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Palm Springs Air Museum Brings a SAAB 35 Draken Home

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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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Passing the torch

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Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. Her father had been allowed to sit in the back seat on the last day and violated the sterile cockpit rule. five hours at 150 knots vs. five weeks at 5 knots).

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The Last of the Japanese Thunderbolts, The Story of Planes of Fame’s Mitsubishi J2M Raiden

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The IJN laid down the specifications for an interceptor that would fly at a maximum speed of 340 knots (629.7

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Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming

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It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.

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The Next Generation of Warbird Pilots: Johnny Mazza III

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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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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.

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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.

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