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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

The school also offers spin endorsements, upset recovery, aerobatic training, and hourly instruction if youre just itching to check the GameBird off your airplane bucket list. The Sbach, a notoriously difficult airplane to fly, challenges even the hardest of hard-core aerobatic pilots. The four-blade MT propeller is the only exception.

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Flight Review: Van’s RV-12 LSA—Singular Success

Plane and Pilot

How did any given airplane sell? In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. But successful? Not at all. Was it profitable for the company?

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“Stearman Mike” A Midwest Warbird Pilot’s Dedication to Keeping a Famous Trainer Flying

Vintage Aviation News

Copyright 2012 koepnickphotography.com Growing up, Andy Porter always had some sort of airplane. Mike began doing “minor” restorations on Stearmans, such as aileron recovery, wingtip repairs, and ground loop damage remediation. Here are six airplanes. The airplane had been totally rebuilt from the ground up.

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What are the Key Parts of a Plane?

WayMan

The Main Parts of an Airplane While aircraft come in many designs and sizes, they all share several core components. Wings also include movable surfaces like ailerons (used to roll the plane left or right) and flaps (used to increase lift at lower speeds, especially during takeoff and landing).

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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

Airplanes like the Piper Cherokee probably dont get their due. Ask a stranger to think of a small GA airplane, and theyll probably conjure something like a Cub. Fearsome metal airplanes helped win a global conflict, yet pilots came home to variations on prewar designs of tube-and-fabric construction and modest performance.

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The Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Reborn: CAF SoCal’s Mission to Restore a Navy Icon

Vintage Aviation News

Discovering the Depth of the Work Once the project began in earnest, the team discovered a long list of issues that needed to be addressedfrom failing aileron linkages to worn-out plumbing. We had aileron linkage problems, wing fold lockdown problemsthe list is massive, McMahon said. That was a fairly recent install.

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53rd National Stearman Fly-In

Vintage Aviation News

Some pilots come to Galesburg, park their airplane and just enjoy the fellowship for the week. Of the Stearmans you will see here, many are your typical all-yellow “Navy” planes and yellow and blue “Army” airplanes. Tom finished his airplane this spring and flew it to Oshkosh before making his way to Galesburg.

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