VT-1Photograph AlbumSaufley BOQ - 1963. All VT-1 and VT-5 flight students were assigned to live in the Bachelor Officer Quarters building 837 at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Saufley Field. Each hotel size room held two student Naval Aviators and their possessions. United States Navy photograph. Ground School - 1963. A Class of Training Squadron ONE Ground School students, all new Ensigns, march past the base administration building on their way to ground school classes. Pictured here is the front of the admin building, the building's rear is the Saufley Field control tower. The sign over the rotunda says ELV 85 (elevation 85 feet above sea level). United States Navy photograph. Ground School Cockpit Procedures Class - 1963. Navy and Marine students practice cockpit procedures and emergencies in the T-34B cockpit familiarization trainers. The enlisted TD training technician would simulate emergencies on the trainer's instruments to which students responded with appropriate procedures. Cockpit Procedures was the first class students attended when coming to Saufley Field. Every evening until a student passed his last check ride, the student could be found pre-flying the next day's hop in the trainer. United States Navy photograph. Ground School Engines Class - 1963. A NAVCAD student inspects the innards of a centrifugal flow jet engine as an instructor and ADJ technician stand-by to answer any question. The centrifugal flow jet engine was used in the Advanced Training Command's Grumman F-9 Cougar. The Saufley engines class focused on the Continental engine that powered the T-34B Mentor. United States Navy photograph. Ground School Airframes Class - 1963. Two student Marine Corps Second Lieutenants and two student Ensigns are instructed about the T-34B airframe on a classroom mock-up. United States Navy photograph. Ground School Morris Code Class - 1963. Three dits, four dits, two dits --- dah. Saufley Field, Rah, Rah, Rah! Morris Code Class is a flunkout hurdle. Five words a minute to pass the test. Next was the visual blinker and that was a bummer! United States Navy photograph. VT-1 Flight Line - February 1963. Looking down from the Saufley Field Control Tower at the VT-1 flight line and hangar. Picture from Ektachrome slide by Bud Southworth. VT-1 Hangar - February 1963. Looking down from the Saufley Field Control Tower at the VT-1 hangar. The hangar door is open and exposes the partitions separating the squadron (flights) area. Picture from Ektachrome slide by Bud Southworth. Covey of Mentors - February 1963. Looking down from the Saufley Field Control Tower at the VT-1 flight line aircraft. Picture from Ektachrome slide by Bud Southworth. Operations - Flight 12 Ready Room - 1963. VT-1 Flight 12 flight operations. Here the Squadron Flight Duty Officer schedules training flights from lists of available instructors, students and aircraft. United States Navy photograph. The Yellow Sheet - 1963. After an aircraft is assigned by operations, the instructor and student go to the Maintenance Shack to check the Mentor's past mechanical problems in yellow sheet maintenance records. After signing for the aircraft the crew go to pre-flight inspect the Teenie Weenie. United States Navy photograph. Strap-in - April 9, 1963. Student Naval Aviator Ensign Bud Southworth starts his Maytag Messerschmitt before his first PCW-2 solo acrobatic flight. The Beech T-34B was BuNo. 140881. The flight lasted 1.3 hours and Ensign Southworth made nine landings to conclude the flight. Picture from Ektachrome slide by Bud Southworth. First Engine Start - 1963. A flight instructor oversees his student starting the engine on the first flight. With success the instructor will be in the rear seat for all subsequent engine starts. United States Navy photograph. Engine Start - 1963. A lineman stands-by with a fire bottle as the student starts the engine of T-34 side number 2S 107. The instructor is in the rear seat United States Navy photograph. The T-34B Takeoff Attitude - 1963. Soon after the start of the takeoff run in T-34B BuNo. 140928, side number 2S 151, the student brings the aircraft's nose up to the take-off attitude and maintains that attitude until the aircraft becomes airborne. United States Navy photograph. Over Foley Alabama - 1963. Flying in T-34B, side number 2S 130 at 4500 feet above the Alabama country side, the student performs a series of maneuvers designed to display the Mentor's airborne handling characteristics. United States Navy photograph. Saufley Operating Area - 1963. A T-34B Mentor BuNo. 140706, side number 2S 131, flies over some beautiful cumulus clouds in the VT-1 southern Alabama operating area. United States Navy photograph. Returning to Saufley Field - 1963. T-34B Mentor side number 2S 121, returns to the Saufley Field traffic pattern. Saufley Field is visible in front and to the left of the aircraft's nose. United States Navy photograph. Solo - 1963. A student Naval Aviator has successfully soloed the T-34 and after Squadron secure at happy hour he gets his tie cut off --- after he has presented his instructor with the traditional "bottle of scotch." United States Navy photograph. |
