Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Standing on the port side of the deck adjacent to the arresting wires was the Landing Signal Officer (LSO), who carefully observed Johnson’s approach. Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components.

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Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Flight Training Central

JUNE 3, 2024

Easier said than done with the myriad of distractions that can be found on the flight deck. From advanced avionics to streaming music to needy passengers, distractions lurk.

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Flight Deck Clearance Tail Pilot 98

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The cockpit, also called the flight deck, is where pilots use electronic flight instruments as part of a primary flight display. Of all the sections of an aircraft, the tail assembly is perhaps the most important for keeping an airplane in the air safely. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. In a turboprop like the ATR, it’s not practical to offer constant protection.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 104

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Aviation Bussiness News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This marks a significant milestone in the Group’s fleet renewal program, with the aircraft’s major airframe components including the forward and rear fuselage, wings and iconic Flying Kangaroo tail coming together.

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Flight Deck Tail Pilot Airlines 40

Professional Pilot

MAY 27, 2024

. /22 May 2024 – Satcom Direct, the business aviation solutions provider, has confirmed approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the SD Plane Simple Ka-band tail mount terminal for a Gulfstream G650.

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Flight Deck Tail Jet Pilot 40

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

But even these modifications were not enough to secure the new Fury’s place on carrier flight decks, leading to North American Aviation engineers returning to their drafting tables to design a new variant, while the FJ-2 was relegated to land-based Marine Corps squadrons and reserve units, being retired from service in 1957.

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Jet Approach Flight Deck Drag 111

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

PPR Info Requirements In all cases, you’ll need to provide a full schedule, tail number, complete crew/passenger passport information, and insurance valid for the European Union. At military airports, authorities must be advised of all crew/passengers coming in and going out.

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Flight Plan Weather General Aviation Clearance 52

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The first page is all the basic details that we mostly knew: the aircraft was a Boeing 777 (registered in Brazil as PT-MUG) operated by Tam Linhas Aereas for a passenger flight from Milan Malpensa (MXP) to São Paulo.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 96

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

Adding a tricycle landing gear configuration also reduced potential heat damage from the exhaust to the wooden flight decks of US carriers. 50 caliber machine guns and racks for eight wing-mounted 5 in High Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVARs).

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Jet Cockpit Flight Deck Tail 93

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 301

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

AeroSavvy

MARCH 26, 2022

pic.twitter.com/2O3nxWjF1P — UPS Airlines (@UPSAirlines) July 29, 2021 UPS 747 nose cargo door interior A small fleet of 747s have a tail that swings open. DreamLifter Trivia: Only the flight deck is pressurized on this 747 conversion. Load crews position the PRM behind the flight deck in position one.

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Flight Deck Cargo Weight-Shift-Control Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The C-47 also had an astrodome positioned in the cabin roof, strengthened floor components, a double cargo door and a shortened tail-cone for glider-towing shackles, all of which the C-49 did not have. WildKat logged 2000 miles and 12 hours of flight time, consuming 1400 gallons of av gas and many gallons of oil.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 116

Aerotime

AUGUST 9, 2024

The aircraft configuration sees a monocoque fuselage with a raised flight deck above the nose-to-tail cargo compartment below. The tail is attached to the rear of the empennage and is of a twin-tail design, with a vertical stabilizer attached at each end of the single horizontal stabilizer.

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Airplanes Cargo Payload Horizontal Stabilizer 317

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Ensuring Future Success Flight Designs position at the top of the podium looked in doubt. Now, however, after months of effort, production of all Flight Design products has moved from Kherson, Ukraine, to Sumperk in the Czech Republic.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The Furious had been modified before its launching with a flight deck over its bow while retaining its superstructure. After altering his course to fly ahead of Furious , he lowered his speed until he was virtually hovering over the flight deck. Pictured is Squadron Commander E.H.

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Flight Deck Pilot Knot Airplanes 96