Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Shortly after, the largely restored aircraft was shipped from the USA to Germany and stored in a hangar in Bremen. Lufthansa Technik) ( www.digroaero.com ) Today, Lufthansa Technik has completed the extensive assembly of the Lockheed L-1649A and rolled it out to a large hangar in Hamburg.

Rudder

AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

Our group of geriatric gear-uppers gathered in my friend Kyle’s hangar, not because it held any special safety significance but because his place was outfitted with air-conditioning, comfy furniture, and a decent bar. Tim, my next-door hangar neighbor with the same avionics setup, said he would go up with me the next afternoon.

Air Traffic Control

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. The hull was also redesigned to improve hydrodynamic performance. 5 and Guroaitei No.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). Easy rigging and ground handling. Easy rigging is therefore a necessity, not just something that’s nice to have.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

When I visited the company’s Olathe, Kansas, engineering hangar to see a G5000 retrofit in progress, Garmin’s Dave Brown made a good point about these older turbine airframes needing a refresh. It’s a huge project. The pitch limits shrink from 20 to 10 degrees nose up and from 15 to 5 degrees nose down.

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

Depressions in the vertical stabilizer and rudder, as well as stabilator skins and ailerons, all help increase panel stiffness while allowing less under-skin structure. 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.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When you discover too late that the old rudder lock doesn’t fit the new rudder… The local hardware store had pool noodles, PVC tubing, and rope. Photo: Ed Wischmeyer] Didn’t make the first turnoff, barely, but was quickly at the hangar to unload the interlocking baggage and enjoy the humid, 92-degree Georgia summer.

Weather

Inspire

JULY 17, 2025

This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. He positioned his […] The post Slip-Sliding Away first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Yet, despite all our training, fuel starvation and […] The post Fuelish Behavior first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. A charter pilot loaded […] The post Subtle Distractions first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Lockwood Aviation’s maintenance hangar probably sees more Rotax-powered aircraft than many other shops in the country. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces. An LSA In Your Hangar With over 900 RV-12s in the field , I think the airplane has an advantage over other LSA models.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

JULY 14, 2025

do they move in the right directions when I move the stick and rudders? Again with the engine-shutdown parking, this time very close to a hangar. A non-flying story: Just the other day we were using a hydraulic scissor lift to do some work in a hangar near the ceiling. Did they add fuel, or drain any? attached and B.

Lift

Inspire

MARCH 20, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the February 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. We learn […] The post Elements of Survival first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

MAY 15, 2025

This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the April 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It was one of those days.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 26, 2025

A week later, I met Hunton and his wife at the Hangar Hotel at Gillespie County Airport (T82) in Fredericksburg to try the Jabiru 230-D on for size. As we rolled down the runway, I instinctively moved my feet to the top of the rudder pedals, however, I quickly remembered my brakes were a far cry away from my feet.

Aileron

Air Facts

JULY 2, 2025

The cleanliness of the hangar floor was only of passing interest compared to my number-one duty: keeping the boss alive by remembering what he forgets. This is counteracted by a bootful of opposite rudder, which generally coincides with its recovery, causing an even more violent swing in the other direction.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability. Breguet 761 Deux-Ponts F-WASM, the first prototype, rolled out of one of the hangars at Villacoublay, having been modified to the third tail of a Br 761S. (US

Tail

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

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

Its owned by Lee Smith, 69, who keeps it hangared at Long Island Airpark (NC26), in North Carolina. The Robin has a placard that reads: Rudder in fully opposed direction; Elevator control pulled fully back; Ailerons in neutral position. A hint of the Robins aerobatic pretensions might be the size of the rudder.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

9” on its rudder. 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. Timson had designed nearly ten years prior.

Tail

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I exited the terminal parking lot and walked east toward the hangar housing the museum. Between the runway and the collection of hangar buildings on the northwest corner of the field are two rows of tie downs whose positions are marked by airplane tires. Within those hangars, I found a number of treasures. For Tilting at.?

Runway

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. But in recent years, some of these aircraft have been allocated to museums across the United States that are affiliated with the NNAM.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Inspire

JUNE 12, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. While it wasn’t as good as I would […] The post Missed Opportunities first appeared on Hangar Flying. The run-up was okay, but just barely.

Rudder

Inspire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The runway was somewhat narrow and sloped upward […] The post An Uphill (and Downhill) Struggle first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Every now and then we encounter a flight that requires us to consider factors beyond […] The post A New Set of Factors first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

APRIL 17, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. As I traveled down Taxiway […] The post Dont Get Goosed first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

Sam Sessler, a private pilot from Seattle, has created a new way for fellow aviators to share their aerial adventures with one another in a mobile app he created called Hangar. Sam Sessler is the founder of Hangar, a social-sharing platform for pilots. Hangar is a social sharing platform for pilots. per month or $59.99

Pilot

Inspire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EAA Chapter 245 President Mark Richardson takes us through the inception and creation of the rudder trim system he’s installing on his scratchbuilt Bearhawk. The post Bits and Pieces: Creating a Bearhawk Rudder Trim System first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

AUGUST 22, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

Enter Tango Whiskey Aviation , an aerobatic flight school with operations at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester Area International Airport (KROC) and the Williamson-Sodus Airport (KSDC) where we share bays in the same hangar building. Eventually, we both became Williamson Flying Club members. He was right. That felt incredibly wrong.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This particular example has a remarkably low 1,345 hours on the airframe and has always been hangared. If you’re looking for arguably the best airplane for pure stick-and-rudder fun—and one that has been particularly well cared for—few examples offer the balance of qualities as this Cub.

Rudder

Inspire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The NTSB report on the fatal crash of a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter […] The post Bad Choices first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Inspire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. After all, some landings are going to be bad, so […] The post Target Practice first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 15, 2025

Inside the hangars of the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing (CAF SoCal) in Camarillo, California, a rare and legendary warbird is undergoing a complete transformation. The elevator and rudder systems are the traditional cable driven type. The rudder had massive problems and was completely rebuilt.

Aileron

Inspire

JUNE 4, 2024

In his latest piece, Bits and Pieces contributor John Wyman discusses the work hes doing to rebuild two damaged wings and a rudder, and some of the struggles hes had. The post Ruffled Feathers: Multiply by and Then Add Some first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. I didn’t get the thumb into the wind and I didn’t immediately get on the left rudder pedal to steer us back to the centerline. That was poor airmanship on my part.

Aileron

Inspire

JULY 17, 2024

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In command was the owner and operator […] The post Low and Slow first appeared on Hangar Flying.

Rudder