Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. I had a total knee replacement. Then the CFI gave me a few unusual attitudes, and all was well.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

Tail

Flying Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

READ MORE: NYPD Taps Drones for Airborne Police Work WSP headquarters is a boxy 1930s-era hangar located on the east side of the airport. The floor of the hangar is painted white, and you get the impression you could do surgery on it without risk of infection. The camera is usually pointed down. Statema allowed me to try it.

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Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

He went to the hangar and did a pre-flight walkaround of the 172, including checking the fuel. Satisfied, he pulled the 172 out of the hangar and started the engine. He briefed the pilot on the cockpit instruments and best speeds for take-off, climb and glide. They were finally good to go. They accelerated along the runway.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

who in 1964 traded it to Richard Bach for the latter’s recently-rebuilt, “modern” 1946 Fairchild F-24. “Before the Parks was completely disassembled for restoration, I enjoyed reading passages from some of these books while sitting in the aft cockpit. It made its way to Lumberton lawyer Evander Munn Britt Jr.,

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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. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. One of the major changes introduced to the Tiger Moth, at RAF insistence, was folding door panels that made it easier to enter and exit both cockpits. Red shows typical stall speed range (below 45 mph).

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. distributor for Flight Design aircraft. Owned by Tom Gutmann Jr.,

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The wing’s dead-smooth surface plus the tight-fitting aileron and flap brackets plus aileron gap seals give the build a professional factory look (left). At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. So what would I fix?

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