Air Force searching for World War II B-25 to train test pilo

[myteaquinn]

Anybody want to offer?

http://dcnewsroom.blogspot.com/2015/09/ ... -b-25.html

[JohnB]

Nothing too unusual...the school (and the Navy school at Pax River..or have they merged?) often lease unusual aircraft for part of the training.

[avenger2504]

Cunning devils! If I was the CO and I wanted to fly a B25 that's what I'd do too!

[avenger2504]

Cunning devils! If I was the CO and I wanted to fly a B25 that's what I'd do too!

[Dave Hadfield]

Yes, they, and Edwards, have done this sort of thing for years.

The best candidate is a T-6.

I should offer them the Lysander. That would perplex a new Test Pilot -- it still perplexes me!

Dave

[Matt Gunsch]

Yes, they, and Edwards, have done this sort of thing for years.

The best candidate is a T-6.

I should offer them the Lysander. That would perplex a new Test Pilot -- it still perplexes me!

Dave

2 problems with that,
first one is they would have no idea what it was, and the 2nd is they would not know how to pronounce it.

[wendovertom]

Cool! I have a good friend who has taken his T-33s to Edwards several times for this same thing but a B-25 - that would be pretty cool. One thing I think is that it exposes new pilots to old hardware and maybe they will get excited about it and moe active in the vintage scene!

Tom P.

[bdk]

I think that Frank Sanders used to do this with one of his Sea Furies.

[maxum96]

Years ago I read a book on the Pax River school. They sent students out world wide to do evaluations on various different aircraft as if it was a new plane. If I remember it correctly, they sent one student to Australia to do an evaluation on a DC-3. It was quite interesting.

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[Jerry O'Neill]

Panchito has been to Pax River many times for test pilot training.