Photo by John Lackey  #avgeek    

Originally shared by Fly By Photography

Texan Tuesday!

Among the many users of the North American Texan series of trainers, one of the lesser known operators was Hollywood! Lesser know because Hollywood doctored their Texans to look like Japanese Zero fighters for their movies. It started in 1968 with the filming of the movie TORA, TORA, TORA!, about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With no flyable WWII Japanese aircraft, Twentieth Century Fox Studios purchased 50 T-6 Texans/Harvards to be made to resemble Japanese aircraft. Since, sold to private individuals, the “Hollywood Zeros” still appear in film, TV programs and at airshows around the country.

My photo from the 2014 Leesburg Airshow is one of those veterans of the film TORA, TORA, TORA!, flown by Douglas “Hollywood” Jackson. This is actually a Canadian built Texan which the Commonwealth Countries called a Harvard, made to look like a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero.

“TORA 101”
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The Zero’s day comes to an end.

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