Air Facts

JUNE 18, 2025

I spotted a large, weathered wooden hangar from the 1920s—complete with dirt floors and an antique fire engine inside. Sure enough, the next morning, he was waiting by the hangar. My tailwheel lifted—I was about to tip onto my back. I released the brakes just long enough for the tail to drop, then had to brake again immediately.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 30, 2025

What if a powerful fighter aircraft could lift off under its own power, defeat enemy attackers, and land back on the tiny spot on the deck? The contra-rotating blades negated the P-factor and produced enough thrust to lift the Pogo vertically. And these lightly constructed planes were no match for the frontline fighters of the day.

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Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

As ground staff at the airport, the pilot had security codes for access and was able to walk straight to the hangar. The hangar held three helicopters. The two larger helicopters blocked the hangar door from closing, so the hangar was left open. At 01:46, the helicopter lifted off of the helipad.

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Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

The tail number caught my ear as familiar and when the mental gears finally meshed enough to process that it spelled out "Tiger", I realized that I was hearing Bruno from Fly with Bruno who was out doing what Bruno does. I exited the terminal parking lot and walked east toward the hangar housing the museum. Delaware River.

Runway

Aerotime

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Across the board, growth in the aviation industry has been accompanied by the need to develop all sorts of support infrastructure, including hangars and maintenance facilities. Building a new hangar can be a lengthy process if you do it the traditional way, but Belgian firm Spantech is offering a new, more straightforward approach.

Hangar

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Vendors set up to sell souvenirs and parts, and the new International Stearman Community Hangar hosts its own gift shop, historical library, and museum inside. It’s white and blue stripes along the wings, tail and fuselage stand out as unusual because it’s not the typical stearman scheme we are used to. The Recall Stearman.

Tail

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The operator confirmed that the tail rotor had been installed the day before the accident. A mechanic had found a worn feathering bearing in the tail rotor hub and blade assembly. The tail rotor’s responses and vibrations are measured in order to adjust the weights of the rotor blades and/or the alignment of the rotor assembly.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The Graf II “My model of the D-LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II was built as a flying model, and it is built to a scale of 1:36 because when I was considering its size, I was advised that the model would need at least 150 cubic feet interior volume for helium to provide lift to deem the model airworthy,” Mellberg said.

Lift

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

Navy had equipped both the USS Akron and Macon airships with a hangar deck and trapezes to carry and launch Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes. This operation was carried out routinely with the little fighters launching from the airship, flying their mission, and then hooking up on a trapeze that lifted them inside the hull.

Tail

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. Just know what a 150 comes with.

Airplanes

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. Local forklift hire was kindly arranged by AEM Lifting from Tuxford, Notts. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. The knob on the right enables “auto slots,” slats on the wings that automatically deploy like flaps to provide additional lift at low speeds and high angles of attack. Notice that there is no artificial horizon.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The weekend is action-packed with daily airshows, aircraft displays, military vehicles, WWII veterans, speakers, presentations, vendors, entertainers, Homefront education, mock battles, 20-plus acres of WWII encampments, nightly big-band hangar dances, and of course, the reenactors. The team owns and operates two WWII veteran transports.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

In fact, we have a window over the stove that looks into the hangar. A steep bank and strong pull is required for each turn, and I watch the airspeed and lift reserve indicator (LRI) to make sure I do not do anything stupid. As I watch the white dashes flash past beneath the nostrils of the Sonex, the tail comes up.

Groundspeed

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. As my speed increased I lifted the nose of the plane slightly prior to takeoff, but when I did that the nose blocked the few centerline stripes that were my only visual cues to keep going straight. CC-BY-SA 3.0 But I had it. There were no survivors.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

As Warrior 481 lifted us to a cruise altitude of 7,500 feet, the first hint of the sunrise came in the form of a massive fireball turned vermillion by miles of low haze between us and the horizon. More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! The Globe Swift taxied for departure while flashing us its distinctively toothy grin.

Runway

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 airfoil is a Harry Riblett shape, giving modernized flow separation on the leading edge for a soft stall yet with good lift and drag performance.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2024

The soft sand, now closed to beachgoers, would be insufficient to hold the weight of any crane with the capacity to lift the plane from the water. So, the decision was made to attach cables to the aircraft and drag its tail first onto the beach, but this was not accomplished until the next day once recovery equipment could be mobilized.

Drag

World Airline News

JULY 26, 2025

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Airlines

World Airline News

JULY 25, 2025

Within 15 minutes, Postma sketched an iconic green-and-black design featuring the signature ‘T’ on the tail. World Airline News Your Central Hub for Aviation Press Releases. Photos powered by AirlinersGallery.com Images. By Friday, the design was finished; by Sunday, it was already painted on the aircraft. 104 Dove de Havilland DH.114

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World Airline News

JUNE 10, 2025

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