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A History of the Warbird Heritage Foundation’s Great Lakes Corsair for Sale

Vintage Aviation News

Axtell performed a few additional race-centric modifications, including a stinger-style tailcone, but never attempted to compete with the aircraft and it was stored in a T-hangar at Jefferson County Airport (BJC) in Broomfield, Colorado.

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Passing the torch

Air Facts

Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. One was at the controls of an airplane alongside a CFI, and was preceded by flight planning and a preflight inspection. The participants also received a post flight debriefing.

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Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Hughes H-4 Hercules, AKA the “Spruce Goose”

Vintage Aviation News

Written specifications indicate it was designed to be flown by a crew of three, but the only flight had a crew of more like 17. The hull consisted of a flight deck, cargo deck, and below that, fuel tank compartments or bays separated by watertight bulkheads.

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Plane and Pilot

distributor for Flight Design aircraft. Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. took over from Flight Design U.S. Otherwise, the F2s flight deck layout is generally straightforward.