Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Note the radome above the cockpit. “Machine gun fire you could definitely hear the firing, even from the cockpit and over the noise of all four engines. However, due to other noises generated by the slipstream, engines and being inside of a ‘tin can,’ the gunfire noise in the cockpit area wasnt too disturbing.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

PRESS RELEASE On February 15, the Museum will begin the worlds only exclusive crew compartment and cockpit tours of the NASA Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT). FFT cockpit looking aft with views of a rocket booster hovering in the left window and a half-scale mockup of the Hubble Space Telescope in the right window.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This gives the Seneca a higher payload capacity and allows for impressive speed, range, and climb rates, making it suitable for long flights and commercial applications. On the other hand, the Piper Seminole is known for its simpler cockpit design, with less complex avionics.

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Professional Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

The InSight Display System brings a glass cockpit experience and advanced navigation to modernize Hawker 800 series aircraft. ” Key benefits of the InSight Display System for Hawker 800/A/B/XP operators include: Increased payload and efficiency: Provides an additional 250+ lbs.

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One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 23, 2024

Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 But it’s not just the outside that’s a treat — the inside is awesome as well, especially if you can sit in the nose , where you’re literally seated under the cockpit. Not only is the A350 a sleek plane from the outside (I love the cockpit windows, the winglets, etc.),

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

Daher Aircraft acquired the Kodiak product line in 2019 and has invested millions of dollars to evolve these go-anywhere aircraft renowned for their STOL (short takeoff and landing) capabilities in remote and challenging environments, rugged durability and payload capacity.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With civilian and military customers seeking more payload capacity, the fuselage was widened to 144 inches for five-abreast seating, but Boeing’s main rival in the airline industry, Douglas Aircraft, promised six-abreast seating for their upcoming DC-8 jetliner which was to have a fuselage width of 147 in.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 15, 2024

This substantial fuel capacity supports its role in delivering payloads over vast distances. Capable of delivering the largest conventional payload, the B1B struck targets with precision anywhere in the world, making it an essential tool in modern warfare.

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Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

The Hill Digital Cockpit is a thing of simplicity and beauty. For VIP and executive transport, parapublic, EMS, SAR, and energy services, it will carry 9 pax, up to 6000-lb payload, 1000 nm at 270 kt cruise. It can carry up to 882 lb of payload. Payload is 900 lb. AutoFlight has 200 orders in hand.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Therefore, your chemical payload will be anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 pounds.) The brute power needed to defy gravity and cruise at up to 191 mph with that payload type is unmatched. (For those counting pounds, as pilots do, pesticides weigh around 10 pounds per gallon.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 2, 2025

While Olds was known to speak his mind, even when speaking with superior officers, he got his wish for a second combat assignment, over twenty years after he had seen combat in the cockpit of a P-51 in WWII.

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Pilot Payload Jet Cockpit 111

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 2, 2025

While Olds was known to speak his mind, even when speaking with superior officers, he got his wish for a second combat assignment, over twenty years after he had seen combat in the cockpit of a P-51 in WWII.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The presence of a cockpit on the Model 437 prototype, registered N437VN, raises questions about whether it suggests a crewed version of the final model or if it is just for facilitating flight testing. .” This concept, colloquially known as “loyal wingman”, aims to undertake high-risk missions while minimizing danger to human pilots.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The design was based on the F28 airliner previously produced by Fokker, incorporating some updated technologies including upgraded engines and a glass cockpit. The aircraft was designed to be a 109-seat airliner, capable of short-field performance to access smaller regional airports. In total, 278 F100s were built.

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Airspeed Junkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Known for its long range and massive payload, the B-52 remains a key player in modern warfare. The aircraft is distinguished by its extensive capabilities, including the ability to deliver both nuclear and conventional payloads, execute diverse missions, and utilize advanced targeting and electronic warfare systems.

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Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

” As the latest iteration of the F-15 Eagle air superiority aircraft, the F-15EX features an increased payload capacity, fly-by-wire controls, a digital cockpit, modernized sensors and radars, and electronic warfare capabilities. Eventually, it is expected to replace older F-15C/D models and refresh the USAF Eagle fleet.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The upper deck houses the communications center and cockpit, while the 4,000 square feet of floor space on the main deck is configured for presidential duties. The pilot would bank the 747 away from the rocket, and after five seconds, it would ignite and take the payload the rest of the distance into orbit.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The final L-1049 prototype featured an all over 25 percent increase in cockpit window height and number of passenger windows. Lockheed continued to refine and enhance the L-1409 series, producing variants like L-1409C and L-1409E with improved payload capacity and speed.

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Payload Stability Jet Cockpit 97

World Airline News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The aircraft has a roomy cockpit, its easy to fly and the avionics are user friendly. The freighter variant is sized to handle up to three LD3 shipping containers with an impressive 6,000 pounds of payload capability. We look forward to putting it to use.

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Cargo Payload General Aviation Cockpit 86

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In the French Air Force, the Breguet Deux-Ponts was used to support operations in Greenland and French Polynesia, where their payload capacity was used to fly large numbers off French military personnel and equipment ranging from armored vehicles to helicopters. Breguet 765 Sahara 64-PH with all four engines reinstalled, March 15, 2019.

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

The Skyraider IIs modular mission systems can swap different sensors and payloads as needed. Enhancements over previous models include improved avionics, glass cockpits, and structural reinforcements to extend service life. With a 310-kt cruise speed and 35,000-ft operating altitude, the aircraft has a 1720-nm range.

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 4, 2024

I love the colors created by varying depths of water in Lake Michigan and I have ever since I first saw them from the cockpit of Warrior 481 20 years ago. Now it rots off the southern tip of South Manitou Island, still packed with a payload that delightfully includes baled human hair. Tip of South Manitou Island's harbor.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 6, 2024

The cockpit of the F-15 is furnished with cutting-edge flight instruments and avionics, delivering essential flight information compiled from assorted sensors and systems to the pilots. The F-15’s vertical takeoff capabilities are a blend of raw power, advanced technology, and meticulous design.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The final product was an aircraft with an armament that consisted of five 30-caliber machine guns with a payload of up to 4,800 pounds, these being mounted on two racks in the bomb behind the cockpit. Gifford Emery and Edward Cutis Wells.

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Aerotime

AUGUST 14, 2024

The F-15IA is the Israeli designation for the F-15EX Eagle II, which is said to feature a host of upgraded elements compared to the previous standard, such as enhanced payload capacity, fly-by-wire controls, a state-of-the-art digital cockpit, upgraded sensors, advanced radar systems, and electronic warfare capabilities.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit. I’d like the cockpit modernized to make the systems a bit simpler and to group the controls a bit better. lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32 So what would I fix?

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Airspeed Junkie

JANUARY 24, 2023

In addition to the above-mentioned features, the cockpit and the bubble canopy provide the pilot with unobstructed upward and forward vision along with a well-improved vision to the rear and over the side. The next is F-16B, which was designed to be a two-seat model featuring tandem cockpits that are pretty much the same size as the A model.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Now, you might be wondering about its payload. This aircraft is all about carrying massive payloads. The design features four pairs of contra-rotating propellers, a testament to its immense power and ability to carry heavy payloads. However, operations hit a pause in May 2019, shortly after its first flight. Its key role?

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

However, it was not intended to work as a dedicated interceptor, and high speeds at a high altitude are more of a byproduct of this aircrafts powerful engines, designed to give it high payload capacity and acceleration. The MiG-31, only used in Russia, has its speed hobbled by the cockpit glass. Mach, it flies at only 1.5

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Jet Knot Pilot Cockpit 264

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

In August of that year, the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM; German Air Ministry) had revised a 1934 requirement for a new multirole aircraft to become a Schnellbomber, a high-speed bomber that would carry a crew of three, a payload of 8001,000 kg (1,8002,200 lbs.), and have no defensive turrets, relying on its speed to avoid interception.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Armed to the teeth, pilots are cocooned in a titanium-plated cockpit, with a visually controlled gun, hellfire missiles, and Hydra rockets at their disposal. Its heavily armored, with bulletproof glazing and ballistic cockpit armor made from titanium. The Ka-52 has a titanium armored cockpit which can withstand 23mm rounds.

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