Archives for September 2021

Final Phase Trainer US Army Air Forces, US Navy, and the British Royal Air Force used the AT-6/T-6 as a… Read More »

Second Phase Trainer The US Army Air Forces used the BT-13 aircraft as basic trainers during World War II. As… Read More »

First Phase Trainer In 1933, Lloyd Stearman designed the forerunner of the Kaydet PT-17, a variation of the PT-13 model,… Read More »

Trainers Leap Forward When the US Air Force and Navy needed a trainer to replace the aging, World War II… Read More »

Learning at 270 Miles Per Hour Following World War II, US Air Force navigators and bombardiers trained on flight instrument… Read More »

Training in the Shooting Star In 1948, the T-33 Shooting Star first took flight. Over the next eleven years, Lockheed… Read More »