Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

READ MORE: There Was Just Something About Michael So, next time you fly and shut down near the hangar, throttle way back to idle and briefly turn the switch to “off” and then back to “both.” The experience went even further south when, tailed into the open hangar, she fired up the 172 with a roar and blew everything all over the place.

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Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 99

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

[Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Kenny Roth was the pilot and fought the plane all the way to the ground, hitting tail first. I believe Jack Hughes, Bob Johnson’s son-in-law, piloted the Twin Beech. Finally Bob Johnson hollered up to the pilot to quit fooling around and take off.” View of NC9684_s tail, May 2016.

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Tail Airline Airlines Pilot 111

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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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 2, 2024

Everyone I’ve spoken to rated it very highly in all respects, one warbird pilot said it was the best show he had been to in years, and an American friend who has been going to airshows in the US for 50 years (this was his first European airshow) said it was the best he’d ever seen. MH434 (G-ASJV) and two Mk.Vs

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Tail Hangar Pilot 116

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 22, 2024

Tucked inside the main hangar, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania artist Jennifer “Hot Rod Jen” Thomas was steadying her hand against the side of the P-61. When member’s day came around and the first visitors rounded the tail of the museum’s replica D3A “Val” there was a sense of awe as they spotted the nose art.

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Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 126

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. When you come back to your airplane 30 – 60 minutes later, there’s a good chance you’ll find a fresh layer of frost on the wings and tail.

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Weather Runway Airplanes Final Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

As I cruised serenely above an overcast dominating central New York, an increasingly exasperated approach controller at Syracuse tried in vain to reach a pilot broadcasting his pattern work at Frankfort Highland Airport on her frequency. A kit plane whose pilot I met in mid-2023 at the McVille ("MacVille") Airport.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 4, 2024

Watching CPO Wright’s team prepare the Harrier for moving by low-loader (the whole process took nearly 12 hours and ended after nightfall) was former jump jet pilot Lieutenant Commander Jason Flintham, who as commander of 727 Naval Air Squadron today assesses whether trainees possess what is needed to make it as aviators with the Royal Navy.

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Tail Jet Hangar Pilot 96

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

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 22, 2024

Tucked inside the main hangar, Hummelstown, PA artist Jennifer “Hot Rod Jen” Thomas was steadying her hand against the side of the P-61. When member’s day came around and the first visitors rounded the tail of the museum’s replica Aichi D3A Val there was a sense of awe as they spotted the nose art.

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Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 105

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The pilot held instructor ratings for helicopter and instrument helicopter, with 872 hours flight time, of which 29 were on type. Five minutes later, about two miles south of Teterboro, the pilot said “What is going on here?” The controller asked if the pilot needed assistance but the pilot said no.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Some pilots come to Galesburg, park their airplane and just enjoy the fellowship for the week. The Shipleys are very welcoming and always have an open door for pilots who need a spot to rest, and are some of the friendliest people in aviation. What can you possibly do for a whole week in Galesburg, you might ask. The Recall Stearman.

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Tail Aileron Airplanes Transponder 122

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

For this purpose, the aircraft had its water tanks removed and a hydraulic under-tail integrated airstair installed, along with a 14-seat passenger interior and spectacular rear one-piece Perspex blisters for unrivaled panoramic views of the passing landscape.

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Tail Pilot Ferry Flight Stability 286

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 3, 2024

Brendon Deere and Mustang Two Three in the “Biggin Hill” hangar at RNZAF Base Ohakea. I don’t think there was anything missing, to be honest [other than] little trim things — I suppose they’re decorative things — but the pilot’s relief tube was missing. But fundamentally it was complete.

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Cockpit Pilot Tail Hangar 122

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). I went by Tom’s hangar to get his opinion.

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Tail 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. By World War I, de Havilland was working for Airco, where he designed a number of early warplanes, which enjoyed varying success, and flew as his own test pilot. In normal flight, it was forgiving of mistakes.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

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

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. This hardly seems equitable, but is a reality that pilots have borne for many years. ounce toiletries.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 23, 2024

[Photo by Randy Malmstrom] By 2006, aircraft pilot and custodian Peter Teichman of the Hangar 11 Collection based at North Weald in Essex acquired it and sent it to California for restoration work including a new engine (the former one had clocked nearly 30 years of flying time by then). Adair USAAF, with his crew chief Corporal C.V.

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Tail Cargo Pilot Airplanes 98

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new gallery is a 91,000 square foot hangar and provides a 70% increase to the indoor exhibition space. Also joining them was the plane’s last pilot, Arthur Kidder, who had retired and moved back to Colorado. B-24D 41-23908 Hill AFB 19Mar2024 Veronico with restored Martin 250CE turret and tail turret as recovered from Alaska.

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Weather Tail Drag Ceiling 124

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The weekend is action-packed with daily airshows, aircraft displays, military vehicles, WWII veterans, speakers, presentations, vendors, entertainers, Homefront education, mock battles, 20-plus acres of WWII encampments, nightly big-band hangar dances, and of course, the reenactors. The team owns and operates two WWII veteran transports.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 116

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. But the tail and the left wing were found even further away, four to six miles from the main wreckage. Six miles from the main wreckage, near where the tail had landed, they found a lavatory door handle and a pillow with traces of blood.

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Cabin Crew Weather Descent Turbulence 85

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Reserve Hangar 1948 Canadair C-54GM North Star 1 ST, a derivative of the DC-4 and the sole surviving example of its type. Before exploring the main museum, I joined the 11:30 tour of the Reserve Hangar. The Reserve Hangar is so large that it easily swallowed this DC-9 airliner in Air Canada livery. 1918 Avro 504K.

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Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

In fact, we have a window over the stove that looks into the hangar. I make the calls out of the obligation of being a responsible pilot. As I watch the white dashes flash past beneath the nostrils of the Sonex, the tail comes up. The grin on my face seems permanent these days. I start with a lakefront tour on Lake Palestine.

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Runway Groundspeed Approach Crosswind 75

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Syracuse cleared me direct to BRUIN sounding mildly puzzled by a pilot turning down an expedited route. During World War II, Kingston was one of several British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) airports constructed in a distinctive triangular configuration where pilots trained to feed the voracious war effort.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2024

Even as the aircraft was being pulled from the surf, the damage from its prolonged, however brief, exposure to saltwater was just as much a subject of speculation as what caused the pilot to ditch. The pilot was uninjured, and the aircraft was repaired. This left him with one option- ditching in the ocean.

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