Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
On the final approach to the target, I turned over control of the plane to the bombardier by means of the auto synchronization of the autopilot and the Norden bombsight. This meant on the final approach to the target the bombardier was flying the plane through the bombsight.” 5 and Guroaitei No.
Inspire
JUNE 15, 2021
Crazy wind gusts on final approach with very poor visibility through the windshield made for a very close call that could have been a disaster. The post Lessons Learned: When Not to Fly first appeared on Hangar Flying. A summer thunderstorm in Tennessee quickly turned a very nice sunset flight into a landing nightmare.
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Photographic Logbook
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Preflight complete, hangar door closed, ready to go. Hello and Goodbye Final approach, runway 27L, Oakland County International ("Pontiac"). Because of low fog covering southern Michigan, Detroit Approach assigned me the RNAV-27L instrument approach procedure into Oakland County.
Photographic Logbook
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
I had already fueled and readied the Warrior for departure, it was just a matter of pulling her out of the hangar. As we maneuvered for the approach, we passed through an invisible rain shower in the darkness of sufficient vigor that the sound of rain ticking on the windshield penetrated our headsets. Ground team!
Flight Training Central
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
If your flight needs to get out early in the morning, the airplane should be hangared overnight and pulled out just before departure. You’ll quickly learn the importance of speed control on final approach and how to make real-world use of the soft-field takeoff and landing techniques.
Fear of Landing
APRIL 19, 2024
The operator had a surveillance camera inside the hangar to capture the work and the preflight inspections. As a result, the checks were much more informal: usually the Director of Maintenance would check the work performed by the mechanics and he would ask the mechanics to check his work.
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.
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