Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 2, 2025

Corporate pilots flying private jets and cargo pilots with companies like FedEx or UPS also command strong compensation, often paired with robust benefits. Imagine swapping a computer screen for a cockpit window, where youre greeted by breathtaking vistas of mountains, coastlines, and city lights thousands of feet below.

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Pilot Cockpit Stability Cargo 52

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 23, 2025

Of course, these include business jets and other non-Part 135 machines. However, if you find an airplane with a previously installed and debugged glass cockpit, with modern GPS, ADS-B, etc., Hangaring not worth the cost? Considering the cost of a strip and repaint, the hangar seems a wise investment. Photo: Marc Cook.

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Airplanes Annual Inspection Hangar Pilot 57

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

F-86F Sabre 52-4689/FAB 658 under restoration at the Mary Baken Engen Restoration Hangar of the Steven F. jet ace, Lebanese-American Major James Jabara). In contrast to other aircraft on display in the Smithsonian, the nose section of this Hornet will be available for visitors to touch and to see the cockpit of a modern strike fighter.

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Hangar Stability Tail Aviation Technology 97

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Saab TF-35 Draken AT-155 of the Royal Danish Air Force, at RAF Mildenhall, 1985 (Wikimedia Commons) As the Swedes and Danes began retiring their Draken fleets, American contractors were interested in purchasing the jets for their handling characteristics and the fact that they were on the market.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Cockpit Knot 124

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Key Takeaways Gliders / Ultralights: $5,000 – $100,000 General Aviation Airplanes: $100,000 – $1,000,000 (New), $20,000 – $200,000 (Used) Small Private Jets / Single-Engine Turboprops: $2.2 Large Private Jets / Regional Jets: $10 million – $80 million Commercial Airliners: $80 million – over $400 million How Much Do Airplanes Cost?

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Airplanes Jet General Aviation Hangar 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Artifacts include B-17, Bf 109, and F-86 components, as well as an early British jet engine, a WWII German bomb hoist and German engine parts. Halloween in the Hangars | October 26, 2024, 10 a.m. FHCAM could not carry out its work without the faithful volunteers. The exhibit is included in the price of general admission. – 2 p.m.

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Cockpit Hangar Jet 98

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This was one of the few aircraft that combined both a piston engine and a jet engine in the same airframe. Yet although it was designed to combat the limitations of early jet propulsion, it would be quickly superseded by new pure-jet aircraft and became one of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s last fixed wing designs to be built.

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Tail Jet Ceiling Pilot 93

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Because most contemporary hangars were not high enough to accommodate the Constellation if it had a single tail, three vertical stabilizers were fitted to provide sufficient longitudinal control while being able to access pre-existing hangars at airports around the country. Cockpit of the Lockheed Constellation.

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Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

“They seemed to rise from the sea and hang outside my cockpit window, near enough to touch, until hours later they slipped away into the dawn.” It was as NC965Y, which was adorned with the name Record Breaker that the aircraft was destroyed in a hangar fire in Memphis, Tennessee on August 20, 1943.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Indiana-based operator flies Bombardier Global 6500 for corporate missions, and offers charter services using Cirrus Vision Jets and Pilatus PC-12s NGXs. And with a larger aircraft, a new hangar is being built at the company’s FWA (Intl, Fort Wayne IN) base. So I thought I could clean up the business and dive into aviation.”

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Jet Pilot Hangar Approach 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956. ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed. Photo- Tony Landis IT WAS LIKE WATCHING A GHOST.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2024

Photo by Nigel Hitchman] The Patrouille de France put on their usual polished display in their Alpha Jets. The aircraft had an engine problem on departure and ended up being towed to the helicopter maintenance hangar Sunday evening. On display in front of the vintage airliner was the restored cockpit area of a Morane Saulnier M.S.406.

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Weather Cockpit Hangar Approach 76

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Prior to the restoration, the aircraft was parked in a hangar for a year in the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, where maintainers worked on the final stages of the project. Airmen also fabricated and installed components and coatings to refurbish the low-observable properties on various sections of the jet.

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Cockpit Jet Hangar 247

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Because I want to fly jets, sir!” I’ve been flying jets for years as a corporate pilot, but not real jets to some … like fighter jets. My goal in these Gauntlet jet-training sessions? But good jet flying is still demanding. built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit.

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. I had a total knee replacement.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 80

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

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Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

Professional Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) estimates that there are approximately 200,000 general aviation aircraft currently in service globally, including 25,000 jets, helicopters, and turboprops. Intelligent and sustainable hangar. Approximately 60% of the global fleet is based in the US.

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Air Traffic Control Hangar Airplanes Pilot 40

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 9, 2024

Caught in jet blast, the small two seater danced and swayed to the extent that its tie down ropes permitted. It was a demonstration of poor manners from the jet crew and I was grateful that it was not my airplane on the receiving end of the jet wash. My troubleshooting was brief. The top latch on the door had come undone.

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Runway Airplanes Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

After an emergency landing at YZF (Yellowknife NT, Canada), the pilots found the fan blades were coated with what looked like rough cement, while the nose of the transcontinental business jet had been stripped of most of its paint. They knew then that they had encountered volcanic ash from the ongoing eruption of a volcano in Alaska.

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Pitot Tube Weather Pilot NOTAMs 40

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 26, 1945, the McDonnell FH Phantom, the first pure-jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy, made its first flight. The US Navy had gained its first experience in jet aviation with the Bell YF2L, two Army Air Force YP-59A Airacomets delivered for naval flight evaluation.

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Jet Cockpit Flight Deck Tail 93

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Aside from the occasional CEO or board member who wants to jet off to a tropical destination between the holidays, the weeks between mid-December and the end of January typically see reduced operations compared to the rest of the year. The company began in a vacant hangar and focused initially on ground-based radar and communication systems.

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Pilot Pilot in Command Jet Cockpit 40

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 8, 2025

2025 marks Balls 35 th year performing, and he is the longest-running jet performer in airshow history. He has logged more than 2000 hours in the cockpit of a MiG. In his hangar are MiG-15s, 17s, and 21s. Terfehr had wanted to acquire a MiG since watching Culberson fly during the EAA Warbirds Jet Day at Oshkosh.

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Jet Hangar Pilot Runway 122

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board. Charles Richbourg in the cockpit of the Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

That attitude, making the most of the systems that remain, is the key to dealing with in-flight emergencies in jet airliners, military jets, and especially our piston-powered ma-chines down here in GA land. Just like the airline glass cockpits, this is called systems integration.

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Cockpit Pilot Transponder Ceiling 101

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. We could practice in a cockpit procedures trainer next to the briefing area.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The one-of-a-kind jet is carefully unloaded at its new home. Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts.

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 30, 2025

However, with the construction of new airports around the world, and the advent of jet travel, the age of the flying boat airliner, like that of the ocean liner, had met its end, with much of the flying boat airliners being sent to the scrapyards. Side view of the Short Solent N9946 at the Oakland Aviation Museum.

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Airline Airlines Ferry Flight Tail 99

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 18, 2024

Additional aircraft will be part of the show, including AAM’s WWII North American AT-6 Trainer, Vietnam era AT-28D Nomad and Cold War era L-39 Jet Trainer. Watch AAM’s awe-inspiring aircraft take off to perform practice flybys over Republic all day Friday, May 24th. Three days of action guaranteed to thrill aviation fans of all ages.

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Cockpit Lift Hangar Jet 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 66

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. When the first responders opened the cockpit, they found the fatally injured flight crew still in their seats with smashed smoke masks. One paper told the story of a man who went outside with his son to find a jet engine lying in the yard.

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 105

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

Each jet will feature a nose-to tail pattern of vertical candy stripes, in one of five colors. Were they having a hangar sale on blue paint? That’s not a bad thing, by itself, and we dig the raccoon-style shading around the cockpit. Maybe two colors instead of three, with thicker lines? Behold their livery here.

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Tail Airline Airlines Runway 99

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Modifications to the cockpit included rocket motor selectors and switches that were installed just forward of the standard throttle box while the rocket gained its own throttle just aft of the standard throttle for the General Electric J47 turbofan. Scott of Gilroy, CA, who had it registered with the FAA as N57963.

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Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 24, 2025

Thus, in late 2004, Kaplan and Carley, along with commercial big jet pilot, Rob Challans, a partner of Carleys, commenced their search for a DC-3 that the NAHF could lease and Carley could transform into a real-life, flying Duggy, complete with interior seating and SkyReach displays.

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Hangar Pilot Airplanes Approach 105

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A significant investment in heavy, water-jet cut steel tooling means repeatedly accurate wings come off the Composite Creations table. At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. and is working to define the airplane’s standard systems complement.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

Aerotime

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Sukhoi Superjet 100 specifications First flight May 19, 2008 Entry into service April 21, 2011 Number built 229 (estimated) Cockpit crew 2 Passenger capacity 87 (2-class) to 108 (1-class) Length 29.94 Its likely well continue to see increasing numbers of incident reports as they struggle to maintain their jets. We explain why.

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Runway Thrust Pilot Airline 246