Q for Paul K. Our T-33 Guru

[Jack Cook]

I'm completely unobservant but I just now noticed that the windscreen on you T-33 ie CT-133 had no bracing for the windscreen.
Was that standard on the the Canuk a/c or a mod?

[Second Air Force]

Jack,

We now have a former RCAF airplane in the VFM hangar, and the new owner told me that the one-piece windscreen was added to a number of them a few years ago. I think it looks kind of odd, but I'd imagine visibility is much improved over the original.

Scott

[Stormin]

Hi Jack, That is a later mod on the AUP Canadian planes as I understand it, Paul may have more insight. In the mid-90's as the AUP CT-133's went thru there up-grades part of that was the install of the F-5 windscreens, in addition to the avionics, and airframe life extention.

[Fouga23]

It was part of a Canadian upgrade. I believe it's the same as the Skyfox windscreen.

[T33driver]

I'm completely unobservant but I just now noticed that the windscreen on you T-33 ie CT-133 had no bracing for the windscreen.
Was that standard on the the Canuk a/c or a mod?

Jack,

Like the other guys said, it was a mod in the mid-late '90s when the Canadian AF put 30 or so T-33s through a depot-level overhaul and avionics upgrade. They are in fact, F-5 windscreens. The visibility is much improved from the original windscreen.