Flying the SNJ 1953 Navy training films

1953 Navy training film: Flying the SNJ

[@Warbird-Aviation]

Thank you for posting this unique films!!!!

[@carolyoung9298]

Very proud of my Dad who was a flight instructor in SNJs at Pensacola in the 50s - went thru his logs & he flew over 800 different SNJs, tracked them all on the net & about 30 of them are still flying, 1 he flew is hanging in a hall at NAS Whiting Field!

[@Lolopug9]

Your father probably trained my father! He learned to fly the SNJ at Pensacola in 1956. He went on to do two cruises in Vietnam as a USN fighter pilot, in Crusaders. Then a career as test pilot and then executive aircraft all over the world. I came to this video because I'm writing a book about his amazing life. Sounds like your father would have a good book there, too! :)

[@Lolopug9]

By the way, is your father still with us? I wouldn't mind interviewing him if he would be up to it. Just a few questions. My father's name was Tom Friedrich, by the way. He died in 2016 - too young, too soon, aged 81.