Aerotime
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Parts that have been salvaged in the last 48 hours include the right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.
Aerotime
JULY 19, 2024
He used the first officer’s airspeed indicator and visual cues out of the cockpit windows to determine the flight path of the plane and the need for any power changes. “I was 46 years old the day I walked into that cockpit,” he said. “I I had the world ahead of me. I was a captain of a major US airline.
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Aerotime
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The impact pitched the plane into a steeper angle and it crashed through the trees, tearing off the outboard section of the wings and the left horizontal stabilizer. The wreckage path was almost 500 feet long, and the cockpit was crushed against tree trunks. This, it is thought, saved many lives that day.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Some fuselage work also took place – such as test-fitting the tail wheel, tail cone, and the skin under the horizontal stabilizer. The team also applied a second coat of varnish to various wooden parts, along with the fuselage assembly and cockpit floor. The unusable, original rib lies atop the fin.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 18, 2024
(image via AirCorps Aviation) Over the past few months, most of the work on the AT-10 involved the cockpit section, the main fuselage, and the vertical fin. Indeed a major milestone saw the cockpit section mounted to the main fuselage! image via AirCorps Aviation) The cockpit section as it looked following painting prep.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. Note the radome above the cockpit.
Pilot's Life Blog
MARCH 15, 2024
Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane.
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