Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Glamorous though the Staggerwing was, Beech realized that a design that could carry more passengers and cargo than the single engine Staggerwing would be needed. This led to the design of a twin engine, all-metal transport with fabric-covered control surfaces and a twin tail configuration.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The aircraft would carry a crew of two pilots in a semi-open cockpit and four passengers in an enclosed cabin. Oftentimes, the City of Prince George flew up to four passengers or a load of cargo and was able to swap between fixed wheels or pontoon floats. The City of Prince George had proved, even in a crash, the F 13s ruggedness.

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After Varsity , the 74 th remained busy, delivering cargo to advancing troops and evacuating casualties, sometimes landing just four miles behind the front lines. and embarked on a decades-long career of airline and cargo operations up until the turn of the century—sixty years of continuous service.

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Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

The Hill Digital Cockpit is a thing of simplicity and beauty. The CarryAll V200CG cargo version received its TC in March 2024. The Albatross V400 heavy-lift air cargo eVTOL or hybrid-electric aircraft has a max payload of 220 lb. Slovakias Pipistrel is developing an autonomous cargo hauler with 2 wings joined by 2 booms.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy. Tail-heavy ailerons droop downwards when they arent being pulled by the control system. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The description of the event clearly represents what was understood at the time: During the takeoff from RWY35L, the aircraft suffered a tail strike after the rotation. This transition of lifting off is called rotation.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

More than 200 of those aircraft remain in service as cargo carriers, and around 50 are still flying passengers today. Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. RELATED Cargo giants: which aircraft can carry the most freight?

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

(Nigel Hitchman) The story of the Breguet Deux-Ponts begins even before WWII, when Breguet Aviation began design work on the concept for a large four engine transport with two decks for passengers called the Breguet 760, which was based on the wings and tail assembly of the Breguet 730 flying boat.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

This airline had more than 30 twin-engine cargo aircraft, two dozen STOL aircraft such as the Helio Courier, more than 30 helicopters, and more than 300 employees. The kickers were personal who would stay in the back of the plane and tend to the cargo, where many times locals that would work for us.” We got hit pretty hard.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

While the Martin Model 123 had open cockpits for a pilot, nose gunner/bombardier, and rear gunner, it was envisioned that these could be enclosed later in development. Indonesian locals survey the tail of Martin 139WH s/n M-531 shortly after its rediscovery. Th prototype of the Maartin B-10, the Martin XB-907, in flight.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

From Saigon, my crew and I routinely hauled critical cargo all over South Vietnam. Photo via USAF Archives During preflight, I noticed the ground crew spreading hay and straw on the cargo bay’s floor. We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway.

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AeroSavvy

MARCH 26, 2022

Passenger and cargo aircraft look the same when flying over head. Most of the popular Boeing and Airbus passenger jets, like the 767, 747, A330, and A350, have cargo counterparts. Most dedicated cargo aircraft are military transports, e.g., C-17 Globemaster, C-130 Hurcules, Antonov’s heavy-lift family.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I move to the cockpit in search of a warmer spot and share some of the pilots’ candy. I’ll walk home if I have to, after that,” I hear someone say from the cockpit. He is beaming as he exits the cockpit. They were counted as they loaded up and sat between each other’s legs, facing the tail.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

3/4 view of an Me 321 glider, showing the closed cargo doors and jettisonable undercarriage. The cargo hold could hold six times the area as the Junkers Ju 52 trimotor, and was 11 meters (36 feet) long, 3 meters (10 feet) wide and 3.4 Not the tail of another Me 321 Gigant to the right of the frame.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. The recovery team arrived at the crash site with hand and power saws to cut the Lightning into manageable sections to push into cargo pallets and be pulled with a cable and pulleys onto a landing craft-style barge. Kidder saw five figures running towards him and the plane.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Military giants like the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy are essential for global cargo and troop transport. Are we talking about length, wingspan, height, passenger capacity, or cargo volume? MTOW is the heaviest weight at which an aircraft is certified to take off, encompassing the weight of the airplane, passengers, crew, cargo, and fuel.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Antonov’s most successful glider design during WWII was the Antonov A-7 combat glider, which could carry 8 fully equipped troops or 910 kg (2,000 lb) worth of cargo, being towed into the air by Tupolev TB-3s, Tupolev SBs, and Ilyushin DB-3 bombers.

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