Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

As ground staff at the airport, the pilot had security codes for access and was able to walk straight to the hangar. The hangar held three helicopters. The two larger helicopters blocked the hangar door from closing, so the hangar was left open. He drove to Cairns Airport. The fuel caught on fire.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

In order to facilitate beaching operations at naval air stations, a pair of small wheels were added to the rear of the skis, along with a tailwheel in order for the aircraft to be towed from a hangar to the launching ramps. The official maiden flight of the Sea Dart took place on April 9, 1953.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 23, 2025

Feeling that gentle nudge of acceleration as you retract the gear during climb-out feels great, as does knowing youve got none of that drag slowing you down and increasing fuel burnin cruise. Theres something about the feeling of flying a retractable-gear airplane.

Transponder

Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Live bands there were an occasional treat, and until the safety-nicks banned it, drag racing the aircraft tugs after hours was a real thing. Some of the old, small hangars near the grandstands still housed all Biplane and Formula 1 racers in an impossibly crowded jumble of overlapping propellers and wing tips.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 4, 2025

With its nonporous cure, filling properties, and high resilience, ceramics offer protection from surface oxidation, parasitic drag, and UV damage. A climate-controlled hangar is a must for the job. The main component of ceramic coatings is silicon dioxide (SiO2), which is also a major component in glass—hence the glass-like appearance.

Airplanes

Air Facts

JULY 30, 2025

(Mis)Adventures in the Birdbath Air Facts Journal When you operate and hangar an airplane over and near a body of salt water, you have to be concerned about the corrosion inherent to that environment. It helps to frequently wash your bird to keep corrosion from adversely affecting not only its appearance, but also its performance.

Runway

Inspire

JANUARY 23, 2019

The post Backcountry Flying, STOL Drag Racing at High Sierra Fly-In first appeared on Hangar Flying. Get a taste of the event in this video, and read more about it in the February 2019 issue of EAA Sport Aviation.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The offset top wing offered the benefits of increased visibility to the pilot, and it was also claimed to have reduced interference drag between the top and bottom wings (though later evidence would argue the benefit as negligible.) The Staggerwing in her new hangar at the National Warplane Museum.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The A motor deploys the airbrakes to the ‘MEDIUM DRAG’ position, while both motors operate together to adjust between ‘MEDIUM DRAG’ and ‘HIGH DRAG’ positions or fully retract them. On Friday June 28, 558 was moved into 2Excel Aviation’s Hangar 3 for some much-needed TLC to her starboard main undercarriage leg.

Drag

Inspire

AUGUST 1, 2018

Three crewmembers from a KC-135, who heroically risked their aircraft and lives to drag an F-4 Phantom jet to safety after it suffered mechanical issues, came to Oshkosh for a special episode of EAA’s The Green Dot, recorded in front of a live audience. The post EAA’s The Green Dot – KC-135 Tanker Crew first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Drag

Inspire

AUGUST 12, 2020

The increased lift of the raised wing results in increased drag, which causes the airplane to yaw or swing toward the side or direction of the raised wing. first appeared on Hangar Flying. Adverse yaw is the tendency for the nose of an airplane to yaw in the opposite direction when an airplane banks its wings for a turn.

Drag

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

Someone claiming to be from Bankstown says the hangar gossip is that the engine failed because he ran out of fuel. From the video, it seems that the pilot kept the landing gear stowed, which I presume was in order to reduce drag. All I’m saying is that if the pilot was inexperienced, I’m more impressed, not less.

Runway

Northstar VFR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI When you’re in the middle of flight training, the days and weeks seem to drag along as you’re practicing maneuvers, learning emergency procedures, and fine-tuning your landings. Meet at the school, the hangar, or even for coffee and quiz each other on possible checkride questions.

Checkride

Inspire

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The post Oshkosh in the Backcountry first appeared on Hangar Flying. Finding the spirit of aviation on a dry lake bed.

Hangar

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This provides increased drag and, therefore, the loss of altitude as quickly as possible. Since aviation for work isn’t enough, she also lives in a hangar home on the west side of Houston! If the descent is conducted in turbulent conditions, the pilot must also comply with the design maneuvering speed (VA) limitations.

Descent

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). The author and Greg Morris review the aircraft flight envelope during ground school (right). built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit.

Knot

Photographic Logbook

JULY 7, 2024

FlightLevel was busy that day and multiple jets occupied the ramp area so we were directed to park among the T-hangars on the south side of the ramp. Bear Skin Neck is not a Great Place Name: Postcards from Rockport Our house rental was right in town, a mere two blocks from the main drag. We have arrived!"

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This arrangement also reduced drag by 25% compared to a conventional engine setup. In 1994, the LPG acquired a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) hangar, or “Q-shed,” from RAF Wattisham. The atmosphere at Bruntingthorpe was electric as the hangar doors opened, revealing the gleaming Avon engines of the Lightnings.

Jet

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

At that time, the disassembled Parks shared a hangar with the Bellanca and I could just about hear my Bellanca say ‘you never read bedtime stories to me!’ Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

Airplanes

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Behind me, the other Cherokee (a Cherokee Six) landed and aggressively made for the main commercial hangar building. I was initially flummoxed by the drag strip extending southward from the east end of runway 28 and flew downwind with a big offset from the runway to avoid flying over massive bleachers packed with hot rod enthusiasts.

Runway

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Young Aviators got students interested in aviation and STEM. Two hours were allocated to flying.

Lift

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 floats drag factor definitely stood out in those few moments. departure to get ahead of it as best we could.

Rudder

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

There was another person on the airfield, who was standing outside of a hangar at about halfway along the runway as the Cessna approached. This means that if you decide to abort a landing, you need to retract the flaps to reduce drag so you can quickly climb away. The engine sounded as though it was running at a low power setting.

Threshold

The Aviationist

JUNE 14, 2024

The post RNoAF F-35A Aircraft Use Norwegian Mountain Hangar Complex At Bardufoss Air Base appeared first on The Aviationist.

Hangar

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Back in Time The National Warplane Museum had partially cleaned out their main hangar to accommodate the breakfast, so several of their treasures were outside under the brilliant sun. On take-off, when I pulled the nosewheel off the ground, Warrior 481 palpably accelerated with the reduction in drag.

Drag

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

What drags this one down is the back of the fuselage: the design is tail-heavy. Were they having a hangar sale on blue paint? Not a cheap LCC vibe, like you feel with Spirit or Southwest, but a more sleek and sophisticated one. The colors are part of this. I don’t know about really cool, but they’re cool.

Tail

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. No one wants the skin of their airplane to resemble a dimpled golf ball, Pollyanna commentary about drag reduction aside. Starting with Pickens County, I called every small airport in the region looking for hangar space. Nothing was available.

Descent

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2024

So, the decision was made to attach cables to the aircraft and drag its tail first onto the beach, but this was not accomplished until the next day once recovery equipment could be mobilized. Today, the Avenger sits in the museum’s restoration hangar, where it will be restored to static display.

Drag

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Recently, a GA pilot at Newnan-Coweta County Airport (KCCO) in Georgia pulled a Cessna 172 out of the hangar, ran through a quick preflight inspection, and yelled, “clear prop!” Slowly slipping the reamer into the number 6 exhaust guide, the tool moved smoothly for approximately one-half inch, then began to drag. Mission aborted.

Drag

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

Winging It Aside from the aforementioned desire for a greater aspect ratio for reduced drag, the one-piece Gweduck wing was developed for minimal weight, ease of construction and benign handling. Keeping drag corralled was emphasized as the Gweduck mission is foremost long-distance cruising. Maintenance room is generally very good.

Airplanes

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Though renowned for its maneuverability, the Triplane struggled to pull away from the Camel, fighting against the fundamental drag of its triple tiered wings. I spotted something new incongruously placed in the Curtiss hangar. This is the magic of Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, the Hudson Valley's temporal anomaly. The Fokker D.VI

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Louis, from bystanders as it heads toward a hangar. Wikimedia Commons) Soon, the dazed American pilot was dragged from the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis ‘ Wright Whirlwind engine died down, it was replaced by the roar of thousands of cheering Parisians. Paris, 1927. Louis and held aloft by a crowd in exuberant pandemonium.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new gallery is a 91,000 square foot hangar and provides a 70% increase to the indoor exhibition space. Unlike the P-38, though, the Liberator parts had to be dragged down a 40 foot bluff, and since Polar Bear sprung a leak due to hitting an underwater rock, the barge had to be anchored 250 yards from the shore.

Weather

Inspire

JULY 23, 2025

Chairs start dragging over wet grass, the fire flares, and conversation builds. Before long, Top Gun […] The post Campfire Stories at Camp Scholler first appeared on Hangar Flying. But there’s only four of us, for now.

Drag