Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

Photo via Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome] “Building army forts in the woods behind the hangars, climbing trees to load airshow pyro with my dad, playing Dogfight boardgame in real life sitting in cockpits in the hangars…my buddy in one of the other planes. Had great weather the whole way and that made it easy.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

So, my mom would take me out there, and I’d just watch the airplanes….My He said, ‘If you come wash my airplane, I’ll give you a ride, but I got to meet with your parents first.'” The next weekend I went out to the airport, washed his airplane and he gave me a ride. was invited into the hangar.

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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. Shouldn’t make a difference, but it does.

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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. It was set to be the trip of a lifetime…a month in New Zealand. This made sense. It was a truly magnificent sight.

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iPad Pilot News

JULY 2, 2024

Start planning your Oshkosh experience with the 2024 AirVenture app iPad Pilot News The world’s largest airshow starts in a few weeks in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with over 10,000 airplanes descending on Wittman Airport for a week of flying demonstrations, new product announcements and plenty of hands-on learning.

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Air Facts

JUNE 5, 2024

Often the response is something like, “My father (or mother) was a pilot, and I spent a lot of time around airplanes with him.” The hangar talk was different, too. In Cambodia hangar talk would more likely be practical information shared between an informal group of pilots who called themselves the Phnom Penh Pig Pilots Association.

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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. Shouldn’t make a difference, but it does.

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AV Web

JANUARY 19, 2025

Cold winds, low clouds, and scurfy ice accumulations on the few hangars there indicated that not only would the groundhog see his shadow on his official day, but he would probably find himself frozen with a coating of light rime ice on his fur. Tom is one of the lucky few around here who has an insulated and heated hangar.

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Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Unfortunately, opportunities to get there can be few and often come down to the whimsy of weather. Weather conditions were different this time around, but the critical difference was that The Bear was flying right seat with me. I awoke that morning at 5:00 am and checked weather, squinting at ForeFlight on my phone in the dark.

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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.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Warrior has introduced countless people to the joys of light airplanes. A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. 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. Lesson learned.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 78

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 17, 2023

We had five airplanes make the trip on August 17. Small cells were moving northbound toward Sodus as we prepared the airplanes for flight. We waited out a light rain shower as one passed, witnessing this double rainbow from my hangar. Bob C, another club member, flew right seat with me for the first time.

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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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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Some bucks spent on a hangar, updated paint and exterior, and a little TLC under the cowling, and your 30-year-old Cessna 172 will keep up with a brand-new one, for a lot less dollars. If you are still listening to the AM baseball and weather on your ADF, its days, at least in the U.S., However, the reverse is not true. are numbered.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

” Johnny at the controls of his first airplane. It is honestly one of the most fun airplanes I’ve ever flown.” Six days later, Valley Forge launched the Navy’s first carrier-borne airstrikes of the war and VA-55 Skyraiders attacked airfields in Pyongyang, North Korea, destroying hangars, aircraft, and fuel depots.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These aircraft span multiple decades, from the 1940s through the 1980s, and museum guests can get an up-close look at them on both the flight deck and hangar deck. Other highlights of the USS Hornet Museum include artifacts from the Apollo Moon Mission and guided tours of the flight deck and hangar deck.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For instance, you’ve been noticing a change in your airplane’s engine—it no longer starts at the first twist of the key, now requiring some extra finagling before springing to life. The engine was idling, but the propeller is unrepairable, despite being able to propel the airplane back to the hangar. Why Can’t I…?

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Inspire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Jake landed an airplane for the first time at age 13 on July 1, 2019. Last week he turned 16 and on October 30 the weather allowed him to experience flight as a solo pilot for the first time. The post Solo Milestone — Jake Marchese first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

READ MORE: 20 Most Famous Airplanes and Aircraft Werline’s father is one of the Navy men who was on hand to help the Hindenburg moor that day. That didn’t prevent them from having accidents, however, as the airships were vulnerable to weather. He survived. The Los Angeles took part in military exercises as an experiment.

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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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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

BOOP , BOOP, boop," said the airplane as the propeller came to a stop. Scott started the airplane again for Ray. said the airplane again. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2025

I experienced dense morning fog, afternoon thunderstorms, and made a timely weather divert with the help of incredibly helpful air traffic controllers. Extra crewmembers tend to be our family or our next-door hangar neighbors, and our long-distance flights are generally infrequent. And how about cold-weather operations?

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

Photo via Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome] “Building army forts in the woods behind the hangars, climbing trees to load airshow pyro with my dad, playing Dogfight boardgame in real life sitting in cockpits in the hangars…my buddy in one of the other planes. Had great weather the whole way and that made it easy.

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Weather Airplanes Hangar Pilot 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 learned the next day that a circuit breaker for the weather sensing instrumentation tripped, but the transmitter still worked.

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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 first flight got weathered out, with broken clouds at 1,500 feet.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 17, 2024

Is it the ability to fly for yourself, with friends and family, for a business, or to own an airplane? That will give you the ability to fly a light airplane with one engine, about the same size as a car (with wings). That will give you the ability to fly a light airplane with one engine, about the same size as a car (with wings).

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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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Gary's Flight Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

Granted the weather hasn’t helped and my knee issue has diminished my desire to climb aboard. We were quickly seated and enjoyed our lunch while talking airplanes, flying to new destinations and avionics upgrades. I made a nice landing and taxi clear for my hangar. It’s been 33 days since my last flight time.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

It had been over 15 years since I was last in a small airplane, and to say I was excited is quite the understatement. Before heading to the plane, you might have a chance to cover basic principles of flight, and will certainly discuss current weather conditions, safety protocols, and the days flight plan.

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Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. 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. Lesson learned.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By comparison, a sport-flying airport’s office may be camouflaged as a lean-to shed on the side of a hangar, where an unmarked door with peeling paint opens onto a disheveled world of abandoned Styrofoam cups and well-thumbed magazines. Airplanes are not cars, and we have to learn that they can’t be operated like automobiles.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With carrier aviation still in its infancy, airships could fly further than many airplanes of the day and remain in the air for days on end without the need to land to refuel and replenish their supplies. Unlike their German cousins, both the USS Akron and the USS Macon were designed to have a 75-by-60-by-16-foot hangar amidships.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

Earhart and her entourage would celebrate Christmas at sea aboard the Lurline , which arrived in Honolulu on December 27, with the airplane being barged to the Army/Navy airfield on Ford Island, inside Pearl Harbor. At 4:45pm local time, Earhart gunned down the 6,000-foot field, carrying 500 gallons of fuel onboard.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Different types of insurance policies include: hull, liability, combined single limit, and hangar. Logging more flight hours, maintaining a clean record, using a hangar, and joining aviation associations can lower the cost of insurance. These include damages caused by accidents, weather, vandalism, or other risks.

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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. Tragically, her instructor's Cessna Cardinal crashed after departing into severe weather from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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