AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

Our group of geriatric gear-uppers gathered in my friend Kyle’s hangar, not because it held any special safety significance but because his place was outfitted with air-conditioning, comfy furniture, and a decent bar. Tim, my next-door hangar neighbor with the same avionics setup, said he would go up with me the next afternoon.

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Air Traffic Control Hangar Rudder Pilot 68

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. And on short final at Knoxville, I got chirps from a flock of unrecognized electronic birds, telling me something but not in airplane-speak. Full flaps and 80 knots, trimmed, the airplane asked, is this what I really wanted?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 79

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This particular example has a remarkably low 1,345 hours on the airframe and has always been hangared. All signs indicate the airplane has been cared for in a thoughtful, meticulous manner. 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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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Hangar 97

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

While I have done flight reviews in my airplane and demonstrated stalls, steep turns, and other basic maneuvers for various flight instructors over the years, my preference is to seek out new experiences, gain skills, learn from different instructors, and fly other aircraft types instead. "I Just Flew a Super Decathlon!" "I Photo by Don.

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Rudder Crosswind Airplanes Runway 60

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 15, 2025

Inside the hangars of the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing (CAF SoCal) in Camarillo, California, a rare and legendary warbird is undergoing a complete transformation. Well be putting in an AV-30E system, updating the radios, the transponder, ADS-Bthings that make the airplane safer and more supportable.

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Aileron Rudder Transponder Cockpit 98

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. As I went through the preflight inspection, my wife strapped my daughter into the car seat and climbed into the airplane herself. That was poor airmanship on my part.

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 98

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). There’s nothing that can beat it except for highly powered airplanes without glider in tow. Easy rigging and ground handling.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

It had been over 15 years since I was last in a small airplane, and to say I was excited is quite the understatement. Taxiing procedures: Moving the aircraft to the runway involves steering with your feet using the rudder pedals. Postflight, youll learn how to properly shut down the airplane safely.

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Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 98

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.

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Cockpit Rudder Hangar Tail 105

Air Facts

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Aviation, for me, began when I was a small child, my father taking me to airports and setting me on, in, and around all manner of small airplanes. The movie featured dad’s favorite airplane, the Travel Air 4000. A few years later, one of the pilots in the movie brought his airplane to town and gave rides at the county fair.

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Airplanes Pilot Checkride Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hangar 13’s owner, Ray Moore, is rebuilding his own B-17 (B-17F 42-3455 Lucky Thirteen ) and has collaborated with a number of other B-17 owners in the rebuilds of their aircraft.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When I had the endurance to drive 20 miles to an appointment, had good situational awareness of all the cars around me on the freeway, and when driving didn’t take 100 percent concentration, I had passed the first challenge before getting in the airplane. A week later it was off into the blue with new Garmin radios in the elderly airframe.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 85

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. 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.

Runway 98

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

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.

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. 164 airplanes.)

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 95

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

BOOP , BOOP, boop," said the airplane as the propeller came to a stop. Scott started the airplane again for Ray. said the airplane again. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, this airplane is also designed with systems simple enough—and handling qualities docile enough—to allow no-jet-time aviators to confidently solo in as little as 15 hours. You’d think pilot problems would be all about stick-and-rudder skills here,” he said. Hold full right rudder and gently grab the handbrake.

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. And on short final at Knoxville, I got chirps from a flock of unrecognized electronic birds, telling me something but not in airplane-speak. Full flaps and 80 knots, trimmed, the airplane asked, is this what I really wanted?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Under its wings, stood Garry and Janne Ackerman of Plano, Texas, the owners of this magnificent machine, who told attendees all about the story of this airplane and the effort they helped start to return a basket case of an airplane back to its former glory. One month later, on February 1, it was sold to Air Service Inc.,

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Annual Inspection 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even during his student days, however, Albree was fascinated with airplanes, often to the detriment of his academic studies, and he began to build his own designs. 9” on its rudder. His fourth design under the Pigeon Hollow Company would go on to become the first fighter design taken under contract by the US military.

Tail 98

Tail Airplanes Stability Aileron 98

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

I had never heard of a Pierre Robin R2160 before, and why should I have known about an obscure GA airplane that only has eight (10, actually, but more on that later) examples in the U.S.? Its owned by Lee Smith, 69, who keeps it hangared at Long Island Airpark (NC26), in North Carolina. and has, in fact, owned Six Zero Zulu twice.

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Rudder Pilot Airplanes Center of Gravity 80

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

Theres something about a little yellow tailwheel airplane that has always ignited my soul. After all, a Cub sitting on a hangar pad was what initially drew me to walk into the Ron Alexander Youth Aviation Program , an experience that changed the course of my life at just barely 16 years old. It can hold the extra gross weight.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Gross Weight 94

Flying Magazine

MAY 29, 2025

READ MORE: Top 5 Used Four-Seater Airplanes to Buy One upgrade they offered is called the Super 700 Aerostar, which takes 601P and 602P Aerostars and fits them with 350-HP Lycoming TIO-540-U2A engines mated with three-blade Hartzell props. The airplane gets a gross weight boost to 6,356 pounds ramp weight.

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Knot Airplanes Gross Weight Rudder 111

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

I want it because I want to travel through time and I want to fly a difficult airplane and I want to feel the wind when I fly and I want people to look, to see, to know that glory still exists. Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 21, 2025

As he said to Bendix, the race would force airplane designers, builders, and pilots to really get down to business and offer little guys a chance to gamble on their dreams. You dont paint airplanes yellow, Miles said. Thunderbird on jacks at the AirCorps Aviation hangar. This airplane represents three American heroes, he said.

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Airplanes Pilot Rudder Weather 116

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 4, 2025

After building only a handful of airplanes, Morrisey then sold the construction and design rights to Shinn Engineering Inc., Tale of the Tailwheel Recognizing the more challenging characteristics of taxiing a taildragger, why would an aircraft owner go to the trouble of converting a tricycle gear airplane into a taildragger?

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Airplanes Pilot Airfoil Air Traffic Control 85

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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Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Airplanes Gross Weight 88

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

I urged all participants to be airborne by 7:00 am if we were to have any chance of securing limited airplane parking spots on the ice of Alton Bay. He grew up near Lake Winnipesaukee, had watched airplanes landing on the ice as a kid, and never dreamed that he would someday arrive in one. Photo by Ed. Is he moving?!"

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 75

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. The Warrior was already subjected to hail on my watch during a stop in Kennesaw, GA in 2011 when I watched helplessly as tiny chunks of ice pummeled my airplane. I learned that I could overnight there in a hangar for $65. Nothing was available.

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Descent Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 25, 2025

I watched this airplane execute maneuvers I had never witnessed before and was awed by the precision and poetry expressed by the pilot at the controls. Rob was not just an artist with stick and rudder, but a genuinely kindhearted, warm soul who was an approachable, articulate advocate for aviation. Photo by Ed B.

Thrust 52

Thrust Ferry Flight Pilot Rudder 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 19, 2025

These books include the Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25C), Aviation Weather Handbook , (FAA-H-8083-28A), Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C), and current copy of the FAR/AIM. Make Your Own An enterprising CFI can create a ground school using books available from the Federal Aviation Association.

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Pilot Weather Airplanes Flight Computer 65

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

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.

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Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 98

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With a collection seeded by purchase of six WWI era aircraft from the former Roosevelt Field where Charles Lindbergh launched on his historic flight to Paris, ORA is a tribute to founder Cole Palen's (1925-1993) fervent belief that an airplane is only an airplane if it still flies. Over time, he built an extensive flying menagerie.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 59

Plane and Pilot

MAY 22, 2025

Liquor Decanter and Glasses Best for: Unique gift Airplane Globe Whiskey Decanter Set [Courtesy: Amazon] This unique Airplane Globe Whiskey Decanter Set with an etched globe design is the perfect gift for a dad who enjoys kicking back and relaxing with his favorite beverage after a long workday. Price: $29.95 Price: $39.95

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Pilot Tail Flight Deck Airplanes 63