Vintage Aviation News

MAY 29, 2025

The aircraft’s construction number and Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service serial number are currently unknown, but it had the squadron tail number 302 for the 105th Naval Base Air Unit at Vunakanau Airfield, near Rabaul, New Britain. Nakajima B5N2 ‘Kate’, tail number 302, at Vunakanau Airfield, New Britain, September 1945.

Hangar

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

As you can see, the plane doesnt yet have the full Austrian livery, but instead has an all-white fuselage, except for the Austrian name written across the front of the plane, and the Austrian logo on the tail. Austrian 787 Vienna Airport Anyway, boarding was scheduled for 9:50AM, 45 minutes ahead of departure.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 3, 2025

On carrier decks, however, the Savage was often criticized for its bulk and was unpopular with flight deck crews due to the amount of space it occupied.

Ferry Flight

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. Its also the anchor point to which the wings and tail are attached.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 18, 2025

As I fired up the APU, Hanna made an announcement explaining that I was starting an engine in the tail and told them the things they might expect to see, feel, and hear as we started engines on the airplanethe sound of spooling turbines, changes in air conditioning flow, and flicker of lights as we shifted power sources.

Runway

AV Web

JUNE 16, 2025

AVweb Insider AVweb Insider AVweb Insider Guest Blog: Why Airlines Must Resist The Transition To Single-Pilot Flight Decks The two-pilot flight deck is fundamental to the safety of commercial flight. Great backcountry airplane!

Flight Deck

AOPA

JULY 21, 2025

Wing kit deliveries are expected by the end of the year, with the tail, fuselage, and finishing kits to follow in 2026. Inside the flight deck, the manual flap handle has been moved to the floor. The horizontal tail has morphed into a traditional fixed horizontal stabilizer and elevator with an electrically actuated trim tab.

Tail

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 11, 2025

Specifically, I was flying on F-GZNQ, Air France’s first jet with the new first class cabin ( and a tip-to-tail makeover , for that matter). Air France La Premiere Lounge Paris transfer It was quite a distance to the beautiful 777-300ER that would be taking me to New York.

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

But even these modifications were not enough to secure the new Fury’s place on carrier flight decks, leading to North American Aviation engineers returning to their drafting tables to design a new variant, while the FJ-2 was relegated to land-based Marine Corps squadrons and reserve units, being retired from service in 1957.

Jet

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

Adding a tricycle landing gear configuration also reduced potential heat damage from the exhaust to the wooden flight decks of US carriers. 50 caliber machine guns and racks for eight wing-mounted 5 in High Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVARs).

Jet

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The Furious had been modified before its launching with a flight deck over its bow while retaining its superstructure. After altering his course to fly ahead of Furious , he lowered his speed until he was virtually hovering over the flight deck. Pictured is Squadron Commander E.H.

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

Cockpit

AV Web

JUNE 16, 2025

AVweb Insider AVweb Insider AVweb Insider Guest Blog: Why Airlines Must Resist The Transition To Single-Pilot Flight Decks The two-pilot flight deck is fundamental to the safety of commercial flight. Monday, April 28, 2025 Poll: Do You Guess The Cause Of Plane Crashes? Great backcountry airplane!

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Avionics are centered on a Garmin G1000 integrated flight deck with dual GNS 530W navigation units providing WAAS enabled GPS approaches. Engine enhancements include a SureFly electronic ignition system for consistent starts, GAMIjectors for optimal lean-of-peak operation, and Reiff preheat system built for cold-weather reliability.

Gross Weight

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.

Indicated Airspeed

Simple Flying

MAY 9, 2025

Airbus introduced electronic flight instrument displays in the A310 flight deck, replacing traditional analog dials. The "glass cockpit" used six cathode ray tube displays to display flight and navigation information.

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Standing on the port side of the deck adjacent to the arresting wires was the Landing Signal Officer (LSO), who carefully observed Johnson’s approach. 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.

Tail

Flight Training Central

JUNE 3, 2024

Easier said than done with the myriad of distractions that can be found on the flight deck. From advanced avionics to streaming music to needy passengers, distractions lurk.

Flight Deck

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The cockpit, also called the flight deck, is where pilots use electronic flight instruments as part of a primary flight display. Of all the sections of an aircraft, the tail assembly is perhaps the most important for keeping an airplane in the air safely. What are the basic parts of this section?

Horizontal Stabilizer

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. In a turboprop like the ATR, it’s not practical to offer constant protection.

Knot

Aviation Bussiness News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This marks a significant milestone in the Group’s fleet renewal program, with the aircraft’s major airframe components including the forward and rear fuselage, wings and iconic Flying Kangaroo tail coming together.

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

Pilot

Professional Pilot

MAY 27, 2024

. /22 May 2024 – Satcom Direct, the business aviation solutions provider, has confirmed approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the SD Plane Simple Ka-band tail mount terminal for a Gulfstream G650.

Flight Deck

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2025

This aircraft, EI-HLD was scheduled to operate my flight. What do you think of different patterns spotted on the tail of the aircraft? Once the engines were started, announcement from the flight deck was heard and we were on our way. The best thing about this flight?

Weather

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

PPR Info Requirements In all cases, you’ll need to provide a full schedule, tail number, complete crew/passenger passport information, and insurance valid for the European Union. At military airports, authorities must be advised of all crew/passengers coming in and going out.

Flight Plan

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The first page is all the basic details that we mostly knew: the aircraft was a Boeing 777 (registered in Brazil as PT-MUG) operated by Tam Linhas Aereas for a passenger flight from Milan Malpensa (MXP) to São Paulo.

Tail

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.

Runway

AeroSavvy

MARCH 26, 2022

pic.twitter.com/2O3nxWjF1P — UPS Airlines (@UPSAirlines) July 29, 2021 UPS 747 nose cargo door interior A small fleet of 747s have a tail that swings open. DreamLifter Trivia: Only the flight deck is pressurized on this 747 conversion. Load crews position the PRM behind the flight deck in position one.

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The C-47 also had an astrodome positioned in the cabin roof, strengthened floor components, a double cargo door and a shortened tail-cone for glider-towing shackles, all of which the C-49 did not have. WildKat logged 2000 miles and 12 hours of flight time, consuming 1400 gallons of av gas and many gallons of oil.

Cargo

Aerotime

AUGUST 9, 2024

The aircraft configuration sees a monocoque fuselage with a raised flight deck above the nose-to-tail cargo compartment below. The tail is attached to the rear of the empennage and is of a twin-tail design, with a vertical stabilizer attached at each end of the single horizontal stabilizer.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Ensuring Future Success Flight Designs position at the top of the podium looked in doubt. Now, however, after months of effort, production of all Flight Design products has moved from Kherson, Ukraine, to Sumperk in the Czech Republic.

Rudder

World Airline News

JULY 26, 2025

World Airline News Your Central Hub for Aviation Press Releases. Photos powered by AirlinersGallery.com Images. 104 Dove de Havilland DH.114 114 Heron de Havilland DH.106 27 Fokker F.28 28 Fokker 50 (F.27 050) Fokker 70 (F.28 0070) Fokker 100 (F.28 0100) Hawker Siddeley HS.748 748 Hawker Siddeley HS.121

Airlines

World Airline News

JULY 25, 2025

Within 15 minutes, Postma sketched an iconic green-and-black design featuring the signature ‘T’ on the tail. World Airline News Your Central Hub for Aviation Press Releases. Photos powered by AirlinersGallery.com Images. By Friday, the design was finished; by Sunday, it was already painted on the aircraft. 104 Dove de Havilland DH.114

Cargo

World Airline News

JUNE 10, 2025

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Cargo

Plane and Pilot

MAY 22, 2025

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Pilot