dear Lancaster my dad sailed on the bona venture ... canada's one and only ground breaking and world s most technologically advanced air craft carrier he tried to make super 8 movie of the Lancaster landing on the hardwood deck ... alas with out gimble tripod he shot the sky and the deck as the ship pitched and rolled ... I still have the reels of produced film ... one year I gave him a VHS cassette of the event he liked that ... interestingly it would have been his birthday yesterday ... but he has been gone for more than 11 years already two other points of interest about Canadian military / industrial history ... from what I have been told Canada developed and may have invented using steam sling to launch aircraft from carrier deck and also developed and may have have invented the capture system (it was told to me that France then co-opted both for their failing aircraft carrier program ) then the USA got their hands on the technology and I just read Arrow through the Heart the Crawford Gordon Story http://www.amazon.ca/arrow-through-heart-Crawford-Gordon/dp/0075601028 that little tome went a long way to correct my world view ... my dad blamed Dieffenbaker for the arrow failure and and also complained bitterly that the "Americans" had stolen the technology ... this book take s both of those very popular "historical facts " and places them in the light of truth so now I have been made into a person who will call you on your bs facts (even if you are the national news ) print broadcast or Internet ) so needless to say today when I read the demands of the Vancouver Canada occupy group ,.... I was pleased to see that they were demanding stuff germane to Canada ... rather than USA ... that they are silly and have overstayed their welcome .... not withstanding regards .... On Friday, November 4, 2011, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > the Lancaster is a famous WWII bomber. > > Since we're on planes a little... > in my opinion the British have a unique knack for making ugly large military > aircraft. > > Good thing they weren't involved with developing syncro vanagons ! > both mechanically/technically, and appearance wise.. > > the longer I look at Vanagons, > the more perfect the shape looks. I couldn't change one line on them. > As classic a shape as say the Jag JX6 .. > 300 SL Gulling, etc > > Scott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ed donnen" <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:38 PM > Subject: F/ White Salmon River damn "burst" > > >> >alistair >>> >>> I thought that a squadron of Lancasters had come in to do the job. >> >> Lancasters, now THAT would have been a Dam Site >> >> ed- Lancasters Spit Fire? > -- roger w From Proverbs: Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a servant who becomes king ... ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://www.youtube.com/user/LastonLastof#g/u http://www.prpeak.com/articles/2010/11/29/multimedia/video/doc4c62e5f80d228504902172.txt |
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