tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22946331064242988882024-03-12T20:46:24.596-07:00Never Was An ArrowA little bit of aviation, a little bit of religion…and a little bit of everything else –Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-57224212305570522302013-06-18T15:15:00.003-07:002013-06-18T15:15:17.602-07:00MONTREAL GAZETTE July 6, 1970<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-80528004865096952652013-04-30T13:42:00.004-07:002013-04-30T13:46:09.200-07:00::: Diefenbaker's Law ::...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One, of course, initiates such an action to achieve a particular positive result (to cut program costs, to save taxpayer's money, etc.), but fails to foresee the looming, and adverse link to the bigger picture. And the even greater loss, or losses that will result from the initial action!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes…what actually happens instead from the seemingly innocent first action…is a catastrophic negative fall-out that is huge in scope…and which was neither expected, planned for, nor wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Named after then-novice Prime Minister of Canada, John G. Diefenbaker, for cost-cutting actions he led the federal government to take in regards to the Avro Aircraft Company of Canada in 1959.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diefenbaker cancelled all Avro Canada military projects which mostly included (but were not limited to) the Avro Arrow interceptor and the Orenda Iroquois jet turbine engine…to save taxpayers a few bucks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, Avro…only had military contracts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fall-out from this singular cancellation would obviously be enormous, since the federal government of Canada was the chief purchaser of the company's offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No contracts, no work, no choice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Avro Aircraft of Canada immediately laid their whole workforce off, only three hours after the federal government's chilling announcement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, on the very day of Diefenbaker's cancellation…<b>fourteen thousand</b> bewildered Avro employees are dismissed by Avro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An additional 11,000 employees in supportive aerospace companies</b> are also laid off within days…and this ratchets the unemployed total up to <b>25,000</b>…in a province of only 3 million folk!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">300 million taxpayer's dollars had been spent by the Canadian government on the Avro projects thus far…but because Diefenbaker opts out early…the feds are then hit with enormous penalties! Thousands of contract cancellations add another 125 million dollars to the Avro production cost<b>—bringing the alarming total footed by Canadian taxpayers to grand total of $425 million!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty-seven Arrow interceptor aircraft are in various stages of completion which could have been soberly finished and sold off (and are even requested for purchase by the British and the Americans)…but, in true small-town thinker's style…all are rapidly scrapped…for the quick cash! A mere $265,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nothing says stupid…like Diefenbaker stupid!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several prototypes of the world famous Orenda Iroquois jet engine were in the final stages of testing and a contracted purchase order for 12,000 Iroquois had been inked since 1956, but Diefenbaker shamelessly cancels this outstanding order as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huh?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The build Iroquois engines under licence contract ALONE would have paid all of Avro's development costs to date…for both exemplary projects! Instead, in an action that STILL SUSPENDS belief…to this very day…all existing cutting-edge Iroquois engine prototypes are also scrapped…and all existing engines torched!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the fall-out isn't over, people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, as they say…"it ain't over until it's over" and the fall-out wasn't over at all…for Avro OR Canada, by any means. No sir!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just watch what happens next!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News travels fast in the aviation industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Avro Canada's unexpected demise travels to all four corners of the earth. The same day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the new Olympics, folks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How fast can aviation and aerospace companies make it to Toronto, and poach former Avro employees?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The race is on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The very first…and historically biggest 'brain drain' occurs in Canadian history as Canada's most skilled and most creative research and development engineers ever, EVER!…leave Canada heading to new jobs, and to parts unknown, all over the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They will never return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These departees will become project leaders on several of the US space programs including the one that puts America in space first…and then on the moon. Some go on to assist in development of the Concorde, and various American and British civil and military classics. A working flying saucer was even created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diefenbaker must live with the Arrow cancellation debacle for the rest of his life. John G. is openly mocked wherever he goes. More than one attempt is made on his life. And its all because of the Arrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hugest of Canadian losses is never forgotten as Diefenbaker becomes the most hated Canadian in history! The trashing of the Arrow is still heartily felt by Canadians, even five decades later. Books, documentaries, movies, and conspiracy theories haunt searching Canadians who still try to comprehend what exactly went wrong at Avro Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All—to no avail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diefenbaker only intended to cut some defence spending…to save a few bucks…but he ended up wracking up an additional 50 per cent in taxpayer-incurred expenses and unravelled Canada's aerospace industry to boot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada would never recover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the day we had no Arrow, no Iroquois, no engineers…and a $450 million price tag with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to show for it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All good moves, Dief! Only you, buddy, only you…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CANADIAN INVOLVEMENT</b> in the F-35 program ended just a few minutes ago as the Harper Government tabled and voted for…an all-Canadian replacement to the troubled <b>Lockheed-Martin</b> offering.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An purchase order HAS ALREADY BEEN SIGNED by Harper's Conservatives for an initial order of <b>200 Stealth Super Arrows</b> at the very same cost as the original F-35 procurement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Super Arrow will be manufactured in Toronto at a new aerospace plant that is being built right now at the old Avro Canada YYZ site!</span></div>
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<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-41563953954712654412013-03-25T20:58:00.001-07:002013-03-25T20:58:15.059-07:0055 YEARS AGO::: Avro Arrow Maiden Flight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b>35 minute flight</b> into Canadian and world history.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The small country of CANADA had produced a technological marvel.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS</b> waited and watched (inside and outside) Malton Airport as the CF-105 Avro Arrow was put through some light-duty paces on its MAIDEN FLIGHT.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crowd mills about waiting for another pass of the Arrow, while the Arrow passes over Rexdale. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Avro Canada and Orenda Engine plants can be seen for the massive structures they were (look just above the flying Arrow).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be <b>Canada's first and last all-Canadian supersonic airplane</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every other Canadian engineered aircraft SINCE has been sub-sonic~</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CF-105 AVRO Arrow (outfitted with Orenda Iroquois Engines) “FIRSTS and NOTABLES” </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First a/c designed with digital computers being used for both aerodynamic analysis and designing the structural matrix (and a whole lot more).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First a/c design to have major components machined by CNC (computer numeric control); i.e., from electronic data which controlled the machine.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First a/c to be developed using an early form of "computational fluid dynamics" with an integrated "lifting body" type of theory rather than the typical (and obsolete) "blade element" theory.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First a/c to fly with fly by wire AND artificial feedback (feel). Not even the first F-16's had this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First a/c designed with integrated navigation, weapons release, automatic search and track radar, datalink inputs, home-on-jamming, infrared detection, electronic countermeasures and counter-countermeasures operating through a DIGITAL brain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First high wing jet fighter that made the entire upper surface a lifting body. The F-15, F-22, Su-27 etc., MiG-29, MiG 25 and others certainly used that idea.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• First by-pass engine design. (all current fighters have by-pass engines).</span></div>
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<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-19657762810977335002013-02-28T13:36:00.001-08:002013-02-28T13:38:28.361-08:00FORGOTTEN TORONTO ::: The World's ONLY Flying Saucer<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>AT NEW YEARS, I HAD</b> a friend lament that …everything about Avro Canada has been forgotten! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Who remembers, who…??"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well…<b>Popular Mechanics</b> remembers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there it is! The RCAF roundel on the Avrocar in the fold-out!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Granted, the Avrocar was made for the US ARMY and the USAF.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it was <b>MADE in TORONTO</b>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't go to too far in the history of aviation without touching upon Avro Canada.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THERE'S A 1000 ways to feel sad about what happened to Avro Canada…and I can find all of them.</span></div>
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All-wood construction these Mosquitos were.</div>
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"Use lots of glue" the factory sign reminded the largely female work force.</div>
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Back in the day (1942-44) if you flew over Downsview you'd see 20-30 of these beasties huddled around the airfield. When they came in to land, Sheppard Ave. had to be temporarily closed to allow Mosquitos to pass through!</div>
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Yes, yes, these deadly aircraft used to beat up Toronto skies.</div>
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Of course, a distant memory now.</div>
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Yes, yes the 40s interventionist Canadian Government GAVE over 200 battle-ready Mosquitos, and training support, to the <b style="font-weight: bold;">Chinese Nationalists</b> who fought a tough battle for democracy in China…and, as we all know now, lost.</div>
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The Chinese have been fighting for democracy EVER since.</div>
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What isn't well-known is the Chinese freedom fighters also had a tough time learning to fly these high-performance aircraft and pranged quite a few of them. The older Chinese pilots resented learning how-to from the brash young Canadian pilot, George Stewart, and his assistant.</div>
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And as luck would have it, George is still alive and resides in Hamilton.</div>
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That guy has many a story to tell.</div>
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Anyhow, focusing back.</div>
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Yes, yes…does anyone, BESIDES ME remember this factory of democracy that was first was enlisted to create trainers for the war effort (De Havilland Moths)…and later Mossies to bring Hitler and his war machine to its knees?</div>
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Apparently not.</div>
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TODAY this former De Havilland factory serves a forgetful public as an indoor soccer field…and will be morphed transformer style into redundant hockey arenas in the near future.</div>
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CANADIANS don't respect their own history or Canadian achievement.</div>
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That's why they know so little about it.</div>
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So one can't expect them to honour related historical sites.</div>
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And that's why a portion of De Havilland won't be saved as the Museum it should be, and was for the longest time. Enter the corrupt power players at Downsview Park who lined pockets and ninnified our history by insisting these sports facilities (sports facilities!) had to be located on the former 1929 De Havilland Factory site, instead of 500 feet N,S, E, or W of that.</div>
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But hey…look at those beauties (Mossies) on the Downsview production line, anyway!</div>
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• Original De Havilland Mosquito photo corrected and tone altered - Paul Cardin<br />• 2013 Downsview Park photo - Paul Cardin</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TODAY it is the <b>only Mosquito in flying condition, in the whole-wide world</b>!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During WW II the Mosquito had many roles: Fast-bomber, Fighter-Bomber, Night Fighter, Maritime Strike Aircraft, Fast Photo-Reconnaissance, and even advanced trainer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commander in Chief of the Nazi Luftwaffe, <b>Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring</b> said THIS about the Mosquito in 1943:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"In 1940, I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again.What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 20, 1943…RAF Mosquitos silenced Göring's propaganda speech celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Nazis having seized power which was being broadcast live, at the time, from Berlin, to the entire German nation!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Göring was humiliated.In response to this and other increasing well-known successful RAF Mossie attacks Hermann formed special Luftwaffe units—to specifically combat these pesky Mosquitos.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looky at some of the airplanes that <b>the RCAF</b> once flew!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wondrous.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IF I could get unlimited blocks of these stamps I'd use them for all my mail…for the rest of my life!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, foolin'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alas. (*sigh*) Not to be…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And just look at <b>all the ROUNDELS</b> the RCAF adopted for this, and that, time era!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confused?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well the RCAF, Canada's Air Force, has changed its military logo many times. For a complete explanation:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SEE <b>"The Roundel Round-Up"</b> at Vintage Wings of Canada: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(FOUR of these aircraft…were MADE IN TORONTO!)</span>Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-90399579528137378382013-02-02T13:13:00.001-08:002013-02-02T13:13:10.411-08:00FLIGHT 621: 3000+ Square Foot Colossus replaces Burgsma Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…where <b>John 'Red' Burgsma</b> and his younger brother watched in horror as the very large, brand-new, state-of-the-art four engined jetliner—an Air Canada 'stretched' DC-8…crashed right before their very eyes, right in their own backyard!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…and in the foreground is the fenced-off area of the soon-to-be official FLIGHT 621 Cemetery and Memorial Gardens.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It encompasses a sizeable land zone section directly involved in the crash—the impact arena.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And notably, it contains, buried deep down, the topsoil from other parts of the site (moved here specifically by the developers last year) initially discovered by me in 2002, to have been compromised by human remains of Flight 621's victims.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THIS CEMETERY is not a 'play' cemetery…</b> a nice gesture to those 109 passengers and crew who died here; no, this is to be an actual, official, provincially mandated cemetery and future crash memorial that contains buried deep — thousands of fragmented bone remains of those unfortunate 109 souls who died on Air Canada Flight 621, both here, and from the surrounding five acres, on July 5,1970.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in 2012, late last year, Barb and I were on-site before the concrete foundation for the 'colossus' had been poured. It had certainly been marked and staked out, at this point. As I looked to the ancient dilapidated bridge for my placement orientation, I was pretty sure we had located and were standing on the old Burgsma house lot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then came the miraculous confirmation. As I walked about, there, right THERE, on the very edge of the marked out future colossus foundation…I saw it!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a find! What a coincidence!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An old piece of white bathroom tile from the former Burgsma home!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And since the Burgsma house was the only house ever within the crash site arena, voila— I had my clearly identifiable confirmation for the former house location!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Al Vanderstarren, the old Burgsma house was condemned in the mid-80s, about six months after his family (its' last residents) had moved out. Shortly thereafter the home was demolished, broken up, and plowed down into its' former basement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remnants from the house destruction never strayed far from the home's foundation, unlike Flight 621 artifacts that were subjected to a farmer's dragging plow through almost four decades of farming!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Late afternoon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hondas zoom by.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Canada, remember.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hapless cars spreading salty slush like some sick squadron of mechanized fertilizing machines.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not a care in the world, these folks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is whip-snap cold outside.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The air is pure peppermint.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I make my way to the Summit where <b>Toronto's only CF-100</b> can be found.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On this first day of the new year, I am the only one here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Night falls.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are a long way away from those days when Toronto-based Avro engineers designed and produced the CF-100. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, far way from those days when dozens of these Canadian fighters would be parked at Malton Airport and just as many would fill the local skies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>January 20, 1950…the Avro CF-100 'Clunk' (as we've always called her) flew for the first time</b>…and famously became Canada's FIRST JET INTERCEPTER and also, simultaneously, Canada's FIRST ALL-CANADIAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CANADA had dutifully retained its' colonial mentality until right after WW II wherein we purchased every single military aircraft for the RCAF, up to that point…from every other country, any country other than our own glorious CANADA!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CANADIANS even missed—if you can believe it— the entire era of propeller-driven military aircraft!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bombers and fighters alike.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did produce a trainer though, the Fleet Fort. We got that one in at the last minute of that grand old age.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big deal~</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We fall back on the Arrow, so it's laughable we couldn't even come up with one homegrown military design in the 40 years of the prop engine era!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We bought British, we bought American, hey, we even bought French…we never even thought about producing, and buying Canadian!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If ever a country wanted to remain a colony—it was Canada.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(*Sheesh. Where are my antacid pills, anyway?)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while we did produce almost 700 CF-100s for both Canada and Belgium, in the end RCAF pilots preferred <b>the Canadair Sabre (a hopped-up Canadian version of the American F-86 Sabre)</b>, to the CF-100 Canuck, as she was officially known, and in kind, came up with all kinds of derogatory nicknames for her. The Clunk moniker came forth because of the disconcerting sound the front landing-gear made while retracting into its undercarriage well. Unfortunately, the 'Clunk' was also called the 'Lead Sled', the CF-Zero, the Beast, and the Zilch.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'nuff, said—</span>Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-4828807662193421702012-10-07T21:42:00.004-07:002012-10-07T21:43:49.669-07:00:::: MITT ROMNEY :: A Real American vs.…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-52249324993308863642012-09-09T22:15:00.004-07:002012-09-09T22:17:20.027-07:00::: Planespotting, er… Babespotting, er …Both!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b> CERTAINLY, NOT</b> in the Toronto-GTA (YYZ) area where BOTH airplane AND plane-spotter babe were captured by my VERY discriminating lens.</div>
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<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-53480822782150074772012-09-01T16:05:00.000-07:002012-09-01T16:05:11.139-07:00::: FLIGHT 621 :: RESOLUTION IS… on the Horizon for 2013.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b>SLOWLY, slowly.…</b><br />
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Ever, so slowly, the cogs of progress move forward… and what once seemed like an impossibility is fast becoming reality as the 621 Field moves toward resolution.<br />
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Yes, by this time NEXT YEAR, the Flight 621 Cemetery and Memorial Park will be in place, and the horror of the AFTERMATH of that terrible day, will finally, FINALLY, be undone.<br />
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<b>AIR CANADA promised</b>, and later refused to build an on-site memorial to the <b>109 victims of Flight 621</b>.<br />
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No matter.<br />
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Like it or not, that very memorial IS being built, RIGHT NOW.<br />
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As I tap away at this keyboard…<br />
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Without Air Canada's sympathy. Or support. <br />
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Of, course.<br />
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So… it's over Air Canard, your four decades of impasse and moral apathy failed in the end. The deadlock IS being overthrown~<br />
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Feelin' kinda' tiny… feelin' kinda small… in the grand ole scheme of things?<br />
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Too bad Air Canada wasn't a family owned biz, instead of being run by turnstile execs. A family would know the right thing to do, even now.<br />
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<i>(Flight 621 crash arena photographed in summer of 2012.) </i><br />
Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-67570830565854251412012-08-20T20:06:00.004-07:002012-08-20T20:21:05.666-07:00DISASTER for CANADIANS at DIEPPE! Betrayed by a Crossword Puzzle, Ninnies, and the BBC :::: 70 Years Ago in Canadian History!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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While Churchill and Admiral Mountbatten presumptuously oversaw and authorized the raid, months before General Montgomery had been firmly against raiding the French sea port, or any French sea port. He predicted disaster. However, and unfortunately for Canada, Montgomery was now in North Africa heading up the desert campaign…so cooler heads would not prevail in this August of '42, as the Canadian government and the Chiefs of Staff concurred with Churchill and Mountbatten to authorize the suicidal raid that consisted mostly of Canadians.</div>
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Two days before the raid, on August 17, former footballer turned high school teacher, <b>Leonard Dawe</b> compiled the <b>Daily Telegraph</b> crossword with the clue "French port". The answer appeared in the English newspaper the following day. The answer was Dieppe!</div>
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<b>ALLIED ANAYSIS of the DIEPPE RAIDTHE LESSONS LEARNED AT DIEPPE</b> essentially became the textbook of <b>“what not to do”</b> in future amphibious operations, and laid the framework for the Normandy landings two years later. </div>
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Another effect of the raid was change in the Allies' previously held belief that seizure of a major port would be essential in the creation of a second front. Their revised view was that the amount of damage that would be done to a port by the necessary bombardment to take it, would almost certainly render it useless as a port afterwards. As a result, the decision was taken to construct prefabricated harbours, codenamed "Mulberry", and tow them to lightly defended beaches as part of a large-scale invasion.</div>
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USAF P-51 at "<b>BIGGEST, BADDEST</b>" (Hamilton Air Show, June 2012), instinctively swings around to protect the legendary bombers (B-29 Superfortress, Avro Lancaster, B-25 Mitchell and the B-17 Flying Fortress. WESTJET 737 <i>instinctively</i> stops advancing…</div>
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…and although their won't be any NHL teams in Hamilton, anytime soon, at least the <b>Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum</b> keeps the city entertained!<br />
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<b>HERE WE GO</b>…yet another abandoned Brampton farmhouse…already sold to developers…mysteriously catches fire…in the middle of the night! </div>
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For a hundred years the house sits blaze-free and then only a couple of years after it gets snapped up by a home building company…whoop, whoop…"FIRE!!!!!!!"</div>
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When I arrived at 1:37am…the Brampton Fire Department was already there.</div>
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I mean this was quite the blaze. The nearest fire engine pumper (you can see it right beside the house) had been dousing the home with a steady stream of water for what seemed like an eternity…didn't even slow those arson-engineered flames down!</div>
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Na. Too risky in this case. The city of B-Town would never approve it. The proximity of other farmhouses and/or other residential, industrial properties poses too great a risk. You might end up with two blazes.</div>
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For instance, with this particular property located at approximately <b>10146 the Gore Road, Castlemore</b>, there was a real concern amongst the firefighters about the residential property located just north of the blaze. The sheer volume of smoke spewing thousands of live embers was certainly a sight to behold by me, AND not taken lightly, or as entertainment, by the Brampton Fire Department. They stationed ready pumpers at the northern property, and one at the property just south of the 'fire'. Several pumpers remained on "The Gore" to respond quickly to ANY changing conditions.</div>
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I was engulfed in one such change and had to move (…and, I was more than 200 feet away!) as the smoke column flattened out, suddenly swung westward, and lowered so that I could look directly overhead and watch dancing embers sail by. No wonder these firefighters are so concerned! I moved moments later when I then felt the wall of intense heat that accompanied the fast-moving, jet-black billowing overhead.</div>
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Here's one line from my adapted version, "…Razed buildings and emergency support services for free…"</div>
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I'm not talking about any of the "Laidlaw Lane" fires that took down Laidlaw family farm barns. We know who did that. Farm-hand's son gone berserk. Case closed. Rather sadly I might add.</div>
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Hey, anyone thought of calling <b>Pam Douglas</b>?</div>Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com110123-10431 The Gore Rd, Brampton, ON L6P 0B3, Canada43.7941456139256 -79.69276428222656243.7912801139256 -79.697699782226564 43.7970111139256 -79.687828782226561tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-76355102969537442532012-07-05T18:54:00.000-07:002013-07-03T09:13:47.694-07:00::: AIR CANADA FLIGHT 621: Crash Site Development<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, things are much better this time. The former crash arena has been culled and the topsoil entombed in the park and memorial area of the development. The July 5th, 1970 crash that started in Toronto with the very hard landing of an Air Canada DC-8, and the loss of its' Number 4 engine…ended here, in Brampton, only three minutes later. All 109 passengers and crew lost their lives 42 years ago, today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unlike, every other visit to the 621 field in the past…I have not been able to find a single Air Canada Flight 621 crash fragment. No DC-8 pieces. No passenger artifacts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The profile of the field has changed. Entirely. Not just roads but the elevation…all to make way for the eventual Flight 621 Memorial Park and cemetery. And, the surrounding houses.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am quite happy with the outstanding progress that has been made in the field to date. Much thanks to Diarmuid and the existing landowners. The full unveiling of the Flight 621 Memorial Park and Cemetery should be next year, around July 5, 2013 provided the City of Brampton clears all the development permits in a timely manner (hint, hint).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And only two weeks ago I was there for a very special event. To help out, in a very small way, with the filming of a movie that will involve a segment about Flight 621!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Born in Montreal, Carole Laganière studied film in Brussels (INSAS, 1983-87). She stayed on in Belgium to make her first short, Jour de congé, which won a number of prizes on the festival circuit. Back in Quebec, she directed Aline, which won the Bayard d'Or for the best feature film at the 1992 Festival de Namur.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Following several successful forays into docudrama (Histoires de musées, 1996-97, Des mots voyageurs, 1999), Laganière directed La fiancée de la vie (The Fiancée of Life), which won the Gold Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2002 Toronto Hot Docs Festival. She returned the next year with Un toit, un violon, la lune (The Moon and the Violin), which won the Gold Award again, this time in the short to mid-length category. She then directed Vues de l'Est (East End Kids), a documentary about children in Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, followed by Country (2005), a documentary about the world of country and western festivals, co-produced at the NFB. May 2011 saw the release of her documentary L'Est pour toujours (East End Forever), a follow-up that examines the lives of the same children, now teenagers. Carole is named cinéaste en résidence at the NFB in Spring 2011.</span></div>
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…as one of JAM's (Jet Aircraft Museum) 6 Silver Stars has port side landing gear ripped off upon landing.<br />
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The 'press' called it an incident, BUT it was an accident.<br />
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Well, because it sorta' landed HARD…100 feet or so…short of the runway, folks! On rough terrain, not ideal, and smooth runway tarmac.<br />
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Short of the runway! That's key!!<br />
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Shooting Stars or Silver Stars NEVER HAD tundra tires!<br />
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Likely the pilot discovered he was underpowered on the approach, tried immediately to compensate by spooling up the RR Nene 10 Turbojet…but this…or any other ancient 1950-60s jet engine just can't respond that quickly, folks…so…wham (a hard touchdown hit), port-side landing gear gets imbedded in the ground(!) while the rest of the aircraft slides 2000' before it stops.<br />
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Thankfully, pilot and passenger emerged uninjured from the crash.<br />
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C-FUPM, formerly 133346 of the RCAF, will never fly again~<br />
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Which is sad. I love JAM and their CT-133s, and most especially their Mako Shark!<br />
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<b>Canadair CT-133 Canadian Shooting Stars</b> are almost identical to American <b>Lockheed T-33 Shooting Stars</b>, because they were developed from them! Canadian licence-built CT-133 HOWEVER are powered by Rolls-Royce Nene 10 Turbojets, while American T-33's were powered by Allison J33s.<br />
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Canadair of Montreal built 656 of these T-33 variants, or 10% of all T-33s made! Most of those served with the RCAF. Some CT-133s still fly active-duty with the Bolivian Air Force, while many others have a new home with civilians, who hobby fly them.<br />
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A majority of electronic components for this aircraft, and the very engine itself (Orenda-built) were made by Toronto defence contractors.<br />
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Looks like WESTJET Maintenance is working with JAM on this one—<br />Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-91221351195963446912012-06-13T16:31:00.001-07:002012-06-13T16:33:27.055-07:00The BIGGEST, BADDEST, AIR SHOW of 2012…anywhere…is happening THIS FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND in Hamilton!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TO CELEBRATE THE <b>40th Anniversary of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum</b>, the museum is hosting the Hamilton Air Show this June 16 and 17 at 7825 Airport Rd. E. in Hamilton/Mount Hope , an air show…like no other!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There won't be another air show like this in Ontario, Canada for another 20 years!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IF, ever!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the <b>spectacular, star-studded </b> line-up:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* HAMILTON SPORT PARACHUTE CLUB - Beech 18</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM Mass Formation - Lancaster, Firefly & B-25, DC-3 & PBY, Beech 18 & Lysanders, Stearman, Chipmunk, Cornell, Tiger Moth, Fort & Finch</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* GREAT WAR FLYING MUSEUM - World War I dogfight - Fokker DR.1, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, Royal Aircraft Factory SE5A</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* VINTAGE WINGS of CANADA - Goodyear FG-1D Corsair, Supermarine Spitfire MK. XVI, Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV, Canadair CL-13 Sabre "Golden Hawks" (Hawk One), Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, North American P-51D Mustang and the Westland Lysander MK. IIIA</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* HARVARDS - Mass Formation & Aerobatic Team Demonstration</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* CP-140 AURORA - demo performance</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* FOCKE-WOLFE 190 (WWII German fighter) - <b>Never before seen at a Canadian air show!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* NORTH AMERICAN P-51 Mustang</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* GM FM-2 WILDCAT (US Navy)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* DOUGLAS AD-4 SKYRAIDER (Korean War, and Vietnam) (US Navy)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* MATT YOUNKIN - Beech 18 Aerobatics</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* CF-18 HORNET DEMO</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* PETE MCCLEOD - Red Bull Aerobatics</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* The SNOWBIRDS </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* WORLD WAR II BOMBERS - B-29, B-17, B-25, Lancaster, Curtis-Wright Helldiver, B-24 Liberator (cancelled, crash landing a week ago), Grumman TBM Avenger (US Navy)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* FAIRCHILD REPUBLIC A-10 THUNDERBOLT IIs (2 -static)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nope, the Province of ONTARIO will not see an air show like this…maybe…never again! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come out, and join the Canadian Warplane Museum's 40th Anniversary Celebration!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What am I exited about?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well all the participating a/c of course, but I've never seen a B-29 Superfortress before, or a Focke-Wolfe 190. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B-29s were the high-altitude pressurized bombers employed to drop the war-stopping A-Bombs on Japan. Could Lancs have carried the hefty A-Bomb? Yes. But NOT at the 32,000' feet height the B-29 could fly at!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Focke-Wolfe 190 was a formidable foe for the legendary Spitfire and new, better Spitfires had to be developed…to counter-act this deadly German fighter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and I can't get enough of the Hawk One Sabre in Golden Hawks colours! And the Lysanders, and the Lancaster, and the B-17, and the A-10 tank-destroyers, and the…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>(B-29 photo courtesy of (? Unknown), © CWH 2012…compiled graphic)</i></span><br />
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<b>CANADIAN WW II ACE, "Stocky Edwards" </b>predesessorly marked aircraft…flown first by an RAF pilot has just been found, last month (March 2012), 70 years later, in the North African desert of Al Wadi al Jadid. </div>
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Remarkably intact, the fighter-plane came down "power on" (the propeller is seen in the foreground, blades bent backward) back in 1942. Right now little is known of the RAF airman who crash landed the Kittyhawk seven decades ago.</div>
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Presently, <b>Vintage Wings of Canada</b> flies a P-40 painted up in Stocky's desert campaign colours, in honour of Canada's wartime hero. Stocky's Kittyhawk "K" version aircraft with the "B H S" marking replaced the downed in the desert Kittyhawk "D" version aircraft seen in the recent crash photo.</div>
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Born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, <b>James Francis "Stocky" Edwards, CM, DFC & Bar, DFM, CD</b> was Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign of WW II. </div>
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Edwards took out the famed German ace Otto Schultz (51 kills) on June 17, 1942.</div>
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Stocky is 91 years young…and lives in Comox, BC with his wife Toni.</div>
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Thanks to <b>Vintage Wings of Canada</b> who recently posted this Kittyhawk news!</div>
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I'm giving a shout-out to <b>Dave O'Malley…of VWofC</b>, who brought this story to my attention!</div>
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That guy is amazin'!!</div>
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See his <b>Kittyhawk HS-B article</b> here:</div>
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This crashed P-40 was manufactured in <b>Buffalo, NY.</b></div>Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-42343757691944872132012-02-20T20:07:00.000-08:002012-02-21T01:29:35.843-08:0053 YEARS AGO TODAY…the Arrow is cancelled…and CANADA returns to Research and Development Obscurity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToQwI_o8bWf2187AUm8ccd_x26hCPcfF6vche-dFGellENxHtHOSd9TLuEAhli7C71kjyyh9CZnEL68PEaBvxgeo9c3VNl_wmrUahp6WjEictZR6GheXU5shPFvKzb_LpDGRq0VaE51Na/s1600/ARROW201-colourizedSMM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToQwI_o8bWf2187AUm8ccd_x26hCPcfF6vche-dFGellENxHtHOSd9TLuEAhli7C71kjyyh9CZnEL68PEaBvxgeo9c3VNl_wmrUahp6WjEictZR6GheXU5shPFvKzb_LpDGRq0VaE51Na/s400/ARROW201-colourizedSMM.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711436011724354706" /></a><br /><b>IN 1959, CANADA WAS</b> on top of the world with aircraft interceptor and jet engine programmes so advanced that the Avro Arrow introduces almost 30 aviation firsts. Simultaneously, the Orenda Iroquois is also on stage, set to be licence-built by Curtis-Wright Inc. of America for a production run of 12,000 jet engines!<br /><br />In spite of these incredible technological achievements, the Prime Minister of Canada, J.G. Diefenbaker, cancels both cutting edge projects and squanders Canada's chance to retain its technological lead.<br /><br />Canada would never recover.<br /><br />The CF-105 Avro Arrow Interceptor program, and the PS-13 Orenda Iroquois Engine program, become the last time CANADA reaches 'for the stars' and contributes seriously to military technological advancement as a NATO member nation.<br /><br /><i>Awesome photo courtesy of Marc-Andre Valiquette's Destruction of a Dream Volume 3! If you don't have Marc-Andre's four volume series about Avro Canada and the Avro Arrow…what…are you waiting for?!</i>Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-6171927761893934782011-12-19T11:35:00.000-08:002011-12-19T11:40:32.171-08:00…::: Has THIS ARROW been found? :: In the UK?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxwgni9juCzNVl6dyqn7GaKcp607qgcgu3Z20Ew3lgJlJwcvQXMKWlQN0lHDMW5Da2FpRVUH8xSBj91HWLp8Igu7C_AAUNsngikMsy4hIf5FQrQFKZOlnG2q0En56HWn5y_ImjzOurDbS/s1600/AVRO-Arrow204-MB-SEAT.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxwgni9juCzNVl6dyqn7GaKcp607qgcgu3Z20Ew3lgJlJwcvQXMKWlQN0lHDMW5Da2FpRVUH8xSBj91HWLp8Igu7C_AAUNsngikMsy4hIf5FQrQFKZOlnG2q0En56HWn5y_ImjzOurDbS/s400/AVRO-Arrow204-MB-SEAT.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687925387355286706" /></a>WELL, IT'S MARTIN-BAKER <b>ejection seat</b> certainly has.<br /><br />Well…maybe not from Arrow 204, but likely Arrow 206!<br /><br />And that Arrow seat is for sale on eBay for a cool $250,000—or you can make an offer!<br /><br />Since the 1960s…there is still a rumour amongst the ex-RAF personnel from RAF Manston that an Arrow did indeed make it to that English air base. <br /><br />The ONLY TWO possible flying Arrows would be Arrow 203, or Arrow 204, that were set aside for the RAE (Royal Aeronautical Establishment).<br /><br />So, who knows?<br /><br />Someone knows!<br /><br />TOMORROW—<b>the ANSWER!</b><br /><br />…from <b>Marc-Andre Valiquette, world's foremost Avro Arrow collector</b>, and, of course, leading Avro Arrow expert!<br /><br />STAY TUNED!!<br /><br />Oh—and IF an intact Arrow was found—I'd have to call in sick for the entire week, 'cause I'd be sick, intoxicated—with rapturous joy!!Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294633106424298888.post-37017541937568156452011-11-23T09:10:00.000-08:002011-11-23T09:16:00.103-08:00FREEDOM HAS A PRICE: MOST CANADIANS don't realize…Part II<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXdQzPlPOtsxg3Z_i4FDeMa5cnFlYrdK80PoG8f-yGB0esx7E3YghY0vZr6XD6eSu7_q40FgaEyqGVvpbVXQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />…the <b>sacrifice</b> CANADIANS made in WW II.<br /><br />Here's a tiny glimpse into that world, as told to us by some of our Canadian Army veterans.Never Was An Arrow IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888305762281631968noreply@blogger.com0