A Sprint and a Marathon
Hawker Beechcraft’s inimitable T-6C Texan II military trainer has been put through its paces during a two month around the world demo tour. On the tour, the aircraft accumulated 166 flight hours – 126 ferry flight hours and 40 demonstration flight hours – including performing seven air show display flights and 43 demonstration flights with military and government officials. The T-6C did not require any unscheduled maintenance on its around-the-world voyage other than routine pre-flight and thru-flight inspections and refuelling, The crew replaced one landing light, changed two main tires after 131 landings, performed a 100-hour inspection and added five quarts of oil. The T-6C burned 65,360 pounds of Jet A1 fuel over the course of the 166 flight hours, a burn rate of 393 pounds per hour, attesting to the low life-cycle cost the T-6C provides to military operators. Deliveries of the T-6 began in 2000 and, to date, the company has delivered more than 760 T-6 aircraft.
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“The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body, it partakes of the nature of the divine.”
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