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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. After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power. Max Gross Weight: 2,200 lbs. Empty Weight, Standard: 1,300 lbs. Sounds good. Length: 23 ft.

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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

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. There were only five stall-related accidents, most on high density altitude takeoffs at or near gross weight. One of those followed an intersection takeoff.

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LSA Step-Downs: Training Is a Must

AV Web

Lockwood Aviation’s maintenance hangar probably sees more Rotax-powered aircraft than many other shops in the country. Before anything else, these are single-engine, unpressurized two-seat lightweights with a max gross weight of 1320 pounds. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces.

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The Hughes H-1 Racer: Howard Hughes’ Silver Bullet

Vintage Aviation News

Palmer and his team created wooden models of various airfoils, engine cowlings, and tail surfaces in a rented garage before bringing them to Caltech in Pasadena, where they utilized the school’s wind tunnel to test the designs until they were satisfied with the results. Army Air Corps’ newest and fastest fighter.

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Used Aircraft Guide: Piper Aerostar Offers Turbine-Like Performance

Flying Magazine

Subscribe Now Speed From the Beginning In 1963, Smith formed his own company to build a family of fast fliers, all built around the same fuselage, wings and tail. Five years later, the Model 600 emerged in 1968, with normally aspirated Lycoming IO-540 engines and a takeoff weight of 5,500 pounds.

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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.

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From the Archive: Different Worlds

Air Facts

We will always wonder if this one came to Fordyce on purpose, or whether he landed there to read the name on the hangar and regroup. All this made us wonder why we had used up so much runway landing a Twin Comanche which was 500 pounds below gross weight. They were right on our tail at 37 knots.