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Newpublius
04-27-2014, 11:39 AM
Saw this pair flying over VA yesterday and while driving, zoomed in and was able to catch this picture....the plane on the right is unquestionably marked 'Marines' - the plane on the left isn't clear to me.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0J6YrCo-uZM/U1yWN4NQDkI/AAAAAAAAKAw/_wramC8vdCQ/w958-h719-no/Road+Trip+April+2014+330.JPG

Bob
04-27-2014, 11:41 AM
Saw this pair flying over VA yesterday and while driving, zoomed in and was able to catch this picture....

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0J6YrCo-uZM/U1yWN4NQDkI/AAAAAAAAKAw/_wramC8vdCQ/w958-h719-no/Road+Trip+April+2014+330.JPG

Looks like T-28 trainers to me. Quite a number of them still fly.

Newpublius
04-27-2014, 02:31 PM
I think now that its a T-6....the cockpit is segmented and the tail wings are rounded.

Max Rockatansky
04-27-2014, 03:14 PM
I think now that its a T-6....the cockpit is segmented and the tail wings are rounded.
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/North-American-Texan/IMAGES/3-View-AT6-Texan.jpg


You are correct. Another name is SNJ, that's the Navy/Marine designation, but the same plane.

For trivia fans, not many Japanese Zeroes survived WWII. Most were destroyed or scrapped. To make the movie "Tora, Tora,Tora", many T-6/SNJs were modified to look like Zeros and Vals.

Several are still flying around: http://www.toratoratora.com/home.html
http://blogs.c.yimg.jp/res/blog-ab-eb/koichi_oto/folder/1064558/51/31109651/img_10?1377774142

Max Rockatansky
04-27-2014, 03:21 PM
Looks like T-28 trainers to me. Quite a number of them still fly.

I flew a T-28 in training. It's an awesome airplane. More powerful than the SNJ, but a little more difficult to fly since it had a shorter fuselage length. It had tricycle landing gear, which made it easier than than a taildragger.

http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/t28_3v.jpg

Peter1469
04-27-2014, 05:08 PM
I was on the AT today and saw one of planes in the OP.