Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 16, 2025
The Starships lifting surface was positioned aft of the horizontal stabilizer, making stalls unlikely. The Starships lifting surface was positioned aft of the horizontal stabilizer, making stalls unlikely. The company recently expanded its facilities, adding a 60,000-square-foot hangar and component repair space in 2025.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. 5 and Guroaitei No.
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Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Inside a former Luftwaffe hangar packed with dozens of historic aircraft, restoration workers at the Flyhistorisk Museum in Sola, Norway are now in the final stretch of rebuilding the world’s last surviving Caproni Ca.310
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 22, 2025
Although Palen recovered the fabric on the Pigeon, the ORA never installed a new engine or flew the aircraft, and today the Albree Pigeon-Fraser is suspended inverted from the ceiling of one of the Aerodrome’s hangars for static aircraft.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
As Earhart made her final preparations through the remainder of 1936, she had NR16020 stored in a hangar owned by her technical adviser and Hollywood film pilot Paul Mantz at Union Air Terminal in Burbank. With no less than ten fuel tanks, Earhart’s Electra had a total fuel capacity of 1,151 gallons.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 17, 2025
The nose gear could be retracted for the aircraft to be parked with the nose resting on the hangar deck of a carrier or towed using a smaller, externally mounted wheel. US National Archives) On October 2, 1946, the first XF6U-1 prototype (BuNo. Vought XF6U Pirate prototype on a test flight out of Muroc Dry Lake, California. (US
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed.
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