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Fear of Landing
JULY 19, 2024
Someone claiming to be from Bankstown says the hangar gossip is that the engine failed because he ran out of fuel. From the video, it seems that the pilot kept the landing gear stowed, which I presume was in order to reduce drag. All I’m saying is that if the pilot was inexperienced, I’m more impressed, not less.
Jetwhine
JANUARY 17, 2024
The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit. Morris says a good instructor can see a successful SFO coming a half-mile away. I’m still working on mine.
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Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Two 150-gallon nylon fuel tanks were added behind the two cockpits, a 100-gallon tank was added to the gun bay, and the P-82B was fitted with four 310-gallon externally mounted drop tanks to be jettisoned during the flight. They removed the aircraft’s armor, as well as the six Browning.50
Jetwhine
APRIL 7, 2025
Enjoy – RM By Pam LeBlanc They had to cinch up the waistbands of their oversized, hand-me-down flight suits, and they werent allowed to climb out of a cockpit without applying fresh lipstick. The women who trained at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas , stepped up in a serious way.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 14, 2025
In order to facilitate beaching operations at naval air stations, a pair of small wheels were added to the rear of the skis, along with a tailwheel in order for the aircraft to be towed from a hangar to the launching ramps. Charles Richbourg in the cockpit of the Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 26, 2024
who in 1964 traded it to Richard Bach for the latter’s recently-rebuilt, “modern” 1946 Fairchild F-24. “Before the Parks was completely disassembled for restoration, I enjoyed reading passages from some of these books while sitting in the aft cockpit. It made its way to Lumberton lawyer Evander Munn Britt Jr.,
Air Facts
JULY 22, 2024
Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Young Aviators got students interested in aviation and STEM. Two hours were allocated to flying.
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