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This is the story of one of the most successful and hest-Ioved aircraft of all time. Rorn on the eve of war, when the need to train unprecedented numbers of young men to become pilots was first being realized, so outstanding was the design, and so great the demand that the North American Advanced Trainer 6 (AT-6) went on to he built in ever greater numbers to erve the mushrooming of Allied military aviation.
If you became an Allied pilot during World War Two, the chances arc that you learned your ‘kills in the AT-6, the J (as the S avy termed it) or, if you were British, ustralian, Canadian, Rhodesian, South African or any other flyer from the Empire, the Harvard.
Index
Contents
BUILDING ON SUCCESS
THE GENUS OF THE AT-6
THE DESIGN COMES OF AGE
ENTER THE TEXAN
BRITAIN TAKES THE HARVARD
‘THE SIX’ DESCRIBED
FLYING ‘THE SIX’
THE GLOBAL PlLOT TRAINER
THE WIZARDS OF OZ
Wirraway, Boomerang, Ceres
POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS
THE T-6 RE AISSANCE
THE MOSQUITOES BITE
Korea
THE GREAT REVIVAL
Civilian Usage
Harvard 2B Engine Data
NAA Charge Number List
AT-6D/SNj Listings (The ’88’ Series List)
Royal Canadian Air Force NAA Trainer List
Mosquito Nomenclature – Korea
Preserved T-6/SNj/Harvard/Wirraways