Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. Approaching the Green Mountains of Vermont, the ceiling began to close back up. This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

The next day was VFR with some lower cloud ceilings along the way. As a Canadian pilot, I have my VFR OVER-THE-TOP rating, so the thin overcast ceilings were not an issue. A short hour later I was putting the Commander back into the hangar. During the trip I put 18.1

Weather 98

Weather Knot Ceiling Turbulence 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Yet the war also saw the introduction of the jet engine, which promised even greater speeds and higher service ceilings. (Hickory Aviation Museum) During WWII, piston engine aircraft were at the zenith of their development, having never flown faster, higher, and further before.

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Tail Jet Ceiling Pilot 93

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2024

All four of the planned flights had already sold out by mid-morning and the line was beginning to stretch around the hangar next door. By the time Doc completed its second flight of the morning the line had gone past the hangar and was making its way toward the FBO.

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Weather Hangar Runway Ceiling 81

Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Almost as an afterthought, we told them that while we’d be busy building our hangar/apartment for the 2022-23 season, we’d come fly with them in December 2023. All throughout our travels, the weather had been exceptionally variable, with low ceilings and pouring rain as well as bright sunshine being encountered more days than not.

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Knot Weather Airplanes Ceiling 117

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The ceiling of my home office looks like an airshow—with no fewer than five airships on display. So imagine how impressed I was by the scratch-built model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II hanging from the ceiling of the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They range from the Graf Zeppelin to the Zeppelin NT , and are kitbuilt.

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Lift Ceiling Tail Hangar 52

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Green – VFR ( Visual Flight Rules ) Ceiling > 3,000 ft. If I see a yellow light, I need to take a close look at winds and runway alignment before driving to the hangar. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C C ( 12°F) Remark: Very light icing In other words, typical gorgeous day atop Mt. Washington!

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Weather Ceiling Knot Visual Flight Rules 52

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

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Behind me, the other Cherokee (a Cherokee Six) landed and aggressively made for the main commercial hangar building. Though I am no geologist, I found myself biting my tongue whenever the tour guide -- who otherwise did a fine job -- referred to the ceiling-bound mineral formations as "stalagtites".

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 82

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 7, 2025

These lessons would lead to the Seafire Mk.III, which incorporated upwards folding wings for stowage onboard carrier elevators and hangar decks. Due to the lower ceilings of the British carrier hangar decks, the wingtips would also fold down.

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Ceiling Hangar Jet Approach 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Catalina Island is a small rocky island with rough terrain about 25 miles off of the coast of Los Angeles.

Runway 52

Runway Altimeter Pilot Lift 52

Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I checked the hangar and had no bulb in my parts cabinet. The ceiling was sitting at 900 feet when I launched, turning to a 270 degree heading as instructed upon entering controlled airspace. a gallon, then secured hangar space for, you best sit down, $100 a night. New bulb installed and checked, we are ready to go!

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Weather Clearance VOR Approach 52

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

And so we landed without any issue and taxied via Charlie to the Apron, arriving at the first location of the Blue Spruce Routes because we saw all the old WW2 hangars in various state of repair or disrepair … Wick is a classic stop-over for ferry pilots in both directions. So perfect weather.

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Ramps need plowing, the T-hangar door is frozen closed, the fuel truck won’t start, and there is a waiting list for deicing. However, if you infrequently fly north in the winter, consider calling ahead and arranging for a heated FBO hangar for your overnight stay. You want to either be on the ground or somewhere else when that happens.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 105

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Ramps need plowing, the T-hangar door is frozen closed, the fuel truck won’t start, and there is a waiting list for deicing. However, if you infrequently fly north in the winter, consider calling ahead and arranging for a heated FBO hangar for your overnight stay. You want to either be on the ground or somewhere else when that happens.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 97

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Better to write it down sitting in your hangar on a rainy day than try to figure it out at 6,000 feet over the Okefenokee Swamp at midnight. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working. So, what is a thinking pilot of an older, upgraded airplane to do?

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Cockpit Transponder Pilot Ceiling 103

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Though the service ceiling for a stock F-86F in combat configuration was 49,600 feet, 52-4608 reached heights of up to 70,840 feet! Scott had intended to restore 52-4608, but the aircraft would spend much of its post-USAF life in storage in a hangar at Hollister Municipal Airport. at 60,000 feet!

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Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, for refurbishment in the UHC’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar and to be kept in storage in newly-constructed storage modules at Udvar-Hazy meant to replace the older facilities at the Paul E. It was the first HM.14

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Airplanes Pilot Ceiling Altimeter 98

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

We may be the best pilot ever born, but we can’t force a tired Skyhawk to climb above its genuine absolute ceiling, undefined by any performance chart. I have one airplane in my hangar that can only carry 500 pounds of payload with the fuel tanks topped off—that’s it, if I’m going to respect the max-takeoff-weight limit, and I will.

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Density Altitude Airplanes Wind Shear Pilot 58

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 78

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. Starting with Pickens County, I called every small airport in the region looking for hangar space. I learned that I could overnight there in a hangar for $65. The entire route to Pickens County was under IFR conditions with low ceilings.

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Descent Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling. A Fly-In Farmers Market D&L Trail with Slatington Airport hangars to the right. As he climbed out, I offered to help push it back into the hangar. Those have been here a long time."

Runway 52

Runway Airplanes Approach Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new gallery is a 91,000 square foot hangar and provides a 70% increase to the indoor exhibition space. The weather along the flight path was poor, described by Pruett as consisting of “…low clouds and heavy fog, a ceiling of only a couple hundred feet.” At the controls of our subject Liberator was 27 year old Captain (Capt.)

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Weather Tail Drag Ceiling 124

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

As Earhart made her final preparations through the remainder of 1936, she had NR16020 stored in a hangar owned by her technical adviser and Hollywood film pilot Paul Mantz at Union Air Terminal in Burbank. Now, the aircraft is presently displayed at the Science Museum in South Kensington, suspended from the ceiling.

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Tail Stability Airline Airlines 110

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Corsair hanging from the ceiling of The National Naval Aviation Museum BuNo 97349 has now embarked on the next chapter of its journey. Carefully loaded onto the lower deck of the USS Midway, the aircraft will soon be reassembled and displayed in the museum’s “Hangar Deck.”

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Ceiling Hangar 119