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. “Very little,” the gunner reported.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Benton's airport is a smooth, beautifully maintained grass runway located in the hills of northeast Pennsylvania. At 2200 feet long, the runway is shorter than most of our club members are accustomed to, but is nonetheless manageable. The day was clear, calm, and dry -- a perfect combination for an excursion to a grass runway.

Runway 84

Runway Airplanes General Aviation Pilot 84

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. After one aircraft lands, the tailwind pushes the vortices forward into the runways touchdown zone. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

On the landing approach, Saari, tightened the strap on his goggles, opened the cockpit, and stuck his head into the slipstream to see the runway, setting the Thunderbolt down safely and rolling to a stop. By this time, the group had adopted a red-and-white striped tail and other bold markings to discourage friendly fire.

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Tail Cockpit Pilot Approach 95

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are no hangars for gliders in Boulder and tie down space is limited. A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. Easy rigging and ground handling. Easy rigging is therefore a necessity, not just something that’s nice to have.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 82

Flyertalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Delta Air Lines says the incident caused the tail of the smaller regional aircraft to be sheared off after colliding with an Airbus A350 bound for Japan. Both aircraft are currently in Delta hangars for evaluation. at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).

Tail 98

Tail Runway Jet Hangar 98

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

It shows the helicopter flying normally, aligned to the runway, and then begin a gentle climb. The pilot told the airport tower controller that he may need the runway. The controller asked the pilot to report when two miles out and to expect runway 28. It rotated several times before crashing into the grass north of runway 28.

Torque 98

Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 98

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

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. At least the Cherokee gave the pilot a better view of the runway from the patternno wing in the wayand lacked the high-wing Cessnas pitch change with flap deployment.

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Approach Airplanes Stability Weight-Shift-Control 76

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Then they put in the original runway, 0TX1.” Pecan Plantation sports around 3,000 homes, which includes around 400 lots between its two runways (0TX1 and 66TE). A hangar home at Pecan Plantation. Some buyers have even planned well in advance for their retirement, snapping up lots years before building their dream hangar home.

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Runway Hangar Pilot Tail 116

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design.

Tail 116

Tail Stability Pilot Hangar 116

Jetwhine

JUNE 2, 2025

Somehow the fear is the back of the plane wanting to go first and swap ends or at least that was what Bob and I had been told about those notorious tail wheel airplanes. I have worked hard to keep him on the runway and not off in the weeds. The old-time instructor would always step in to save the day if things got squirrely.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Runway 52

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

The last of 33 PBY-4 variants to be rolled out was fitted with amphibious landing gear for the first time, to increase the type’s versatility and enable it to operate from land-based runways. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged.

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Pilot Tail Ferry Flight Clearance 290

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. Over San Mateo I sailed and six minutes later NR-965-Y and I sat down on the runway of Oakland Airport, approximately 18 hours from Honolulu.” The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

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Airplanes Tail Pilot Cockpit 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

21 but really a composit P-51D restoration) showed how best to display at the constrained Duxford site, making great use of the ability to turn around and come in for a nice curved topside pass over the ARC hangar area where the aircraft are still in bright sunlight, as opposed to backlit on the main display line for much of the day.

Tail 98

Tail Weather Runway Hangar 98

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. I brought the downwind wheel to the ground and finally the tail. Chop and drop!" It felt good.

Rudder 60

Rudder Crosswind Airplanes Runway 60

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If your flight needs to get out early in the morning, the airplane should be hangared overnight and pulled out just before departure. When you come back to your airplane 30 – 60 minutes later, there’s a good chance you’ll find a fresh layer of frost on the wings and tail.

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Weather Runway Airplanes NOTAMs 52

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 14, 2025

I flew first to the Oswego County Airport (Fuzzy) and set up for a landing on runway 33. When I finally settled the Warrior back into the hangar after sunset, I was satisfied that I had enjoyed some Zen time and meaningfully exercised both myself and the airplane. Break the glide." I smoothly pulled Warrior 481 into a level pitch.

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Airplanes Tail Runway Hangar 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

We originally planned a flight to Vermont for lunch at the Red Mill Restaurant located alongside the magnificent grass runway at Basin Harbor (B06). Softened by excessive rain, the runway was NOTAMed closed. But space in the main hangar is incredibly limited and that relegates several other aircraft to sitting out in the weather.

Torque 52

Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

NYC Aviation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tuesday evening saw a significant milestone in Northern Pacific Airways’ path to launch, as they unveiled their first aircraft at a paint hangar in San Bernardino, California. The tail of the aircraft, showing the N627NP registration. Of course, economics plays a large role.

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Payload Cargo Airplanes Tail 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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.

Weather 52

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

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. A guy who flew a Citation X into St. Landing at St.

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Airplanes Pilot Jet Pilot in Command 98

Universal Weather

JANUARY 29, 2024

The present condition of the tarmac, taxiways and runways is good, and there’s no airport construction currently underway. While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. 1 tech stop due to its long runway, low fuel costs, no VATs, and pre-clearance to the U.S.

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Clearance Weather Weight-Shift-Control Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Owing to noise sensitive areas all around College Park Airport, the fact that my approach was almost lined-up with the wind-favored runway (runway 15) and given the lack of traffic in the pattern, I chose to go straight in and flew final approach over the University of Maryland, College Park campus. No problem, I had that covered.

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Transponder Clearance Approach General Aviation 52

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

PPR Info Requirements In all cases, you’ll need to provide a full schedule, tail number, complete crew/passenger passport information, and insurance valid for the European Union. During inclement weather conditions, hangar space may be available for transient general aviation.

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Flight Plan Weather General Aviation Clearance 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This was the same aircraft where the Bellanca Aircraft Company set up its factory and where Air Service had built a new hangar in 1935 on the site of one that had burned in 1934 (Today, Air Service’s 1935 hangar now serves as the home of the Bellanca Airfield Museum). I went by Tom’s hangar to get his opinion.

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Annual Inspection 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since then, the former airbase has seen its runways either truncated (9-27), deleted (15-33), or transformed into taxiways (4-22). Today, it is home to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM, part of the broader Ingenium collection of museums in Ottawa) housed within a 1988 facility built along former runway 22 (taxiway D).

Runway 52

Runway Flight Plan Clearance Weather 52

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 Airlines Airline Runway 103

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

When bay ice consistently thickens to over 12 inches, a team of dedicated volunteers collaborates with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to open the Alton Bay Ice Runway. Over the years, its coveted status as the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States has endeared it to aviators seeking novelty.

Runway 75

Runway Threshold Airplanes Approach 75

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

But there was also the project to build the new hangar to do the work in, which was completed at the end of 2011, so now the work could begin in earnest. Two months later in September, 2011 I was back again, observing the progress on the aircraft and the hangar nearing completion.

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Cockpit Hangar Pilot Rudder 111

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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Hangar Pilot Tail Jet 111

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. 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

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

After all, a Cub sitting on a hangar pad was what initially drew me to walk into the Ron Alexander Youth Aviation Program , an experience that changed the course of my life at just barely 16 years old. As I turned onto the runway and lined up on centerline, that was truly the moment the sight picture caught my attention.

Rudder 96

Rudder Airplanes Pilot Gross Weight 96

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 30, 2025

During one of my first lessons, while taxiing to the runway, I was stunned to see a Wildcat crossing in front of us. Meanwhile, the B-24 remained at the Foundations hangar in Stow, Massachusetts, with the initial intention of restoring it for static display. Publisher’s Note After spending my first year in the U.S.

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Tail Pilot Airplanes Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 30, 2025

It was an era where travelers dressed in their finest attire and were served meals that wouldnt be out of place at an upscale hotel, and being able to land at destinations with no runways so long as they were on or near a large enough body of water was a huge advantage in an airline’s growth.

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Ferry Flight Airlines Airline Tail 99

Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

In fact, we have a window over the stove that looks into the hangar. More turns, steep banks, and soon enough I spot her orange kayak in the lake just off the end of runway 9. I make the turn off the runway, another radio call, and I taxi to the pumps. The grin on my face seems permanent these days.

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Groundspeed Runway Approach Crosswind 98

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

The stimulating thing about having one take you to Fordyce is the 1400-foot runway. We were down and stopped in not much more than half the length of the runway. We also probably puffed our chest out a bit over how little runway had een used in making our entrance. They were right on our tail at 37 knots.

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Weather Airplanes Jet Gross Weight 90