Class 25-60 Marcad. Winged Dec 1961. My T-28 memories consist mainly of the instrument training “under the bag”. It was a real boost to my ego whenever I made a good approach and the instructor would tell me to pop the bag and take a look see at what my result was at minimums. Hated the “hood” training but it really paid off in my flying future. Lots of memories here. T-28 was a sweet flying aircraft from which I continued on to TF-9J’s at Kingsville. Never got CarQual due to the carrier being in dry dock at the time. 1st trap was in the F9F-8B. Would sure like to be back in the cockpit again and feel that power surge on takeoff..Ahh, the memories!!
Ah, memories! I went through T-28 training with VT-2 & VT-3 at Whiting field in ‘62-‘63. Later, after a tour in Vietnam I went back to Whiting as a TPA instructor with VT-3. I loved flying the T-28!!
VT-6 1981. USMC. One of the last to fly it. Still remember all of this. See it in my dreams. Like our DI at OCS. Now I fly DCS since I am retired. Still get the thrill vicariously flying the Mustang and Spitfire. The Trojan being a sister ship to the Mustang, but with a round engine. Each share the dorsal fin and similar performance. The Trojan had a speed brake which helped slow it down in the carrier break. And don’t forget those cowl flaps…air cooled engine vs water-cooled in the Mustang.
You and I were probably there at the same time. I checked in to North Field late Jan or early February '81 and finished about June then to the HTs. Winged Oct 6 1981.
It was memorable first seeing this film, already ancient, just prior to doing it all for real personally very much as shown here days later. Then we did it in the clouds and at night too. This is definitely flying at its finest. What's most astonishing is these student pilots, by the hundreds throughout the years for decades, with little or no time between first being able to fly at all, much less these high performance aircraft, suddenly need to fly just a few feet apart, requiring absolutely mistake-free complete control throughout the flight. Fly Navy.
What an unprecedented opportunity, treat, and sheer delight to see this special video decades later is and must be for T-28 alumni! In the training process, formation flying T-28's and ALL aircraft comes only a few scant months and training flights after the student pilots have taken their first flights in any aircraft. There's nothing like learning to fly in highly congested airspace, filled with many different types of high performance aircraft, each of many other aircraft nearly independently and loosely organized as necessary, executing the most difficult maneuvers in aviation, whereupon just seeing another aircraft from miles away is to be instantly avoided by all parties; is as terrifying as Freddie Kruger suddenly popping up outta the dark. Nonetheless, lining these aircraft up with such tiny separation is absolutely jarring in its suddenly COMPLETELY DIFFERENT demands and stress. Almost everybody comes away from their first few formation flights drenched in sweat, often head-to-toe, regardless of the temperature, what happened or their metabolism. Fly Navy.
Went thru VT-3 in 1970 and spent 30 more years in the NAV...I don't recall ever seeing any movies about any aspects of the T28 syllabus........but maybe I was asleep......now I know what I should have been doing.
Class 25-60 Marcad. Winged Dec 1961. My T-28 memories consist mainly of the instrument training “under the bag”. It was a real boost to my ego whenever I made a good approach and the instructor would tell me to pop the bag and take a look see at what my result was at minimums. Hated the “hood” training but it really paid off in my flying future. Lots of memories here. T-28 was a sweet flying aircraft from which I continued on to TF-9J’s at Kingsville. Never got CarQual due to the carrier being in dry dock at the time. 1st trap was in the F9F-8B. Would sure like to be back in the cockpit again and feel that power surge on takeoff..Ahh, the memories!!
Ah, memories! I went through T-28 training with VT-2 & VT-3 at Whiting field in ‘62-‘63. Later, after a tour in Vietnam I went back to Whiting as a TPA instructor with VT-3. I loved flying the T-28!!
What did you fly in 'nam?
VT-6 1981. USMC. One of the last to fly it. Still remember all of this. See it in my dreams. Like our DI at OCS. Now I fly DCS since I am retired. Still get the thrill vicariously flying the Mustang and Spitfire. The Trojan being a sister ship to the Mustang, but with a round engine. Each share the dorsal fin and similar performance. The Trojan had a speed brake which helped slow it down in the carrier break. And don’t forget those cowl flaps…air cooled engine vs water-cooled in the Mustang.
You and I were probably there at the same time. I checked in to North Field late Jan or early February '81 and finished about June then to the HTs. Winged Oct 6 1981.
@@imagrasshopper9510 Winged Oct 82.
@@suecobandito8954 Weaver, Buzzfield two of the '28 Marine instructors I remember. Fun flying with them.
VT-6, USMC Winged December 79' Last of the Trojan Drivers is on my coffee mug I still have. VT-6 Our Mission is Attrition . Oh the memories!
It was memorable first seeing this film, already ancient, just prior to doing it all for real personally very much as shown here days later. Then we did it in the clouds and at night too. This is definitely flying at its finest. What's most astonishing is these student pilots, by the hundreds throughout the years for decades, with little or no time between first being able to fly at all, much less these high performance aircraft, suddenly need to fly just a few feet apart, requiring absolutely mistake-free complete control throughout the flight. Fly Navy.
I was stationed at VT -2 from 1967-1969. Was plane captain,then into check crew. Good duty station
The T-28 B model is the most powerful ones as well as the C model
What an unprecedented opportunity, treat, and sheer delight to see this special video decades later is and must be for T-28 alumni! In the training process, formation flying T-28's and ALL aircraft comes only a few scant months and training flights after the student pilots have taken their first flights in any aircraft. There's nothing like learning to fly in highly congested airspace, filled with many different types of high performance aircraft, each of many other aircraft nearly independently and loosely organized as necessary, executing the most difficult maneuvers in aviation, whereupon just seeing another aircraft from miles away is to be instantly avoided by all parties; is as terrifying as Freddie Kruger suddenly popping up outta the dark. Nonetheless, lining these aircraft up with such tiny separation is absolutely jarring in its suddenly COMPLETELY DIFFERENT demands and stress. Almost everybody comes away from their first few formation flights drenched in sweat, often head-to-toe, regardless of the temperature, what happened or their metabolism. Fly Navy.
Went thru VT-3 in 1970 and spent 30 more years in the NAV...I don't recall ever seeing any movies about any aspects of the T28 syllabus........but maybe I was asleep......now I know what I should have been doing.
Bill Turville I was an Airframes mechanic in VT3 in 1969.
I went through Basic at VT-3 in 1971. I didn't get to Form, so didn't see that one, but I did see some other flicks. I saw the one on bailout.
Holy eardrums Batman!!
Yeah, I can hear the instructor screaming as if it was yesterday…
MY INSTRUCTOR WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER ME IF I WASN'T TUCKED IN CLOSER THEN THOSE GUYS.
Not so easy.....
Yeah looks hard as hell :)
Junior Ellis I was in VT3 from 66 to 69 . I worked in Airframes. I changed a lot of tires.S Cox...