North American Aviation promotional photos

[billtate]

I got these old pictures from a friend who use to work with North American Aviation. I thought WIX might enjoy looking through them.

[Chris Brame]

Thanks Bill! Is #7 the production line for T-6G conversions?

[Mark Allen M]

Thx for posting Bill, neat stuff. Interesting as the Mustang looks familiar in your second to last image ...





The rest from the LIFE series here. Great stuff as well.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/22 ... 6954b.html

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[JohnB]

Neat shots of the conversion of old T-6s to "G" configuration.
Was the work done at Columbus?

[Ztex]

Beautiful stuff! thanks for posting it!

[John Kerr]

No the mustang is Not Sharp Shooter, 44-71936, enroute or arriving at the Air Force Museum. It is N5441V, Spam Can, 45-11582. You can seee span can on fuseladge and 582 on gear door legs.

[Mark Allen M]

I figured it wasn't the same mustang, but you can't deny there are similarities in that paint scheme.

[billtate]

I was unable to find out the location of the T-6 production line picture. The person I got the photos from was living in Mississippi and Texas during the time he received the pictures. Sorry, I can not be of more help.
Cheers

[Rauhbatz]

Im pretty sure w the OV 10s and some of the other aircraft that the majority of these are from right down the road from me in Columbus.

The T6 pics are a mystery to me as I dont think NAA did anything w those model aircraft here. But some learned colleague will likley come up a the answer.

[T-28mike]

The T-6 "line" is the Columbus modification line (West side of Columbus plant Formerly Million-Air, Now Odyssey), later used for the first batch of T-28 D's:

Excerpt from a North American proposed draft article related to the T-28 D program, 1965

"In the early 1950's the Columbus division conducted an "extensive re-manufacturing" program, in which 600 or so T-6 Air Force trainers received a complete overhauling and were largely rebuilt. Most of these performed an important mission as ground target spotters and fighter directors during the Korean conflict."

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[Scott Rose]

Neat stuff. Love the Bronco. Never seen the jet pack before, I'm assuming its a test aircraft.

[Rauhbatz]

Thanks for the tips about the T-6 line. Go figure that is where Cheryl and the nice folks at Odessey allow us to store our P-51 there during the summer when we fly around Ohio...no wonder it looked happy as it was in a place where there used to be a lot of old friends!

[T-28mike]

The pic with the Savages and t-6's is taken at the East end of the Eastern building (original Curtiss factory), looking West.

[Invader26]

The German Air Force target tug variant OV-10B(Z) was equipped with an additional General Electric J85-GE-4 turbojet engine (18ea produced).

[M.P.]

The pictures show the OV-10BZ prototype with GE J-85 Jetpack and German registration D-9545. Today this plane is preserved in a German Museum at Hermeskeil:
http://www.germanwing.de/status.htm

The GE J-85 Jetpack was not used for long time:
http://www.germanwing.de/Targettug.htm