Texan Sunset by velocicrapper

Photography • Aviation • posted on Sep 01, 2004

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::: Part 30 of a series of Warbird Photos ::: Taken at Hawthorne Airport (Jack Northrop Field) in Hawthorne, California (August 14, 2004) Aircraft is a North American SNJ-5 Texan, most commonly known as the Navy version of the famous T-6 Texan trainer. The British called it the Havard. These planes are arguably the best trainer aircraft of all time. Top speed of 205 miles an hour, this plane was used by over 55 air forces! The Texan was in use by the USAAF from 1935 till the late 1950s and is one of the few warbirds that today number over 300 still flying! Here this SNJ-5 is coming in about to touch down on the Hawthorne Airport runway. I happened to be walking to my car when she came over. It was very late in the afternoon, and this image happens to be the very last image I took at the show that day. How fitting! Camera is a Canon Rebel EOS 300D DSLR (6mp) with a Canon USM IS 100-400mm lens. Image was reduced in size, no color or exposure alterations.