The Plane that Only Real Pilots Could Fly
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Across continents and in diverse climates, the T-6 Texan aircraft took raw recruits and molded them into seasoned aviators, equipping them with a comprehensive skill set-from aerobatics and instrument flying to intricate formation work, navigation, and even gunnery.
As the saying went: [QUOTE]
"If you can fly a T-6, you can fly anything."
When an influx of surplus aircraft spurred a boom in the export market, the Texan emerged as the backbone of many burgeoning national Air Forces throughout the Cold War and beyond.
Its unmatched versatility allowed it to serve roles from basic training to reconnaissance, forward air control, and even counter-insurgency operations.
The North American T-6, the Allied force's exclusive training aircraft during World War 2, had countless aliases. Whether it's Texan, Harvard, Mosquito, or SNJ, here is one thing most agree on: the North American T-6 Texan is the ultimate Pilot Maker.
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You know you are in the vicinity of a T-6 by the sound of the radial engine combined with the "yell" of the propeller tips braking the sound barrier.
That is the unmistakeable snarl of a Hamilton-Standard 12D40 propeller.
For our Father's birthday present at 70 years old was a flight in one at the local airport 2-3 miles away. I never saw my father cry, but he had tears in his eyes that day. He had 100's of hours being an instructor in an SNJ aka T-6. His Helmut and wings are now in one of my nephew's man cave. I think about my father quite frequently; he went to the blue skies in 1999.
@brucesmith5426
Very nice!
Interesting that I knew a gentleman who was a civilian Civil Service flight instructor for the Navy during WWII. He gave primary training in Boeing N2S (Army PT-17) Stearman biplanes. He did not share your Dad's affinity for his old mounts! He flew them so much he came to hate Stearmans. He often said if he never saw another Stearman again it would be too soon.
As we say in aviation, he flew west in 1995 at 93 years of age. He was a great guy.
It was the British who named the P51 “Mustang”, not the Americans.
@TCK71
Most warbird enthusiasts are aware of that. The Brits have always been good at naming things. They named the Consolidated PBY flying boat the "Catalina" and the Yanks picked up on that, too. They called the North American BT-9 and BT-14 the "Yale" and the AT-6 Texan was called the "Harvard." The Yanks also liked those names, so they kinda stuck. The Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) was the "Dakota" in the RAF. Some Yanks still use that name. A whole lot better than "Skytrain."
the British gave the Mustang it's name.
Little known facts: the T-6 is said to be able to be operated at a standard fuel consumption rate of 30 gallons of avgas per hours; this fits the usual model of engine horsepower (600) x5% and that's the fuel burn to expect. But someone should tell my daughter that, because she hasn't figured out how to reduce her average fuel consumption below 42 gallons per hour and it has something to do with the fact that "the airplane doesn't like to fly straight and level, daddy, but rather constantly going up and around and around and you know that's sometimes that happens with T-6s, right? Right?"
One father’s day my children gave me a card with a gift certificate inside for a two hour flight in a T6 Texan. They told me it’s not just a ride along but that I was going to fly the plane for one hour! The card also came with a flight manual on the T6 and flight instructions. I had to study it and pass an acceptable amount of questions from my pilot before going up. His thought was if something onboard should happen to him I would have a chance at flying it to a safe place to possibly land. What a flight!! I had no idea we were going to do rolls and loops as well. All this was captured by 3 onboard video cameras recording the complete flight. What an experience, one that I will never forget.
What a great present!
You Sir are one lucky & blessed man. 👍✌️
Did you fly out of a small airport in NJ? I did something similar as a teenager.
It was pretty awesome, we flew up the coast and somewhat near the Statue of liberty. (Ths was pre 9-11, idk if they would allow that now )
I recommend anyone who has the opportunity to do one of those flights to do so!
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Indeed it was, I still remember it like it was a week ago and it’s been over 20 years ago.
A lot of the aircraft you are showing are Vultee BT 13's
The Texan was also licensed built in Australia. Known here as the CAC Wirraway around 755 were built and served with the RAAF in active combat and ground attack in WW2 against he Japanese. Interestingly Australia's stop gap fighter plane, the "Boomerang" was developed from the wirraway.
US tried it's version of the Boomerang(I think Boomerang acft are awesome.) Called it the P-64.
Actually, it was a development of the earlier NA-16. Sort of a parallel evolution to a very similar end product.
here in Canada we built about 3350 versions of this a/c, named the Harvard. It was used in the British Commonwealth Flight Training Plan, which churned out over 130K air crew of various trades.. My Dad won his pilot wings in one. There is a good presence of them here still, with the forefront being the restoration and flight centre the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association near Toronto. I take a flight every summer. Awesome!
In the early 80s I worked at Haines Hunter making aluminium boats and I operated a Wadkin radial arm router that was used to cut panels for the Wirraways made in Australia.
Almost half of the footage is of the Vultee BT-13. Was there really not enough T-6 footage to fill a video? Love your work overall, though!
I had no idea so many of these aircraft flew with so many countries. My dad first flew one, an snj, in Nov. 1943. After approx. 60 hours in them he advanced to the sbd Dauntless. His last flight in one was as an instructor in Pensacola on July 25th, 1956, thirteen years after first flying one. Probably well over a thousand hours in that type.
My Dad did his primary training in T-6G's in 1952; he flew combat missions in B-29s over Korea, then flew B-50s, B-36s, and B-47s, and got out in 1955 just before the B-52s became operational.
My father was an instructor flying these at Whiting Field in Florida at that time, then got called back to Pensacola as an instructor flying the PBY in 1951 after my oldest brother turned 7 months old. My oldest brother got his first ride in an SNJ; mom went to the fence at the run up area, mom handed Bill to dad and off they went.
My dad was an instructor in the T6. I still have his log book from WWII.
Just as likely to hear the rasp of a Harvard radial on a clear winter day in Southern Ontario as the smooth purr of a Merlin. With CWH around we are always treated to a weekend display of Harvard, Anson, Stearman, B-25, Lancaster, occasional Mustang, Mossie, Huricane or Spitfire over our rural towns in Niagara.
When they still made heavy metal toys in the 60s I had a Texan and that bugger lasted until I headed to college in 1980!
Wings folded as it was a navy trainer and had working wheels that folded into the body and a retractable cockpit plastic see through top!
It finally broke apart my senior year in high school 8byears after it stopped being made! I always admired that model.
Quite a few of the shots in this video are of fixed gear BT-13s and BT-15s, not AT-6s.
Many of the planes shown are actually NA BT-9 and Vultee BT-13 trainers. Rounded wings and tails.
And at 7:18 a Corsair
As noted in the video’s description
Wasn’t the P-51 named Mustang by the Brits, like they dubbed the PBY Catalina? That’s what I have heard repeatedly.😅
@@timothymulholland7905I believe that is the case. The British also named the P-38 "Lightning."
@@gpaull2should be noted on screen instead
Almost as much BT-13 footage as T-6.
my grandfather is one of an Indonesian Air Force pilot on the early days, finished his training in the AT-6 in 1954. his photo posing beside the cockpit still being the highlight of my family.
There are many shots of Vultee BT 13's intermixed with the T 6's
at 9:30 is a BT-13 as are several other photos I think.
Several of the film clips reported to be of the T-6 were actually clips of the Vultee BE-13 aka the Vultee vibrator. As a kid in the '50s, I can still that prop as they flew over my home; the T-6s trained at Bartow Air Base Fl under private contract with Gardner Aviation
There are still a lot of T-6s flying in civilian hands. A classic "warbird".😎👍
Well thought of as an honest aircraft by Chuck Yeager! I heard him say that.
I had the pleasure of doing a annual on one a few years back. It was a dream to work on and the AMM was like a comic book for mechanics. lol
Got the opportunity to fly one at Warbird adventures in South Carolina. It may not be as fast or as pretty as some other vintage warbirds, but it was a blast to fly.
I am at once (1) Impressed by the videos created here but (2) Not impressed by how nearly every video has a glaring error or two. In this case the Vultee BT-13 Valiant is shown again and again. OK, I get it. But those of us who are into this kind of stuff know the difference.
The T6 was designed to be unstable and a transitional air frame. It be almost impossible to go from a J3 Cub to a P51 Mustang.
Actually, primary training was done in PT-13s, -17s, -18s, -19s, -21s, -22s, -23s -26s, etc. Then they would transition to basic trainers like BT-13s and -15s. Then on to the AT-6 advanced trainer before final training in fighters or bombers. A lot of pictures shown in this video are of fixed-gear BT-13s and BT-15s, not AT-6s. They look somewhat similar. BT-13 and BT-15 are the same airframe but different engines. BT-13 has a Pratt and Whitney R-985. BT-15 has a Curtiis-Wright R-975.
Military Cubs were called L-4 Grasshoppers. Most liaison pilots went straight out to the L planes right after primary training. A number of them were actually NCOs.
The t-6 texan Johnsonville airport still fly at the north Carolina air show on to today
The t-6 texan Johnsonville airport still fly at the north Carolina air show on to today
Too many sequences of fixed-gear BT-13's here.
Yes, I think the Commonwealth air training scheme allowed RAF pilots the ability to fly, what we called the Harvard, a much better transition to flying a mk9, or the powerful mk14 Spitfire. Going from Tiger Moth to even a mk2 Spit doesn't bear thinkinking about. Funnily enough ive just watched an old film with Richard Attenborough goes on the commonwealth ait scheme under the grizzled guidance of Edward G Robinson. A watchable film for what was basically a promotional film to get young lads to jointhe RAF. Bit like Target For Tonight.Its called Journey Together if you like those pieces of aviation history.
Interesting film but too much use of the O-47 and the Vultee BT-13. SNJ-4 wasn't the only one with a tail hook.
You have excellent videos that I enjoy very much. How about a video on the Beechcraft Model 18. An aircraft that was in production for 33 years. From 1937 until 1970.
The first time I remember seeing a T6 was a round 1959 or 60. I was riding with my parents, and we lived close to Andrew's AFB , and at one point, the road goes past the end of an active runway. That day, a T6 didn't quite make it to the runway. We got there right after the crash and watched it burn to the ground before the firemen got there with the foam trucks.
I think you may have put a Vultee BT-13 in footage instead of the T-6. They look similar, but the BT-13 has a taller tail.
Fixed gear as well.
I believe that the plane being towed at the 1:35 point in the video is a Texan being towed across the border into Canada, where a Canadian pilot would then take off from the roadway to fly to the nearest RCAF base. This was to circumvent the isolationist laws
The "Harvard" was a backbone of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, run almost entirely by the Canadian government in Canada and trained most of the Commonwealth pilots.
apparently they had to file a "stolen aircraft" report for every one of the ones they towed over here. Must have been a mound of paper! We wound up making 3350 of them here on Canadian soil, part of the BCATP which turned out 110K air crew of all trades.
Certain planes are just great. AT-6 is one of them. Fits right in with the DC-3/C-47. They can just do things that modern planes cannot. Thank You for reminding me how great this plane was.
You’ll find that almost all planes are flown by real pilots. In fact non pilots almost never fly planes. 😂
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Correction. The P-51 was named the Mustang by the British, not by North American.
Wrong! No soup for you!😅
The p-51 was indeed made by North American... but it was first used by the British.
How can you be so confidently wrong
Don't know about the naming of the P-51, but it was the British who were the first to use the plane, and also they replaced the inadequate US Allison engine with a superior Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.
This could be your BEST mini-doc yet. What a GREAT rugged old bird !
I find it disappointing that the producers use multiple examples of the Vultee BT-13 in a video about the North American AT-6/SNJ .
You need to review your video. Many of the trainer aircraft shown are Vultee BT-13 trainers and not AT-6s. I would be a good idea for you to eliminate the BT-13 footage.
More than half the footage in this video is in fact the BT-13. The giveway is the forward mounted fixed landing gear. But yhe AT-6 is one helluva airp;ane. I would change the quote to "If you can'r fly a T-6, you can't fly anything" I had my ticket lifted for a year for buzzing the harbor at Provincetown, MA in 74, prop 10 feet over the water jinking sailboats with the rudder. Wouldn't do that in any other complex single. Yes, I was young and very stupid.
Ohh....you should have included some of the T-6 air racing video, those guys are intense.... !!
Hmm…lots of BT-13’s pictured?
I got started in aircraft maintenance helping restore one. It was awesome seeing it flying years later
I’m working at a local aircraft restoration & maintenance company while working toward getting my a&p and we have an SNJ we’re restoring. We have a few T-34’s we’re focusing on first but it’s going to be so rewarding to see all of these flying when we’re done
Check out James Cagney as a Canadian pilot in "Captain of the Clouds" (February 21, 1942. Great shots of seas of Harvard's at RCAF Trenton Ontario for training. The US joined the war two years after Canada did and Cagney was itching to fly so he joined the RCAF.
Some of the film shows the Vultee BT-13, not the AT-6.
You create such wonderful videos with great subjects...it would be "perfect" though if the clips always showed the SUBJECT aircraft (as noted below...there were a lot of clips of BT-13s etc...not AT-6s). Nice finish with the Aero-shell team
Lots of Vultee trainers in the film clips - those are NOT T-6's, though the performance charasteristics are similar. The T-6 is the only military aircraft I've ever flown.
My dad flew the Harvard in the RCAF in the early to mid-fifties. He was a flight instructor on the type and taught pilots from around the world. Our next door neighbors on base were from Norway. RCAF Centralia.
In deference to your claim that the P-51 was called the "Mustang" by the USAAF - it was the ROYAL AIR FORCE that gave it that moniker. Originally designed for the RAF, the RAF followed it's usual practice of naming American fighter aircraft for American Wildlife - hence the Brewster "BUFFALO", the P-51 "Mustang", and several others. Training aircraft from the US were named after American Universities - the "Yale" and the "Harvard", and US Bombers were named after US cities - "Boston", and "Washington".
The New Zealand airforce used them as trainers.
The "Mustang" was named by the RAF.
If I am not mistaken Texans have been used in tv and film with minor modifications to represent Japanese Zeros, as there are only 2 original Zeros left that are airworthy.
Watanabe smiles 😉
Bah bah black sheep "Zeroes" were in fact Texans in IJN colours.
@@ky7299 yeah, exact example I was thinking of.
Yes. A bunch of them were modified to look like Zeros for the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!
The T-6 has quite a stellar movie resume. T-6s were modified to resemble just not Zero's, but also Kates and Vals for use in Tora Tora Tora. The same aircraft were also were used in Midway and Final Countdown.
I met one of the pilots who flew one of the T-6 "Zero's" during the filming of the Final Countdown. He told us about them flying the one scene where the F-14 flies between the 2 "Zeros" and the two planes react like they were really surprised. In fact, the two "Zero's" got caught in the wake of the Tomcat, and what happened was not planned. They lost control in the turbulence and almost collided. It was a good thing they got a good shot, because the pilots weren't going to do it again.
500 are still flyable, maybe, but most are hangar queens getting 2 hours flight time per year
Here in Canada there are still several of the Harvard variant of the T6 still flying.
Portugal used several against the guerrillas in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. There was also a "black" squadron of unmarked planes used in the Biafra war
I also love the BT-13, kind of a smaller look-a-like to the T-6, and often having preceded the T-6 in the new pilot's training cycles. BT-13 has the same engine as the T-6 only scaled down to 3/4 the size and horsepower, the landing gear doesn't retract, and it has a softer, easier to fly wing. Also, should I mention that the A-4 Skyhawk is related, however distantly through its Navy affiliation, with the T-6/SNJ?
Only early models of the T-6 shared the 450 hp Pratt and Whitney R-985 engine with the BT-13. Nearly all T-6s used during the war had 600 hp Pratt and Whitney R-1340 engines.
The BT-15 was the same airframe as the BT-13 but with a 450 hp Curtiss-Wright R-975 engine.
my Dad earned his wings in the Royal Canadian Air Force version of this, the Harvard. Canada built about 3350 of them in WW2 and used them to train not only RCAF pilots but pilots from all over the British Commonwealth in the British Commonwealth Flight Training Plan, which trained over 130K air crew. There are many Harvards still flying here, particularly by the flying/restoration group Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association's flight museum near Toronto. I take a ride every summer. It never pales..
my Dad was in the RCAF, which is how I came to be born in Claresholm, Alberta in 1954. He became a flight instructor, teaching many students from different parts of the world. To this day, the sound of a Harvard engine still gives me a thrill.
Thanks for the haeds up about the flying/restoration group Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association's flight museum near Toronto - I'll look into maybe taking a ride!
I wonder if the people who made this realize how many Vultee BT13 trainers they included in the footage of T6s.
Maybe, but quite often, they'll use what's available when footage is unavailable for the actual model. I've seen many documentary vids when they were talking about a Jet in combat, and the show some WWII footage of a prop plane in combat. Not everything got filmed back in the day.
You forgot the CAC Wirraway in Australia was a AT-6 licence built aircraft in Australia. It was even used as a fighter in the absence of fighters at the beginning of the war with Japan.
Can’t you folks recognize a BT-13 is not a T-6? Good grief, who’s minding the store?
The North American P51 was named Mustang by the British........
At 2:07 there is a tiny error. P-51 was named "Mustang" by the Brits, not by the manufacturer.
A lot of footage shown is of the Vultee, NOT the T-6. Not your usual excellent standard!
The very 1st military aircraft that I flew in Vietnam 1968 out of Bien Hua airbase. A Vietnamese pilot gave me a checkride in the T6 tail dragger prior to allowing me to fly the A1E. Not a problem at all.
When my father was stationed at Pensacola NAS in the early 50's he trained in the Navy version, the SNJ. One of his flight instructors was Donald Rumsfeld (yep, that one) One day Lt. Rumsfeld took them up to demonstrate stall recovery. The demonstration didn't go as planned as he initiated the stall at 10,000 ft and finally got things gathered back up at about 1500 ft AGL. My dad said he thought they had bought the farm. Lt Rumsfeld's response was "well I don't think we need to try that again today..." My dad answered "yes sir!"
Stoked to see you covering one of my favorite aircraft! There are quite a few BT-13’s in this though… probably 1/4 of all the clips.
I have watched you channel for a few years but, It looks like you're getting sloppy or the person putting together your videos doesn't know military equipment you talk about the AT-6 but your showing Vultee BT-13's? I've started to notice this in some of you other videos. Find someone who knows military hardware or do your fact-checking.
When did this guy EVER show accurate pictures?
You need an editor who is better at identification. Lots of pictures of BT-13s not T-6.
SNJs were used for Navy training well into the 1950s, until replaced by the T- 28 Trojan 9n the mid 5os
Flew them in the 1960's in New Zealand where it was known as the Harvard.
In New Zealand they were known as Harvards .Also I believe they said if you can fly one you can fly anything. It's been a while since ive heard them in the sky although I believe that there are some still in New Zealand with aircraft enthusiasts .whish they would fly over again loved the sound of that engine and there beautiful look in the air
Many of the shots you show on the video are Vultee BT13, not at6
The British named the Mustang, not North American.
My father told me you could spot the experienced T-6 pilots on landing: When the hydraulics failed, they could use the hand pump to lower the landing gear without the nose of the aircraft bobbing up and down. Not his favorite aircraft.
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So many of the pictures included with this were Vultee BT-13 Valiants [Navy designation SNV]
Not enough T-6 footage available, most likely.
Has to be the most underrated plane of all time. 👍
Civilians who can afford to have their own planes also appreciate these old warbirds; Guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is one pilot who has owned a couple of these excellent, versatile aircraft in England, where they're not known as relics or war birds, but as really good airplanes.
It was a fun aeroplane to fly. I trained in it on flying course 6404 as the last group to fly them in the RCAF.
Sure a lot of BT13’s in this video also
A lot of bt-13s in this. Also a cool airplane.
Australia built a licensed version of this aircraft and called it the Wirraway.
More powerful engine (borrowed from the DC3), a variable-pitch three-blade propellor, two forward-firing synchronised .303 Brownings and a .303 Lewis gun for the observer.
The Wirraway was said to have had aerodynamic issues that could be lethal.
After the war, a Wirraway crashed on a crowded Bondi Beach, in Sydney, while on a shark spotting patrol. The aerodynamic problem was said to have been the cause of the crash.
Yes, the Harvard is a great aircraft.
I was taking off from Boundary Bay airport. In my C 150
The tower told me to level off at 300 ft. and hold that altitude.
Six Harvards passed over me, yes tje sound is great
The Mustang name came from the British.
I remember in the seventies reading in a aviation magazine that for the movie Tora Tora Tora that t-6 Texans were reworked into flying examples of Zero's, Nate's and Val's .
In the late 90's about a dozen unknown crates were discovered in an old SADF air force storage hanger that nobody knew about or what they contained, and were about to be sent for disposal. Then out of curiosity someone decided to open one of the crates and discovered the crates contained brand new, disassembled T-6 Harvard aircraft still in their original packing grease. Think of it, a 50-year-old brand new, vintage aircraft, still in it's original packaging? Obvisually the disposal order was quickly rescinded, and the aircraft were all put up for world- wide for auction, all were quickly sold to civilian pilots, collectors and aviation historical societies. Some even remaining in South Africa, but I believe most went to the U.S. I used to see then flying in Cape Town in the late 90's and early 2000's. I believe that now none are still flying here, as most were eventually sold abroad.
You forgot the Australian Made Wirraway made by CAC! they also Made the CAC Boomerang as a for combat Version of the Wirraway, a single seater with 4 cannon.
good thing there are plenty of other airplanes for imaginary pilots.
Probably the best trainer aircraft ever
It's a pity who ever made this cannot tell the difference between a T6 and a Vultee BT13 Valiant
Have flown a T6 myself, Awesome plane.
There was one in the base where I spent my draft year, in the Italian air force. Lovely thing, painted in yellow. I loved it, and the Piaggio P136 that was a couple hundred meters to the north.
We often see Harvard's flying over Southern Ontario Canada through the summer. There is an association that flies them. They have a very unique sound.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) used the AT-6 as its primary Training aircraft from 1943 to 1994.
The AT-6 was only retired in around 1994, so nearly 50 years as their training aircraft..
Here in SA we knew it as the Harvard.
Full name.
RAF and Commonwealth, called it AT-6 Harvard (RAF aircraft naming system as she was a Trainer named after an educational theme so Harvard Uni in the USA)
USAAF called it AT-6 Texan.
USAF T-6 Texan (the A was dropped)
I passed my aircraft mechanic final exams in 2012 on a Harvard. Eighty years later, she's still a teacher!
The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head Maine had one of these back in the eighties (they might still have it) and I was always suprised at how loud it was. It would create a deafening roar every time it took off.
To me, mention of the T-6, painted bright yellow, means Hondo, Texas, 1952-1956, one of the great fly specks of my experience. The signs at each end of that one-horse burg on the highway said, "This is God's Country, don't drive through it like Hell," an inverted truth in this then ten year old's opinion. At the little USAF base at Hondo they were still training pilots on the T-28 and the T-6 in '56 when my father shipped out for the UK and took his family with him.
O-47s are NOT T-6s....just saying....and BT-13s are NOT T-6s EITHER.....WAY TOO MANY BT-13s in this!!!!!! There is SO MUCH USAAF and USN T-6/SNJ footage!!! You have NO EXCUSE for using so damn much BT-13 footage!!! ...LAZY...is what that's called...
A lot of dreams came true or ended in that airplane.
I watched a Texas Confederate Air Force pilot land one accidentally gear up at the All Ohio Balloon Rally in Marysville, Ohio 1976. Bent prop leaked fuel gouged runway no fire. Was supposed to do a touch and go.
"The Harvard"... well, that didn't age well. Stupid British, lol. Hated seeing the loss of two of these, this year in Reno... And both had VERY experienced pilots with them.
Wasn't the planes fault, however. ATC, maybe, since they let them "free-roam" after the air race- maybe even some pilot error. But the planes performed expertly- finishing 1-2, I do believe.
8:14 in the early 1950...diven by Korean war..the Brits? & US Navy started using DH.82 Tiger Moths biplanes rather than AT-6? cause...most of the WWII trainers had been sold..to Air Show/Racers? Anywho a guess of what wire-strapped plane at 8:24 backseater tossing bombs out of? or 8:26 if those are Keystones or Martin B10 near checkered hangars? Luv me the Dark humor in these skies.
There are too many pictures/clips of non AT-6 aircraft. You are illustrating with clips of BT-13s. "BT" as in Basic Training not "AT" as in Advanced Training. The "BTs" had fixed gear and a smaller engine. I was fortunate enough to own an AT6-A back in the mid-1970s for 13 years. What a wonderful airplane!
T-6 'Texan' bargain prices from Korean war surplus killed a local Spanish training airplane, the 'Triana', when many fuselages had been already completed, same happened with the project 'CASA C-401', they purchased C-130 Hercules instead.