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...is usually the one at the front! While the instructor sat in the back tells you how badly you're doing. ;-p
Such would have been a scene repeated many times over during the service of the Boeing PT-17 Stearman, seen here at the Imperial War Museum Duxford's United States hangar. First taking to the air in 1934, nearly 3,000 of this model alone were built (over 8,000 in total). They proved to be easy, sturdy, and reliable trainers for the Army Air Corps, which served them in several different purposes after the war, when the US military sold them off to private buyers. Word has it that some can still be seen flying as crop-dusters in the Midwestern United States to this day. ^__^
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Such would have been a scene repeated many times over during the service of the Boeing PT-17 Stearman, seen here at the Imperial War Museum Duxford's United States hangar. First taking to the air in 1934, nearly 3,000 of this model alone were built (over 8,000 in total). They proved to be easy, sturdy, and reliable trainers for the Army Air Corps, which served them in several different purposes after the war, when the US military sold them off to private buyers. Word has it that some can still be seen flying as crop-dusters in the Midwestern United States to this day. ^__^
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Here in Texas PT-17's were quite common as crop dusters. Just about all had been retired by the 1980's. I recall 3 of them sitting behind a hangar (wings off )leaning against the wall and fuselages complete with engines sitting next to the wings. I was told I could have my pick of them for $8,000 (way too much for me back then) A few years later I was told they had all been rescued by restorers.
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