How bout a few Vintage aircraft photos?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: smallblockhero</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
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I always liked the postwar schemes on wartime planes. This TB-25 was used by MATS (Military Air Transport Service), possibly as a proficiency airplane in squadrons that operated large 4-engined transports. They were also used in Air Training Command in pilot training squadrons for student pilots on their way to bomber and transport assignments. (Fighter-bound students went on the T-33.) When the USAF re-introduced the old style of dual-track flight training in 1994 they bought the Beechcraft T-1A &quot;Jayhawk&quot; (based on the original Mitsubishi MU-300, bought by Beechcraft and renamed the BE-400) to use as the transport lead-in trainer. I instructed in the T-1A 1994-97 and the cover page of the T-1A 'Dash One' aircraft manual had a drawing of a 1950s ATC TB-25N alongside a T-1A. Made me glad that someone in the USAF knew the history of the dual-track training program!