50 buck test flights?! Sell yourself cheap will ya?
Well hell, I was only 18 and in university at the time. That was good money back then in 1965/66. Had a fresh Commercial/Inst/Multi-engine ratings and couldn't wait to use them.
As for the CAP T-34s, they had nothing to do with Tinker AFB. The Air Force gave a bunch of T-34s to the CAP, most from storage at Davis–Monthan AFB. Civilian contractors, one being a company called 'Aircraftsmen', an FBO at Will Rogers, now owned by AAR, had a contract to rebuild/overhaul the T-34s for the CAP. They in turn sub-contracted some of the work to another company, now long gone, that was at a small airport, also now long gone, in Moore OK. That was the company that I did some test flights for.
Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.
I had been flying T-34s since I was 16 in the Aero Club at Tinker.