Hangar Tail Thrust 
Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. 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. Whats Happening Inside the Vortex?
Plane and Pilot
JULY 30, 2025
The contra-rotating blades negated the P-factor and produced enough thrust to lift the Pogo vertically. In order for the XFY-1 to stand on its tail, its designers equipped it with two 52-degree swept wings and a large vertical stabilizer and ventral fin, each equipped with full-span trailing edge control surfaces.
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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. The tail boom was intact, so the tail rotor did not fail.
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.
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. The “Model 27,” as it was originally called, was powered by the experimental Westinghouse J34 jet engine, which produced 3,000 pounds of thrust.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G.
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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