Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 28, 2025

NASA photo circa 1960 Propulsion and Performance The X-15 was powered by the Reaction Motors XLR99 rocket engine, which generated 57,000 pounds of thrust. but is currently undergoing conservation work at the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. X-15A-2 (AF Ser.

Pilot 69

Pilot Thrust Hangar 69

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. That makes it harder for the aircraft to fit into hangars and airport gates. What do you think happens to the air when an aircraft flies by? Can Wingtip Vortices Be Useful?

Turbulence 97

Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

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.

Pilot 52

Pilot Thrust Hangar Tail 52

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Aircraft on the ground downwind from an eruption, even if hangared, should be cleaned frequently to prevent corrosion. Climbing is not advised, as thrust should be reduced (if able) to mitigate the risk of melted ash depositing in the turbine chamber, and airspeed readings may be unreliable.

Pitot Tube 40

Pitot Tube Weather Pilot NOTAMs 40

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). ” The 3,800-pound-thrust Ukrainian-built AI25-TL engine needs an air-assisted start provided by the onboard Sapphire APU.

Knot 52

Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

More air molecules in engine cylinders allow the engine to produce more power; more air molecules moving across the propellor blades and wings means more efficient thrust and lift. Hangar space is sometimes available for under $50/night – a nice option if storms are expected.

Density Altitude 52

Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon Turbojet 301R engines, mounted in a staggered arrangement, the Lightnings engines produced 32,720 pounds of thrust with full reheat, roughly equivalent to 80,000 horsepower. In 1994, the LPG acquired a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) hangar, or “Q-shed,” from RAF Wattisham.

Jet 119

Jet Drag Runway Thrust 119

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Young Aviators got students interested in aviation and STEM. Two hours were allocated to flying.

Lift 98

Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Repainted in 1996 and hangared since then, it sports a bold white and red paint scheme, with a red star and Cyrillic revealing its Russian roots. This particular Yak-52 likely produces more thrust than others. When the engine was overhauled, the propeller was upgraded to a Whirlwind W-520.

Torque 59

Torque Airplanes Thrust Hangar 59

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

Can you fly a zero-thrust, single-engine approach to minimums today? I have one airplane in my hangar that can only carry 500 pounds of payload with the fuel tanks topped off—that’s it, if I’m going to respect the max-takeoff-weight limit, and I will. That optimistic outlook doesn’t apply to pilots with rusty skills.

Density Altitude 58

Density Altitude Airplanes Wind Shear Pilot 58

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

was removed from the National Mall in May 2019 and shipped for storage and refurbishment at the Udvar-Hay Center, and later refurbishment in the center’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar. Currently, the 109 is being repainted in the Engen Restoration Hangar, but will soon be made ready for shipment back to Washington D.C.,

Hangar 116

Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Pilot 116

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Most of them sleep on WWII Army cots in a hangar. They attend classes in a hangar surrounded by WWII aircraft equipment, training devices, and publications. Power is turned into thrust by three-bladed Hamilton Standard constant speed, full-feathering propellers. The instructors include reenactors dressed in period-correct U.S.

Airplanes 105

Airplanes Descent Pilot Weather 105

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. The only thing to remember with the reversed props is you still push the throttle forward to increase thrust, so it takes a lot of mental transformation—and slow maneuvering—to make sure you go in the right direction.

Airplanes 77

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 77

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It made its maiden flight on June 16, 1955, which was followed six months later on January 9, 1956, by the first flights of the Ye-5, featuring a delta wing and a Tumansky R-11 engine and the Ye-50, a swept wing prototype powered by the RD-9 turbojet engine and the Dushkin S-155 liquid-fuel rocket engine for additional thrust.

Pilot 89

Pilot Jet Thrust Cargo 89

Aerotime

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The aircraft, registered XA-PBA and operated by Interjet, was being towed to the terminal from one of the hangars and had no passengers on board when it collided with a passenger jetway. Investigations concluded that the aircraft was dispatched with one thrust reverser inoperable. Human error was determined.

Runway 246

Runway Thrust Pilot Airline 246