CLASSIC AIRPLANES pt.1

[BoldHighlander]

Firing up the AT-6 & P-51, and getting ready to taxi out:




If you look close you will note they have converted this P-51 into a two seater:


aahhh....nothing like the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine!


The "old" passing the "new"......I'll take the old girl any day!


A Boeing PT-13 Stearman "Kaydet".
The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 of which at least 9,783 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s as a military trainer aircraft. Stearman became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a Primary trainer for the USAAF, as a basic trainer for the USN (as the NS & N2S), and with the RCAF as the Kaydet throughout World War II.


My daughter with a Cessna 0-1/L-19 Birddog.
The Cessna L-19/O-1 Bird Dog was a liaison and observation aircraft. It was the first all metal fixed wing aircraft ordered for and by the United States Army since the U.S. Army Air Forces separated from the Army in 1947, becoming its own branch of service, the U.S. Air Force. The Bird Dog had a lengthy career in the U.S. military as well as in other countries.


Okay tv fans: here is a Bell 47 helicopter. You'll recognize this old whirly-bird from the M.A.S.H. tv series.