Happy Planelopnik Canada Day

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/01/2020 at 15:46 • Filed to: canada day, Planelopnik

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A few Canadian visitors from my collection. Somewhere buried in my oldest photos I have a shot of an RCAF T-33, but there’s little hope of finding it. The air show pics were taken at Fort Worth-Alliance in 2017 . The others were taken over the years at AUS.

These guys were watching the Blue Angels. Best seat in the house.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:08

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Have an Avro Canuck.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:14

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Woot!

ttyymmnn > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 07/01/2020 at 16:17

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I see your Clunk and raise you a CF-101

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 07/01/2020 at 16:19

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Forgot to post some of my Snowbirds pics.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:21

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Lawn Dart  I actually remember my dad pointing these out to me (They were still in service when ‘the right stuff’ came out.)  I thought it was cool that a plane could hit the edge of space.  

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:21

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Love the Snowbirds, but man those things need to be replaced.

ttyymmnn > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 07/01/2020 at 16:34

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What an RCAF lawn dart might look like. Pilot ejected safely.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 07/01/2020 at 16:35

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If they don’t want to go full CF-18, they could use their Hawks, or even Texans. A T-6 demo team would be cool.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:39

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That’s a one in a million pic.  Those have a better record than the CF-104s.  Who would have known that a giant engine with seat attached and no wings would be dangerous. 

facw > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:45

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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:55

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Hawks are what I'm hoping for. IMO 9-plane teams work better with slower machines.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 16:59

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Snowbirds!

“Adventures in Scale Modeling” devoted an episode to building a vacuformed Tudor , which sadly I’ve not been able to find online or o n physical media.

ttyymmnn > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 07/01/2020 at 17:04

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 Erich Hartmann knew.

ttyymmnn > facw 07/01/2020 at 17:06

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“The engine malfunction was likely the result of a stuck ratio boost piston in the right engine main fuel control that prevented the engine from advancing above flight idle when maximum afterburner was selected,” says the report.

That’ll do it.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 07/01/2020 at 17:07

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Maybe use fewer aircraft? However, the thing that I particularly liked about the Snowbirds’ show was the grace and pace of it. 

ttyymmnn > user314 07/01/2020 at 17:08

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I posted a couple of pics farther up in the thread from  the time I saw them here in Texas.

facw > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 17:09

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At least the ejection seat did it’s job (though if the plane was much lower or slower, the pilot could have just hopped out)

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 17:10

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Was he the G erman who blew the lid off the procurement scandal with Lockheed trying to sell an interceptor as a low altitude fighter? I know the luftwaffe had terrible luck with the widowmakers. 

ttyymmnn > facw 07/01/2020 at 17:27

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Three compressed vertebrae. But any landing....

ttyymmnn > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 07/01/2020 at 17:28

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Not sure about him exposing the scandal, but he was the former WWII ace who walked away from his job with the Luftwaffe because he knew the F-104 was no good. 

chaozbandit > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 18:26

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Yep best seats

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 18:30

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There’s always that option. But in some ways 9 slower planes gives you a lot more to work with. Red Arrows are a great example.

Besides, sometimes the Blue Angels come north, and sometimes the SB’s go south. If they move to 6 fighters then there’s too much overlap.

Also... How would they do the Maple Split finale with 6 planes? :)

chaozbandit > ttyymmnn 07/01/2020 at 18:32

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I have a vague recollection that our hawks are in fact leased, but I can’t put a source to it.