Aero Shell Team (-1) in T6 Texans

Nice captures, and a nice tight formation as well

Chris

Nice!

Is that the Aeroshell guys in borrowed airplanes or is it a different team? Nice work, esp #2.

ryanapem wrote in post #11265199
Is that the Aeroshell guys in borrowed airplanes or is it a different team? Nice work, esp #2.

As far as I know, it is their aircraft less one team member and his aircraft.

Nice Series! That is not the Aeroshell T6 Team. They are Red and White with AEROSHELL Written under the wing of the plane.

Yeah, their airplanes are pretty distinct:

Aeroshell Aerobatic Team

7725 is in South African Air Force livery. It would be interesting to know more about that. Anybody know how come?

They were introduced at the show as the Aero Shell team, and the show program also calls them that. That's all I can tell you. To me, the paint on these aircraft looks like a tribute to the various service arms that used the AT6 as a military trainer.

Those are some nice shots.

I'll buy the tribute to the armed forces thing. Makes sense. Not sure I'd want to fly close formation aerobatics in "borrowed" aircraft though...

Awesome shots!!! Nice have been a good time...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #11266624
I'll buy the tribute to the armed forces thing. Makes sense. Not sure I'd want to fly close formation aerobatics in "borrowed" aircraft though...

The Horsemen do it all the time. Heck, with how good those guys (The Aeroshell team and the Horsemen) I'd loan them my airplane. Probably safer with them doing low-level formation acro than with me flying straight and level!

billycan wrote in post #11265620
7725 is in South African Air Force livery. It would be interesting to know more about that. Anybody know how come?

Billycan,

The SAAF was the oldest operator of the T-6 beginning in 1940 with the Mk.1. In 1993 they retired their entire fleet of more than 50 aircraft and put them up for sale on the open market. As they were well maintained, the remaining majority were refurbished in the 1950s from the U.S., they became very desirable, and most of them have retained their SAAF markings in the civilian market, thus the one in the abov picture is most likely wearing it's original markings.

ryanapem wrote in post #11268273
The Horsemen do it all the time. Heck, with how good those guys (The Aeroshell team and the Horsemen) I'd loan them my airplane. Probably safer with them doing low-level formation acro than with me flying straight and level!

I wouldn't be concerned with how they would treat the airplane but if I were one of them, without intimate knowledge of how it's been maintained, I'd be very concerned with how the airplane would treat me!

Another SAAF Harvard on short final at EAA AirVenture: