Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

mph)) at 6,000 m (19,685 ft), climb to 6,000 m in 5 minutes, 30 seconds, with a maximum ceiling of 11,000 m (36, 089 ft), an armament of two 20mm autocannons and two 7.7mm machine guns, and an armored bulletproof plate at the back of the cockpit.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 13, 2025

These are housed in an enormous red hangar within the Yumenoba, the transport and technology section of Hirosawa City. The aviation museum, housed in a bold red hangar reminiscent of Boeing’s “Red Barn” in Seattle, occupies one corner of the complex. From there, the rest of the park is a short walk away.

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Air Facts

JULY 14, 2025

Again with the engine-shutdown parking, this time very close to a hangar. A non-flying story: Just the other day we were using a hydraulic scissor lift to do some work in a hangar near the ceiling. My fellow pilot raised himself to the ceiling, but later couldn’t get the lift to come down.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 21, 2025

Previously displayed in the museum’s earlier iterations of the Jet Aviation gallery, it is most associated with its time being suspended from the ceiling of the museum’s Boeing Milestones of Flight Gallery, along with Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 19, 2025

Working out of his Aliquippa hangars, Gilberti constructed six complete Volaire 1035 models and an additional eight Volaire 1050 airframes, when Rockwell Standard came calling with an offer he could not refuse. The nosewheel pant featured a large weathervane-style fairing that served to center the nose gear and added control in flight.

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Flying Magazine

JULY 1, 2025

The propeller is fresh from overhaul and has been consistently hangared throughout its life. It’s built to climb with authority and soar with grace, offering a certified service ceiling of 31,000 feet under power. The aircraft is fitted with a tail boom wheel assembly for easy ground handling and towing.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Although Palen recovered the fabric on the Pigeon, the ORA never installed a new engine or flew the aircraft, and today the Albree Pigeon-Fraser is suspended inverted from the ceiling of one of the Aerodrome’s hangars for static aircraft.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

As Earhart made her final preparations through the remainder of 1936, she had NR16020 stored in a hangar owned by her technical adviser and Hollywood film pilot Paul Mantz at Union Air Terminal in Burbank. Now, the aircraft is presently displayed at the Science Museum in South Kensington, suspended from the ceiling.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2025

North American XB-28 in an unknown hangar. This gave the Dragon a top speed of 372 mph, a range of 2,040 miles, and a service ceiling of 34,800 feet. In fact, its appearance is often mistaken for that of the Martin B-26 Marauder. However, the XB-28s unique blend of form and function stood on its own.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 27, 2025

It cruised at 208 mph with a top speed of 240 mph, a service ceiling of 20,000 feet, and a range of 1,920 nautical miles. Image via Wikipedia One of the most recognized variants, the Fw 200 C-3/U4, was powered by four 1,085-horsepower Bramo 323R-2 nine-cylinder radial engines. Fw 200 S-1 D-ACON (Bernhard D.F.

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Photographic Logbook

MAY 18, 2025

2025 brought cold temperatures, low ceiling, rain, and gusty wind, the latter fortuitously right down the runway. A View from the Tower (Mostly) Shortly after my ascent of the tower, all four WFC airplanes were staged, ceilings were declared high enough to fly the usual ride circuit, and pilots simply awaited the arrival of passengers.

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Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

If he desired a cold drink from the refrigerator two hangars away, he might casually bring up the topic of icy beverages and then let the mental image steep in everyone’s heads. READ MORE: Only Thing Better Than EAA AirVenture? Bringing Someone Who’s Never Been Ray didn’t walk through life—he strolled.

Airplanes

Photographic Logbook

JULY 5, 2025

My hangar neighbor Steve was on short final at SDC in his Bonanza. I hit my head on the Warrior's ceiling at least once. I understood that I would need to monitor my diet going forward, but if I could control the diabetes without medication, the path back to a Third Class medical seemed like it might be relatively easy.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Across the board, growth in the aviation industry has been accompanied by the need to develop all sorts of support infrastructure, including hangars and maintenance facilities. Building a new hangar can be a lengthy process if you do it the traditional way, but Belgian firm Spantech is offering a new, more straightforward approach.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 26, 2025

Junior four-cylinder, air-cooled inverted engine, the RWD-8 had a top speed of 109 mph and a service ceiling of 16,000 feet. The ceremony will also mark the grand opening of the museum’s newly constructed Hangar No. Powered by a 110-hp PZ Inż. The replica will be officially unveiled on August 24, 2025, during Polish Aviation Day.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Known for its critical role in the Pacific theater, this iconic Corsair is one of the few remaining intact examples and will undergo meticulous restoration by the museum’s skilled specialists in the Aircraft Restoration Hangar. The fully restored aircraft is set to be unveiled to the public in March 2025 on the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

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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 tuned the ATIS for Destin Executive, I was glad to hear there was no ceiling reported. No ceiling so no hold for us today!

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Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

The next day was VFR with some lower cloud ceilings along the way. As a Canadian pilot, I have my VFR OVER-THE-TOP rating, so the thin overcast ceilings were not an issue. A short hour later I was putting the Commander back into the hangar. During the trip I put 18.1

Weather

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. Approaching the Green Mountains of Vermont, the ceiling began to close back up. This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Yet the war also saw the introduction of the jet engine, which promised even greater speeds and higher service ceilings. (Hickory Aviation Museum) During WWII, piston engine aircraft were at the zenith of their development, having never flown faster, higher, and further before.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2024

All four of the planned flights had already sold out by mid-morning and the line was beginning to stretch around the hangar next door. By the time Doc completed its second flight of the morning the line had gone past the hangar and was making its way toward the FBO.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Almost as an afterthought, we told them that while we’d be busy building our hangar/apartment for the 2022-23 season, we’d come fly with them in December 2023. All throughout our travels, the weather had been exceptionally variable, with low ceilings and pouring rain as well as bright sunshine being encountered more days than not.

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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. After a thorough preflight inspection of the Cessna 206H, we saddled up.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The ceiling of my home office looks like an airshow—with no fewer than five airships on display. So imagine how impressed I was by the scratch-built model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II hanging from the ceiling of the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They range from the Graf Zeppelin to the Zeppelin NT , and are kitbuilt.

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AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Green – VFR ( Visual Flight Rules ) Ceiling > 3,000 ft. If I see a yellow light, I need to take a close look at winds and runway alignment before driving to the hangar. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C C ( 12°F) Remark: Very light icing In other words, typical gorgeous day atop Mt. Washington!

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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. We had a deal.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 7, 2025

These lessons would lead to the Seafire Mk.III, which incorporated upwards folding wings for stowage onboard carrier elevators and hangar decks. Due to the lower ceilings of the British carrier hangar decks, the wingtips would also fold down.

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Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I checked the hangar and had no bulb in my parts cabinet. The ceiling was sitting at 900 feet when I launched, turning to a 270 degree heading as instructed upon entering controlled airspace. a gallon, then secured hangar space for, you best sit down, $100 a night. New bulb installed and checked, we are ready to go!

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

And so we landed without any issue and taxied via Charlie to the Apron, arriving at the first location of the Blue Spruce Routes because we saw all the old WW2 hangars in various state of repair or disrepair … Wick is a classic stop-over for ferry pilots in both directions. So perfect weather.

Weather

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Ramps need plowing, the T-hangar door is frozen closed, the fuel truck won’t start, and there is a waiting list for deicing. However, if you infrequently fly north in the winter, consider calling ahead and arranging for a heated FBO hangar for your overnight stay. You want to either be on the ground or somewhere else when that happens.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Ramps need plowing, the T-hangar door is frozen closed, the fuel truck won’t start, and there is a waiting list for deicing. However, if you infrequently fly north in the winter, consider calling ahead and arranging for a heated FBO hangar for your overnight stay. You want to either be on the ground or somewhere else when that happens.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. Everything checks out, and you are one happy camper!

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Better to write it down sitting in your hangar on a rainy day than try to figure it out at 6,000 feet over the Okefenokee Swamp at midnight. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working. So, what is a thinking pilot of an older, upgraded airplane to do?

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Behind me, the other Cherokee (a Cherokee Six) landed and aggressively made for the main commercial hangar building. Though I am no geologist, I found myself biting my tongue whenever the tour guide -- who otherwise did a fine job -- referred to the ceiling-bound mineral formations as "stalagtites".

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, for refurbishment in the UHC’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar and to be kept in storage in newly-constructed storage modules at Udvar-Hazy meant to replace the older facilities at the Paul E. It was the first HM.14

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

We may be the best pilot ever born, but we can’t force a tired Skyhawk to climb above its genuine absolute ceiling, undefined by any performance chart. I have one airplane in my hangar that can only carry 500 pounds of payload with the fuel tanks topped off—that’s it, if I’m going to respect the max-takeoff-weight limit, and I will.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

The Flight Last summer, I met McCartney at his hangar at 0700. The trim lever was on the ceiling, and if I stretched, I could reach it. The sky was blue and there were a few wisps of clouds over Mount Rainier supporting the forecast of a cold front that would be moving in later that afternoon bringing rain and low clouds.

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