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Old 02-03-2019, 03:52 PM   #47
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Default Re: Ford Tri-Motor

The AT-6 (or SNJ in Navy parlance) "Texan" was called the "Harvard" by the British and Commonwealth countries that used them during the war, probably as a nod to the American origin of the type. There was a very similar looking aircraft with fixed gear called the NA-64 Yale. There was no relationship between the design of the AT-6 and the Zero, but T-6s were used as the basis for the movie Zeros in Tora Tora Tora. An armed version was used as a counter insurgency aircraft in French colonial Africa and the Australians had an armed version called the Wirraway. The Australian Boomerang, while a different aircraft, shared many T-6 components.

The German's used a couple captured Yale trainers, but the standard German trainers were the Bucker Jungman, Gotha-145 and Arado-96. More or less equivalent to our PT-17, BT-13, and AT-6.
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