Saving the T-37

[HuggyU2]

I am an acquaintance with one of the guys leading the effort on this. It sounds like they are making good progress through Congress.

Maybe it will inspire copycats to do the same with the T-2 Buckeye.

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[Griz882]

I know of one T-2 on the market…

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[HuggyU2]

That's a beautiful plane. But unless a large supply of spare parts is available, it will remain unsold.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Tweet was the first air frame I worked SLEP on, I was with LSI at Randolph AFB in 1992. Fun easy aircraft to work on.

 

[Brett327]

That's a beautiful plane. But unless a large supply of spare parts is available, it will remain unsold.

I had like 6 or 8 flights in it during flight school for BFM, of all things. Pretty bare bones jet, but it did have little pylons to drop blue death. I think they used to do initial CQ in them before the T-45.

 

[HuggyU2]

Correct, Brett.
My Navy contemporaries did their initial CQ in the Buckeye.
However I had no clue they could drop Blue Death. Good factoid for me!

 

[zipmartin]

When I went through VT-23 in K-ville in late '76, we actually did air-to-air gunnery in the T-2 over the Gulf, with gun pods on the pylons. Never heard of dropping Blue Death in the Buckeye. Got 2 touch & goes and 4 traps on the Lexington.