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Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada has an ex RCAF Bristol but in civvy livery. When I used to volunteer there I always wanted to repaint it and stick the old Mk3 CL-13 fuselage in it like when they used to transport them in Europe back in the day.
fat tony
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I had to look up an explanation from acamuseum to clear up something.
source of quote:
http://acamuseum.ca/on-display/aircraft-collection/cf-101-voodoo
Regardless, the paint scheme looks horrible and is not representtive of the mean and nasty role of the craft in RCAF service. /meh
To the credit of acam, they have two wpns handling dummies of the AIR2 Genie inside on the proper trollies so I must give them props for that.
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Saw that one in Yellowknife last summer. Also the DC3 "weather vane" in Whitehorse.
fat tony
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It has always looked like crap. The art work reminds me of ;
I see the old 101 from Cornwallis is sitting at Shearwater museum, maybe they will get her fixed up.
It has been there for some time It still looks 10× better even with the uv damage.
The Goodyear 'Inflatoplane' is prepared for flight, USA, 1959. [1280 x 831]
A: The Inflatoplane was pressurized at 8psi, less than a car tire, and could be inflated in less than 10 minutes. Endurance was over five hours on the two-seater. B: The original single-seat model had a 40hp Nelson engine and the two-seater had a 60hp McCulloch. In both cases the engine was started by hand-swinging the propeller. C: The Inflatoplane had no civilian customers, despite a lot of sales publicity promoting the craft as the ideal method of transport. D: The Inflatoplane's undercarriage allowed the packed-up aeroplane to be moved around like a wheelbarrow.
And what does this have to do with military?
A: The Inflatoplane was pressurized at 8psi, less than a car tire, and could be inflated in less than 10 minutes. Endurance was over five hours on the two-seater. B: The original single-seat model had a 40hp Nelson engine and the two-seater had a 60hp McCulloch. In both cases the engine was started by hand-swinging the propeller. C: The Inflatoplane had no civilian customers, despite a lot of sales publicity promoting the craft as the ideal method of transport. D: The Inflatoplane's undercarriage allowed the packed-up aeroplane to be moved around like a wheelbarrow.
And what does this have to do with military?
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The Goodyear 'Inflatoplane' is prepared for flight, USA, 1959. [1280 x 831]
A: The Inflatoplane was pressurized at 8psi, less than a car tire, and could be inflated in less than 10 minutes. Endurance was over five hours on the two-seater. B: The original single-seat model had a 40hp Nelson engine and the two-seater had a 60hp McCulloch. In both cases the engine was started by hand-swinging the propeller. C: The Inflatoplane had no civilian customers, despite a lot of sales publicity promoting the craft as the ideal method of transport. D: The Inflatoplane's undercarriage allowed the packed-up aeroplane to be moved around like a wheelbarrow.
And what does this have to do with military?
Best defence against such aircraft? A 12ga shotgun with BBs or buckshot!
Max Ward had a beautiful single Otter on floats that he restored and painted Wardair colours. Used to see it at YEG.
Operational altitude would be at low level to avoid detection. A low powered, air inflated aircraft at 10,000' would be blown around like a leaf in a wind storm, let alone oxygen for the pilot.
That's a cool concept !
That's a plane that should give the pilot plenty of time to escape in case of a water ditching....maybe it even floats.
