Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Turboprop aircraft also offer greater flexibility regarding airport availability; They can take off and land at airports that may not be accessible to larger jet aircraft (and, sometimes, even small piston engine aircraft) due to their unique reverse thrust capabilities and lighter weight. million to $8.8 million or more.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

.” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed. Even with 1,100 gallons of fuel the 18,000 pound thrust J79-GE-10 engine gave the Red Baron a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1, better than any fighter of the day including the F-15 Eagle.

Horizontal Stabilizer

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.

Tail

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The operator had a surveillance camera inside the hangar to capture the work and the preflight inspections. As a result, the checks were much more informal: usually the Director of Maintenance would check the work performed by the mechanics and he would ask the mechanics to check his work.

Torque

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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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 25, 2025

Sun 'n' Fun 2006 marked the airshow debut of the F-22 Raptor with its jaw-dropping vectored thrust capabilities. We encountered Rob with his sleek MXS-RH in the main hangar and he was only too happy to share a quick moment with us. My first real airshows were Sun 'n' Fun 2005 and 2006. I was mesmerized by those experiences.

Thrust

Flying Magazine

JULY 1, 2025

[Courtesy: RAM] But I fear I ruffled the feathers of one elderly member when I introduced myself at the podium, explaining that, with a figure like a boy, my strapless gown was irrefutable proof of the existence of lift and thrust.

Pilot

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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