Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Epic has just released the most recent iteration of the airplane, the E1000 AX, with a major avionics upgrade including Garmin’s G1000 NXi suite and upped the useful load to an advertised (on its website) 2,860 pounds—gross weight 8,000, max ramp weight 8,035. The solution is to put something in the baggage compartment.

Rudder

Flying Magazine

JULY 17, 2025

READ MORE: New Organization Aims to Expand Backcountry Aviation Access Among the modifications and improvements to the straight-tail Cessna: Leading edge STOL kit: For improved lift and short takeoff/landing capability Wing extensions: To increase gross weight and useful load Reinforced firewall and composite cowling Heavy-duty nosewheel fork: Built (..)

Gross Weight

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. One of those followed an intersection takeoff.

Approach

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

With 10 passengers and luggage on board the airplane, it was well under gross weight, but it soon became apparent we could not out climb the ice buildup. It was quite a load of extra weight, but as important was the disrupted airflow over the control surfaces and wings.

Weight-Shift-Control

Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Celebrating six decades of Bonanza heritage, N575W combines a Tornado Alley turbocharged IO-550 engine with tip tanks and a gross weight increase to deliver exceptional climb and cruise performance in all conditions. Located in Canton, Ohio, this Bonanza has 2,129 hours on the airframe with just 57 hours since major engine overhaul.

Gross Weight

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Before anything else, these are single-engine, unpressurized two-seat lightweights with a max gross weight of 1320 pounds. Check that against the max gross of a Piper Malibu at roughly 4300 pounds, or a Beech A36 Bonanza at around 3650 pounds or a Cessna 150 at 1600 pounds gross. Same for gliders.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

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.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 5, 2025

(Don England via Randy Malmstrom) The Model 80A (redesignated “80A-1” when the tail surfaces were modified in 1930) with is three more powerful Pratt & Whitney 525-horsepower “Hornet” engines soon followed and could carry 18 passengers or a total of 17,000 lbs. gross weight.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

Use our airplane loan calculator to calculate your estimated monthly payments. Or, to speak with an aviation finance specialist, visit flyingfinance.com.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

gph at standard cruise (2,100 rpm) Empty Weight: 708 lbs, basic weight (includes oil and trapped fuel) Gross Weight L-4H: 1,220 lbs Full Load Stall Speed: 37.5 With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. gph at take-off (2,300 rpm), 4.27

Firewall

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While the Baumann Brigadier was unsuccessful in the marketplace, Custer negotiated to utilize the fuselage, tail, and engines and replace the wing sections with his channel wing configuration. These significant modifications were accomplished at Baumann’s LA facility.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Further modifications led to the gross weight increasing, bringing the design up to 25,400 pounds, the takeoff roll was exceedingly long, and the landing speed had gone from 76 mph to 93 mph. However, the overall performance was still underwhelming. Elliot was able to make an emergency landing at Lambert Field.

Gross Weight

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Notable design changes included the introduction of a swept tail design in 1960 and a new cowl design in 1961, which improved aerodynamics and performance. With a maximum takeoff weight of 2,400 pounds and a maximum gross weight that ensures stability, this aircraft is robust enough to handle a variety of flying conditions.

Knot

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 description of the event clearly represents what was understood at the time: During the takeoff from RWY35L, the aircraft suffered a tail strike after the rotation. tons with 109,100 kg of fuel on board.

Tail

Flying Magazine

MAY 29, 2025

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.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

It can hold the extra gross weight. It’s 2,300 pounds, but when you add floats, it will get [bogged] down, so you need an airplane that can [carry] the weight. Power-to-weight ratio is also impressive for a floatplane. Its a horrible boat, and an awful airplane, but its a whole lot of fun, said Clinton.

Rudder

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

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. New Faith Our slight loss of faith in small airplanes came into clear focus and disappeared here. Memphis, 160 miles after take-off, took only 40 minutes.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

Its shortcoming was a meager useful load for its 1,800-pound gross weight. and focused on improving the Husky, including upping the gross weight. The A-1C was certificated in 2007 with both 180 and 200 hp engines and a gross weight of 2,200 pounds, which later became 2,250 pounds. Sales grew.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.” lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. Theres an unusual duck tail between the two elevator halves that provides a measure of anti-stall behavior. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs. Empty Weight: 840 lbs. Wing Area: 121.6

Rudder