A Salute to the T-6!!

Some more………

Went down to Denver last night for a local group meeting…Richard Jones’ plane was in the hangar…with $53,000 worth of hail damage to it!! (This is the yellow T-6 at the top of this thread, TA-038)…seems the guys flew an airshow at Colorado Springs at the start of July and a hail storm was approaching, but a ramp rat would’nt put the planes in an open hangar…so they all have small dings and dents all over the place, crazed paint on all control surfaces…and these WERE pristine paint jobs! Now all skins have to be replaced and the old skins will be sold off to someone who has a project or restoration going on and can still use them with the small dents in them…

A shame….all because 1 guy would’nt tuck them away safely…

Mark

This was taken at a 725 Sqn, RDAF, reunion a year ago. Flown as experimental, no aerobatics. On the other hand Arne is one of the best “exponents” of the supersonic proptip “rasping”. And followed by the deep rumble of the radial exhaust. Oh yes! This is seriously good.
My father was a mechanic helping to assemble and get in the backseat to test fly a handful of Mk IIa / III originally for the SAAF. (Wonderful incentive to do a good job!). In the end most were crated again and not used. Did they have a wooden aft fuselage?
Any pictures of the German used T-6/Harvards during the war. Can’t find any at the moment.
Best regards

The only airworthy Harvard (sorry, they came from the RAF) in Denmark. Pilot Arne Moesgaard trained on them in Canada in the late 50’ties.

Hey CrazyMainer-

That one in your batch of pics, the one with the red bands/tail and the number ’02’ on it….any chance that one is new to your area and used to belong to a guy named John Reynolds and used to be based at Aspen?

Mark

Here are 6 from Oshkosh and 2 from Abbotsford this year. I haven’t managed to get very far with my captions for this year’s photo harvest, and I already know that I won’t be able to find much info on these “Harvards” (I’m a Brit!) so if anyone out there could help me with identification and a little background, such as the owner and base airfield, I would be very grateful.

A great plane…got my first T-6 ride a few months ago.
It was a beautifully restored “G” model backdated to look like it did when originally mafde as a “D”.
I was surprised by it’s fairly stiff controls.
A fun ride, kept the canopy open the whole time…

Aspen-Rifle-Aspen

Mk.12-

That would HAVE to be Rifle…Aspen don’t look like that…
Amazing how little the plane really changed aside from the addition of American markings and a new coat of paint…he named her ‘Old Timer’ with an ersatz pic of him leaning against the prop as nose art…David is the highest time T-6 pilot in the world, having trained Brit pilots and later Yanks in WWII in Alabama…he sold the T-6 in about 1994…
Bill Greenwood’s T.Mk.9 Spit in the background acting as the contraprop?

Mark

Mark,

I wrote Aspen on the back of the print but was pretty sure it was Rifle.

Mrs Mark12 flew in the T.IX in close formation down to Rifle and then we switched over and Dave Fain took her for a ‘tootle’ round the ski slopes on the way back to Aspen.

Here is a shot of the Spitfire taken from the T-6.

Mark12

Sorry – phew – only saved by thumbing through an Ikea catalogue!

Ewwwww…..:(

Stop it Stop it – too much T-6 P*rn – my trousers have exploded!!!!!!! 🙂 😀

Mk.12-

That would HAVE to be Rifle…Aspen don’t look like that…
Amazing how little the plane really changed aside from the addition of American markings and a new coat of paint…he named her ‘Old Timer’ with an ersatz pic of him leaning against the prop as nose art…David is the highest time T-6 pilot in the world, having trained Brit pilots and later Yanks in WWII in Alabama…he sold the T-6 in about 1994…
Bill Greenwood’s T.Mk.9 Spit in the background acting as the contraprop?

Mark

By the way, the T-6 pilots in my pics are **** Jones and David Fain of Denver

Mark,

Here is a shot of Dave Fain’s T-6 N2991 in its former military marking – Spanish I think. It was taken in August 1986 at Rifle or perhaps Aspen. This is before he removed the contra-prop conversion.

Mark12

……and Ed Huber in the FIRST T-6G model ever made (the shot over the lake)…

By the way, the T-6 pilots in my pics are **** Jones and David Fain of Denver and Jerry Flesher and Whitey Wannemacher of Colorado Springs…..the first T-6 picture (landing) is taken at Breckenridge, TX and I don’t know who’s plane it is…

Mark

Okay, here’s one of my most recent photos of the beloved T-6 from Wanaka…

Hope you enjoy 🙂

TNZ