Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

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. Sounds good.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

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.

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Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 97

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.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design. Cockpit of the Lockheed Constellation.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 17, 2025

That gave him the pleasure of flying the Ryan to air shows and fly-ins and the joy of flying an open-cockpit monoplane over the beautiful landscapes surrounding its San Luis Obispo base. One major difference from enclosed-cockpit planes: “You can smell things!” But the tail feathers and the landing gear struts were OK.”

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Cockpit Airplanes Tail Firewall 115

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

F-86F Sabre 52-4689/FAB 658 under restoration at the Mary Baken Engen Restoration Hangar of the Steven F. In contrast to other aircraft on display in the Smithsonian, the nose section of this Hornet will be available for visitors to touch and to see the cockpit of a modern strike fighter. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

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Hangar Stability Tail Aviation Technology 97

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.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

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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Weather Airplanes Tail Hangar 122

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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Cockpit Rudder Hangar Tail 105

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Underneath the cockpit sat the Allison-Chambers J36, a licensed development of the de Havilland Goblin (Halford H-1) turbojet engine, with the intakes being fitted in the leading-edge wing roots, and the exhaust coming out of the tail. This new tail was intended to resolve the control problems encountered on the original prototype.

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Tail Jet Ceiling Pilot 93

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. “They seemed to rise from the sea and hang outside my cockpit window, near enough to touch, until hours later they slipped away into the dawn.” The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

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.

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Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 126

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.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 74

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.

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Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The aircraft would carry a crew of two pilots in a semi-open cockpit and four passengers in an enclosed cabin. The Vernon Museum and Archives, Vernon, British Columbia) CF-ALX was reassembled in a hangar at the Wells Air Harbour on Lulu Island, Vancouver, with the assembly being overseen by British-born flight engineer Ted Cressy.

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Airplanes Pilot Cockpit Cargo 104

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

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.

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Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

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.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

The fact that the engines were mounted in the center of the aircraft also meant that the cockpit could be moved forward to the nose, and that the aircraft could use a tricycle landing gear configuration, which combined with a bubble top canopy meant the design possessed excellent visibility for the pilot.

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Jet Cockpit Flight Deck Tail 93

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?

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

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.

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Pilot Ceiling Knot Tail 126

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

But there was also the project to build the new hangar to do the work in, which was completed at the end of 2011, so now the work could begin in earnest. Two months later in September, 2011 I was back again, observing the progress on the aircraft and the hangar nearing completion. The nose art had also now been applied!

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. GRADE: D-minus MINTY FRESH JetBlues livery features a grab bag of different tail patterns. Where do we start? Do we have any idea what this means?

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Tail Airline Airlines Runway 99

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.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 66

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).

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 119

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.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

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.”

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 30, 2025

All three of these airliners had two decks for passengers, with seats that could be folded down to be turned into beds for overnight flights, two freight compartments in the nose and the tail, stairways to access the two decks, and a galley to provide inflight meals and refreshments.

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Airline Airlines Ferry Flight Tail 99

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.

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Unlike the earlier J 1 and J 2 that were skinned in steel alloy, the J 4 featured corrugated duralumin skin for its wing and tail panels, with the corrugation adding strength to the lighter alloy. Schmidt described the aircraft as strongly tail-heavy due to the lack of armor, but otherwise stable to fly. The Junkers J.I The Junkers J.I

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Tail Airplanes Pilot Aviation Technology 52

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.”

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

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.

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Airplanes Descent Pilot Weather 105

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.,

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Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Pilot 116

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.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

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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Cockpit Pilot Hangar Tail 122