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"AT-6: Star"
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| Flight Centennial Collection Works on Metal Assemblage 24" x 64" (61 x 163 cm) |
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| Artist's Statement: "AT-6: Star" is simple in design and execution. It reflects the simplicity and straightforward honesty of the airplane it represents, the North American AT-6 "Texan" trainer. Before the Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force, the nationality roundels on wings and fuselages of American military airplanes included a simple white star and red circle surrounded by a field of "insignia blue". The bottom wing panel, which gives "AT-6: Star" its name, was removed from an airplane that suffered damage in a gear-up landing. Notice the diagonal abrasions where the wing scraped the runway. Thousands of young men, aspiring to fly Mustang and Lightning fighters, and early jets, received advanced flight instruction in the North American AT-6 trainer. The airplane was made from 1935 to 1954, and many are still flying today.
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