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Jim Thomason

Jim Thomason Friday, September 12, 2014

I Learned About Flying From That: Taking an Old Bird to Oshkosh

Around 1950 the Air Force decided it needed a new trainer airplane. As you know, the Beech T-34 was the winner. My story comes from one of the airplanes that did not win. The Temco T-35 Buckaroo was a spinoff of the Globe Swift. Saudi Arabia ordered about 15 of the T-35As, armed, to be […]

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