Fly Overs – Static Displays

We are excited to announce a program of fly overs for the Ride For Healing, all to enhance the experience of the Vietnam Vets and Supporters, and include:

– Static display of Vietnam era helicopter
Crystal Military Museum
– T- 6 Texan by T-6 Thunder Group will make four Flyovers complete with streamers of smoke at 1:00PM on Saturday June 1:
– 1st pass will be the Diamond Formation
– 2nd pass will be the Eschelon Formation
– 3rd pass will be the Finger Tip Formation
– 4th pass will be the Missing Man Formation

Photos of the Flyover on Saturday June 1, 2013

 

Lots of exciting stuff happening!

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Colonel Chuck Datko is the leader of the T-6 Thunder and offered these insights:

Formations,

The Diamond Formation is generally used in flying to and from a mission to conserve fuel and can be easily transformed into an attack formation. The Diamond formation is also used in ceremonious events to pay honor and tribute.

The Eschelon Formation is an attack formation and appears to be like a stair step formation flying at you. This formation was used in attack with guns, bombs or both.

The Finger Tip Formation is also an attack formation, used to hit the enemy in concession before the enemy can react. It is a formation were one airship follows the other in a straight line.

The Missing Man Formation, is used in ceremonies to honor a fallen solder or solders. It is a V shaped formation generally flying from south to north in which the right wing man lifts up out of the formation and flies into the west.

All Formations will use a squadron of four airships, T-6 Texans.

T-6 Texan Specifications:

Wingspan…………………………………..42 ft.
Length……………………………………….29 ft. 6 in.
Height……………………………………….11 ft. 9 in.
Max Weight………………………………..5,300 lbs.
Power plant………………………………..600 hp. Pratt Whitney radial engine….
Max speed…………………………………205 mph
Ceiling………………………………………21.500 ft.
Crew…………………………………………2

Known as the “Pilot Maker”, The world war II era T-6 was the most widely produced trainer ever built. After years of use as a trainer for the U.S., T-6s were sold to the Spanish Air Force and fitted with .30 cal. machine guns and under wing bomb racks. It was used in anti-guerrilla missions over North Africa. Also, the t-6 was used in the Korea and Vietnam providing it service up until 1986.

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