Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In August 1943, it was assigned to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as Kittyhawk A29-448though also marked with serial number A29-1050 on the opposite tail. USAAF Photo) Recreating the Nose Art When the aircraft was recovered, all the cowlings from the firewall forward were missing, leaving no trace of its original nose art.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 2, 2025
Similar work lies ahead for the right wing and the tail section. The engine firewall will be installed at the bottom of the nacelle as shown, with the top section eventually reattached to the front wing spar. The left inner wing panel, once a disassembled pile of spars and ribs, has begun to resemble a functioning structure once more.
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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.
Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. image via AirCorps Aviation) A view of the forward frame reveals the four holes (boxed in red) for the engine mount bolts (which also pass through the firewall). image via AirCorps Aviation) A side view of the firewall forward subassembly.
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 28, 2024
In the process, she lost her outer wing panels, engine section and a number of other components, so what remains today consists mostly of the fuselage, from the firewall back, and the tail feathers. With such a short operational life and no combat record, BuNo.36175
Plane and Pilot
MAY 3, 2025
Piper put bigger engines in the basic PA-28, gave it retractable gear, stretched the fuselage, changed the wing to a semitapered design, gave it a T-tail (then took the T-tail away), made the cabin wider and fitted six seats, and refined it year over year to the airplane it is today. The student then closed the throttle.
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 19, 2024
The power plant modifications plate on the engine bay’s firewall. Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components. Today, Ens. The same didn’t happen on the port side.
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