I hink Biplanes/Triplanes are the best

vincent p. norris wrote in message . ..
Ah an Aussie troll and a VERY poor one

But an open cockpit biplane IS a lot more fun to fly than a jet
(altough I've never flown the latter).

If Uncle Sam offered to give me a used Stearman or a used jet, I'd
have no difficulty choosing the Stearman.
SNIP

OTH flying jet fighters kept me in the USAF despite some ****ty
overseas assignments. Thule, anyone? A test hop in a clean F4 is
sheer excitement. Any ride in a 104 is right up there on the fun
meter. I enjoyed 22 years of it, T33 on up through F4.

Walt BJ

Walt, I think I spent half of high school daydreaming and sketching pictures of
104's (the other half I was drawing X-15's)!

Charlie Springer

WaltBJ wrote:

OTH flying jet fighters kept me in the USAF despite some ****ty
overseas assignments. Thule, anyone? A test hop in a clean F4 is
sheer excitement. Any ride in a 104 is right up there on the fun
meter. I enjoyed 22 years of it, T33 on up through F4.

Very occasionally Canadian politicians say something witty, and in
about 1986 it was about the joy of flying in fighter jets.

The first CF-188s were delivered in about 1983 when the Liberals were
still in power. The Minister of National Defence of the day, Gilles
Lamontagne, was taken up for a familiarization ride. He, a former
navigator of the Bomber Command's 6 Group, said that the ride was
better than sex.

Come the next federal election, the Tories took power and Perrin
Beatty was eventually appointed MND. He got his familiarization ride,
which was followed by the obligatory photo op. When one of the press
recalled Lamontagne's remark and asked for his reaction, Beatty said,
"If I had to make a choice, I'd have to think seriously about giving
up flying."
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:

You may have heard stories saying that the "Coanda Effect"
(as opposed to Bernoulli's Principle) explains how an airplane
wing works.

I have heard stories that allege Elvis is alive and well and
working in a chip shop in Burnley too.

Ain't it the truth! Almost as bad as the stories that allege the Brits
are "athletic" because they keep thinking that 'soccer' is a sport.
What a bunch of weakass Euro-peons chasing a round ball
around. They should bend and submit to America like always,
since we have the sense to PICK THE DAMN BALL UP AND
THROW IT."


We do , the sport is called Rugby Union and we
dont need lots of padding to play it.


Keith

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 14:33:12 GMT, Andrew Chaplin wrote:

WaltBJ wrote:

OTH flying jet fighters kept me in the USAF despite some ****ty
overseas assignments. Thule, anyone? A test hop in a clean F4 is
sheer excitement. Any ride in a 104 is right up there on the fun
meter. I enjoyed 22 years of it, T33 on up through F4.

Very occasionally Canadian politicians say something witty, and in
about 1986 it was about the joy of flying in fighter jets.

The first CF-188s were delivered in about 1983 when the Liberals were
still in power. The Minister of National Defence of the day, Gilles
Lamontagne, was taken up for a familiarization ride. He, a former
navigator of the Bomber Command's 6 Group, said that the ride was
better than sex.

Come the next federal election, the Tories took power and Perrin
Beatty was eventually appointed MND. He got his familiarization ride,
which was followed by the obligatory photo op. When one of the press
recalled Lamontagne's remark and asked for his reaction, Beatty said,
"If I had to make a choice, I'd have to think seriously about giving
up flying."

Is not the CF-118 an F/A-18??


Al Minyard

Alan Minyard wrote:

Is not the CF-118 an F/A-18??

Its official designation is CF-188 (I got this from the Cost Factors
Manual, a common reference used by the CF, DND and the Auditor General
(the Canadian equivalent of the GAO) among others). It is now referred
to as a CF-18, because if they use the correct designation, most of
the media types stupidly go, "Hunh?" It's not called "Hornet" because
that was different in French ("frelon") and already taken.
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/equip/equip1m_e.htm
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

Keith Willshaw:
SNIP
We do, the sport is called Rugby Union and we don't need lots of
padding to play it. Keith


Big deal. We played tackle football when I was young (and foolish)
without any padding. I'm reminded of that every morning when I get out
of bed. The usual locale was the beach and the usual beverage a keg of
something cold. One side line was the weeds from high tide, the other
the breakers. And since I did play tackle football 'with padding' let
me say the hitting therein is an order of magnitude harder than in
rugby, which by the way is played locally.
Walt BJ

Alan Minyard wrote:


Is not the CF-118 an F/A-18??


Al Minyard

Well Al, I'm a 'heavy iron' guy and don't know fighters for beans
but I can find reference for Canadian versions of the F/A-18
called CF-118 and CF-188 so I dunno...hopefully some jet chaps
here will pipe up...
--

-Gord.

In article , WaltBJ
writes
Keith Willshaw:
SNIP
We do, the sport is called Rugby Union and we don't need lots of
padding to play it. Keith


Big deal. We played tackle football when I was young (and foolish)
without any padding. I'm reminded of that every morning when I get out
of bed. The usual locale was the beach and the usual beverage a keg of
something cold. One side line was the weeds from high tide, the other
the breakers. And since I did play tackle football 'with padding' let
me say the hitting therein is an order of magnitude harder than in
rugby, which by the way is played locally.
Walt BJ

I doubt if your local rugby is as hard in the tackle as the top flight
teams currently playing in the World Cup in Australia. My old (very much
amateur) club had a couple of Tongans in the side, and it was like
running into a brick wall when you had to tackle them.

Mind you, a friend broke his collar bone when he ran into me in a game
of touch (American) football.

Happy days (far too long ago).
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:05:21 GMT, Andrew Chaplin wrote:

Alan Minyard wrote:

Is not the CF-118 an F/A-18??

Its official designation is CF-188 (I got this from the Cost Factors
Manual, a common reference used by the CF, DND and the Auditor General
(the Canadian equivalent of the GAO) among others). It is now referred
to as a CF-18, because if they use the correct designation, most of
the media types stupidly go, "Hunh?" It's not called "Hornet" because
that was different in French ("frelon") and already taken.
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/equip/equip1m_e.htm
\
Thank you Sir, that is some excellent information.

Al Minyard