Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 25, 2025

Air Force with the dream of becoming a B-52 tail gunneran ambition that was cut short when the position was phased out during his training. “And when we first took it down the road, the plane wanted to weather vane into the wind, so we had to adjust the chassis until we found the sweet spot.” He enlisted in the U.S.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 4, 2025

(image via Castle Air Museum) Though the museum had announced the rollout of the aircraft during the Open Cockpit Day, weather permitting, the museum’s team of restoration volunteers worked around the clock to get the aircraft’s iconic paint scheme back to its glossy finish.

Tail

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.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

It’s that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere—finally—when many pilots set their sights on flying to fun places offering short sleeve weather. Turns out there was a Cessna 172’s tail sticking out of some heavy brush toward the end of the runway. Fuel for one and weather for another. What other stuff? If you’re No.

Runway

Air Facts

JUNE 2, 2025

The approach controller who recognizes your tail number and offers a shortcut before you even ask for it. The airplane owner who lends you their hangar for the weekend because they’re away on a trip and he knows bad weather is moving in while your aircraft is tied down outside.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

As first designed, the plane had a sharp upper line to the top of the fuselage from the cockpit to the tail, resulting in the “razorback” nickname. The “bubbletop” was less laterally stable than the “razorback,” so starting with the P-47D-27-RE a shallow fillet was added ahead of the vertical tail.

Tail

Flying Magazine

MAY 23, 2025

Advanced air mobility], and our aircraft specifically, is practically purpose-built for the distributed geography and weather conditions of Ireland and the rest of Europe, said Kyle Clark, founder and CEO of Beta, in remarks announcing the debut flightthe countrys first with a fully electric aircraft and Betas first on another continent.

Cargo

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. Pilots can find out the prevailing winds aloft such as from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center and predict the vortices direction and rate of drift behind the preceding aircrafts flight path.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2025

Basically, any wind that blows across the runway or flight path instead of head-on or tailing the aircraft. Such as Navigation An old, bold pilot once told us that a weather forecast is simply a horoscope with numbers. Even with the best weather data in the world, things can change quickly. And weve got news for you.

Crosswind

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

We consider that reassuring when the weather becomes turbulent. Courtesy: Epic Aircraft] Avionics The big change in the AX is the avionics suite, starting with the Garmin G1000 NXi integrated flight deck with synthetic vision, vital traffic, engine monitoring, 3D Safe Taxi and Taxiway Routing, Smart Glide, and weather. With a 15.4-1

Rudder

Gary's Flight Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

I set the tail camera and climbed aboard. After picking up the weather in Cape May I joined the left down wind for runway two-eight to flow with traffic even though winds favored one-nine. It was nice to meet Mike and Carrol. I gave them a ride to the terminal. Ok, back to the airplane stuff.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

Tail Wheel and Structural Components At the rear of the aircraft, progress has been made on the metal tail wheel well and surrounding structure. On the subject of landing gear, the team is expecting the return of the refurbished tail wheel assembly and main gear oleo struts in the coming months.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

National Museum of the US Navy) As night fell over the Jersey shore, the USS Akron cut a path through thick fog and severe weather, unknowingly flying into a violent stormfront. The failure of the vertical stabilizer also saw pieces of the tail structure puncture the rear gas cells, and the Macon began losing helium rapidly.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega during an engine runup at Wheeler Field, January 8, 1935 (Hawaii Aviation) On January 11, 1935, Earhart and her plane were ready for the flight, but the weather was not. The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. Lesson learned.

Weather

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2025

For extra flair, have the aircraft tail number embossed or embroidered on the covers. If cold weather operations will be a norm for you, ask other aircraft owners at your same airport what they recommend. All those orifices allow critters to enter your aircraft where they can cause all sorts of expensive damage.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2025

In 2014, the aircraft was removed from its perch, transported to a hangar at Salem Municipal Airport, and began its transformation from weathered display to airworthy warbird once again. Similar work lies ahead for the right wing and the tail section.

Cockpit

Air Facts

MAY 19, 2025

” Those logbook entriesdates, aircraft tail numbers, airports visited, hours loggedform a skeletal record of experiences whose true essence exists in memory and sensation. Weather diversions became opportunities for deeper understanding, chances to share not just the technical aspects of flight but its profound impact on the soul.

Crosswind

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The weather at Leeds was bad with a visibility of 4,000 metres in the rain and mist, a cloud base at 600 feet and scattered cloud at 400 feet. A significant amount of mud had accumulated within all landing gear bays, underneath the wings including flap surfaces, and over the fuselage towards the tail.

Crosswind

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

Besides validating the thin delta wing principle, the XF-92A played a major role in supporting the development of the Convair F-102A interceptor, the Air Forces first attempt at an all-weather, supersonic interceptor. Photo NACA/NASA

Airfoil

Flying Magazine

JULY 24, 2025

This example features a capable IFR setup and iconic vintage V-tail style. Additional enhancements include XM weather via a GDL-69 receiver, active traffic with a King KTA-870 TCAS, and a WX-500 Stormscope for real-time lightning detection. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.

Tail

Chess In the Air

JULY 15, 2025

In decades past, this was basically impossible due to the lack of sufficiently reliable weather tools. But thanks to the increasing power and precision of the latest weather models, we can now much better anticipate how a day will develop along any specific route we might consider. But with some practice it goes rather fast.

Lift

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns. It covers topics like airspace regulations, weather patterns, and aircraft systems. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll.

Aileron

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

This weather phenomenon is called a microburst , one of aviations deadliest threats. Can More Than One Microburst Occur in the Same Weather System? Either type can be deadly if encountered at low altitude, so you should always stay on high alert when flying through stormy weather. Absolutely! Microbursts dont always occur alone.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

I think twice of all the times we’ve flown, we’ve woken up and said, you know what, the weather’s not working out, let’s just drive it, he says. I also like to look for what I call crummy weather thats just low enough that I can get an instrument approach in, but not so much that I don’t have any outs.

Approach

Airspeed Junkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

This standardization is critical for maintaining consistency in aviation communication worldwide, from identifying aircraft tail numbers to conveying vital information between pilots and air traffic controllers. This practice eliminates confusion, especially when certain letters sound similar, such as ‘B’ and ‘D’.

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

MAY 26, 2025

3) Weather: Shorts, T-shirts, and sandals vs. toques, parkas, and boots? Customs at your entry airport an hour before arrival, provide your tail number, eAPIS confirmation, ETA, and get the officers name or code. These colors must be seen to be believed. Thats an easy choice. Bahamas-bound trips are easy.

Crosswind

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. We had departed Windsor Locks Hartford airport for New Yorks JFK and our weather briefing had predicted a narrow layer of ice that we could out-climb and settle above it at 5,000 cruising altitude.

Weight-Shift-Control

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Coordinating schedules and weather took almost six months. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. Andrew and I chose to meet at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport (KBTP), 455 miles or about five hours of flight time from the home base of Post Mills Airport (2B9).

Airplanes

AOPA

JULY 21, 2025

Wing kit deliveries are expected by the end of the year, with the tail, fuselage, and finishing kits to follow in 2026. The horizontal tail has morphed into a traditional fixed horizontal stabilizer and elevator with an electrically actuated trim tab. Van’s Aircraft has traditionally sold tail kits first.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 28, 2025

Hadley Gallery of the Hill Aerospace Museum in Ogden, Utah, museum volunteers have been hard at work on an aircraft at the center of the gallery: the museum’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress, displayed in the markings of “Straight Flush”, the B-29 that was flown as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Weather

Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

They include 3 AW169s for EMS duty in the UK, 4 AW139s that will go to LifeFlight Australia, where they will serve EMS, SAR, and LE missions, and 2 all-weather AW189s ordered by Alaska’s North Slope Borough for EMS and SAR in the Arctic Circle. TCAS II, EGPWS, weather radar, and ADS-B Out are standard.

Tail

Aerotime

MARCH 13, 2025

On February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft Bonanza crashed in bad weather near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing four exemplary musicians of the time. By February, the cold weather had begun to take its toll. It was seen turning again, then the tail light was observed slowly descending before it disappeared from view.

Weather

Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

Living among the Great Lakes means that the weather risks that I find most concerning cycle with the seasons; icing when it's cold, thunderstorms when it's hot. Both were immediately on board, but the weather was not. When Mike provided my tail number, the lineman said, "Oh, he literally just landed." Photo by Mike K.

OAT

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The bird of prey concept aircraft mimics an eagle’s wing and tail structure and features individually controlled feathers that provide active flight control. Bird of Prey In 2019 Airbus unveiled a hybrid-electric, turbo-propeller, regional concept aircraft inspired by large birds of prey such as the Bald Eagle.

Lift

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Though the fabric on the wings would be recovered in 1952, the structure of the wings, tail, and rudder remained original to 1910. Despite the fabric on the wooden blades being slightly frayed, they were not deemed to be too damaged to press on, and weather reports indicated improving conditions in Washington, D.C.

Airplanes

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Azerbaijan Airlines E190 crashes after weather diversion This incident happened on Wednesday, December 25, 2024, and involves Azerbaijan Airlines flight J28243, scheduled to fly from Baku, Azerbaijan (GYD), to Grozny, Russia (GRV). That's a lot of damage to the tail and the E190 was Embraer's first with a FBW elevator.

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