Plane and Pilot

JUNE 19, 2025

Construction of these sturdy birds is quite similar to the Mooney M20 line with an SAE 4130 Chrome-Moly Tubing cabin structure mated to a semimonocoque tail cone. The final version of the Aero Commander line, the Lark Commander, featured a more aerodynamic cowling, stylish swept tail fin, and a Lycoming O-360, 180 hp engine.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

But the most radical feature of the Pigeon-Fraser was Albree’s all-moving tail design. Albree would consider this design to be his “make or break” aircraft to validate his theory for the Flying Tail design he and Roscoe P. serial numbers 116 and 117, with U.S. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

While the layout for a cabin to accommodate 10 passengers and two pilots was settled upon, the original design of the Electra was to feature a single vertical stabilizer on the tail. A young Clarence “Kelly” Johnson with a wind tunnel model of a Lockheed Electra with its original single tail design.

Tail

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.

Hangar

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. Nevertheless, development of the two surviving prototypes continued, and both of these were fitted with a redesigned T-tail instead of the conventional tail on the first prototype that had been destroyed.

Tail

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. The model has 48 ring frames for the bulkheads, from nose to tail.

Lift

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. They saw the tail of the air craft, about a mile west of the airport and 300 feet below. CC-BY-SA 3.0 There were no survivors.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Though the service ceiling for a stock F-86F in combat configuration was 49,600 feet, 52-4608 reached heights of up to 70,840 feet! Scott had intended to restore 52-4608, but the aircraft would spend much of its post-USAF life in storage in a hangar at Hollister Municipal Airport. at 60,000 feet!

Ceiling

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling. A Fly-In Farmers Market D&L Trail with Slatington Airport hangars to the right. I followed the tail northbound toward the Lehigh Gap. At the Lehigh Gap Nature Center.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new gallery is a 91,000 square foot hangar and provides a 70% increase to the indoor exhibition space. B-24D 41-23908 Hill AFB 19Mar2024 Veronico with restored Martin 250CE turret and tail turret as recovered from Alaska. Guests listen to speakers during the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new L.S. Ernest “Pappy” Pruett.

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