North American Yale
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The North American NA-64 (NA-64 P-2 or NAA-64 P-2 in French service, Yale in Canadian service) is a low-wing single piston engine monoplane advanced trainer aircraft that was built for the French Air Force and French Navy, served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and with the Luftwaffe as a captured aircraft during World War II.
Ordered as a follow-on to the NA-57 as a two-seat advanced trainer, the NA-64 P-2/NAA-64 P-2 represented a major structural improvement, with a longer all-metal fuselage replacing the fabric covered fuselage of the NA-57. As well as metal skin replacing the fabric on the fuselage, the fin was changed from having a corrugated skin to being a smooth stressed skin structure and was moved slightly aft, lengthening the rear fuselage while the engine was moved forward to maintain the center of gravity. The rudder was also changed from the rounded shape used previously to one with a roughly triangular shape with the broadest part being at the bottom to improve handling at high angles of attack. In one respect however, it was a step backwards from its immediate predecessor, the BT-14, with which it is often confused, in that the earlier straight wings were used with the result that in RCAF service, when compared to the later and more powerful Harvard II it was flown alongside, it had different handling characteristics and lower performance.
The British Purchasing Commission bought the 119 aircraft that had not yet been delivered to France in 1940, and transferred them to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan between August and September 1940, and all were operational by November. The type was named the Yale Mk.I following British naming practice of naming trainers after education institutions and US-supplied aircraft after American locations, in this case, Yale University, and were used initially as intermediate pilot trainers taking pilots from the de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fleet Finch to the much faster and more complex North American Harvard, until this category was dispensed with as being unnecessary. They were then relegated for use as airborne wireless radio trainers, along with the contemporary Fleet Fort intermediate trainer in 1943. Prior to service entry, the throttle and engine mixture controls were modified from the system used by the French whereby the throttle was pulled back to increase power, and the mixture control pulled back to lean out the mixture, to the system used on the Harvard. Wikipedia
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All Yales originally ordered by France, order taken over by UK and assigned to RCAF. Used at No. 1 Service Flying Training School at Camp Borden, Ontario. Later with No. 2 Wireless School at Calgary, Alberta. Category C damage in 1941 at Durham, Ontario.1940-08-23 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1940-September-17 Accident: 1 Service Flying Training School Loc: Camp Borden Names: Macintosh | Staples
1941-January-29 Accident: 1 Service Flying Training School Loc: Alliston Aerodrome Names: Hunt | Willis
1941-March-04 Accident: 1 Service Flying Training School Loc: Camp Borden Names: Durkin
1941-October-09 Accident: 1 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stephens
1943-March-09 Accident: 4 Wireless School Flying Squadron Loc: South Of Ayr Ontario Names: Gagnon | Johnson
1944-May-12 Accident: 2 Wireless School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Donnachie | Scheelar
1944-06-27 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20