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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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.

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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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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

Navy had equipped both the USS Akron and Macon airships with a hangar deck and trapezes to carry and launch Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes. The pilot sat on top of the engine in an ejection seat, like a cowboy astride a bucking bronco. The post McDonnell XF-85 Goblin appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine.

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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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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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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Bill was a pilot for Eastern Airlines and he wore a toupee. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail.

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Gary's Flight Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When I arrived at the hangar It was pretty comfortable inside so I didn't bother to preheat. I got the fan turning then set up my video cameras, having forgot my tail tie down camera. I was not a happy pilot but made my call going around and that I would step to the right/north. I made a nice landing and taxied for the hangar.

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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 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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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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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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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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Air Facts

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We dropped my youngest son off at his job at a local garden shop and high tailed it to our hangar at Sky Manor Airport (N40) located in Pittstown, New Jersey. 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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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Whether youre an accomplished pilot with thousands of hours or just starting out, chances are youve spent time in a 150. For a mere $6,995, for a standard model, a pilot could find themselves in the left seat as an aircraft owner. Yall are awesome, keep up the great work, a pilot in the pattern announced over frequency.

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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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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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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

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! A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat. 701 Martinet.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

This organization, composed of pilots, scientists, engineers, technicians, mechanics, and administrative professionals, has been and continues to be a leader in the field of advanced aeronautics. Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954.

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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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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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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

On January 12, 1935, famed aviator Amelia Earhart landed at Oakland Municipal Airport in Oakland, California, after an 18-hour flight from Wheeler Field, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, becoming the first pilot, male or female, to fly nonstop and solo from Hawaii to the United States mainland.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. 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. No complaints.

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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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Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 14, 2025

It seemed awfully passive aggressive for an assemblage of metal components, but the appearance of personality goes toward explaining why pilots so often anthropomorphize their aircraft. I chose a mildly hilly tail, my feet eventually finding an old, comfortable rhythm. In addition to the sky, these are Zen spaces for me as well.

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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.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You may lust after a vintage Beech Staggerwing , but a radial-engine tail-wheel airplane with unique quirks will need to be approached with a careful transition. In this day and age, finding a hangar, or even a tie-down spot, is a major undertaking, given the collapsing number of airports. Don’t wait if you find one for sale.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I lamented that there was no tail tie-down until I remembered that I had brought three welded rebar tie-downs and a heavy hammer to drive them in. 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. No complaints.

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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

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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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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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England. With a crew of three (pilot, copilot & flight engineer) and four volunteers aboard, Liberty Belle took off, bound for Indianapolis.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

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 Airplanes Transponder Aileron 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 Annual Inspection 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

A hangar home at Pecan Plantation. READ MORE: New App Helps Pilots Connect, Find New Places to Explore The real appeal here is that it’s an amenity-rich community. Milton said that the relative proximity to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is a positive attraction for career pilots who fly from area airports. and he answered.”

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