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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar. As I adjusted the rudder pedals to my 5-foot-4 frame, Waghorn ran through a few last-minute details before climbing up the wing to the front passenger seat. Free and clear.

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A Taylorcraft Reunion

Plane and Pilot

The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. How often do you fly her?

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

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. It could operate in strange and foreign places without the need of land-based runways.”

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Why Did I Buy a V3M? Plus: Was It the Right Choice?

Chess In the Air

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.

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Two Weeks in the RV

Plane and Pilot

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

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Stand By Me

AV Web

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.

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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

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.