Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Avro Arrow....the finest plane we never built!!
One of Igor Sikorsky's better ideas.
This is a very famous plane. Any idea why?
Rolls-Royce turbo jet....sectioned for your pleasure.

On a recent cold, blustery, crappy day we went to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, and I don't know where to begin. What an amazing collection they have, and they still fly a bunch of them. This Saturday morning for example will see the Lancaster bomber, one of two world wide that is flyable, in the air around Hamilton. Look up.....look way up!!

1 comment:

Rob Greenfield said...

Hey, "we" did build the 105, 6 of them actually, 5 flew before Dief had them cut up.
The little yellow plane is a Chipmunk, used to train would be pilots. There were a whack of them at CFB Centrailia when my dad was stationed there and we lived there from '64 to '66.