Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Upon entering a 300-knot glide, the pilot of N156XD was cleared to land at NAS Oceana, but realized during the last phase of his approach that he would not make the runway. After declaring an emergency the pilot climbed to 35,000 feet, where its engine flamed out.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Cockpit Knot 124

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

They were approaching Bankstown when the first call was made on Bankstown Tower frequency. Pilot of VH-MYW : Bankstown …Tower, MYW is approaching the [undecipherable]. There are not many details yet but one source says that at the time of the engine failure, the Cessna was travelling at 100 knots at 1,250 feet above ground level.

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Runway Pilot Approach Drag 96

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing. The helicopter was at treetop height with an indicated airspeed of zero knots when the right yaw ceased. The pilot reported two miles out.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 94

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. We had a deal.

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

Latatuide 33 Aviation

MARCH 19, 2025

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Jet Cabin Crew Runway Approach 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

During my drive to the company hangar at the airport, I become increasingly convinced the captain will cancel our scheduled flight. Surface winds are already thirty knots gusting to forty-five. Forecast much stronger, up to one hundred knots.” “My calculations agree with the DME readout of seventy knots.”

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Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 98

Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

This had the effect of a rapid reduction of airspeed (to 80 knots) as the autopilot fought to maintain altitude. On the other side of the wave, the airspeed increased to 150 knots. I quickly disengaged the autopilot and reduced speed to maneuvering speed (118 knots) by pulling the throttle back. During the trip I put 18.1

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Weather Knot Ceiling Turbulence 98

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I also secured hangar space for the week to the tune of $75 a night. I already had set up for Patuxent approach so I switched from CTAF to Pax to pick up my clearance. As we approached the Bay I counted seventeen ships at anchor, waiting to be cleared through the temporary channel at the former Francis Scott Key bridge.

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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

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. So why bother to look at an approach chart for your departure airport? Multiply 1.5

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. When I first brought the airplane home to her new hangar at the South Haven Area Regional Airport (0D1/KLWA), I was immediately faced with a geometric challenge. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. Out darn (oil) spot!

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 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 departed Sodus VFR and contacted Rochester Approach for our instrument clearance. I requested the RNAV-5 instrument approach from Albany.

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Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). At 90 knots I ease the stick back and we’re through 140 knots with gear and flaps coming up before I know it.

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

The Port Meadville Airport features an immaculately paved 5,000 foot long runway, sells fuel appropriate to kerosene guzzlers and air knockers alike, a genuinely nice terminal building with a great view of the ramp, and even maintains the infrastructure for a radio based localizer instrument approach. And I would need lunch. So.win-win.

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Approach Pilot Runway Pilot in Command 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Off Sodus, I briefly leveled at 2,500 feet to remain visual until I received my instrument clearance from Rochester Approach. South of Buffalo, I tried to assist Approach by alerting them to a Citabria west of the Perry-Warsaw Airport that was trying to reach them. Looking north to the east end of Lake Erie and Buffalo, NY.

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 82

Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Reservations have been made, the estate tour is booked, rental car locked in, and hangar space secured. Nope, VFR today, but if I need it I’ll open with whatever approach I’m on with. Our ride at six thousand five was smooth despite the brutal headwinds at thirty plus knots. The whole process has become second nature.

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Approach Knot VOR Weather 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instrument panel of the T-34B With its 225-hp engine and constant speed prop, 240 knot maximum indicated airspeed, and built for positive 6 and negative 3Gs, it was both highly maneuverable and forgiving with no nasty characteristics that could get neophyte students in trouble. The Navy’s primary trainer was the T-34B.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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. One Saturday, Johnny was scheduled to fly the Skyraider when he was approached by one of the museum volunteers. It’s a rocket.

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Pilot Airplanes Runway Cockpit 105

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As he approached Stead in 1967, the Corsair’s R-2800 blew a pair of jugs forcing him to make a hasty landing that blew the left main tire. The Navy’s additional stipulation was that the ship could be fitted with a 500-foot flight deck and be capable of 18 knots. The crew could not make repairs in time to qualify.

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Weight-Shift-Control Pilot Flight Deck Knot 98

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

After almost 3h55 Aberdeen made us contact Approach and we got a RNP 31 approach onto Wick (EGPC) from over the sea. Also, we noted that our fuel consumption was significantly higher than calculated due to headwinds which were 10 to 15 knots higher than forecast, giving us a ground speed of about 120 knots.

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Just to be clear, although I avoid flying in “hard” IFR, all of my IFR practice includes approaches to minimums, go-arounds, and holding patterns—just in case. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. Full flaps and 80 knots, trimmed, the airplane asked, is this what I really wanted?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Air Facts

MAY 29, 2024

They have an approach to people which is warm and friendly. but a terrific wind with a velocity of 75 knots, had closed the Greenland strip. I should say here, that the approach to the field at B. The Air Force, fearing for its safety, offered hangar space for it. 1, in Greenland, is the bottleneck.

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Weather Jet Pilot Descent 93

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. I would prefer to be 5 or 10 knots slower than the barber pole (maximum indicated airspeed in a turbine airplane) or red line. This article first appeared in the Aviation Safety Magazine.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Airplanes Pilot Indicated Airspeed 72

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. In this day and age, finding a hangar, or even a tie-down spot, is a major undertaking, given the collapsing number of airports.

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AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pilots often “refresh” METARs when approaching an airport with poor weather to monitor trends and have the most current decision-making information available. Winds over 15 knots are indicated by flashing yellow lights. They all follow the same format. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C Airline dispatchers read and speak fluent METAR.

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Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Surface Wind South-west 7-12 knots (kt). He went to the hangar and did a pre-flight walkaround of the 172, including checking the fuel. Satisfied, he pulled the 172 out of the hangar and started the engine. ” The pilot taxied to the holding point, checked the skies for any approaching aircraft, and lined up on the runway.

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Runway Pilot Knot Weather 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. The last 700 feet of the runway aren’t visible until you approach the crest. If you carried on straight, the next city lights would be in 6,800 nautical miles as you approach Tasmania. CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

As we reached the mid peninsula we were rocked by strong wind gusts between 40 and 49 knots at six thousand five hundred. I canceled flight following with Potomac approach and diverted to Accomack. I tucked 3 Tango Charlie in the hangar and we decided to drive to Vero Beach FL. We were still rolling on three good gear.

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Weather VOR Knot Hangar 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I configured the airplane the same way as noted on the Piper Climb chart: 105 mph (91 knots), flaps 10 ° , full throttle. Time To Fly Our aircraft can cruise for about 4 ½ hours plus an hour of reserve fuel at 130 knots. Hangar space is sometimes available for under $50/night – a nice option if storms are expected.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

The Hellcat can definitely outmaneuver the Zero at speeds of 250 knots and better, so we began to follow them down.” The 1950 yearbook of the Chicago Vocational School gives a glimpse through the hangar doors at their instructional airframes, which included Hellcat 40467.

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

The aircraft was filled to full fuel and the pilot’s departure and flight to Murwillumbah was uneventful until the final approach to Murwillumbah. There was another person on the airfield, who was standing outside of a hangar at about halfway along the runway as the Cessna approached. The engine made a loud bang.

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Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 78

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But it was apparent the smallest Grumman flying boat was too small and full of quirks—the cabin door won’t open if the flaps are down, for example—to justify something approaching a direct copy. We routinely taxi at 1200 rpm due to the low spray…[we] can cruise at 10 knots” in displacement mode, something a Goose can’t do.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Not Cool, Man After transitioning across multiple sectors of Boston Center's vast airspace, the home stretch found us on with Boston Approach under a crisp, blue New Hampshire sky. With as much as 25 knots of tailwind, we made the flight from Sodus to Alton Bay in only two hours. It was only half full of parked aircraft.

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 68

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Photo- Jim Larsen As America’s Bicentennial approached, Ed Browning, owner of the Idaho-based Red Baron Flying Service, came on board to provide Darryl with much needed financial and logistical support. I would pick him up in the distance as he approached the lakebed, seconds later he zipped over my head. As he approached 1.5

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Stability 124

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

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