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

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The snow plow operators were happy to be able to go about their clearing operations without having to hold short or vacate runways to wait for arrivals or departures. 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.

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Plane and Pilot

APRIL 25, 2025

Designed to access areas without prepared runways for the purposes of medevac, communication, and liaison roles, it incorporated a massive wing optimized for slow flight, long-travel main gear to soak up unprepared surfaces, and a 240-horsepower inverted V-8 engine. For more information, email info@flyingfinance.com.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sadly, GA accident reports are littered with singles and twins that land just short of the runway with windmilling props and dry tanks. 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. First, how much avgas is enough?

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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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. However, neither center had runways long enough to accommodate the B-47, so the aircraft was assigned to NACAs High-Speed Flight Research Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Gross Weight

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.

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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.

Gross Weight

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.” The aircraft sped down the runway and into the overcast skies above Los Angeles.

Cockpit

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. AirVenture was a fun outing with friends.

Gross Weight

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.

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Northstar VFR

JUNE 22, 2023

Things to look at when choosing an alternate are: runway lengths, weather, services and distance from your planned arrival airport. Runway Lengths and Conditions The second part of this regulation has to do specifically with performance. First up is aircraft performance with airport elevation and runway slope. It states, “.other

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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.

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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

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Beyond that, likely with an instructor, you can learn fun, new skills in the same airplane. If you have access to both low- and high-wing airplanes, you can practice till you’re really good in both. Every now and again, planes go off the side of the runway. And only focus on aligning the center of the airplane.

Crosswind

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Not only must you fly unnervingly slow, but you also have to pick a spot on the runway and hit it. It’s a runway that is too short for a normal takeoff or landing but still usable with certain precautions. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. You’re not alone.

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Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

Twenty years ago today, I bought an airplane. I'm in Oklahoma and I just bought an airplane." Compared to the tired, 100 horsepower, 2-seat Cessna I did my training in, this airplane was a veritable beast and it had a great paintjob, too. Also, weak batteries cannot start airplanes. Bill admonished out of embarrassment.

Airplanes

iPad Pilot News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The weight and balance tool calculates gross weight and center of gravity for a wide range of airplanes. This seems like a small thing, but once you’ve flown an instrument approach with your airplane’s position overlaid on the approach plate, it’s hard to go back.

Weather

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It is at this point that the Cavorite X7 assumes the configuration of a regular airplane, with the engine and propeller providing forward thrust and the wings providing the necessary lift. This increases to 815kg (1,800lbs) if flying purely in conventional flight mode, using runways to take off and land.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

At slow cruise, an electric trainer can log time efficiently, so long as one maintains enough battery reserve to get back to the runway. We fly, and teach, to prepare students to use airplanes to go places. It remains to be seen if provisions will be made for certifying electric-powered airplanes in the FAA’s special-LSA category.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

Theres something about a little yellow tailwheel airplane that has always ignited my soul. Its a horrible boat, and an awful airplane, but its a whole lot of fun, said Clinton. I think this airplane is top caliber for floatplanes in this category. It can hold the extra gross weight. How hard could it be, I thought?

Rudder

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Skyway was a small commuter airline that operated a fleet of seven airplanes, including one DC-3. I was the chief pilot at Skyways and a captain and company instructor/check airman on all our airplanes. I was the chief pilot at Skyways and a captain and company instructor/check airman on all our airplanes. The flight to St.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Collins A MONTH or so ago we were sitting in a big comfortable chair thinking about airplanes. After that we thought about airplanes some more over a cup of Sanka. The airplane was enroute from Wichita to Kansas City to Newark. Just the air and the airplane. They are 400 miles per hour faster for one thing.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

Because the photo is black and white, I dont know for sure what color the aircraft was, but my research indicates the yellow-and-orange paint scheme was popular in 1946, so Im going to hazard a guess that is what the airplane my mother flew looked like. Both those airplanes have been on the aviation bucket list since I earned my certificate.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

Confirm the gauges reflect full power and feel the airplane quiver in anticipation. Can an airplane feel excitement? FLYING Magazine flew the Aviat Husky thanks to one mans desire to build and sell a serious utility backcountry airplane. He wanted to expand his companys offerings by selling a backcountry airplane.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Literally overnight we got eight semitruck loads of equipment outtooling, molds, and even airplanes. General aviation is driven by myriad forces.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The aging fleet flown by many operators is steadily racking up hours, imposing more and more maintenance burdens on 50-year-old airframes while production of new airplanes has slowed to a trickle, and the cost of the few available is high. A two-seat dedicated IFR training airplane hadn’t been certified since the Cessna 152 of 1978.

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