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One of the projects the former company I worked at did was for the USAF. They were building simulators in the early 1970s for pilot training. They hired the company to fly the area around Tinker AFB and Vance AFB. They had us make large prints of each frame and mosaic them together into a huge print that the simulator used as the image of the ground. They went in and added models of all the tall structures like the water tower and all the radio and TV towers.

We were in Enid on Wednesday and at my MILs is pretty much strait north of Vance several miles. The T-6 Texan II were out in force. I don't know how many Vance has, but they all had to be flying. At most it was two minutes between hearing the Yearrrrrrrr of the prop driven T-6 fly over. Sometime it was extra loud and two or three of them were flying in formation. Making a big turn into final approach for a touch and go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_T-6_Texan_II

That would be a really fun toy to have the keys to and the fuel bill paid for by Uncle Sam, and get paid to fly it. Must be tough.

We saw one doing touch and goes at the Guthrie-Edmond airport where we used to keep our airplane. We were setting up the camera system on a leased Cessna 172 and watched him land and take back off dozens of times. It moved a LOT faster than out 172.

320 MPH cruise and up to 7G loading and a 31,000 ft ceiling. Yea baby.

https://defense.txtav.com/en/t-6c

Here is one for sale. If ya have to ask how much, yep you can't afford it but something like 4.5 million.
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