*Angels singing*
I hope this doesn't jinx anything, but with Canadian markings flying over Ottawa, this promo picture was too good not to post.
I picked it up from this fantastic thread at Army.ca, where Globesmasher is providing some fascinating information on the Canadian strat-lift project.
Update: By the way, it's time to start getting used to calling our new bird the CC-177 instead of the C-17. Canadian designation and all.
Upperdate: Is it too soon to start looking at our next transport? A Spruce Goose for the 21st century?
posted by Babbling Brooks at 11:02 a.m.
8 Comments:
Re: Upperdate,
Sounds cool (though the Russian ones that actually made it to operational prototype crashing don't sound much fun), but wouldn't something that large have to move in fairly predictable (I was going to say airspace, but this seems more apt) lanes? Wouldn't that make it pretty easy to, say, I dunno, blow the hell out of?
You could say the same thing about sealift, Cameron.
The idea is to get the best of both worlds: the cargo capacity of ships, with the speed of aircraft. But you're right, nobody has figured out how to actually make the concept practical yet.
BB, I suppose that's true about sealift, I'm just thinking of the mess that one of these would get in at high speed if some resourceful young man were to manage to hit it with some thing cheap that went bang.
fred, and that's a bad thing how?
+1 Cam!
David Akin of CTV posts this at his blog:
"The CC-177 -- Canada's newest (and biggest) military toy"
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/2/5/2711609.html
-10.
But at least he credits this post.
Mark
Ottawa
Mr Akin, in response to my pointing at Army.ca that the Navy's ships are bigger,
http://forums.army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,54089.msg523620.html#msg523620
has just changed the title of his post to:
"The CC-177 -- Canada's newest big military toy"
And deleted the two, perfectly polite, comments I made on it.
Mark
Ottawa
Just to reinforce my point, an excerpt from a column by Chantal Hébert in the [i]Toronto Star[/i], Feb. 5:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/177724
"The Liberal take on the Boeing contract is that it amounts to extravagant toy-buying."
Mark
Ottawa
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