Firewall Rudder Tail 
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 29, 2025
For over ten years, the project has been underway, with museum volunteers having built a pair of wings to the same dimensions as the first set of wings on the original, and have built the fuselage, cockpit, and tail surfaces, along with the retractable skid rather than a wheel that Hughes had installed on the original H-1.
Plane and Pilot
MAY 3, 2025
Depressions in the vertical stabilizer and rudder, as well as stabilator skins and ailerons, all help increase panel stiffness while allowing less under-skin structure. Even though the CFI immediately firewalled the throttle, a wingtip hit the ground and ended the flight. The student then closed the throttle.
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AV Web
JULY 1, 2025
Busted landing gear, shattered props, bent firewalls—and many more that probably didn’t make the reports because owners quickly stuck them back in the hangar and turned off the lights. With an aircraft with a 1320-pound gross weight there really isn’t much inertia. Then there’s the overall appeal of flying a modern, sporty airplane.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 1, 2025
John Espe Cruiser Buhl, Idaho/Injuries: None NTSB Report: WPR23LA29 The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing, he encountered a gusting tail wind. The pilot applied right rudder in an attempt to correct this, resulting in a ground loop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.
Air Facts
JULY 2, 2025
By the time we hit 85, the tail was flying, the main wheels were off the ground, and the nosewheel was grinding itself into the dirt. This is counteracted by a bootful of opposite rudder, which generally coincides with its recovery, causing an even more violent swing in the other direction. I was, in fact, partially correct.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 16, 2025
The Albatross, firewall forward, is set up as a “quick engine change” package, which means that the entire assembly comes off as a unit—engine, accessories, and its mount disconnect from the firewall and can be exchanged as a unit. The first day I was tasked with disconnecting a supercharger control pushrod at the firewall.
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 19, 2024
The power plant modifications plate on the engine bay’s firewall. The rudder and elevators both had some internal work done to the ribs prior to re-covering the surfaces, but not much. Today, Ens. Johnson is interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. We had to do some welding on that.
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