This is an excerpt from the below mentioned link, learn to fly B.25’s, Mustang, Bearcat, Corsair, P.38 or Texan. The school was run by Isaac Buchinal in Texas.
Although he has a basic outline, the actual course has to be custom-tailored to the individual’s needs. Basically, for $1,800 (Ed: sit down before you read the rest of this sentence. You won’t believe it!) you get 10 hours of Stearman time, 10 hours of T-6 (five front, five back), two hours of Mustang, a couple hours in the B-25 and two in the Bearcat (or four in the B-25 to try for a type rating). He gets students of all possible backgrounds, from 100 to 10,000 hours, and he tries to work up to the talent and experience level of the student. If you have absolutely no tailwheel time, you’ll probably start in a Citabria, figuring out what a tailwheel is for before he lets you into his Stearman.
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMustangBurch.html
Apologies to the provider of this story as I can’t remember where it came from!
By: Mark12 - 30th August 2006 at 20:02
Ah yes! Junior Burchinal from Paris, Texas. This was a favoured training regime for new and cautious Warbird owners in North America then.
$1,800 may not sound like a lot of money but to get it in to perspective, in that year, 1970, I transacted a two seat fully airworthy Spitfire in the UK on behalf of Don Plumb in Canada and paid £12,500. Five years earlier, pre the BoB film, they had been half that.
Mark
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August 30, 2006 at 7:25 pm