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Likewise, the PT-17 didn't.

T-6 was used postwar for primary training; no need for PT's.

I agree with the sentiment, but would says the AT-6 deserves the honor. Really were plenty of aircraft that could serve as primary...

By "winning" the BoB, The Spitfire and Hurricane prevented a disastrous German invasion attempt of Britain which would have destroyed...

We used to say that government inspectors could be in an aircraft factory or a meat packing plant, it's all the same. Some AF inspectors...

Priority one at Boeing is going to be smoking out and neutralizing the whistle blower. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPbSc5WclY

This came up in another thread but I thought it fit better here. This is from a competitive / dogfight test test conducted in Australia...

Someone told me the story that he and his carpool buddy stopped to look at a truck with a "For Sale" sign parked in a front yard. An old...

Not over 10,000. P-51 control forces and maneuverability don't become better at 25K. Read what the man who flew them said. Summary: the...

P-40N owner, Mike Dillon, wrote about a mock dogfight with Bill Fornof's P-51D in the January 1969 Air Progress magazine. "It takes a...

Attached is one of the best things I have found on the P-66. I also posted an article on the issue of the possible impact of the P-66...

Running military power for an hour, you'd better be defending your home base or you'll run out of gas on the way home.

There's a lot of times when flying a T-6 that you realize even though it's fighter-like it needs more power to be a fighter. A BT-13...

I had the thought that rebuilding a BT-13 into a P-66 replica powered by R-1340 would be neat. My father saw a BT-15 in Tulsa about 1950...

Wait a minute. I read on a forum post that the P-39 was the best WW2 fighter!