 25 knot headwind, the airplane still saved time. I had already fueled and readied the Warrior for departure, it was just a matter of pulling her out of the hangar. We worked together to bundle up the airplane and minutes later, we were travelling into downtown Saratoga Springs by Uber.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Approach Final Approach Airplanes 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Some lucky new owner will undoubtedly treasure it, but the airplane underwent a lot of changes on it’s journey to the stunning warbird it is today. The Navy’s additional stipulation was that the ship could be fitted with a 500-foot flight deck and be capable of 18 knots.

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Weight-Shift-Control Pilot Flight Deck Hangar 98

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Maintain appropriate airspeed +0/-10 knots, and level off at a specified altitude ±100 feet. That being said, many small general aviation airplanes do not have a specific emergency descent procedure detailed in the POH/AFM. Recommended procedures through FAA published material (Advisory Circular, Airplane Flying Handbook, etc).

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Descent Aeronautical Decision-Making Airplanes Turbulence 52

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

I had arranged with the airport police that we could pass by there from 05:30L onwards (after having done the GenDec ), and we had prepared most of the airplane upfront, including fuel. We immediately spotted a small Grumman Cheetah airplane with two people onboard: they were staring up to also fly to Reykjavik on their way to Oshkosh !

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. The windsock promised that getting the little yellow bird into the air would be a white-knuckle affair.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. And on short final at Knoxville, I got chirps from a flock of unrecognized electronic birds, telling me something but not in airplane-speak. What else?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

Port Meadville Airport Seventy Seven Years Port Meadville Airport's gate leads directly onto a residential street, though one of the first houses had a hangar within which a J3 Cub waited for its next flight. Fortunately, my dress clothes were waiting for me in the hangar so that I did not need to stop at home to change.

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Approach Pilot Runway Pilot in Command 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous. Our Aircraft Our family’s airplane is a 1976 Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 19, 2025

Once upon a time in a faraway land—Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, to be precise—a lone aeronautical engineer designed, constructed, and FAA certified an airplane at his own hometown airport. A stout laminated fiberglass main gear spring assembly gives the airplane its bulletproof landing gear reputation.

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Knot Tail Airplanes Ceiling 75

Fear of Landing

JUNE 20, 2025

On Monday the 16th of June 2025, a twin-engine plane crashed onto the roof of a hangar. The pilot holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, the highest level of pilot certification issued by the FAA, with an ATP rating for Airplane Multi-engine Land such as the King Air. According to early reports, the left engine failed.

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Knot Hangar Approach Runway 59

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The IJN laid down the specifications for an interceptor that would fly at a maximum speed of 340 knots (629.7 There it was mislabeled as a Zero and was displayed outdoors alongside old trains and a few other surplus airplanes, but in 1958, Edward T.

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Pilot Ceiling Knot Tail 126

Flying Magazine

MAY 29, 2025

READ MORE: Top 5 Used Four-Seater Airplanes to Buy One upgrade they offered is called the Super 700 Aerostar, which takes 601P and 602P Aerostars and fits them with 350-HP Lycoming TIO-540-U2A engines mated with three-blade Hartzell props. The airplane gets a gross weight boost to 6,356 pounds ramp weight.

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Knot Airplanes Gross Weight Rudder 113

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Collins A MONTH or so ago we were sitting in a big comfortable chair thinking about airplanes. After that we thought about airplanes some more over a cup of Sanka. The airplane was enroute from Wichita to Kansas City to Newark. Likewise, a 50-knot headwind can make the miles slow and days very long.

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Weather Airplanes Jet Gross Weight 90

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. One was at the controls of an airplane alongside a CFI, and was preceded by flight planning and a preflight inspection. five hours at 150 knots vs. five weeks at 5 knots).

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Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Plane and Pilot

MAY 5, 2025

Whats better than flying a unique Romanian-built military trainer/light attack airplane? Meet the Owner Before discussing the IAR-823, it is important to know about the unusual owner of this unusual airplane. It’s just a great airplane, he says, that flies like a jet. Wait, a what? I soloed on my 16th birthday.

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Airplanes Pilot Jet Airline 95

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

I urged all participants to be airborne by 7:00 am if we were to have any chance of securing limited airplane parking spots on the ice of Alton Bay. He grew up near Lake Winnipesaukee, had watched airplanes landing on the ice as a kid, and never dreamed that he would someday arrive in one. Photo by Ed. Is he moving?!"

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