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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar. As I adjusted the rudder pedals to my 5-foot-4 frame, Waghorn ran through a few last-minute details before climbing up the wing to the front passenger seat. Wing Area: 121.5

Knot 111
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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

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. The owner I joined in partnership was the second owner of the Cherokee, and it was based right here, Widell says, gesturing to his spotless hangar at Twin Oaks.

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The Fateful Call

Photographic Logbook

Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. When I first brought the airplane home to her new hangar at the South Haven Area Regional Airport (0D1/KLWA), I was immediately faced with a geometric challenge. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. Out darn (oil) spot!

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Splish Splash

Plane and Pilot

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. It can hold the extra gross weight. Power-to-weight ratio is also impressive for a floatplane.

Rudder 94
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Used Aircraft Guide: Piper Aerostar Offers Turbine-Like Performance

Flying Magazine

The airplane gets a gross weight boost to 6,356 pounds ramp weight. The nosewheel has its own steering control and isnt connected to the rudders. Fuel-selector valves and elevator and rudder trim systems are also electric. Claimed 75 percent cruise is a blistering 261 knots, and initial climb rate is 1875 fpm.

Knot 111
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Flying a 1946 Champ With a Sentimental Family Connection

Flying Magazine

That was a process with the FAA he noted, but because the aircraft has a gross weight of just 900 pounds, it qualifies as a light sport aircraft (LSA), and that is how McCartney has been flying it for the past five years. The Flight Last summer, I met McCartney at his hangar at 0700. This is truly seat-of-the-pants flying!

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32