Loud Radial Engined Harvard Trainers Rumble Overhead
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2018
- The New Zealand Warbirds Association was formed in 1978 as the Royal New Zealand Air Force was retiring its fleet of North American T-6 'Harvard' flight training aircraft.
NZ Warbirds was formed to serve as an organisation to facilitate a group of like-minded individuals to purchase and operate these ex-military aircraft.
During their time in the RNZAF, the Harvards were used for many years as the aircraft for the Air Force's aerobatic display team, 'The Red Checkers'.
Eventually the NZ Warbirds Assn gathered together a number of Harvard aircraft, enabling them to form their own T-6 based aerobatic team, 'The Roaring Forties'.
The Roaring Forties team are now the 'flag bearers' of New Zealand Warbirds, and this precision aerobatics team has been seen at air shows right across New Zealand and occasionally in Australia too!
The RNZAF operated a total of 202 Harvards between 1941-1977. During WW2 they were used for advanced pilot training (after pilots had completed initial training in Tiger Moths), but after the war they became the RNZAF's primary initial pilot training aircraft.
Outside of the British Commonwealth air forces, the North American Aviation T-6 aircraft was known as the 'AT-6' Texan by the United States Army Air Corps, and the USAAF, and as the 'SNJ' by the US Navy.
Almost 15,500 examples of the Texan were built from April 1935 when the first prototype flew. The last T-6's in military service were retired by the South African Air Force in 1995.
These aircraft are seen here at a Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow (now 'Air Festival') which has been held at Hood Aerodrome in Masterton (New Zealand) every two years, for over two decades.
For more details about the up and coming Air Festival, see: www.wings.org.nz
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I attended an AT-6 air race in the 70's. They are the noisiest airplanes I have ever heard!
These planes were used as the Japanese zero for the pearl harbour movie
Thanks for another great video with fantastic sound.
Happy new year, to everyone!
Love the sound of those Radial engines
N A T- 6 , el gran avión de entrenamiento de occidente_ Por varias décadas desde los años 40 hasta los 90 fue fundamental entrenador de más de 35 países _ En mi país llegaron a operar 50 unidades de este exelente avión _ Felicitaciones por el vídeo , saludos cordiales de Uruguay !!!
Nice vid! Love the old T-6. One quick correction, though, it's SNJ not SJN. Probably just a typo but thought I'd bring it to your attention.
Yup, just a typo -- corrected. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sensacional vídeo , NA T6 fantástico. Obrigado. Ótimo 2019 .
Hope own and fly one soon
Good luck. They are now very expensive to buy and fly, which is one of the reasons why the Yak-52s and Nanchangs are so popular.
Feliz 2019
Bet they are not very economical . Bad on gas
At cruise setting, around 120 litres per hour. The Merlin engine in the Spitfire and P51 at cruise uses around 230 litres per hour. I don't know the figures for the same-sized Allison V12 in the P40s and Yak 3 that fly in New Zealand, but they are probably similar to the Merlin.
Last week I went for a ride in the Yak 3 based at Omaka and before we took off, Ryan, the pilot, fuelled up. He put a total of 381 litres into the two wing tanks and said those tanks would give an endurance of about an hour and a half.