Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

All activities are free at the Airbase hangar, 1200 Echo Ct., The Stearman for the first time sees the light of the CAF Airbase Georgia’s hangar. You can see the tail of the unit’s SBD-5 Dauntless. Women at War recognizes all World War II women’s military organizations. 1 at Delta Tech Ops facilities, 1775 M.H.

Tail 111

Tail Hangar 111

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 28, 2024

During the UK winter the aircraft, one of only two flying examples in the world, has undergone extensive pre-planned maintenance activity, including the manufacture and replacement of the entire tail plane. A closer view of one of four Merlin engines fitted to PA474 undergoing maintenance in the unit’s hangar at RAF Coningsby in 2020.

Tail 105

Tail Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An aircraft hangar can hold many secrets. Tucked alongside the wall of the “big” hangar at the National Warplane Museum (NWM), in Geneseo, New York is one such example of a tale that deserves to be written and subsequently read. 50 cal was mounted in a tail turret, which was a revolutionary design at the time.

Hangar 124

Hangar Payload Tail 124

Flyertalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Delta Air Lines says the incident caused the tail of the smaller regional aircraft to be sheared off after colliding with an Airbus A350 bound for Japan. Both aircraft are currently in Delta hangars for evaluation. at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).

Tail 93

Tail Runway Jet Hangar 93

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. A mechanic had found a worn feathering bearing in the tail rotor hub and blade assembly. The tail rotor’s responses and vibrations are measured in order to adjust the weights of the rotor blades and/or the alignment of the rotor assembly.

Torque 87

Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 87

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Measuring 804 feet nose to tail, it was larger than the record-setting LZ-127, the Graf Zeppelin , commanded by factory manager Hugo Eckner. Naval History and Heritage Command] In 1931, a photo was taken of the ship attached to the mooring tower and up on its nose as the tail was caught by a gust of wind.

Tail 109

Tail Hangar Weather Approach 109

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. The public sees us as swashbuckling adventurers bent on destruction and mayhem as we sail our carbon-producing chem-tail-spewing airplanes above their heads. Scratch a pilot, find a pirate.

Pilot 113

Pilot General Aviation Airplanes Hangar 113

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Patrick Mihalek grew up near the Brighton Airport in Michigan, spending his after-school hours at the hangars, trying to involve himself in any way possible. The team moved from a smaller hangar in Brighton to a larger facility at Oakland Southwest Airport, allowing for greater progress on the aircraft. Click HERE to donate.

Tail 111

Tail Hangar Jet 111

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

Pilot 110

Pilot Tail Hangar Jet 110

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

21 but really a composit P-51D restoration) showed how best to display at the constrained Duxford site, making great use of the ability to turn around and come in for a nice curved topside pass over the ARC hangar area where the aircraft are still in bright sunlight, as opposed to backlit on the main display line for much of the day.

Tail 95

Tail Weather Runway Hangar 95

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 made a nice landing and taxied for the hangar. The original plan was to meet at 8:30 but we pushed it back to 9:15 so we could preheat.

Runway 86

Runway Tail Hangar Approach 86

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The team also managed to fix an old hangar damage from a few years ago, caused by a forklift that had damaged the forward fuselage. For example, Steve Schenkel had been working on the tail wheel, discovering and addressing issues like missing metering pins, essential for the aircraft’s shock absorption system.

Tail 116

Tail Approach Hangar 116

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.”

Airplanes 105

Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

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.

Cockpit 105

Cockpit Rudder Tail Hangar 105

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.

Airplanes 99

Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 99

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Visitors can explore original hangars, operations rooms, and air raid shelters, most of which now house the Imperial War Museum’s collection and are open to the public during the airshow. Another highlight included a graceful tail-chase formation of four Hurricanes, reminiscent of the pre-attack training sequences depicted in the movie.

Tail 116

Tail Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 2, 2024

Meanwhile, two Hispano Buchons White Nine (G-AWHH) and Yellow 10 (G-AWHK) had taken off and chased off the P-47, but then were spotted by the three P-51s and we had an excellent tail chase all over the airfield before eventually the Buchons were shot down. MH415 (G-AVDJ), which has been sold to a new German owner just before the show.

Tail 116

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.

Tail 126

Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 126

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

After three subsequent moves to Ontario Airport in 1963, then to Buena Park in 1970, and finally to Chino airport in 1973, the Raiden now sits proudly on display inside the Planes of Fame’s Foreign Hangar in Chino, where it has been displayed for the last 50 years.

Pilot 126

Pilot Ceiling Knot Tail 126

Inspire

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What happens when your tail wheel falls off and everybody knows it but you? The post Camaraderie in EAA South Africa first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Tail 40

Tail Hangar 40

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. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. A few swipes and a tap later sends the latest pics.

Airplanes 71

Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 71

Inspire

APRIL 1, 2020

He performed a lot of the build himself, including installing the landing gear, airfoils in the tail, and most of the tedious portions of construction. The post What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Missouri Kitfox 7SS first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Airfoil 40

Airfoil Tail Hangar 40

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. The ability to share this with my wife makes it that much more enjoyable. Days like these are the reasons I learned to fly.

Weather 89

Weather Rudder Hangar Tail 89

Inspire

JULY 22, 2019

Only 34 of the tail-wheeled aluminum monoplanes were made. And […] The post There’s Nothing Spartan About This Executive first appeared on Hangar Flying. It’s a Spartan Executive. If any Spartan Executive shows up at AirVenture, it’s cause for interest.

Tail 40

Tail Hangar 40

Inspire

JULY 23, 2019

Whether it was the German registration, the German flag on the tail, or the combination of those with the P-51 Mustang markings and invasion stripes on the sides that caused you to do a double-take, it was Hermann Schiele’s airplane […] The post A Homebuilder’s Dream Flight: From Germany to Oshkosh — Meet Hermann Schiele first appeared on Hangar (..)

Tail 40

Tail Airplanes Hangar 40

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. Easy rigging and ground handling. Easy rigging is therefore a necessity, not just something that’s nice to have.

Density Altitude 98

Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 4, 2024

The JARTS team removes tail fin away from the Sea Harrier The final Sea Harriers were retired by the Royal Navy in 2006 after more than a quarter of a century’s service. It will serve as a testament to those who flew it and a memorial to those who did not return,” he said.

Tail 77

Tail Jet Hangar Pilot 77

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With the Shooting Star’s forward fuselage loaded into a rented box truck, the tail being put in the back of a large pickup truck, and with the wings being towed by the pickup on a trailer, the MFAM recovery team set off for home. To see more information about the March Field Air Museum, visit March Field Air Museum website.

Jet 98

Jet Tail Hangar 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Kenny Roth was the pilot and fought the plane all the way to the ground, hitting tail first. View of NC9684_s tail, May 2016. Ford 5-AT-B NC9645 City of Wichita/City of Port Clinton in front of Liberty Aviation Museum_s hangar (Liberty Aviation Museum) Special thanks to Jody Brausch for his contributions to this article.

Tail 111

Tail Airline Pilot Airlines 111

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. Its five tail surfaces, one vertical, two angled, and two ventral, fit neatly within the B-36 bomb bay and featured ruddervators similar to a contemporary V-tail Bonanza.

Jet 63

Jet Tail Pilot Descent 63

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.

Tail 96

Tail Cockpit Airplanes Hangar 96

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

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. The engines had torn off in the final descent, landing some distance away.

Cabin Crew 95

Cabin Crew Weather Descent Turbulence 95

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The model has 48 ring frames for the bulkheads, from nose to tail. “I also built the 36 longitudinals, which ran through all the bulkheads from nose to tail, and the fabrication of the cruciform tail fins,” he said. Like so many builders, he opted to move the project out to the airport.

Lift 52

Lift Ceiling Tail Hangar 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But space in the main hangar is incredibly limited and that relegates several other aircraft to sitting out in the weather. Unfortunately, the close confines of the MAAM hangar made getting a good photo of the unique artifact quite challenging. There is no room in the hangar to attach the Black Widow's wings outboard of the tail booms.

Torque 52

Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

NYC Aviation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tuesday evening saw a significant milestone in Northern Pacific Airways’ path to launch, as they unveiled their first aircraft at a paint hangar in San Bernardino, California. The tail of the aircraft, showing the N627NP registration.

Payload 52

Payload Cargo Airplanes Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

Pilot 52

Pilot Thrust Tail Hangar 52