Harvard Aerobatics ~ Swartkops Air Base Take-Off & Landing (Aerobatics Over Silverlakes, Pretoria) Date: 11th August 2010 It was simply an awesome experience when I took control of the Harvard & did some of my first real life aerobatics ~ with my father in the front seat & me in the back, the aircraft can be flown in either one of the cockpits as they are nearly both identical The T-6 Harvard was mounted with a 600 HP Pratt and Whitney R-1340 9 cylinder Wasp radial engine up front, air cooled. Speed: 335 M/PH ~ 30 U.S. Gallons PH This exact engine was used to power up the the Sherman Tank that was used in United States Army as the Iron First to crush Nazi Germany, weighing over 36 Tons. The Harvard is actually an American T-6 Texan Fighter Trainer Aircraft used to train fighter pilots in the Second World War, they were also used in Japan to train the Kamikaze Pilots as they also had a large number of these planes before the War Broke out, also Nazi Germany back in the day also had a bunch with only one remaining photograph left of a Harvard painted up in German color bearing the Swastika. These planes were mainly used in the U.S. where they were built & trained all the fighters who would make History, the Canadians used them, they were also shipped to England to train RAF fighters, as well as Australia, New Zealand & South Africa! THese T-6 Texas Fighter Trainers werent just used to train pilots but they were also fitted with machine guns on the nose and on the wings, they were very successful in South Africa hunting German U-Boats and sinking them in the waters of South Africa with the use of machine gun fire, rockets mounted on the wings and bombs, as well as depth charges that were used just like an ordinary bomb would be dropped & they sunk a large number of Submarines, especially in the Western-Cape. There is a German U-Boat in her water grave just off Cape Point that was sunk by a formation of T-6 Harvards! These incredibly reliable aircraft were even used to train the U.S. Navy Pilots off Aircraft Carriers. This truly is the closest you could ever hope to get to a 1940s Warbird. — at Swartkops Airforce Base.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:45:18 +0000
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