Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

Its owned by Lee Smith, 69, who keeps it hangared at Long Island Airpark (NC26), in North Carolina. A former Marine and airline pilot with 30,000-plus hours, he has owned two of the 10 Robin R2160s imported to the U.S., Erica is another pilot I have been working with, and she just passed her commercial check ride in this Robin.

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Rudder Pilot Airplanes Center of Gravity 81

Inspire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. For a newly minted private pilot, the approach to Runway 35 at Sky Acres (44N) in New York looked pretty scary.

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Rudder Runway Approach Hangar 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

In October 1914, Albree and Timson drew up plans for a new monoplane, the Model G Scout, which was first flown by test pilot Clifford Webster on July 15, 1915, at Nahant Beach, just south of the Swampscott garage. It would not be until WWII some 20 years later that American pilots would fly American-built fighters into combat.

Tail 98

Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. ” On Christmas Eve, 1941, DeLorenzo was one of the pilots who flew Adm.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Inspire

AUGUST 22, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.

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Rudder Hangar Pilot Weather 71

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope. Photo: Ed Wischmeyer] Didn’t make the first turnoff, barely, but was quickly at the hangar to unload the interlocking baggage and enjoy the humid, 92-degree Georgia summer.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 80

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This particular example has a remarkably low 1,345 hours on the airframe and has always been hangared. Inside, the Cub transports the pilot backward in time more quickly than it does forward, through the air. The post Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 1946 Piper J-3 Cub appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Hangar 97

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

My first flight as a student pilot several years back was unforgettable. It is a milestone for aspiring pilots. This is a great time to discuss your goals, whether youre pursuing a private pilots certificate for personal use or dreaming of an aviation career. This was by far the most intimidating factor for me as a new pilot.

Rudder 98

Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Robert Domandl In 2010 Aerobatic pilot Gustavo Passano was thinking about what he wanted to do next and wanted to buy an interesting aircraft to fly at airshows. Then another pilot told him there was one abandoned in Argentina at Santiago Del Estero. It was great, so I went to the fly-in a couple of times on holiday.

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Pilot on this flight was U.S. There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. While some of this may be due to continued pilot improvements, a more than 8% improvement is remarkable! In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated).

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. I didn’t get the thumb into the wind and I didn’t immediately get on the left rudder pedal to steer us back to the centerline. Let the King Air taxi past, we are headed to the FBO.”

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. Efforts like this freed male pilots for combat missions, and her dedication led to her appointment as commander of Reading Station. Images By Gary Figgins.

Runway 98

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2024

Any dust, dirt, and debris that may have accumulated while being worked on in the hangar was first washed off. Using a sprayer system that does not create much overspray, the aircraft would be painted in place in the museum’s main hangar. Next came the process of acid etching the aluminum surface.

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Cockpit Rudder Hangar Tail 105

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. We were grouped in sections of about 15 to 20 student pilots.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

At the controls was a 27-year-old former USAF fighter pilot determined to capture the spirit of the barnstormers and pioneer aviators, of the wind in the wires and the carefree “pick a field and land for the night” era. This latter work chronicled Bach’s adventure with friends touring the U.S.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Air Facts

OCTOBER 9, 2024

I love flying with the clam shell door and windows open with just the stick in my right hand, throttle in my left, and feet dancing on the rudders, taking in the sights and smells of the world below. We socialized with the other pilots that flew in that day learning of their adventures before they arrived at this resting spot.

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Weather Hangar Rudder Tail 94

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

After several taxi tests, the Breguet 761 prototype took the skies for the first time on February 15, 1949, with test pilot Yves Brunaud at the controls, escorted by a Nord NC.701 There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability.

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Tail Cargo Stability Payload 66

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The 172 has a steerable nosewheel, much heavier than the rudders on my RV-9A with a castering nosewheel. It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. It’s curious to me that we pilots shoot LPV approaches, but ATC doesn’t know what they are.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 86

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

I’ve been flying jets for years as a corporate pilot, but not real jets to some … like fighter jets. When opportunity knocked with an offer to fly an Aero Vodochody L–39 Albatros (one “s” in the Czech spelling)—a single-engine bird still used as a basic trainer for some nation’s fighter pilots—I jumped at the chance.

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

With a crew of three (pilot, copilot & flight engineer) and four volunteers aboard, Liberty Belle took off, bound for Indianapolis. The pilots quickly found a farmer’s field and made a successful, gear-down landing just southeast of the airport. All seven occupants escaped without serious injury.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

He was thrilled and sent me a picture of her by the new hangar. The new owner was thrilled and sent me a picture of the Cardinal by its new hangar. Like many local GA airports, we have a group of pilots (mostly older, retired aircraft owners) who congregate most days in one hangar or another. First loop in the Citabria.

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Pilot General Aviation VOR Cockpit 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But it was an excellent flying day, so I took wing with a group of WFC pilots for sushi in Massachusetts instead (Westfield-Barnes Airport, KBAF). The pilot of a Cessna Skylane still on the runway responded plaintively. "I Was this a planned maneuver between the pilots? We had a deal. Photo by The Bear. I have no idea.

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. A pilot who goes by Coyote Stan commented : “Everyone should get an opportunity to land and take off from this runway. That day, the Piper Arrow was carrying two flight instructors and a student pilot from Proteus Aero, a flight school based in Santa Monica.

Runway 52

Runway Altimeter Pilot Lift 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Unfortunately it was Eric, a relatively new student pilot who was looking forward to riding along on a club adventure. To our surprise, the musician bore a strong resemblance to an A-10 Warthog pilot we met at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island and a speed skater we once saw in Lake Placid. It was super embarrassing."

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope. Photo: Ed Wischmeyer] Didn’t make the first turnoff, barely, but was quickly at the hangar to unload the interlocking baggage and enjoy the humid, 92-degree Georgia summer.

Weather 52

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

It was evidence that high wing pilots who buy low wing airplanes need to process their surroundings in a different way. Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. These kinds of events change a pilot's behavior.

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

After graduating from DePauw University, where he earned his private pilot’s license through the US government-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), Vraciu enlisted in the U.S. Vraciu would recall later that in fact, he and his fellow Hellcat pilots were looking forward to this mission.

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This was the same aircraft where the Bellanca Aircraft Company set up its factory and where Air Service had built a new hangar in 1935 on the site of one that had burned in 1934 (Today, Air Service’s 1935 hangar now serves as the home of the Bellanca Airfield Museum). One month later, on February 1, it was sold to Air Service Inc.,

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Annual Inspection 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Recently, fellow museum volunteer John Peckham and I traveled to Elmers home in Rochester, NY, for an afternoon of conversation, reminiscing about his time as a tactical reconnaissance pilot during the war. He noted its challenging takeoff and landing characteristics but credited those very challenges with making him a better pilot.

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Pilot Torque Rudder Runway 105

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The fascinating prone pilot conversion was connected with the Bristol Type 178, a 1951 proposal to specification F.124T This safety pilot handled engine starting, re-lighting and fuel control.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. The airplane will handle more than you want to.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Air Facts

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Today, those pilots are mostly long gone, and while there are a lot of us around who were trained by them, I cannot help but look at today’s flight training environment and find that it is sorely lacking in overall experience. There aren’t many pilots today, younger than age 50, anyway, who can do that I would imagine.

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Airplanes Pilot Checkride Rudder 98

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Winter's Airport For pilots in the Northeast, one of the most eagerly anticipated events each year is the freezing of Alton Bay, a narrow, southerly oriented limb off the main body of New Hampshire's expansive Lake Winnipesaukee. Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Photo by Ed. Joe asked.

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 68

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

The year was 2024, but those aerial knights piloted steeds whose original designs first emerged from draftsmen's tables over a century earlier. Unfortunately, that airshow was cut short by a landing accident ending with a bruised pilot and a Fleet Model 1 biplane on its back in the middle of ORA's turf runway. 1934 De Havilland DH.82

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. Starting with Pickens County, I called every small airport in the region looking for hangar space. I learned that I could overnight there in a hangar for $65. Nothing was available. I told them to expect me within a couple of hours.

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Descent Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310 The first four Ca.310s The aircraft was given the fuselage code LN-505 and flown from Italy to Norway by Lt.

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Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 122