Flight in a Harvard Mk IV | Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

Flight in a Harvard Mk IV was performed at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) – John C. Munro Hamilton Int. Airport.

Video

Chapters

1. Engine start
2. Taxiing to RWY
3. Engine Run-Up
4. There is a very simple stick 🙂
5. Take Off
6. Passage over the museum
7. Leaving airport’s terminal zone
8. Steep turns
9. Flight with the open canopy
10. Your turn the control
11. I have the control or real Harvard flight experience!
12. Decreasing altitude for the airport’s terminal zone
13. Over the museum again
14. Approaching
15. Landing
16. After the flight

Why North American Harvard Mk. IV?

I lived in Republic of Sakha (Yakutua) and was interested in ALSIB (Alaska-Siberian Lend-Lease route). During World War II ALSIB was used for ferrying American aircraft for soviet pilots. T-6 Texans, the analog of Harvard IV, were ferried on this route and was used as a military trainer.

I am a pilot student (PPL) and it is not my first flight… During the flight on the Harvard MK IV I tried to imagine myself in the place of those pilots who ferried such aircraft along ALSIB route… Thousands of miles over deserted taiga, no good and reliable navigation…

Thanks a lot to Mr Andy Dobson, a pilot of CWHM and ground crew for helping me with this video recording!

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