North American T-28 Trojan

Info from the Jamestown Airshow programme of events.

Built in 1954, this aircraft entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1955 where it was used as an instrument flight trainer until 1972. Placed in storage for four years it then entered service again in 1976 and was used until retired in 1983. Entering civilian service the aircraft received a huge restoration in the late 1990's and was brought to Australia by Wayne Pearce in 2004

Extensive work was required to put it onto the Australian register [VH-DUD] and today this beautifully restored aircraft is finished in the colours of the Navy attack squadron VA-122 and in particular the personal mount of H. Charles McCoy.

This aircraft was supposed to perform in a joint display with the Cessna "Bird Dog" [VH-FXY], but there was some difficulty getting it airborne at the time. The video is short, 1 min 10, as it was only towards the end of the day that the Trojan took to the air.

Harvard T-6's Jamestown Airshow.

Am gradually getting the hang of this. This clip "captured" with higher settings (can't remember details), took five hours in total - from finding the sections on video, capture, edit, render to *.wmv and upload to youTube. Enjoy.

Template changes

Hoo boy. Have tried the "upgrade" to a new template (as suggested by Bl**gger) and lost a whole heap of stuff from the sidebar. Oh well, this IS an experimental bl*g after all.

One of these days will figure out how it all works, and get it looking how I'd like it.