Saturday, May 03, 2008

Hibachis and C-17s

David Akin, at the end of this post, points out some realities. Good on you, Chris.

6 Comments:

Blogger fm said...

I believe this video illustrates the point quite nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWtdtuspnoM

That's Canberra airport in Australia.

11:11 p.m., May 03, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love it " The Vodka Burner"

9:47 a.m., May 04, 2008  
Blogger Gilles said...

Arrow Air 1285

One tends to forget the worst crash in Canadian History: This one was US built, US Operated and chartered by the US Army. It crashed because it failed to de-ice.

How about this Canadian Owned and operated Nationair DC-8 that crashed and burned with all 261 on board because it continued to fly with a used and under-inflated tire that caught fire in the wheel well? Nationair 2120

Boy do we like to point fingers at others, when its convenient for us to do so!

11:06 a.m., May 04, 2008  
Blogger Reg said...

May 10, 2007: An airborne Silk Way IL-76 tears down a long stretch of fencing at CFB Trenton, then aborts its landing attempt. Transport Canada revokes the airline's foreign air operator certificate.

The word on the street out here (Belleville) from people in the know was that the crew didn't report hitting anything and headed off to Ottawa sighting concerns about the fog. It wasn't until a civilian contractor noticed the section of missing fence in the morning that anyone knew anything had happend!

1:39 p.m., May 04, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But at least we have our C17's, real planes flying real missions.

Imagine if we had fallen for the EADS siren song on the A400 program schedule.

http://tinyurl.com/4mfasy

Maybe they should have stuck with the Canadian engines after all ??

1:44 p.m., May 05, 2008  
Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

That EADS A440 sure looks a lot like the old Lockheed C-141 Starlifter. (Except of course the C-141 had four actual engines attached to those wing points.) Not that I'm accusing our European friends of anything so nefarious as industrial espionage...

9:18 p.m., May 05, 2008  

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