Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Full-fuel payload is a whopping 1,150 pounds, and max landing weight is 7,600. We experimented with varying descents from an emergency descent profile—from coming down at nearly 10,000 fpm to seeing if we could cure being high and fast on an arrival procedure. Once we canceled IFR, we spent some time hand-flying the AX.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Developments in aircraft design and engine technology have allowed us to fly farther, faster, and carry more payload. You use the rudder here to align yourself with the runway as the ailerons bank the aircraft into the wind. After returning to the Earths atmosphere, they use wings to glide back to a runway.

Torque

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

It was noon on a clear, cold January day, and I was taxiing to the start of the grass runway at little Thiene Airport for my first solo flight. Moments before my Dolomite-facing runway pause, Giorgio and I had flown several circuits around the traffic pattern. I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. Can you hear me?”

Runway

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). The soundtrack of the engines in cruise was spot on.

Flight Deck

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. One place it’s not at home is taking off from short runways.

Knot

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

However, as the aircraft crossed the border between France and Belgium, the crew set 7700 on the aircraft’s transponder (indicating an inflight emergency) and requested an immediate descent and diversion to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) in the Netherlands, some 90 miles (144km) off the aircraft’s nose.

Air Traffic Control

AV Web

JANUARY 8, 2025

It wasnt until I started flying professionally that I needed to balance realistic fuel planning with payload and just a dash of bargain hunting. Obviously, the number one priority when preflight planning is a safe fuel load, but being able to extract a useful payload out of the aircraft is part of why we play the game.

Payload