Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). Easy rigging and ground handling.

Density Altitude

AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

Our group of geriatric gear-uppers gathered in my friend Kyle’s hangar, not because it held any special safety significance but because his place was outfitted with air-conditioning, comfy furniture, and a decent bar. Tim, my next-door hangar neighbor with the same avionics setup, said he would go up with me the next afternoon.

Air Traffic Control

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

Garmin expanded on the successful G1000 King Air upgrade program (more on that in a minute) and targeted the Beechjet fleet with the retrofit of its big-screen G5000 integrated cockpit. Climbing into the G5000 XLS cockpit, it’s quickly apparent that Garmin worked hard to improve upon the ergonomics and overall layout of the flight deck.

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get.

Weather

Air Facts

JULY 14, 2025

do they move in the right directions when I move the stick and rudders? 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. Did they add fuel, or drain any? attached and B.

Lift

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. The cleanliness of the hangar floor was only of passing interest compared to my number-one duty: keeping the boss alive by remembering what he forgets. A familiar air of disharmony prevailed in the cockpit.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability. Breguet 761 Deux-Ponts F-WASM, the first prototype, rolled out of one of the hangars at Villacoublay, having been modified to the third tail of a Br 761S. (US

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310 310 which featured a “stepless” plexiglass cockpit and two 700 hp Piaggio Stella P.XVI RC-35 radial engines.

Aileron

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I exited the terminal parking lot and walked east toward the hangar housing the museum. Between the runway and the collection of hangar buildings on the northwest corner of the field are two rows of tie downs whose positions are marked by airplane tires. Within those hangars, I found a number of treasures. For Tilting at.?

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2025

The nose gear could be retracted for the aircraft to be parked with the nose resting on the hangar deck of a carrier or towed using a smaller, externally mounted wheel. Other parts of the Pirate that were replicated on the aircraft included the cockpit canopy and the gun ports in the nose.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 15, 2025

Inside the hangars of the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing (CAF SoCal) in Camarillo, California, a rare and legendary warbird is undergoing a complete transformation. The cockpit is also being modernized, shedding outdated systems in favor of more reliable and serviceable components.

Aileron

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2024

Any dust, dirt, and debris that may have accumulated while being worked on in the hangar was first washed off. Using a sprayer system that does not create much overspray, the aircraft would be painted in place in the museum’s main hangar. Electrical and hydraulic systems are done and the cockpit and interior are nearly complete.

Cockpit

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. I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle.

Runway

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. Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

Tail

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? The 172 has a steerable nosewheel, much heavier than the rudders on my RV-9A with a castering nosewheel. I had a total knee replacement. Taxiing out, I experimented with the turn radius without using brakes.

Pitot Tube

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

He was thrilled and sent me a picture of her by the new hangar. The new owner was thrilled and sent me a picture of the Cardinal by its new hangar. Like many local GA airports, we have a group of pilots (mostly older, retired aircraft owners) who congregate most days in one hangar or another. The reason is that it is time.

VOR

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

You’d think pilot problems would be all about stick-and-rudder skills here,” he said. 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. Need a right turn?

Knot

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

These were days before the proliferation of AWOS/ASOS stations and the advent of ADS-B (FIS-B) weather displayed on a tablet in the cockpit. (A Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. What's that?) Out darn (oil) spot!

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

But there was also the project to build the new hangar to do the work in, which was completed at the end of 2011, so now the work could begin in earnest. Two months later in September, 2011 I was back again, observing the progress on the aircraft and the hangar nearing completion. The nose art had also now been applied!

Cockpit

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.

Cockpit

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. Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

After all, a Cub sitting on a hangar pad was what initially drew me to walk into the Ron Alexander Youth Aviation Program , an experience that changed the course of my life at just barely 16 years old. The next item on the list was a thorough walkaround to ensure the floats, water rudders, and cables were all in operational order.

Rudder

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.,

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 4, 2025

Owner Ken Nelson smiles from the cockpit of his Varga. Theres always a rudder dance on every takeoff and landing. With the [Griffin] foundation providing funding for aircraft insurance, maintenance and hangars, our student pilots are able to get quality flight instruction simply for the cost of the fuel they burn.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 19, 2025

Show them the classroom, maintenance hangar and, weather permitting, take them on to the ramp and show them the aircraft, ramp, windsock, and airport makings such as taxiways. Anatomy of a Class On the first day of class, welcome the learners to the school and give them a tour.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

His wing tank and cockpit exploded.” One torpedo found its mark on USS Intrepid at 2211 hours, killing 11 sailors and wounding a further 17, causing flooding in several of the ship’s compartments and jamming the Intrepid ’s rudder hard to port. On the cockpit section, the stencil “LT. Navy and U.S.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. Overall, the controls were wonderful.

Airplanes