Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

Oh.

I'm da- I was, I was T-34, so pre T-6.

Oh, I was gonna ask you that.

T-34s.

Okay.

Shit, I flew T-2s also.

Yeah.

I got one behind me somewhere.

I guess the auction is underway and closes on October 1st.

So currently someone has bid $100,000 for this 1983 Beechcraft T-34C aircraft located in Tucson, Arizona.

I don't know.

Is that a bargain price for a 1983 Beechcraft? I don't think so.

PT6.

Yeah, because I flew it on the T-34.

I flew the T-44.

That's a Keener 90.

Even if they've never done it, if they know how to do that, I know that when, when it gets stressful, when we start falling out of the sky at 5,000 feet per minute, they know, they know that they can just put in that opposite rudder, push the stick slightly forward of neutral, hold what they've got, and then recover from the unusual attitude.

Like, I haven't said that in 15 years, but that's how you do it if you're in a T-34 or a T-6.

Um, but the people that can, the people that can be ahead of that are the people that are gonna have continued success throughout.

And the people that are not, that are just listening and show up at a brief, and the instructor is talking the entire time, and the student is just glazed over, listening and not participating.

And so it takes the fun out of it.

So to answer your question in a long-winded way is just to say that when you start pulling Gs, even in a small little prop airplane, a T-34 that I learned in, a T-6 now, is very capable of pulling three, four, five Gs.

And that's more than any roller coaster can do.

And by the time you get into jets, it's very intense.