Vintage Aviation News

JULY 8, 2025

In a rare behind-the-scenes look at high-performance flight operations, Starfighters Aerospace recently shared footage of a full supersonic flight conducted in their single-seat Lockheed F-104S Starfighter, filmed from the cockpit at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Headquartered at the Kennedy Space Center, Starfighters Space Inc.

Payload

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2020, Brian has been toiling in his garage, building the cockpit of a B-36H. The Peacemaker was the only American aircraft with the range and payload to carry atomic bombs from American soil to the USSR. The cockpit canopy, structure, sides, and base are all complete, or nearly so.

Cockpit

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This gives the Seneca a higher payload capacity and allows for impressive speed, range, and climb rates, making it suitable for long flights and commercial applications. On the other hand, the Piper Seminole is known for its simpler cockpit design, with less complex avionics.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Note the radome above the cockpit. “Machine gun fire you could definitely hear the firing, even from the cockpit and over the noise of all four engines. However, due to other noises generated by the slipstream, engines and being inside of a ‘tin can,’ the gunfire noise in the cockpit area wasnt too disturbing.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

Like in a conventional aircraft, youll still have a yoke or stick in the cockpit to control pitch and roll. Lesser weight only contributes to better performance, like increased payload capacity and improved fuel efficiency. But how do elevons help you do this? These features can be complex both aerodynamically and mechanically.

Tail

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Now, you might be wondering about its payload. This aircraft is all about carrying massive payloads. The design features four pairs of contra-rotating propellers, a testament to its immense power and ability to carry heavy payloads. However, operations hit a pause in May 2019, shortly after its first flight. Its key role?

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

Garmin, a brand synonymous with flight planning and execution, brings a new tool to the cockpit with the Garmin Pilot Web, a flight planning website that interfaces nicely with the Garmin Pilot mobile app. This allows pilots to create, save, and file flight plans, as well as view weather briefings.

Pilot

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 23, 2025

Credit: Airbus During the design phase, we took our time to study this further at the time of the A350-1000 development and the A350F is based on this variant, even though it is slightly shorter to create the best balance between volume and payload. Credit: Airbus There are clear benefits in terms of commonality.

Cargo

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

If you’ve ever dreamed of flying faster, higher, or carrying more payload, this rating is your ticket. We train pilots at Leopard Aviation to meet multi‑engine rating requirements using the 2019 Piper PA‑44 Seminole with Garmin glass cockpit avionics. Favorable for training—reliable, stable, widely used in aviation programs.

Checkride

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The design was based on the F28 airliner previously produced by Fokker, incorporating some updated technologies including upgraded engines and a glass cockpit. The aircraft was designed to be a 109-seat airliner, capable of short-field performance to access smaller regional airports. In total, 278 F100s were built.

Jet

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

Daher Aircraft acquired the Kodiak product line in 2019 and has invested millions of dollars to evolve these go-anywhere aircraft renowned for their STOL (short takeoff and landing) capabilities in remote and challenging environments, rugged durability and payload capacity.

Altimeter

Professional Pilot

JULY 25, 2025

The Aerospace Technologies business unit builds aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity systems, mechanical components, power systems, and more. It’s hardware and software solutions create more fuel-efficient aircraft, more direct and on-time flights and safer skies and airports.

Payload

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. I’d served as the legal advisor in targeting cells that put “warheads on foreheads” in Syria during the fight against ISIS—but we were always the “ground customers,” waiting for the right platform to deliver the payload.

Runway

Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

However, it was not intended to work as a dedicated interceptor, and high speeds at a high altitude are more of a byproduct of this aircrafts powerful engines, designed to give it high payload capacity and acceleration. The MiG-31, only used in Russia, has its speed hobbled by the cockpit glass. Mach, it flies at only 1.5

Jet

Flying Magazine

JULY 7, 2025

Eventually, though, the 10-ton payload model could be the smallest in the Airlander family. Simultaneously, the firm is developing the even larger Airlander 50—and potentially, an Airlander 200 with a 200-ton payload. The cockpit includes a dedicated trim panel, rather than a simple wheel or switches on the yoke.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

PRESS RELEASE On February 15, the Museum will begin the worlds only exclusive crew compartment and cockpit tours of the NASA Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT). FFT cockpit looking aft with views of a rocket booster hovering in the left window and a half-scale mockup of the Hubble Space Telescope in the right window.

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

You can adjust the wings using a manual control in the cockpit. Another tradeoff that you need to juggle is payload vs range. For the F-111 and many other similar aircraft, the range decreases as the payload gets heavier. But to give you a general idea, let’s look at the F-111 aircraft as an example.

Weight-Shift-Control

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In the French Air Force, the Breguet Deux-Ponts was used to support operations in Greenland and French Polynesia, where their payload capacity was used to fly large numbers off French military personnel and equipment ranging from armored vehicles to helicopters. Breguet 765 Sahara 64-PH with all four engines reinstalled, March 15, 2019.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

In August of that year, the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM; German Air Ministry) had revised a 1934 requirement for a new multirole aircraft to become a Schnellbomber, a high-speed bomber that would carry a crew of three, a payload of 8001,000 kg (1,8002,200 lbs.), and have no defensive turrets, relying on its speed to avoid interception.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2025

Inside, the semi-cylindrical fuselage was divided into six main compartments: nose, cockpit, bomb bay, radio room, waist, and tailseparated by 11 structural bulkheads. Until the B-17G, turbochargers were manually controlled; the G introduced an electric system managed from the cockpit.

Tail

Flying Magazine

JULY 17, 2025

Anyone contemplating buying one should be ready to pay what we consider to be substantial maintenance bills, with the reward being fast cruise speeds above the weather in pressurized comfort and with reasonable payload. Climbing aboard and starting up front, however, the cockpit isn’t exactly cavernous.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

However, the DC-6 offered airlines increased range, higher cruising speed, and cruising altitudes of up to 25,000 feet (depending upon payload and fuel load) in pressurized comfort for a full 3,000 miles, making it a versatile hauler of both passengers (DC-6B) and cargo (DC-6A).

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

READ MORE: 5 of the Best Pieces of Gear for Epic Underwing Camping Ray remained in his airplane with the windows open, relaxing and enjoying the breeze flowing through the cockpit. Sure, it’s bulky and weighs more, but for a great night’s sleep that tops many hotel beds, it’s 20 pounds of payload well spent.

Airplanes

AV Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In freighter configuration, the SkyCourier can accommodate three LD3 cargo containers with a payload of up to 6,000 pounds. Rick Horwath, president and CEO, Air Bravo, said, The aircraft has a roomy cockpit, its easy to fly and the avionics are user-friendly. We look forward to putting it to use.

Payload

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 23, 2024

Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 But it’s not just the outside that’s a treat — the inside is awesome as well, especially if you can sit in the nose , where you’re literally seated under the cockpit. Not only is the A350 a sleek plane from the outside (I love the cockpit windows, the winglets, etc.),

Jet

Professional Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

The InSight Display System brings a glass cockpit experience and advanced navigation to modernize Hawker 800 series aircraft. ” Key benefits of the InSight Display System for Hawker 800/A/B/XP operators include: Increased payload and efficiency: Provides an additional 250+ lbs.

Payload

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With civilian and military customers seeking more payload capacity, the fuselage was widened to 144 inches for five-abreast seating, but Boeing’s main rival in the airline industry, Douglas Aircraft, promised six-abreast seating for their upcoming DC-8 jetliner which was to have a fuselage width of 147 in.

Weather

Flying Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

According to Skyryrse, SkyOS’ streamlined controls will improve safety and payload capacity while allowing first responders to cover more ground. Those changes open up space in the cockpit and, per Skyryse vice president of design Peter Blades, make flying as “comfortable as driving a car.” “By

Pilot

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 15, 2024

This substantial fuel capacity supports its role in delivering payloads over vast distances. Capable of delivering the largest conventional payload, the B1B struck targets with precision anywhere in the world, making it an essential tool in modern warfare.

Payload

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

The Hill Digital Cockpit is a thing of simplicity and beauty. For VIP and executive transport, parapublic, EMS, SAR, and energy services, it will carry 9 pax, up to 6000-lb payload, 1000 nm at 270 kt cruise. It can carry up to 882 lb of payload. Payload is 900 lb. AutoFlight has 200 orders in hand.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Therefore, your chemical payload will be anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 pounds.) The brute power needed to defy gravity and cruise at up to 191 mph with that payload type is unmatched. (For those counting pounds, as pilots do, pesticides weigh around 10 pounds per gallon.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 2, 2025

While Olds was known to speak his mind, even when speaking with superior officers, he got his wish for a second combat assignment, over twenty years after he had seen combat in the cockpit of a P-51 in WWII.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 2, 2025

While Olds was known to speak his mind, even when speaking with superior officers, he got his wish for a second combat assignment, over twenty years after he had seen combat in the cockpit of a P-51 in WWII.

Pilot

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The presence of a cockpit on the Model 437 prototype, registered N437VN, raises questions about whether it suggests a crewed version of the final model or if it is just for facilitating flight testing. .” This concept, colloquially known as “loyal wingman”, aims to undertake high-risk missions while minimizing danger to human pilots.

Payload

Airspeed Junkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Known for its long range and massive payload, the B-52 remains a key player in modern warfare. The aircraft is distinguished by its extensive capabilities, including the ability to deliver both nuclear and conventional payloads, execute diverse missions, and utilize advanced targeting and electronic warfare systems.

Payload

Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

” As the latest iteration of the F-15 Eagle air superiority aircraft, the F-15EX features an increased payload capacity, fly-by-wire controls, a digital cockpit, modernized sensors and radars, and electronic warfare capabilities. Eventually, it is expected to replace older F-15C/D models and refresh the USAF Eagle fleet.

Jet

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The upper deck houses the communications center and cockpit, while the 4,000 square feet of floor space on the main deck is configured for presidential duties. The pilot would bank the 747 away from the rocket, and after five seconds, it would ignite and take the payload the rest of the distance into orbit.

Cargo