Picture of the day

[fat tony]

Good history lesson for many who wouldnt realize that there was a fairly large ‘cross border’ training program with American (and British) personnel in Fort Churchill .... I think it started shortly after the Korean war and continued for a number of years.

The Tripartate Technical Cooperation Program? I heard Canada's role in this ended around 2000.

 

[hnachaj1]

I was in the Militia in 71. Yes we loaded from boxes. I have a Lithgow version.

 

[donor]

And now for something completely different...

Golden De Havilland Vampire aside,what in the world has been done to poor B-25 nose in background?Is this one of the conversions made for filming in 1970s?

Photo taken from here.Great many more entertaining photos and info there.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageN...View/articleId/444/Vampires-of-Las-Vegas.aspx

 

[diopter]

^^ https://www.aerovintage.com/N1203.htm

 

[XRCD011]

How real movies where made before CGI. Turn up the volume for full effect.

 

[HuskyDude]

Awesome movie !!!!
They did a mini series in 2019, pretty good too.

 

[sail32]

The Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley BC has a de Havilland Vampire as a static display.

They are surprisingly small.

http://www.canadianflight.org/content/de-havilland-vampire

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.099088,-122.6259564,57m/data=!3m1!1e3 ( partly covered )

 

[Grizzly Adams]

The Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley BC has a de Havilland Vampire as a static display.

They are surprisingly small.

http://www.canadianflight.org/content/de-havilland-vampire

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.099088,-122.6259564,57m/data=!3m1!1e3 ( partly covered )

Think there is one in Calgary and Hamilton as well. Just about fit underneath all the other aircraft on display .

Grizz

 

[Ganderite]

I recall the RCAF flying a demo of the new Vampires in Calgary or Edmonton around 1952. It was the first time I had seen a jet airplane.

It looked faster than the Mustangs.

 

[diopter]

 

[NoDanger]

please delete, the picture didn't turn out the way I had intended

 

[bush1]

I recall the RCAF flying a demo of the new Vampires in Calgary or Edmonton around 1952. It was the first time I had seen a jet airplane.

It looked faster than the Mustangs.

The RCAF had the 4th largest Airforce in the world in the late 50’s and early 60’s according to a statement on a CF-104 video. (will post the video shortly)

The Vampire was before my time in the airforce but some of the older guys I worked with talked about them.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Major's gonna be choked...

So what's the plan here - Hook a couple cables to the bottom side of the Poseidon Adventure and yank it out sideways with the two big halftracks? Hook to the top side and roll it 270 degrees until it's dirty-side down?

 

[B_noser]

That bogie wheel behind the halftracks suggests there may be more to this story. Perhaps it was an attempted repair gone wrong.

 

[HuskyDude]

That bogie wheel behind the halftracks suggests there may be more to this story. Perhaps it was an attempted repair gone wrong.

Good eye. Looks like they're gonna roll it like a hotdog till it's done.

 

[XRCD011]

That bogie wheel behind the halftracks suggests there may be more to this story. Perhaps it was an attempted repair gone wrong.

Naw........ just looks like the spare road wheels/return rollers that are carried on the track sponsons has fallen off. I am thinking that there is enough Sd.Kfzs on site to dead drag from the side and one forward with the fourth half track atop the road securing it from going full "turtle on back" mode.
I do love those Stoewer Typ.40

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I recall the RCAF flying a demo of the new Vampires in Calgary or Edmonton around 1952. It was the first time I had seen a jet airplane.

It looked faster than the Mustangs.

I remember when the RAF flew a Vulcan into Calgary in the sixties.

Grizz

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The EDO XOSE-1.

"We make floats for airplanes. Why don't we make the whole airplane..."

Because the USN had plenty of scout floatplanes and wasn't really in the market by the time you were ready in 1946, EDO.

Still, reasonably trim lookin' little thing. Ten built, zero survivors.

 

[diopter]

Unimog

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Unimog - when you absolutely, positively have to drive over some sh!t, like right now.

RAF / Balkan Air Force Spits:

Some info on JK608, second from the camera:

Upon achieving combat readiness, No. 351 received eighteen used Spitfires Mk.Vc with tropical filters. The nearest aircraft in full view on the photo, “C” is serial no. JK608. The aircraft coded “G” is MH592.

No. 352 was used for ground attack duties over the difficult Yugoslav terrain and unfortunately in short time suffered high losses, mostly to the German flak. Losses included one Squadron Leader, four Flight Lieutenants and almost a third of its pilots.

The Spitfires were formally handed over to the post-war Yugoslav Air Force on 15 June 1945. [Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum]