we toured the world war ii hangar with mike spalding and took a flight in a trainer plane to learn how pilots prepared for combat. this is the second of a two-part program. mike: i'm the chief pilot for the military aviation museum in virginia beach, virginia. i'm in charge of all of the airplanes and the training for the museum and the pilots. and today, we are going to talk about the boeing stearman. they had different numbers depending on the service it was in, whether it was in the navy or whether it was in the air force. it could be a pt-13 or pt-17 if it was in the army air corps back then. it went by the name of kaydet. the navy called them the yellow peril, because it can be a handful airplane for the first airplane you are learning to fly. but it sets you up for your progression into more complicated airplanes. but this airplane, among a couple other types, basically taught all the military aviators how to fly. and many guys never even saw an airplane coming from the farms and anywhere you can think of. the first airplane they saw was the boeing stearman. the reason they use t