Cockpit Firewall Tail 
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 29, 2025
Cockpit of the Hughes H-1 Racer on display at the National Air and Space Museum (National Air and Space Museum) Among the most valuable reference photos have been those of the H-1’s cockpit. Engine mount being fitted to the firewall of the SDASM’s Hughes H-1 reproduction.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 2, 2025
Progress has been particularly visible in the cockpit section, where major components such as seats, flight controls, and instrument panel structures are being refitted. The forward fuselage of Lacey Lady as seen in May 2025, showing significant progress between Stations 3 and 4, which house the cockpit and top turret.
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Air Facts
JULY 2, 2025
I had yet to learn that pre-takeoff formalities in the cockpit were to be my department, in the interests of self-preservation. By the time we hit 85, the tail was flying, the main wheels were off the ground, and the nosewheel was grinding itself into the dirt. A familiar air of disharmony prevailed in the cockpit.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 1, 2025
John Espe Cruiser Buhl, Idaho/Injuries: None NTSB Report: WPR23LA29 The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing, he encountered a gusting tail wind. Probable cause(s): The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during landing with a gusting tail wind.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 17, 2025
That gave him the pleasure of flying the Ryan to air shows and fly-ins and the joy of flying an open-cockpit monoplane over the beautiful landscapes surrounding its San Luis Obispo base. One major difference from enclosed-cockpit planes: “You can smell things!” But the tail feathers and the landing gear struts were OK.”
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 6, 2024
In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England.
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 19, 2024
The power plant modifications plate on the engine bay’s firewall. Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components. Today, Ens. The same didn’t happen on the port side.
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