Was at a wedding over the weekend, held at a private house in Headcorn. The wedding was planned to coincide with the Headcorn WW2 Airshow! But, apart from the wedding itself, that wasn’t the highlight. The highlight was spending time with one of Eddie the Eagles coaches from Norway ! Anyway, could you experts ID these:
So would I (only because I had it as an airfix kit when aged 8 or so) but then Googling just now it I learned Harvard was a variant of the T-6 Texan so even if it was a Harvard it's still a T-6 Texan
yes, I think I learned about the Harvard from a magnificent Airfix catalogue in about 1968 - every conceivable kit shown in a kind of plastic May Day Parade.
3.2 - That's a Yak. Probably a Yak-50 or similar, but the rounded wingtips are odd. Ex-Soviet military trainers, pretty powerful and acrobatic.
The pair that are upside down. The one with the larger cockpit is an Extra 200. The one with a smaller cockpit is probably a Vans 4, but I'm willing to be wrong there.
> So would I (only because I had it as an airfix kit when aged 8 or so) but then Googling just now it I learned Harvard was a variant of the T-6 Texan so even if it was a Harvard it's still a T-6 Texan
It's got British roundels, which makes it a Harvard, not a Texan.
One of them was used as a camera platform for trials at Boscombe Down and a few other things until 2016. It went wrong in 1991 when the Harvard flew into the parachute of a load dropped by a C130... https://www.t6harvard.com/uk-harvards/g-cors/
I think I saw it, in 1989(??) or something when I spent a week as Air cadet summer camp staying at [then called] A&AEE Boscombe Down. They had a lot of antique hand-me-down kit, I even went up in a flight in their Comet
Thanks for that. Going to use it in the photo album I’m doing. This photo was taken from the wedding venue, Friday lunchtime. We saw them whizzing over Wycombe at Friday tea time whilst travelling down.
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