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Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s P-61 Black Widow Summer 2024 Update

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.

Cockpit

Cockpit Rudder Tail Hangar

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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. We could practice in a cockpit procedures trainer next to the briefing area.

Cockpit

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed

Why Did I Buy a V3M? Plus: Was It the Right Choice?

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. Easy rigging and ground handling. Value Retention.

Density Altitude

Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway

Nothing By Chance: The Return of Parks Biplane N499H

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

Airplanes

Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar

MAAM P-61 Nose Art – Introducing “Moonbeam Dream”

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. When member’s day came around and the first visitors rounded the tail of the museum’s replica D3A “Val” there was a sense of awe as they spotted the nose art.

Tail

Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar

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

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

mph)) at 6,000 m (19,685 ft), climb to 6,000 m in 5 minutes, 30 seconds, with a maximum ceiling of 11,000 m (36, 089 ft), an armament of two 20mm autocannons and two 7.7mm machine guns, and an armored bulletproof plate at the back of the cockpit.

Pilot

Pilot Ceiling Knot Tail

A Taylorcraft Reunion

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. A few swipes and a tap later sends the latest pics.

Airplanes

Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac

Continental flight 11

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. But the tail and the left wing were found even further away, four to six miles from the main wreckage. When the first responders opened the cockpit, they found the fatally injured flight crew still in their seats with smashed smoke masks.

Cabin Crew

Cabin Crew Weather Descent Turbulence

MAAM P-61 Gets Nose Art – Introducing “Moonbeam Dream”

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. When member’s day came around and the first visitors rounded the tail of the museum’s replica Aichi D3A Val there was a sense of awe as they spotted the nose art.

Tail

Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar

The Fastest Warbird: Darryl Greenamyer and the RB-104 “Red Baron”

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956. However, it had built from literally dozens of F-104s of all variants. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Stability

Flight Test Files: The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

Pilot

Pilot Thrust Tail Hangar

Two Weeks in the RV

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. There was also a link to a bridge for sale.

Weather

Weather Runway Knot Rudder

Two Weeks in the RV

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. There was also a link to a bridge for sale.

Weather

Weather Runway Knot Rudder

Yanks Air Museum’s Grumman F6F Hellcat Restoration

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

But just as Vraciu and his wingman, Ensign Lou Little, who were at the tail-end of the formation and about to make their dives, Vraciu spotted a flight of A6M Zeros between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above him and Little coming from their 7 o’clock position. His wing tank and cockpit exploded.”

Cockpit

Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability

A Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio Takes Shape in Norway

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.

Aileron

Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit

B-17 Liberty Belle Restoration – Don Brooks Interview

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. Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England.

Tail

Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall

Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane. A prop lock is required on all aircraft parked outside of a hangar at the MD-3 airports, though throttle locks provide an alternate means of compliance. I gave my tail number and destination. "Oh, Do you have a prop lock?

Transponder

Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation

Recall Stearman

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.

Weather

Weather Airplanes Tail Hangar

Prone Meteor Finds New Home at Newark Air Museum

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 tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts.

Cockpit

Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot

Paso Robles’ Estrella Warbirds Museum Acquires Historic F-86F Sabre

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Modifications to the cockpit included rocket motor selectors and switches that were installed just forward of the standard throttle box while the rocket gained its own throttle just aft of the standard throttle for the General Electric J47 turbofan. Scott of Gilroy, CA, who had it registered with the FAA as N57963.

Ceiling

Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail

Kiwi P-51D Reborn: The Restoration of Mustang Two Three

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.

Cockpit

Cockpit Pilot Hangar Tail

Recreating the de Havilland Tiger Moth

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. One of the major changes introduced to the Tiger Moth, at RAF insistence, was folding door panels that made it easier to enter and exit both cockpits. Red shows typical stall speed range (below 45 mph).

Airplanes

Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift

Bomber Camp

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Most of them sleep on WWII Army cots in a hangar. They attend classes in a hangar surrounded by WWII aircraft equipment, training devices, and publications. 50s) in the aft section of the cockpit, while the radio operator protected the aircraft from the 6-oclock-high position with the top aft-facing gun. Army Air Corps uniforms.

Airplanes

Airplanes Descent Pilot Stability

Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

Airplanes

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron

From the Aleutians to Utah: The Journey of a Lightning and a Liberator Preserved at The Hill Aerospace Museum

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. Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. B-24D 41-23908 Hill AFB 19Mar2024 Veronico with restored Martin 250CE turret and tail turret as recovered from Alaska. Kidder saw five figures running towards him and the plane.

Weather

Weather Tail Drag Ceiling

National Air and Space Museum Prepares for a New WWII Gallery

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

was removed from the National Mall in May 2019 and shipped for storage and refurbishment at the Udvar-Hay Center, and later refurbishment in the center’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar. Currently, the 109 is being repainted in the Engen Restoration Hangar, but will soon be made ready for shipment back to Washington D.C.,

Hangar

Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Pilot

Return to Form

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. 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. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

Rudder

Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind

Castle Air Museum Receives Infamous TBM

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2024

Once the aircraft came to a halt, the pilot climbed out of the cockpit and waded to shore with the assistance of tourists who didn’t continue to film with their smartphones. Today, the Avenger sits in the museum’s restoration hangar, where it will be restored to static display. This left him with one option- ditching in the ocean.

Drag

Drag Lift Tail Pilot

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Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s P-61 Black Widow Summer 2024 Update

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming

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Why Did I Buy a V3M? Plus: Was It the Right Choice?

Nothing By Chance: The Return of Parks Biplane N499H

MAAM P-61 Nose Art – Introducing “Moonbeam Dream”

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

A Taylorcraft Reunion

Continental flight 11

MAAM P-61 Gets Nose Art – Introducing “Moonbeam Dream”

The Fastest Warbird: Darryl Greenamyer and the RB-104 “Red Baron”

Flight Test Files: The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak

Two Weeks in the RV

Two Weeks in the RV

Yanks Air Museum’s Grumman F6F Hellcat Restoration

A Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio Takes Shape in Norway

B-17 Liberty Belle Restoration – Don Brooks Interview

Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

Recall Stearman

Prone Meteor Finds New Home at Newark Air Museum

Paso Robles’ Estrella Warbirds Museum Acquires Historic F-86F Sabre

Kiwi P-51D Reborn: The Restoration of Mustang Two Three

Recreating the de Havilland Tiger Moth

Bomber Camp

Nothing Small About It

From the Aleutians to Utah: The Journey of a Lightning and a Liberator Preserved at The Hill Aerospace Museum

National Air and Space Museum Prepares for a New WWII Gallery

Return to Form

Castle Air Museum Receives Infamous TBM

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