Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 24, 2025
OC BBMF, Sqn Ldr Mark Suggs Sugden, flies a hangar break in Spitfire Mk XVI TE311 after a successful air test on 14th March 2025, showing off the special tribute markings. The Harvard serves as a crucial stepping stone between the de Havilland Chipmunk and the Hurricane, offering a larger airframe, more powerful engine, and increased torque.
Fear of Landing
APRIL 19, 2024
Then he followed the installation procedure, including the mast nut torque application. The mast nut torque application is a critical procedure, which ensures that the rotor assembly remains attached to the main rotor mast. He asked a mechanic to come and verify the mast nut torque.
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Photographic Logbook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
The chirping we heard was due to excess torque-related motion of the powerplant in the engine compartment. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021. It was undamaged, it just came apart.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Six days later, Valley Forge launched the Navy’s first carrier-borne airstrikes of the war and VA-55 Skyraiders attacked airfields in Pyongyang, North Korea, destroying hangars, aircraft, and fuel depots. I was prepared for the torque because people told me about it, but I was pushing as hard as I could to keep it straight.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
After shutting down and being towed back to the hangar, he discovered he had mistakenly set his rudder trim to the left instead of the right. Had he taken off in that configuration, the engines torque, P-factor, gyroscopic precession, and spiraling slipstream would have sent him into an uncontrollable left turnan almost certain disaster.
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The sound of a round engine, the feel of power and torque, and the legacy of military aviation all in one enchanting package. 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.
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.,
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