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Chuck Gardner
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A customer gave me a CD of pictures today of some AF training bases from the 1950s. Some of the shots are just amazing.

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/gardnerpilot/Vance%20and%20Malden%201950s/

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great photos Chuck, is that a 650 Bonneville I saw

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Great stuff there!
All those T-6's!
Love the XC-99 and B-29 shots!
The casual around the base shots are a real "snapshot" of life.

Thanks for sharing.

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Indeed a bunch of cool vintage shots, don't forget the B-25s, B-57s, C-119, L-5 (I think), and V-tailed Bonanza? The ground running rig for the T-6 looked a bit scary!

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Amazing group! Did a quick look through Scott Thompson's B-25 survivor book and found at least two amongst the photos.

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Thanks for sharing them...

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Thanks for posting those great pictures! PMed you.

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Cool shots.

I just got to Vance, so it was fun trying to match up the scenery and envision what it used to be like.
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Excellent images!!! I share one of them on my Facebook account!

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Great stuff Chuck. Reminds me that I have a bunch of old pictures from my brother taken over the twenty something years he was in the Air Force. :D

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Holy smokes! What's the story behind the T-6 being run up on the wooden stands???

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That was for training pilots with a fear of heights!!! :D :shock: :hide:

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Yep, the Air Force had a bunch of those. I think they were called "Captive Trainers" or something like that, and were used to train fledglings in proper cockpit procedure. The other photos I've see of them, at Randolph, I seem to recall, were in a more sophisticated fixture than this one.

One of my areas of interest is WWII airfields. These photos are the best I've ever seen of Malden and Vance, with many of the wartime structures still intact. Great stuff!!!!!

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Boy, a few of those wrecked airplane pictures are pretty sobering, huh? Yikes.

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I was thinking the same thing, Gary. You don't often see that side of the training programs.

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