Aerotime

JANUARY 20, 2025

The larger of the aircraft components, including the fuselage sections, wings, and the types iconic triple tail structure arrived at Lufthansa Technik in October 2023 accompanied by 292 crates of smaller parts. Additionally, the cockpit has been meticulously recreated to appear as it did when the aircraft was first delivered in 1957.

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Rudder Airplanes Hangar Tail 267

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

Have you ever seen an airplane with no tail and no vertical fin, but with just a sleek wing? They prove that with the right aerodynamic tricks, you dont need a tail to fly. A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). How does the tail do this? Ever wondered how it stays balanced?

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Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

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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Cockpit Firewall Hangar Tail 124

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 4, 2025

image via Castle Air Museum) Though the museum had announced the rollout of the aircraft during the Open Cockpit Day, weather permitting, the museum’s team of restoration volunteers worked around the clock to get the aircraft’s iconic paint scheme back to its glossy finish.

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Tail Cockpit Hangar Weather 98

AV Web

APRIL 30, 2025

Data from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders confirmed the system remained off during the remainder of the flight. The Phenom 300s pilot operating handbook requires a full deice and anti-ice treatment when ice or freezing precipitation is present, along with a thorough inspection of wing and tail surfaces prior to takeoff.

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Ceiling Tail Cockpit Weather 98

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

Image courtesy of Lucas Ryan Cockpit and Nose Section Progress One of the primary areas of focus since the last update has been the aircrafts nose section. Meanwhile, inside the cockpit, Mike and Chris have been working to reinstall control pulleys that route cables for the aircrafts control surfaces and engine systems.

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Tail Stability Cockpit Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

It just so happened that 92460 was available, so a deal was made and the center section was sent to Texas along with the tail cone. The cockpit in 2015. A lot of little details are still ahead, including finding a correct tail hook and locating or manufacturing the two, rear tailwheel doors.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 16, 2025

Dave, Norm, and Terry have been hard at work tackling the skins and structure around the tail oleo box. Norm and Terry riveting the structure around the tail oleo box aperture of the rear fuselage of NX611. On the starboard side of the rear fuselage, all skins are now pinned in place.

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Tail Rudder Cockpit 111

Aerotime

MAY 29, 2024

Malaysia Airlines “With the main fuselage sections, wings, and tail adorned with the airline’s iconic wau logo fully attached, the aircraft will undergo installation of the cockpit, engines, landing gear, electrical wiring, avionics, and fuel and hydraulic systems,” Malaysia Airlines wrote on social media on May 29, 2024.

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Airlines Airline Tail Cockpit 271

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. Yet that has produced some challenges during the course of the project.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Large components such as the fuselage, wings, and the distinctive triple tail unit, along with 292 crates of smaller parts, arrived in October 2023. A special highlight of this static restoration is the meticulously recreated 1950s cockpit.

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Rudder Hangar Tail Cockpit 130

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. Note the radome above the cockpit.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot.

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Lift Thrust Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2020, Brian has been toiling in his garage, building the cockpit of a B-36H. ” ) For armament, the Aluminum Overcast was equipped with one remotely operated tail turret with two 20mm M24A1 autocannons. The cockpit canopy, structure, sides, and base are all complete, or nearly so.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Payload Tail 105

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2025

For decades, the aircraft—tail number N714NA—soared far above the ordinary, serving as a high-altitude observatory for some of NASA’s most groundbreaking astronomical research. Meanwhile, the KAO’s cockpit was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum, and its telescope found a home at the Moffett Field Museum.

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Cockpit Tail Cargo Jet 87

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

On the landing approach, Saari, tightened the strap on his goggles, opened the cockpit, and stuck his head into the slipstream to see the runway, setting the Thunderbolt down safely and rolling to a stop. Army Air Corps fighter with all-metal construction, retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit. The Spitfire Mk.

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Tail Cockpit Pilot Approach 95

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 5, 2025

Sage’s second design, the Type 2, a small two-seat fighter, where a pilot and rear gunner were kept in an enclosed cockpit, was built and flight tested. Subsequent flight testing showed that the aircraft proved to be overweight and slow, even for a WWI-era trainer.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Airplanes Rudder 98

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. As I climbed into the aft pilots seat, I was immediately impressed by the minimalistic, clean cockpit and the fit. After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 16, 2025

Blume elaborated, She was equipped with two Boulton Paul turretsa Type A on top and a Type E in the tail. Various components are temporarily placed in the cockpit of Maid of Athens. This airplane did have a bomb bay. It wasnt just a cargo plane, which is a common misconception. Only one other example is known to exist.

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Hangar Cargo Stability Airplanes 124

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 9, 2025

But the reality is that, aside from the bronze green cockpit, wartime B-17s had bare metal interiors. Built by Gerad Blume, who does the project’s woodwork and graphic design, this cockpit door was recreated strictly according to the original blueprints. How many surviving examples today have green interiors? Almost all.

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Hangar Stability Approach Cockpit 111

Simple Flying

MAY 9, 2025

The "glass cockpit" used six cathode ray tube displays to display flight and navigation information. Later, the -300 model increased its maximum take-off weight and range thanks to additional fuel tanks, including a tail trim tank.

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Flight Deck Rudder Tail Cockpit 105

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. With a do list, if it gets lost in the cockpit or is missing from the airplane, you cant fly.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 95

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. Upon landing I can clear the runway and steer the glider right into its parking position before getting out of the cockpit, usually without having to start the engine at all.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2025

Aircraft Coverings An aircraft cover, at least a windscreen protector be it internal or external to the cockpit, is a must, especially if you are parked on the ramp and exposed to the elements. For extra flair, have the aircraft tail number embossed or embroidered on the covers. It is always a good idea to bring your own portable set.

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Airplanes Cockpit Tail Hangar 71

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

A large portion of the tail, including most of the vertical stabilizer and the entire horizontal stabilizer, also broke away from the aircraft. However, the pilots could not use the flight deck door, and they were forced to use the escape hatch on the cockpit ceiling which was now positioned towards the ground.

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Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer 241

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

READ MORE: Making Some Flying Memories to Last a Lifetime Mildly interesting stuff, but not a ton to take away other than further proof that I’m not as sharp on the tail end of a red-eye. What changed? I disconnected the autobrakes at 102 knots, turned off the runway with 4,400 feet remaining, and had a maximum speed of 16 knots on taxi in.

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Pilot Knot Gross Weight Runway 110

Fear of Landing

APRIL 11, 2025

At the same time, the first officer entered the cockpit and spoke to the engineer there. Back in the cockpit, the first officer noticed that the brake bottle pressure was slightly low and remained concerned that there was an issue with the pneumatic system. The captain entered the cockpit. He asked if there was a pneumatic leak.

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Cockpit Runway Air Traffic Control Drag 70

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The system is powered by the KUSAT-2000 Tail Mount Broadband Internet Satcom system, featuring minimal beam-to-beam switchover latency, compatibility with both next-generation spot beam and traditional wide-beam satellites, as well as reduced weight and power usage. The system is offered in both tail-mounted and flat panel designs.

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Jet Tail Drag Cockpit 94

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire. The wing tip then struck the ground, at which point the wing and the tail section broke. The wing and tail on runway 23 as photographed by Brennan Milroy (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

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Runway Tail Knot Altimeter 59

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

This force pushes the tail to the right, causing the nose to yaw left. When the pitch attitude changessuch as when the tail of a taildragger rises during takeoffthe force applied to the propeller does not take effect immediately at the point of contact. How do you counter this left turning tendency?

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. After a year of recovery, Rogan was back in the cockpit and was judged fit to fly combat.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Some fuselage work also took place – such as test-fitting the tail wheel, tail cone, and the skin under the horizontal stabilizer. The team also applied a second coat of varnish to various wooden parts, along with the fuselage assembly and cockpit floor.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Rudder Tail 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

military is looking to take the pilot out of the cockpit of one of its workhorse helicopters. The Army already has the trained personnel and full logistical tail to support them. Army UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters alongside Honeywell.

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Pilot Cargo Tail Cockpit 65

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The weapon was guided by the launch aircraft through the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) method, with the pilot tracking the flight of the missile via two bright flares on the weapon’s tail and making corrections using a small joystick in the cockpit.]

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Pilot Cockpit Knot Stability 105

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.),

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Jet Airplanes Tail Cockpit 117

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Plans for the Future Christopher is considering several options for the future of the “Big Time Operator” cockpit, including a mobile exhibit that could travel to airshows, complementing the only two flyable B-29s left in the world. The key, he said, is thorough planning.

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Cockpit Approach Tail 88

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 24, 2024

In tribute to him, the starboard side of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI TE311 now wears the fictitious squadron code “L-NG”, with “SQN LDR MARK LONG” annotated under the cockpit along with a Squadron Leader’s pennant. In memory of Sqn.

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Pilot Tail Cockpit 119