YOU'LL HAVE TO WRITE your own commentary—I'm too tired!
I will say this.
Very few people know that the RCAF took on strength and operated six B-17s in bare-metal finish during WW II!
'nuff, said—
:::The Present Contemplates the Past :..::..
DISINTERESTED BUDDY had no idea his girlfriend knew so much about BALL-TURRETS on a B-17G!
Now—you know!
The JET AIRCRAFT MUSEUM (JAM) came to the air show and brought their 'new' Mako Shark T-33.
KIDS loved this 'T'!
Some kids (as you can see) really understood the Mako Shark.
…was a lotta' fun—
TOO LONG has ::: the HAMILTON AIR SHOW ::: been gone from the scene.
Previously run by a third party, the immensely popular regional air show became a losing venture. So it had to end. Once the middleman took his cut, there wasn't much left for the museum.
AND that—just wasn't right.
So the CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM did what it always does…MADE THINGS RIGHT! It took over the event, it took back control, and hosted its own air show!
Proceeds will go to CWH this time. As they should. What great work they do keeping Canadian history alive!!!
Great job Warplane!!
I had an EXCELLENT time!
For those who DIDN'T go…we don't hate ya', we'll just never forgive ya' ~
PLUS, LOTS, LOTS, MORE…
• Canadian Memorial Flight (Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane)
• Mock dogfight by World War I replica aircraft
• Aerobatic act of Bill Carter including his trademark inverted & knife edge ribbon cut (Pitts S2S)
• Salute to the British Commonwealth Training Plan by Tiger Moth, Stearman, Cornell, Finch and up to a 10-plane Harvard formation
• HEAVY BOMBER FORMATION of Lancaster, two B-17 Flying Fortresses & B-25 Mitchell
• Formation of two rare Canadian Lysanders
• Hamilton Sport Parachute Club skydivers
• Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team
• Many rare World War II aircraft including Helldiver, P-40 Warhawk, Firefly, Corsair & P-51 Mustang
• Victoria Cross Flight (Lancaster, Canso, Corsair)
• Almost 20 additional static aircraft on ground display
• PLUS aircraft rides, flight simulators, food vendors & souvenirs available onsite
BE THERE…or BE SQUARE!
A LOT OF AIR CANADA DC-8 artifacts take a little research to identify original form and function.
Rarely do any scream Douglas DC-8.
Even more rarely would any pieces of DC-8…that we find…be READILY identifiable by the general public.
Well—here's one.
Everyone knows what this is…what this was.
JAN BURTON found this only a week ago…
It is the air conditioning nozzle that can be found right beside the overhead lamp that is available to all passengers from the comfort of their seats. AIR CANADA DC-8s had two interior styles. The Second Douglas Jetliner Interior, or the update, placed these air nozzles ABOVE the passenger seats. In the original Air Canada DC-8s the air nozzles were found in the seat backside, directly, in front of you.
BODYBUILDINGS GREATEST LOSS…so many would say when he stopped competing after the 1980 Mr. Olympia. But Mike, Mr. Heavy Duty, went on to dazzle the weightlifting masses with his controversial training plans. Fit for Life is loosely based on Mentzer's HEAVY DUTY™ System. Less is more. 45 minutes a day in the gym, 4X a week. Not three hours a day, six days a week, like Arnold and the 'boys'. Later on, Mike trained Dorian Yates who went on to become Mr Olympia for 6 years running.
Mike was born and raised in Pennsylvania, by mom and dad, who were Mennonite descendants! And Mike, himself, was ex-USAF!
I met Mike and talked to him almost 31 years ago which was captured in the picture on the left at Vic Tanny's SUPERFITNESS in Rexdale, Ontario.
Toronto.
I wasn't putting on much size or weight, was somewhat at a standstill…until I met Mike here and purchased the first draft of his training programme. A little over a year later, I was thirty pounds heavier, and had problems sleeping because my arms were too big! Mike's intense, highly disciplined system didn't work for everybody—but it worked for me!
Ten years ago today June 10, 2001 Mike finished filming his new DVD, Mike Mentzer's HIT (High Intensity Training) Exercise Video (with Markus Reinhardt). Mr HEAVY DUTY™ was dead a few hours later! Mike, an avid fitness and philosophical writer, was found slumped over his typewriter by his bodybuilding brother, Ray.
Sadly, Ray also died two days later from complications of Berger's Disease!
The Mentzer's took the bodybuilding world by storm when they arrived, and yet again when they died suddenly in 2001. RIP Mentzer brothers—
UPDATE: Accidentally DELETED my original post which WAS uploaded on June 10, 2011.
New MENTZER photo generous courtesy of famed bodybuilding photographer, Garry Bartlett. Garry took the RIGHT SHOT , which I think was one of the best Mentzer photos ever —when Mike competed in an IFBB event in Montreal in 1979.
(left photo taken, by me, with a horrendous Agfa 110!)
