Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The fascinating prone pilot conversion was connected with the Bristol Type 178, a 1951 proposal to specification F.124T This safety pilot handled engine starting, re-lighting and fuel control.

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Inspire

JUNE 8, 2023

James Markel, who flew the F-8 Crusader during the Vietnam War, will speak about his career and experiences in the cockpit on Thursday, June 15, at 7 p.m. The post F-8 Crusader Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series first appeared on Hangar Flying. as part of the EAA Aviation Museum Aviation Adventure Speaker Series.

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Inspire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Air Force’s Strategic Air Command, will speak about his career and experiences in the cockpit on Thursday, October 20, at 7 p.m. The post Hustler Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series first appeared on Hangar Flying. as part of the EAA Aviation Museum Aviation Adventure Speaker Series.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 11, 2024

The arrival of the F-104D marks an exciting moment for the museum, enhancing its display of historic military aircraft and offering visitors a closer look at a piece of aviation history that played a crucial role in training pilots during the Cold War era. The F-104D was a two-seat combat trainer version of the F-104C.

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Inspire

MAY 12, 2022

Jerry Bradley, who flew the EC-47 electronic warfare aircraft during the Vietnam War, will speak about his career and experiences in the cockpit on Thursday, May 19, as part of the EAA Aviation Museum Speaker Series. The post EC-47 Pilot to Present at Museum Speaker Series first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 7, 2024

Learning to fly is undoubtedly a team effort, and the relationships that pilots build with their fellow students and instructors can greatly impact their success in the field. This is especially true in flight school, where aspiring pilots are learning the necessary skills to navigate the skies.

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Inspire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Carl Trout, who flew the legendary Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft for a dozen years, will present about his career and experiences in the cockpit of the Dragon Lady on Thursday, January 20, as part of the EAA Aviation Museum Speaker Series.

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Inspire

AUGUST 16, 2018

Take a look inside the Eagle Vistas ag pilot training school — and inside the cockpit of a mighty Ag Cat during a crop dusting lesson — and learn how and why Randy, EAA 677384, and Beverly, EAA 1014721, Berry started their boot camp for ag pilots. The post Eagle Vistas Ag Pilot Training first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Ask the front porch gang at the local airport which is better, a “six-pack” full of traditional round dial instruments or a bright new glass cockpit screen, and the answers will be all over the map. So, the answer to the question— round dials or glass cockpit ?—is Round Dials or Glass Cockpits: Which Is Easier to Fly?

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Learn to Fly

AUGUST 15, 2024

On your road to becoming a certified pilot you’ll reach several milestones. Taking classes with an instructor and spending time in the pilot’s seat make up just part of the path. Here’s an example from the Helicopter Pilot Oral Exam Guide by Ryan Dale. Today, you arrive at the hangar and begin your preflight preparation.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2024

Any dust, dirt, and debris that may have accumulated while being worked on in the hangar was first washed off. Using a sprayer system that does not create much overspray, the aircraft would be painted in place in the museum’s main hangar. Electrical and hydraulic systems are done and the cockpit and interior are nearly complete.

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Inspire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

EAA Sport Aviation contributor Steve Krog discusses some of the subtle, but important techniques that can help pilots improve their skills in the cockpit. The post It’s the Little Things first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 7, 2024

Despite several advanced features for a trainer of its era, such as a bubble canopy for greater pilot/instructor vision, electronically retractable landing gear, and an all-metal, semi-monocoque construction, the Navy rejected it due to cockpit exhaust gas ingestion issues. Naval Test Pilot School. The first prototype (BuNo.75725)

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AV Web

JUNE 16, 2024

As I drove down the ramp on my way to my humble T-hangar, I noticed someone pulling the prop on the left engine of their old Beech Baron’s left engine. At first, I thought this guy was pulling the prop through out of conviction that pulling props through was a thing that pilots had to do. Here are a few of the members of my list.

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Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Passing the torch Air Facts Journal Pilots are life-long learners, and, per the Feynman Learning Technique, the best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else. With that in mind, plus a desire to pass the torch to a new generation, some old pilots developed a week-long aviation camp for youth, ages 14-18.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

However, there are many others out there that have worked hard to climb the warbird ladder and are primed to take the reigns as leaders in the warbird community and one such pilot is Johnny Mazza III, who is a third generation pilot and flies with the Military Aviation Museum (MAM) in Pungo, Virginia. ” Johnny related.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These aircraft, for administrative purposes, were designated as PT-27 Kaydets, though they differed only from the PT-17 in that they were equipped with enclosed cockpits and cold weather equipment for winter training. While restoring the aircraft, Torchia was not alone in his hangar.

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Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

He was thrilled and sent me a picture of her by the new hangar. The new owner was thrilled and sent me a picture of the Cardinal by its new hangar. Like many local GA airports, we have a group of pilots (mostly older, retired aircraft owners) who congregate most days in one hangar or another. And that’s it isn’t it?

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

At the controls was a 27-year-old former USAF fighter pilot determined to capture the spirit of the barnstormers and pioneer aviators, of the wind in the wires and the carefree “pick a field and land for the night” era. This latter work chronicled Bach’s adventure with friends touring the U.S.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

” Proudly wearing his khaki pilot’s shirt and helmet to look the part on airshow day, Clay Hammond (aged 7 or 8) stands in front of the collection’s Curtiss Jenny. ” With this background it’s not surprising Hammond became an ORA pilot and has flown many of the aircraft in this unique collection.

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Tradewind

MARCH 10, 2023

Specifically, our first forthcoming milestone is our new hangar complex at the Hudson Valley Regional Airport, located just south of Poughkeepsie, New York. The hangar is also just across the Hudson River from RedTail Flight Academy at Stewart International Airport.

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Inspire

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It was in the high 90s in Oshkosh in this lesson and well over 100 degrees inside the cockpit. Brady knew the heat would have an effect on airplane performance, but he underestimated the effect it would have on him as a pilot — both physically and mentally.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 22, 2024

Tucked inside the main hangar, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania artist Jennifer “Hot Rod Jen” Thomas was steadying her hand against the side of the P-61. Beneath the cockpit could be seen the name “Annie” in honor of Russ’ late mother, painted in bright red. After 79 years, their P-61 has its own identity and nose art; Moonbeam Deam.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

” Proudly wearing his khaki pilot’s shirt and helmet to look the part on airshow day, Clay Hammond (aged 7 or 8) stands in front of the collection’s Curtiss Jenny. ” With this background it’s not surprising Hammond became an ORA pilot and has flown many of the aircraft in this unique collection.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 3, 2024

Some would even be invited to sit in the Mosquito’s cockpit. Brendon Deere and Mustang Two Three in the “Biggin Hill” hangar at RNZAF Base Ohakea. With the restored wing back in New Zealand, Joe Deere works on measurements before trial fitting cockpit parts in this October 2022 photograph.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Kristy and I were flying back to New York from a visit to Michigan with my family and high school friends when I received a text from WFC member and recently certificated pilot, Joe F. The pilot had been communicating on the radio in the traffic pattern, so it seemed that he should have been aware of us. Twinsies.

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Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

It was evidence that high wing pilots who buy low wing airplanes need to process their surroundings in a different way. These were days before the proliferation of AWOS/ASOS stations and the advent of ADS-B (FIS-B) weather displayed on a tablet in the cockpit. (A Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. With a crew of three (pilot, copilot & flight engineer) and four volunteers aboard, Liberty Belle took off, bound for Indianapolis. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

The “Flying Pencil,” as it is often called, contained the first glass cockpit, eliminated the flight engineer position, and created an Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) designed to lead pilots step by step through aircraft systems failures. Just like the airline glass cockpits, this is called systems integration.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2024

This Saturday, May 4, 2024 , from 1o:00 AM to 12:00 PM, sit in the cockpit of the P-47 Thunderbolt at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Due to the shape of the fuselage, the Thunderbolt was known affectionately as the “Jug” by its pilots and ground crews. Production topped any other Allied fighter with 15,683 P-47s produced.

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CockPit Conversation

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Tell me about a time you had to use all your piloting skill to succeed." They just hop into hangar flying mode and pull out a favourite "there I was" story. There are two things a pilot can learn from making dumb decisions and getting into trouble. The pilot tells them there’s no way they can take off with the two moose.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2024

The pilot of the Caudron G.III waves to the crowd, seemingly oblivious to the Fokker Triplanes above! The aircraft had an engine problem on departure and ended up being towed to the helicopter maintenance hangar Sunday evening. On display in front of the vintage airliner was the restored cockpit area of a Morane Saulnier M.S.406.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 22, 2024

Tucked inside the main hangar, Hummelstown, PA artist Jennifer “Hot Rod Jen” Thomas was steadying her hand against the side of the P-61. Beneath the cockpit could be seen the name “Annie” in honor of Russ’ late mother, painted in bright red. Painted to the emblem’s left however were three names.

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Inflight Pilot Training

JULY 2, 2024

Let’s explore some strategies that certified instructors like those at Inflight Pilot Training swear by to create a welcoming environment in their flight schools. Inflight Pilot Training, for example, uses the Flight Circle digital platform to make aircraft scheduling and lesson management easy.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 27, 2024

After that, it’ll become an open display… For the first time ever, the public will be able to go inside the plane right up to the cockpit, walk on the two decks, and actually experience it up close while hearing all the amazing stories [of its operational career].” Donations can be placed HERE.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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. In solid soup, approaching minimums, the pilot friend in the right seat said, “I’ve got the lights.”

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. By World War I, de Havilland was working for Airco, where he designed a number of early warplanes, which enjoyed varying success, and flew as his own test pilot. In normal flight, it was forgiving of mistakes.

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