A 1943 T6 US Air Force training plane. My friend David is a part-owner, and flew it with another pilot from California to Oshkosh for last week's EAA event.
I met him and his group for dinner and then afterward we went back to the show grounds and kind of talked our way in the gate ("We need to drop something off at Warbird camp"), and then I just had the most magical evening ever, walking around and seeing hundreds of planes of all shapes, size and vintage, with the sun setting in the west and lightning in the clouds off in the distance to the east. David knows everything about every kind of plane there ever was and is also a very good and patient teacher, so I learned a tremendous amount. And, because I have a thing anyway for old cars, it was easy to transfer that to a giddy fascination with all these planes of similar eras and styling.
I explained to him that I wanted the photo to use as a candidate for #16 in the hunt, but he said, "Do you think it will look less rare if it's standing in a line with 70 others?" Because this year is an anniversary, so a whole squadron (if that's the right word) of this same model of plane gathered for a few days in Dubuque and then flew in, in formation.
So, what do you reckon? Does this count as rare enough?
Photos from the T6's journey from CA to WI are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/david.cohn/TheRoadToOshkoshJul08
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