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.

[BoldHighlander]

aahh...one of my favorite "newer" planes, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider.
The Douglas A-1 (formerly AD) Skyraider was an American single-seat attack bomber of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. A propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, nicknamed the "Spad" during the Vietnam War, a throwback from the WWI French pursuit plane. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career well into the space age, and inspired a straight-winged, slow-flying, jet-powered successor which is still in front line service today, the A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) -- another one of my favorites

It was operated by the United States Navy (USN), the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and the United States Air Force (USAF), and also saw service with the British Royal Navy, the French Air Force, and the Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam (VNAF), among others.


And all you movie fans will remember Danny Glover flying one of these in "BAT 21", the Cessna 0-2 Skymaster.
The O-2 Skymaster (also known as the "Oscar Deuce" or "The Duck") is a military version of the Cessna 337 Super Skymaster. The United States Air Force commissioned Cessna to build a military variant to replace the O-1 Bird Dog in 1966.


Here's the cockpit of a stationery WWII flight trainer/simulator. Sorry, I can't recall what its called (the L-?).


My daughter posing next to it to give it scale:


Well, that's about it for this round. I hope you all enjoyed them.

The Heritage Flight Museum has a number of aircraft in hangers near-by & they alternate the displays. All their planes are operational, and they take the WWII fighters up every weekend during the summer months (I live nearby & see them often in flight).

Next month (Sept 11th & 12th) the museum will be hosting the Warbird Weekend, and will have warbirds from all over flying in & out. I'm planning a return visit, with my camera!

[The Wizard of BC]

The little blue and yellow training device is called "The Link Trainer". Less affectionately known as "The Blue Meany".
It was used to teach instrument flying.
You got locked into it and sealed so it was totally dark with only your instruments lighted.
You were supposed to fly a course using only flight instruments while your instructor followed your progress on a small map platform which had a little remotely controlled car which represented your "aircraft".

The Link Trainer was invented, developed and manufactured by Edwin Link. The same man who invented the diving bell.

[BoldHighlander]

Thanks!

The little blue and yellow training device is called "The Link Trainer". Less affectionately known as "The Blue Meany".
It was used to teach instrument flying.
You got locked into it and sealed so it was totally dark with only your instruments lighted.
You were supposed to fly a course using only flight instruments while your instructor followed your progress on a small map platform which had a little remotely controlled car which represented your "aircraft".

The Link Trainer was invented, developed and manufactured by Edwin Link. The same man who invented the diving bell.

[Rex_Tremende]

The little blue and yellow training device is called "The Link Trainer". Less affectionately known as "The Blue Meany".
It was used to teach instrument flying.

It's so tiny! It looks like it should run on quarters.

Neat photos - thanks for posting.

Regards,
Rex.

[BoldHighlander]

It's so tiny! It looks like it should run on quarters.

Ha! Ha!
You know what Rex? Before I realized what it was I was actually looking for the coin box!!