T-6 Texan performing a slow Barrell Roll

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This is a T-6 Mustang performing at the 2010 MacDill Air Show Airfest. This performance was held at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida March 20, 2010.

Here's more about the T-6 via (http://www.macdill-airfest.com/mainmenu-per.aspx?SectionID=230).

The T-6 Texan was the most widely used advanced trainer in the world during WW II and the Korean Conflict. During WW II, almost every fighter or bomber pilot, whether single-engine or twin-engine, won his wings in a North American Trainer or AT-6. In gunnery and bombing practice; in formation and instrument flying, and; in coast patrol and semi-combat duty, the Texan proved its versatility.

Approximately 15,495, AT-6s were built between 1938 and 1945. The USAAF procured 10,057 AT-6s; some went to the Navy as SNJs and others went to more than 30 allied nations. In 1948, Texans still in the USAF service were re-designated as T-6s when the AT, BT, and PT aircraft designations were abandoned.

AirFest 09s T-6 demonstration will be piloted by Bill Leff. Bills aviation career includes more than 30 years of corporate flying, several years as President of an internationally known corporate aircraft maintenance company, and flight instructor for Trans World Airlines. Today, he also does test flying for defense related research projects as well as initial and recurrent training in Aero Commander aircraft.

He has been in the air show business since 1976 and developed the Night show act in 1989. He has flown more than 170 different types of aircraft from warbirds to airline transport aircraft and has well over 20,000 hours of flying time, including more than 4,000 hours in the T-6.
Courtesy of Bill Leff AirshowsT-28

Audiences are in for a treat when Herb Baker and his T-28, Ditto, take to the sky. The T-28 is a former Navy aircraft carrier training aircraft that has been on the airshow circuit since the completion of a 4 year restoration in 1998. Herb and Ditto offer audiences a unique look at the capabilities of the T-28 with the help of a one-of-a-kind wing tip smoke system. Herb has been flying since 1960 and has more than 3,100 flying hours with more than 850 in the T-28. He has recently been a guest instructor at the US Navy and Air Force Pilot Schools, teaching students to fly the T-28.
The T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy beginning in the 1950s. Although the Air Force phased out the aircraft out of primary pilot training by the early 1960s, continuing use only for limited training of special operations aircrews and for primary training of select foreign military personnel, the aircraft continued to be used as a primary trainer by the Navy (and by default, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard) well into the early 1980s.

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[adleraviation]

@lowflybye Thanks for that heads up. I put that in the tag area for search purposes, but I have make the change. Thank you. I hope you like my videos.

[lowflybye]

It is s T-6 Texan...not a T-6 Mustang