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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar.

Knot 111
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First Flight 2025

Gary's Flight Journal

I did an abbreviated video at the hangar yesterday showing some of my preflight, off camera I did an extensive check of the plane, she is good to go. With the heat now flowing in the cockpit and my legs once again nice and toasty I set up for my arrival into Ocean City. I made a nice landing and taxied for the hangar.

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Two Weeks in the RV

Plane and Pilot

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes. There was also a link to a bridge for sale.

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Palm Springs Air Museum Brings a SAAB 35 Draken Home

Vintage Aviation News

Detail of Draken N155XD’s cockpit (Adam Estes) However, on June 26, 1998, one of AT-155/N155XD’s sister ships, AT-156/N156XD was badly damaged during an exercise at NAS Oceana, VA, in which the pilot noted after completing three passes by a US Navy ship, his fuel was rapidly running out.

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High Country View

Plane and Pilot

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. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125.

Knot 87
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High Country View

Plane and Pilot

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. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125.

Knot 75
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The Next Generation of Warbird Pilots: Johnny Mazza III

Vintage Aviation News

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. Then we went over the cockpit. By the time he struggled to get out of the cockpit and search for and pull the D-ring on his parachute, the AD-4 had spun below 1,000 feet.

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