Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

During the early years of the jet age, between the end of World War II and the swinging ’60s, there were very few new ideas that were not worth a try. To understand the genesis of this little jet-powered hot rod, let’s understand the problem that faced the U.S. Air Force immediately following WWII.

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Tail Jet Pilot Turbulence 80

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 4, 2024

PRESS RELEASE via Royal Navy A retired Sea Harrier jump jet and Lynx helicopter are being transferred to the South Atlantic as islanders create an exhibition dedicated to the men and women who liberated the Falklands from Argentine rule in 1982.

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Tail Jet Hangar Pilot 96

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. It was as NC965Y, which was adorned with the name Record Breaker that the aircraft was destroyed in a hangar fire in Memphis, Tennessee on August 20, 1943. The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

As seen from the aircrafts tail, the vortex rotates in the anti-clockwise direction on the right wingtip and the clockwise direction on the left wingtip. A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Thrust 124

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A standard 150, equipped with a Land-O-Matic gear, 40-degree Para-Lift flaps, two seats, a straight tail, and powered by a 100 hp Continental O-200 engine fit the bill for many, especially those who did not want to deal with the 150s trickier tailwheel predecessors, the Cessna 120 and 140. They asked] how did you get your jet into St.

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Airplanes Pilot Jet Pilot in Command 98

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Elvis first jet: The Lisa Marie Convair 880 Elvis Presley purchased his first personal plane in 1975. It was a Convair 880 that had been flying for Delta Air Lines for 15 years as a passenger jet. Seeing a good opportunity, he bought an Aero Jet Commander on August 15, but it wasnt for the purposes of flying. million today.

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Jet Airplanes Tail Pilot 246

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

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Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

Universal Weather

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a result, the city has become a hub for business aviation, with a high volume of private jets and other business aircraft visiting each year. During peak hours (0900-2200 LCL) GA aircraft are limited to one movement per tail number (one arrival or one departure), and no quick turns are allowed. Here’s everything you need to know.

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Clearance Fixed Base Operator UTC Tail 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 26, 1945, the McDonnell FH Phantom, the first pure-jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy, made its first flight. The US Navy had gained its first experience in jet aviation with the Bell YF2L, two Army Air Force YP-59A Airacomets delivered for naval flight evaluation.

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Jet Cockpit Flight Deck Tail 93

Universal Weather

JANUARY 29, 2024

While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. FBOs and Hangarage While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. EINN is located 14 miles from the nearest major town, Limerick.

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Clearance Weather Weight-Shift-Control Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Drag Stability 98

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. GRADE: D-minus MINTY FRESH JetBlues livery features a grab bag of different tail patterns. Where do we start? Do we have any idea what this means?

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Tail Airline Airlines Runway 99

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

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Tail Cargo Stability Rudder 66

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

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Pilot Hangar Tail Jet 111

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

READ MORE: There Was Just Something About Michael So, next time you fly and shut down near the hangar, throttle way back to idle and briefly turn the switch to “off” and then back to “both.” The experience went even further south when, tailed into the open hangar, she fired up the 172 with a roar and blew everything all over the place.

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Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 115

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The one-of-a-kind jet is carefully unloaded at its new home. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type

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Cockpit Rudder Stability Pilot 119

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 30, 2025

However, with the construction of new airports around the world, and the advent of jet travel, the age of the flying boat airliner, like that of the ocean liner, had met its end, with much of the flying boat airliners being sent to the scrapyards. But the story of Aranui is worthy of its own dedicated article.

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Airline Airlines Ferry Flight Tail 99

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

But the tail and the left wing were found even further away, four to six miles from the main wreckage. One paper told the story of a man who went outside with his son to find a jet engine lying in the yard. Investigators painstakingly worked to collect all the wreckage and created a grid in a hangar to identify the pieces.

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 105

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 16, 2024

Next was a de Havilland “cavalcade”, one of the most famous British manufacturers, de Havilland built everything from famous training aircraft to jet fighters, the fabulous Mosquito wooden bomber, and passenger airliners including the world’s first commercial jet airliner the Comet.

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Crosswind Jet Weather Tail 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Reserve Hangar 1948 Canadair C-54GM North Star 1 ST, a derivative of the DC-4 and the sole surviving example of its type. Before exploring the main museum, I joined the 11:30 tour of the Reserve Hangar. The Reserve Hangar is so large that it easily swallowed this DC-9 airliner in Air Canada livery.

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Airplanes Hangar Pilot Tail 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

In fact, we have a window over the stove that looks into the hangar. Below, the boats and jet skis stream across the lake—people enjoying their own adventure this evening as I fly overhead. As I watch the white dashes flash past beneath the nostrils of the Sonex, the tail comes up. The grin on my face seems permanent these days.

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Groundspeed Runway Approach Crosswind 98

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.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Scott had intended to restore 52-4608, but the aircraft would spend much of its post-USAF life in storage in a hangar at Hollister Municipal Airport. Scott of Gilroy, CA, who had it registered with the FAA as N57963.

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Ceiling Pilot Stability Tail 98