Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

However, as Epic CEO Doug King told FLYING , the airplane was originally designed to be a big-engine, high-performance machine, unlike many manufacturers that start small and progressively add power. We note that the airplane we flew, the first AX off the line, equipped with nearly every option, had a useful load of 2,918 pounds.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

JULY 9, 2025

Even without the wings or engine affixed to the airplane, potential customers were still able to sit in it and try it on for size while improvements were being made. Sonex first displayed a version of the aircraft at last year’s EAA AirVenture. One of the most rigid restrictions currently is that LSAs cannot weigh more than 1,320 pounds.

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Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Airplane ready. At 500 feet down the runway, the little airplane leaped into the air despite my plan to build more speed before taking off. Adrenaline coursed through my veins, and every sense was tuned to the heartbeat of the small new airplane. First flight in a new airplane. The Pulsar was now the airplane in my dream.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A kit-built airplane derived from the 1950s-era Starduster, the Starduster Too incorporates a steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric. With a gross weight of 1,700 lbs and an empty weight of 1,175 lbs, this particular Starduster has a useful load of 529 lbs.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

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?

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

JULY 23, 2025

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. Use our airplane loan calculator to calculate your estimated monthly payments. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 13, 2025

This modern arrangement has helped new designs arrive in large numbers and allows much faster action than agency certification standards, such as the Part 23 rule used to approve new GA airplanes. This [MOSAIC] will encompass airplanes like the Cessna 172 and Cessna 182,” said Pelton, who was formerly chairman, President, and CEO of Cessna.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 26, 2025

I’ll start introducing you to everyone I know, and we’ll have them teach you a little bit about each of these airplanes.” Featuring a Jabiru 3300 120 hp, 6-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the aircraft was built to accommodate a 1,675 pound gross weight. “All right, let’s just go out and walk the booths,” said Johnson.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

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.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

MAY 12, 2025

If asked to name one GA single-engine airplane that claims the roles of ultimate bushplane , STOL champion, military workhorse, movie star, arctic explorer, and even a little CIA intrigue thrown in for effect, the de Havilland Beaver comes immediately to mind. This is an airplane that means business. Air Force and Army.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

MAY 17, 2025

After a review, the airplanes fuel capacity was less than the expected 40 at 35-37 gallons, and the fuel gauge was too optimistic. He then did a weight and balance check and found that he needed to reduce the weight to within maximum gross weight. Fifteen minutes later, the engine failed.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 25, 2025

With an empty weight of only 761 pounds and a gross weight of 1213 pounds, the useful load is roughly that of a typical Cessna 140. You can arrange financing of the aircraft through FLYING Finance and quickly calculate your monthly payment using the airplane finance calculator.

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Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

With 10 passengers and luggage on board the airplane, it was well under gross weight, but it soon became apparent we could not out climb the ice buildup. It was quite a load of extra weight, but as important was the disrupted airflow over the control surfaces and wings.

Weight-Shift-Control

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Anytime the airplane is heading downhill toward terra firma, our attention should be on the instruments in the clouds, and out the windows when the sky is clear. However, I am always aware that VA hovers somewhere near 100 knots, and VB may be even less, both depending on gross weight.

Descent

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Before anything else, these are single-engine, unpressurized two-seat lightweights with a max gross weight of 1320 pounds. Check that against the max gross of a Piper Malibu at roughly 4300 pounds, or a Beech A36 Bonanza at around 3650 pounds or a Cessna 150 at 1600 pounds gross. Same for gliders.

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Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

The wreckage of the airplane was found two days after the crash in which all nine passengers and the sole pilot lost their lives. About that time, the airplanes airspeed began to decrease and was accompanied by a reduction in engine power. At about 15:15, the airplane leveled at 6,000 ft. NTSB The airplane came to rest upright.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2025

In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station. The drag chute was used on landings to help brake the airplane’s speed. The average gross weight was 115,000 pounds. Boeing B-47A Stratojet NACA 150 landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

CubCrafters offered to bring FLYING the first of the kitbuilt NXCubs to north Idaho and turn us loose with it for two weeks to fly into the backcountry—introducing pilots of all experience and skill levels to the airplane. CubCrafters said its goal was to build an airplane with a 1,000-pound useful load. That got our attention.

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Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Every day, the team at Aircraft For Sale chooses an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, a good deal, or has other qualities we find interesting. With a cruise speed over 200 knots and fuel burn around 16 gph at mid-altitudes, the airplane delivers efficiency without compromise.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JULY 23, 2025

READ MORE: We Fly: CubCrafters NXCub According to ERP, a second airplane will soon be made available, and both will be crated and shipped to Namibia and put into service. At Redbird, not only do we make simulators, we’re also pilots and aircraft owners who understand how effective general aviation airplanes can be on missions such as this.”

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

However, Hughes was never one to rest on his laurels, and as he surveyed the airplanes parked in Miami, he told his chief aeronautical engineer, Glenn Odekirk, “Hell, Glenn, there isn’t a decent plane in the lot.” ” Odekirk replied, “Howard, you’ll never be satisfied until you build your own.”

Cockpit

Air Facts

JULY 9, 2025

Should I treat every VFR hop like I’m departing into low IMC with a 10,000-foot density altitude at max gross weight? Find a simple airplane. Make sure you’re legal and safe—no TFR busts, plenty of fuel, and a sound airplane. And no matter how many times I do that flight, there’s always something new to see.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 27, 2025

The airframe weighs in at 623 pounds empty with a gross weight of 1,150 pounds, offering a useful load of 527 pounds—plenty of room for pilot, passenger, and fuel. Use our airplane loan calculator to estimate monthly payments or connect with an aviation finance specialist at flyingfinance.com.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 5, 2025

gross weight. (Don England via Randy Malmstrom) The Model 80A (redesignated “80A-1” when the tail surfaces were modified in 1930) with is three more powerful Pratt & Whitney 525-horsepower “Hornet” engines soon followed and could carry 18 passengers or a total of 17,000 lbs.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. Use our airplane loan calculator to calculate your estimated monthly payments. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Todays Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.

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Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

For this year’s Ultimate Issue, I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone into an airplane worthy of the Ultimate title. The DC-6 sits tall on its landing gear to accommodate the three-bladed propellers, but the airplane has a balanced and proportional appearance. One can dream and prepare, right?

Flight Deck

AV Web

JULY 25, 2025

I missed the show for quite a few years when I was an airline pilot because the last thing I wanted to do during my vacation from flying a thousand hours a year in airplanes was to hang around airplanes. I will leave it up to all of the aviation jailhouse lawyers out there to parse every change in the rules.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

As much as it seems sometimes that airplanes fly by magic, it’s important for every pilot to understand at least the basic fundamentals of aerodynamics. The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. What force makes an airplane turn?

Longitudinal Axis

Flight Training Central

MARCH 11, 2024

Calculating the airplane’s weight and balance is a mandatory task you must complete before every flight. Many of an airplane’s performance, handling, and structural characteristics are a function of weight and balance, not to mention the safety risks associated with operating an overloaded or out-of-balance airplane.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

gph at standard cruise (2,100 rpm) Empty Weight: 708 lbs, basic weight (includes oil and trapped fuel) Gross Weight L-4H: 1,220 lbs Full Load Stall Speed: 37.5 gph at take-off (2,300 rpm), 4.27 That is the case with 44-79780.

Firewall

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions—carefully selected ideal conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. The engine problem was unaddressed carburetor ice.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

During this same half-century, Willard Custer was developing an airplane with a unique wing design that carried six passengers and crew, could be constructed economically, and take off and land much like a helicopter. Custer’s CCW-5 “channel wing” design delivered on the promise of short takeoff and landing (STOL).

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

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?

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

MAY 15, 2025

Purchasing a used airplane can be risky because its sometimes difficult to determine whether the aircraft has been taken care of properly. The SD variant cant make light sport limits as it has a third seat and a 1,900-pound gross weight. And since people are different, youll have different airplanes. Even riskier.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

1: When operating an unmanned airplane, the remote pilot should consider that the load factor on the wings may be increased any time that the: A. airplane is subjected to maneuvers other than straight-and-level flight. gross weight is reduced. Example question No. CG is shifted rearward to the aft CG limit.

Weight-Shift-Control

Northstar VFR

JUNE 22, 2023

other reliable information appropriate to the aircraft, relating to aircraft performance under expected values of airport elevation and runway slope, aircraft gross weight, and wind and temperature. ”. Next aircraft gross weight is listed. It states, “.other Let's break each one down and look at it.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Born in 1899, James Smith McDonnell had attended college at Princeton and MIT and gained experience as an aeronautical engineer in the nascent American aviation industry with companies such as the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company, the Hamilton Metalplane Company, the Huff Daland Airplane Company, and the Glenn L.

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