Hangar Pilot Tail 
Aerotime
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
He is said to have been very hands-on with the refurbishment of the Lisa Marie, picking fabrics, finishes, and colors, and regularly visiting the hangar at Meacham Field in Fort Worth to check on progress. His pilot, with the remarkable name Milo High, took Presley and five others on a brief one-hour joyride to test out the jet.
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 25, 2025
I dont exactly fit the standard pilot profile of Game Aerospaces GB1 GameBird But theres always been something about the GameBird that has piqued my interest. Its first-class team, led by Ian Waghorn, ensures that pilots leave the training program feeling confident, competent, and safe in their new or new-to-them GameBird.
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Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 5, 2025
That year, however, saw the airframe and a set of wings being donated to the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut so it could be transformed into a memorial honoring the pilots who flew Corsairs in combat. This was brainchild of World War II (WWII) Marine Corps Corsair pilot, and then the manager of Bridgeport Municipal Airport, Nick Mainiero.
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. But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design.
Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The Raiden, which became known to American pilots as the “Jack,” would see combat for the first time during the Battle of Philippine Sea flying out of airfields on Guam and Saipan, and would later fight American aircraft over the Philippines.
AV Web
MAY 19, 2024
Our local flying club was having its yearly “Talk Like a Pilot Day” cookout at their hangar, and I was invited to give the keynote address. I was among a few dozen people who had spent their day talking like a pilot around clueless non-flyers. There is very little difference between pilots and pirates, matey, I said.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. “Very little,” the gunner reported.
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