Eastman A-2 help

[GregGale]

Great comparison pictures, thank you! The more info I get the more I'm sure I HAVE TO try and check them in person... counting the days until the popup store

The glider photos were taken in an R-26 "Góbé", and the ones in the other thread, wearing an irvin in an IS28B2. The one where I'm sitting in the right seat was take in a Cessna 172.

 

[Cooper A-2]

Great comparison pictures, thank you! The more info I get the more I'm sure I HAVE TO try and check them in person... counting the days until the popup store

The glider photos were taken in an R-26 "Góbé", and the ones in the other thread, wearing an irvin in an IS28B2. The one where I'm sitting in the right seat was take in a Cessna 172.

Thx...super..reminds me when I was in your age flying Piper Cub’s , Piper Bonanza and Cessna Cardinal...ages away...

 

[l0fielectronic]

Did you try the US Mfg A2 Jackets (flightjackets.com)?

Theres no S at the end I think is the issue (if this is the correct website?)... www.flightjacket.com/a2-jacket.html

 

[Cooper A-2]

Theres no S at the end (if this is the correct website)... www.flightjacket.com/a2-jacket.html

Apologies, I tried a few of them...not in the same ligue ( LW and GW are THE EXCEPTIONS great jackets: by all means)..surely not for the price, and far away from the quality aspects...again, with all due respect and IMHO.

 

[Cooper A-2]

Hello Greg..
a very simple quality control testing is...HWT...3x in a row...and after drying...you try it on...After these testings...you check the real stuff you want to wear up in the clouds...Most of the WW2 jacket had at least one or two ditchings...even if only in the bar....just do it the same way...
The brands I show in my pics..all perfect...all others...” fly with the Eagle or crash with....them”
See you on the ELC show!

 

[Cocker]

I also do enjoy your cockpit photos... ( looks like from a Zlin, T-6, Cap 21 ,or Electra...or?)

Thanks Cooper! It's an SNJ-5, the naval version of the T-6. It's owned by a friend of mine in France, and I now have 5 hours flying time on it. Nothing fancy, no take-offs or landings, juste some fun in between

This is the one:

 

[Brettafett]

Cubs.... The ultimate little birds

 

[Cooper A-2]

Thanks Cooper! It's an SNJ-5, the naval version of the T-6. It's owned by a friend of mine in France, and I now have 5 hours flying time on it. Nothing fancy, no take-offs or landings, juste some fun in between

This is the one:

LA GRANDE CLASSE!!!!!
My old man was an instructor on this bird after his career in the “Vichy club” and then Fi. 156 And “ Morane 500” plus tout le reste...
He ended up as a flight istructor in the US.... on Bearcats and othes for Indochina..
Never came home dans la vielle France..

 

[Cooper A-2]

Wow..
My old man..flew the T-6 in Algeria and others in Indochina...
Plus all the Vichy..planes.
Thanks for sharing..
Lost in 1962...when I was 2 YO....
WLF.

 

[Cocker]

Salute to your father, Cooper. He must have been a brave man, and I'm sure that even you didn't knew him much, you are proud of him.

For your information, this SNJ is based in Blois-le-Breuil (LFOQ). If you've ever been to La Ferté-Alais airshow, you must have seen it, as Fred is flying in the Tora every year.

 

[Cooper A-2]

Salute to your father, Cooper. He must have been a brave man, and I'm sure that even you didn't knew him much, you are proud of him.

For your information, this SNJ is based in Blois-le-Breuil (LFOQ). If you've ever been to La Ferté-Alais airshow, you must have seen it, as Fred is flying in the Tora every year.

Grand merci! je l ai vu et salué!
Je dois beaucoup à l’ Armée de L’ Air. Grand merci à vous et à tous.
Thx to you and to all here, as well as to the French Air Force...I owe it a big one since I was little.
Thx to all of you..

 

[Fanch]

Thanks Cooper! It's an SNJ-5, the naval version of the T-6. It's owned by a friend of mine in France, and I now have 5 hours flying time on it. Nothing fancy, no take-offs or landings, juste some fun in between

This is the one:

I have always wanted to fly that USN trainer. Most of my hours are in the T-34B but a few hours in the T-28, which was a much hotter bird way back when but far less forgiving than the T-34.


T-34B


T-28

 

[kasa7]

@kasa7, that link leads me to flighthelmets.com and there are no a-2s there.

@GregGale , try now
https://www.flightjacket.com/a2-jacket.html

 

[nick123]

The T-28 is my favorite plane. It's a big thing!

 

[GregGale]

That Navy trainer looks great, must be a joy to fly!

This morning I started my single engine training on this motor glider:

 

[Cooper A-2]

That Navy trainer looks great, must be a joy to fly!

This morning I started my single engine training on this motor glider:

Looks like an ASK-14 ...not sure.

 

[GregGale]

It's an SF-25C "Falke" with a 60 HP engine (based on VW Beetle engines )

 

[Cooper A-2]

It's an SF-25C "Falke" with a 60 HP engine (based on VW Beetle engines )

Wow!

 

[thor]

@Fanch that Navy T-28 looks like a blast to fly! A very handsome bird, for sure!
All I've managed was some stick time in a Cessena 172 (if you don't count riding around in the back of a SH-60 Seahawk during my Navy days).

 

[Cooper A-2]

Wow!Respect!