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I know the warbirds based locally to me represent a sort of microcosm of the current flying warbird numbers. In Minnesota, the St. Paul/Minneapolis area in particular, but also branching out to Granite Falls (in western Minnesota), I know of 16 different T-6's/SNJ's/Harvard types that are regular fl...

The most numerous WWII trainer flying in the world today is the North American AT-6/SNJ/Harvard (600+). The most numerous WWII fighter flying in the world today is the North American P-51 Mustang (hovers right around/near 170). The most numerous WWII bomber flying in the world today is the North Ame...

Also, when you're seated in the cockpit, you can remove the headset or helmet (whichever you have selected) by clicking on where the headset/helmet plug into (low right-side of cockpit/right-side of seat). This way you don't have to use the shift+3 menu to toggle through the selections - as soon as ...

When it comes to warbirds, depending on the type and complexity of the aircraft, there are tons of hours of regular maintenance that goes into them to keep them in top form. Not necessarily the Texan in particular, but single-engine warbirds in general usually receive around at least 5-10 hours or m...

Thank you Martin! This will be very handy. ; )

Hey Jankees, I'm really looking forward to this, and excellent work on all of the markings! With regard to the stencils by the fuel caps, here is a close-up: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130914476@N02/21216724432/sizes/o/ It reads the standard (all centered): SERVICE THIS AIRCRAFT WITH GRADE 100LL ...

Joe, I believe all of the examples I've covered use the standard MPH gauge (as far as I recall - the only cockpit I haven't seen photos of is the one in "Heave Ho", though I'm 99.9% sure it has the standard MPH as well), but I re-faced the Knots gauge to look period as well, for those who ...

For those who may not know the back-story of this paint, member NAA551WB posted in the repaint request thread mentioning that his grandfather flew Navy SNJ's at Pensacola, FL in 1950 and '51, and through his grandfather's logbook, one of these was SNJ-5 BuNo.91066, which just happens to still surviv...

They are currently available now at Flightsim.com and at Sim-Outhouse (if you're a member there), and should show-up any time now at Avsim (the first site I uploaded them to, mid-day yesterday).

No problem guys, and you're very welcome! I'm looking forward to doing some more cockpit/gauge texture variations. I'm currently working on the SNJ-5 91066 (Pensacola 1950/51) repaint, and some of the gauges will be redone slightly to resemble and replicate the ones used in Navy SNJ's (with some Mun...

The US Navy did a series of instructional movies for cadets on basic aerobatics back in the 40's and 50's: Wingovers and chandelles (introductory aerobatics) in the SNJ/T-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kHRsGNbA_4 Barrel rolls in the SNJ/T-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBxCShr1_g Slow roll...

The updated versions (V.2) of all five of my repaints have now been uploaded to Avsim, Flightsim, and Sim-Outhouse. There have been some more changes made since the original files I provided with this thread, so if you particularly like any of these repaints, I encourage you to download/install the ...

Martin, do you know if at least some of the AT-6D production had the same steerable tailwheel mechanism as was made standard on the G? Most, if not all, of the AT-6D's flying today seem to have the steerable tailwheel system. Also, I have seen the manual tailwheel locking lever on a preserved SNJ-4,...

I'm sure they fly just the same no matter if they are a D, a G, an SNJ, or a Harvard - the only real difference that should be noticed in handling would be the weight (depending on which size tanks are fitted and how full they are). Sure you can get into the multitude of (mainly insignificant) detai...

As I've already discussed with Alan in private, I personally have a few dozen (at least 50+) repaints for the Texan I'm planning to do, and for me there is no immediate rush to get them all done (for some of those individuals who have posted in the requests thread - just because a repaint hasn't bee...