Ohh, I just wanted to mention this to the rest of ya'll that have been busting on the pilot of "Black 6".
I am no expert by any means when it comes to flight. I have been around warbirds almost exclusively since I was 19. I do know there are two things I am afraid of when it comes to flying them.
1. Fire
2. A sudden crosswind gust when landing a T-6.
Fire is perhaps the most uncontrollable, unpredictable, and scary aspect in an aircraft. If you ahve reason to believe that the aircraft is on fire or in imminent danger of being on fire, you generally have two choices.
A: Get the hell out of the aircraft, which generally means a total loss of the airframe when it plummets in.
B: Try to get the SOB onto the ground as fast as possible.
It looks to me that the pilot chose option B believing a fire to be imminent. In that case, we did the world a favor by getting her on the ground and in relatively one piece. He should be commended for that. Lesser people would have pointed it away from the crowd and jumped.