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Bartow AB was one of three Primary Training Bases where Class 57-I flew. Bartow was the only one of the three still training in the PA-18 (Super Cub) and the T-6G (Texan).
If you ain't never flown a tail-dragger, you ain't never had no fun :-)
| How many remember the yearbook from our flying class? |
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... and the planes we flew -- the Bamboo Bomber & the Yellow Peril? |
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| Even though we flew the Super Cub from an auxilliary flight, this is a flyby over Bartow. The base had three runways in our days (09/27, 14/32 and 05/23). Today it is a civilian airport and they have added a parallel runway for 09/27. | This may look like a T-6 in a flare. Not so - check the smoky cloud behind the plane at the left edge of the picture. That's smoke off the tires and this is a bounce recovery. Remember those? Or was I the only pilot at Bartow who became proficient at bounce recoveries? |
| Every time there was a ground loop at Bartow, our first question was, "What color was the airplane?" If it was silver, it wasn't a member of Class 57-I. The follow on classes were flying T-34s and T-28s and neither of them had the yellow paint job. These are screen shots from Microsoft Flight Simulator. |
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| This is a computer scan of the original T-6G checklist. In the upper right corner is a note "488 - Last T-6." Most likely the last T-6G at Bartow AB I flew. |
 Here is the patch for our section, Bulldog flight. Does anyone out there have the patch for our other flight, Pogo? |
| Bruce Newman came up with an image of the Pogo Flight logo. Now, there's a 'possum with attitude :-)(posted February 2004) |
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| I'm standing by 298, one of the Super Cubs at the auxiliary field. | T-6Gs on the flight line at Bartow. I think 488 is the last plane I logged time in at Bartow. |
The photos above are about the only pictures I have left from the 50s.
Do you remember the Link Trainer? Here are a couple of shots of one. This particular Link belongs to the Confederate Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona.
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| Step in and fly some instruments. | Looks familiar, doesn't it? |
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Bob Hicks lugging his parachute to a PA-18 (Super Cub by Piper) |
| Al Brezinsky and one of the last T-6s in the Air Force. |  |
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Ready for bigger and better things after graduating from Primary training. From the left are: Jack Kimberley, John Doyle, Bob Carver and Al Brezinsky. |
| Ladies from the local community (the Silver Lake Girls) who attended the graduation. From the left are: Millie, Helen, Joetta and Fay. |  |
Photos submitted by Al Brezinsky (posted April 13, 2004) |
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This is a photo of a T-6G over Bartow AB scanned from a postcard and submitted by Bob Lesher (Posted 07/26/2004) |
© 2003-2004 John Achor