T-33:
Time was that you could find a T-33 in damn near every A&P school in the country, as the Air Force donated a buttload of them to the schools.
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ReplyDeleteWell, Miami-Dade Junior College (where I got my license/ratings) didn't have one, but we did have a cockpit simulator of one.
In the '60s and early '70s, though, every Air Force base had them. It was a standing joke in ZJX (where we had six AFBes) that you could tell when it was the end of the month as our skies filled with T-Birds, as desk jockeys got out in them en masse so they could get enough hours in before the 30th to keep their flight pay.
The problem was, even though they were a jet, they were a jet in the same category as a Slow-tation (Citation)—not much more than 400 KTAS when all the carriers were doing 500 (before the fuel crunches).
They were also the original stealth aircraft. Not a problem when the transponder was working, but they were notoriously hard to see with skin paint (primary radar).
I can't remember the last time I worked one—probably in the '80s, but we never got very many of them at ZAU anyway, with no AFBes in our area.
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The RCAF flew the Canadair built version until 2005. The main difference was the use of a Rolls-Royce Nene engine. There was a specially modified two-seater that was used for ejection seat testing.
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