Aerotime

MAY 29, 2024

Malaysia Airlines “With the main fuselage sections, wings, and tail adorned with the airline’s iconic wau logo fully attached, the aircraft will undergo installation of the cockpit, engines, landing gear, electrical wiring, avionics, and fuel and hydraulic systems,” Malaysia Airlines wrote on social media on May 29, 2024.

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Airline Airlines Tail Cockpit 276

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 16, 2025

Dave, Norm, and Terry have been hard at work tackling the skins and structure around the tail oleo box. Norm and Terry riveting the structure around the tail oleo box aperture of the rear fuselage of NX611. On the starboard side of the rear fuselage, all skins are now pinned in place.

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Tail Rudder Cockpit 105

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

It just so happened that 92460 was available, so a deal was made and the center section was sent to Texas along with the tail cone. The cockpit in 2015. A lot of little details are still ahead, including finding a correct tail hook and locating or manufacturing the two, rear tailwheel doors.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cockpit of the Hughes H-1 Racer on display at the National Air and Space Museum (National Air and Space Museum) Among the most valuable reference photos have been those of the H-1’s cockpit. Yet that has produced some challenges during the course of the project.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Large components such as the fuselage, wings, and the distinctive triple tail unit, along with 292 crates of smaller parts, arrived in October 2023. A special highlight of this static restoration is the meticulously recreated 1950s cockpit.

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Rudder Tail Hangar Cockpit 130

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2020, Brian has been toiling in his garage, building the cockpit of a B-36H. ” ) For armament, the Aluminum Overcast was equipped with one remotely operated tail turret with two 20mm M24A1 autocannons. The cockpit canopy, structure, sides, and base are all complete, or nearly so.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Payload Tail 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 5, 2025

Sage’s second design, the Type 2, a small two-seat fighter, where a pilot and rear gunner were kept in an enclosed cockpit, was built and flight tested. Subsequent flight testing showed that the aircraft proved to be overweight and slow, even for a WWI-era trainer.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Airplanes Rudder 98

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

A large portion of the tail, including most of the vertical stabilizer and the entire horizontal stabilizer, also broke away from the aircraft. However, the pilots could not use the flight deck door, and they were forced to use the escape hatch on the cockpit ceiling which was now positioned towards the ground.

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Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer 296

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. As I climbed into the aft pilots seat, I was immediately impressed by the minimalistic, clean cockpit and the fit. After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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. Upon landing I can clear the runway and steer the glider right into its parking position before getting out of the cockpit, usually without having to start the engine at all.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. With a do list, if it gets lost in the cockpit or is missing from the airplane, you cant fly.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 92

Fear of Landing

APRIL 11, 2025

At the same time, the first officer entered the cockpit and spoke to the engineer there. Back in the cockpit, the first officer noticed that the brake bottle pressure was slightly low and remained concerned that there was an issue with the pneumatic system. The captain entered the cockpit. He asked if there was a pneumatic leak.

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Cockpit Runway Air Traffic Control Drag 67

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire. The wing tip then struck the ground, at which point the wing and the tail section broke. The wing and tail on runway 23 as photographed by Brennan Milroy (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

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Runway Tail Knot Altimeter 59

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The system is powered by the KUSAT-2000 Tail Mount Broadband Internet Satcom system, featuring minimal beam-to-beam switchover latency, compatibility with both next-generation spot beam and traditional wide-beam satellites, as well as reduced weight and power usage. The system is offered in both tail-mounted and flat panel designs.

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Jet Tail Drag Cockpit 94

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. When the pitch attitude changessuch as when the tail of a taildragger rises during takeoffthe force applied to the propeller does not take effect immediately at the point of contact. How do you counter this left turning tendency?

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

This photo shows NASA’s F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14. NASA’s F-14 (tail number 991, Navy serial number 157991) in 1980, soon after its arrival at the Dryden Flight Research Center. View of the cockpit of NASA’s F-14, tail number 991.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Tail Airfoil 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. After a year of recovery, Rogan was back in the cockpit and was judged fit to fly combat.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

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.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Rudder Tail 98

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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Airplanes Jet Tail Cockpit 117

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The weapon was guided by the launch aircraft through the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) method, with the pilot tracking the flight of the missile via two bright flares on the weapon’s tail and making corrections using a small joystick in the cockpit.]

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Pilot Cockpit Knot Stability 105

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Plans for the Future Christopher is considering several options for the future of the “Big Time Operator” cockpit, including a mobile exhibit that could travel to airshows, complementing the only two flyable B-29s left in the world. The key, he said, is thorough planning.

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Cockpit Approach Tail 88

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 24, 2024

In tribute to him, the starboard side of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI TE311 now wears the fictitious squadron code “L-NG”, with “SQN LDR MARK LONG” annotated under the cockpit along with a Squadron Leader’s pennant. In memory of Sqn.

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Pilot Tail Cockpit 119

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

AUGUST 15, 2024

A few feet behind him, Captain Gerald Dobberfuhl, an experienced reconnaissance officer, settled into the rear cockpit of their camera-equipped RF-4C Phantom fighter. millimeter round blasted a hole through the front-cockpit canopy. Forward visibility from the RF-4C’s rear cockpit was blocked by an instrument panel and electronic gear.

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Cockpit Tail Approach Pilot 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The cockpit has withstood the test of time, with the gauges and yoke still intact after being prone to wildlife such as birds through the open windows. The components of the cockpit, control surfaces, and wheels were all removed and shipped to Alaska.

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Tail Cockpit Cargo 105

AV Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Synchronizing available information from the Black Hawks flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is ongoing, as is the effort to transcribe audio from the cockpit voice recorders from both aircraft.

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Air Traffic Control Quick Access Recorder Cockpit Rudder 70

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 26, 2024

In March 1939, a new owner, Alhambra resident Warren Knox Layne, added a tailwheel to better operate from paved runways as opposed to the original tail skid. It shows that the aircraft had border stripes following the contours of its tail surfaces and wings, with a single stripe down the length of each side of the fuselage.

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Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airplanes 111

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. We hop out of the cockpit, and Andrew ties the ship to the tarmac for the night. We circle Andrews house and waggle the wings to his family standing in the front yard waving back at us. Ill take you to the old airport where Bill kept the airplane.

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Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 97

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 1, 2024

Note the large yellow decal just below the cockpit. As the bomber fell, he attempted to free the tail gunner trapped in the rear turret of the burning, out-of-control aircraft. The tail gunner miraculously survived the crash and lived to recount the story, but Andrew Mynarski sadly succumbed to his severe burns.

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Tail Cockpit Pilot 105

Flying Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The Allegro’s fuselage is built with Kevlar-reinforced composite around a steel-framed cockpit. Its wing and tail are aluminum. Still, the aircraft has sold well with pilots who want an LSA with strong performance for the category and the ability to travel cross-country with reasonable comfort and speed.

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Transponder Tail Airplanes Pilot 107

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

JULY 24, 2024

In tribute to him, the starboard side of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI TE311 now wears the fictitious squadron code “L-NG”, with “SQN LDR MARK LONG” annotated under the cockpit along with a Squadron Leader’s pennant. In memory of Sqn.

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Pilot Tail Cockpit 98

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 98

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 24, 2024

One method is to look at the cockpit windows. The 737 has six cockpit windows (which is standard), and the window at the far end on each side “slopes up” at the bottom, so the window doesn’t go as far down as on other jets. The 787 is the only wide body jet to have four cockpit windows, rather than six.

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Airplanes Cockpit Jet Tail 120

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98