hello my fellow homo saipiens

This is my entry for the 40-50's Super-prop challenge, which somehow took me all half of the Thanksgiving break.

lore

The year is 1941, and Robin Industries develops its own fighter prop plane to help with the European front, but set-backs with required speed resulted in the hold up in development, and the delay of release. The RMI-88(designated as Turkey Tom) is released for the Pacific Front after Germany's surrender. One problem. Its released on August 15, 1945.

one day after Japan's unconditional surrender

After the war, the USAAF(Soon to be merged into the USAF) didn't know what to do with these dated prop planes. So many of them lay in storage. Until 1947, When the Bell X-1 was piloted successfully. This new found speed in these planes led to need for trainers to help in G-force(bc fast plane=large g's), so as a result, The Robin Trainer Industries RTI-88(Still designated as Turkey Tom) is taken out of storage, given a powerful new engine, more propellers and dual cockpit design.

The redesign was a success and it saw use from 1947 to 2008, when the last one for military service in Papua New Guinea was retired. 23 of these planes remain in service as civil trainers for tail-draggers.