Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Since then, The Pink Lady has become a familiar sight at numerous airshows, including events such as La Fert-Alais, Duxford, D-Day commemorations, and the Young Pilots’ Air Show. To align its appearance with a B-17F model, modifications were made, including the removal of the chin turret and changes to the tail turret.

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Annual Inspection Airplanes Tail Pilot 131

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You may lust after a vintage Beech Staggerwing , but a radial-engine tail-wheel airplane with unique quirks will need to be approached with a careful transition. It does nothing exceptionally well, but it does everything adequately, asking little of its pilot but some common-sense flying ability. Don’t wait if you find one for sale.

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Airplanes Knot Annual Inspection Tail 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It was interesting and a lot of fun for a lot of reasons, with most of them having to do with not flying a jet and not being restricted by ATC and all the regulatory stuff that makes an airline pilot feel like he’s roped and tied. That’s why so many airline pilots are private pilots too and own airplanes.

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Weather Airplanes Lift Pilot 75

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The couple would serve their country during the war, with Joe flying overseas and Pinky serving as a member of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), graduating in Class 44-W-9 and being assigned to Minter Field near Bakersfield, CA. It is not known, however, for how long the aircraft was flown by Baird.

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Tail 98