A type not to common in Australia, a WW2 era Yale trainer which is owned by Reevers, has now being transferred from long term storage to their Adelaide hangar for reassembly.
The type was a predecessor of the Wirraway which achieved fame in WW2 with the RAAF and also later on with the RAN
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By: reevers - 1st August 2017 at 14:04
Thanks for the correction Dave.
We meant to say the same design origins, given the prototype of the Wirraway first flew in 1937 and entered production in 1939 (must have been a test series on) whereas the Yale didn’t enter production as the Yale until 1940 as stated.
Interestingly, and we didn’t know this, but the NA64 aka the Yale was an upgraded version of the pre war French order of the NA57 which first flew in 1937. So close and so similar but we’ll make the necessary corrections.
thanks
By: Dave Homewood - 31st July 2017 at 12:49
“The type was a predecessor of the Wirraway”
The Wirraway first flew in 1937, whilst the Yale’s first flight was on the 12th of February 1940.
By: J Boyle - 31st July 2017 at 07:23
More to the point, the Yale was the predecessor of the Texan/SNJ/Harvard.
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July 31, 2017 at 7:15 am