I don’t recall any of the survivors of WW11 complaining about air shows.
Yeah…Well..
This same liberal idiot will probably tell his climate change masters that he will fly anywhere the lamestream media is willing to pay him.
Then in private he tells his friends that flying is the fastest and safest way to travel around the world, never mentioning the noise.
Its only when serving his liberal news flock that he mentions riding a bicycle and running miles and miles.
Next he will probably tell us it took him 34 days to bicycle across the Atlantic Ocean when he visited Syria..
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Purple Morons..
Pity our poor PHds like Mr. Smith. Wrestling these weighty agonies on a daily basis.
The sad thing about this is that Trudeau will probably scrap the show for that very reason.
If anyone is delusional enough to think we are not losing everything we stand for, the Canada our forefathers built on strong Judeo-Christian principles, fought and died for, they need to wake up, look around, give their heads a shake. We’ve been sleepwalking through the past two decades while the socialist creep came into full bloom in our education systems from kindergarten right on through to the halls of higher learning. We have arrived, stand for nothing, made to feel ashamed of our heritage, our values.
Some Vietnam combat veterans tell me they are intimidated by the sound of Choppers.
I always tell them I enjoyed the ride,
It was much better than having to walk through those fricking jungles..
The giant Sikorsky put on a show lifting the final pieces of the C N Tower. Back then the pussies posted red danger zone posters of the topple zone, if the tower fell over.
So do these airshows tramitize these little sniveling little wanks and so the airshows must be banned so these pathetic little twats wont be scared? why dont they just go back to where they came from so no one has to listen to their constant whining
It’s ok for selfieking paride marshall pm to beat on drunk suicidal Indians, as long as it’s a conservative.
I want the Toronto Star cancelled because it traumatises Canadians, but I don’t get my way on that either…
I have seen this before. Once upon a time, the Canadian Warplane Heritage used to fly the Lancaster bomber over Ancaster Ont. all the time. We would all rush outside to see it. Every time.
Then one day some woman complained in the local paper editorial section about the black noisy aircraft ruining the lovely quiet of her summer afternoons with its racket.
Two things happened. First, there was a flood of letters to the local paper in support of the Lancaster, its crew, and the CWH. They got a bunch of donations out of that.
The other thing is that the kept flying the Lancaster wherever and whenever they damn well liked. Quite often they fly right over my house. Like, -right- over the middle. And every single time, if I’m home, I run outside to see.
Because four Merlins, baby.
Mr. Craig Damian Smith has two problems. First is, he’s a member of the New Puritains. As such, he is possessed by the crippling fear that somewhere, somehow despite Craigie’s best efforts, someone is enjoying himself.
His other problem is he thinks he’s in the majority. BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!
So when do we shut down all the airports in Ontariowe and Querbec? They must be really scary to these “refugees” living off the Canadian taxpayer and still bitch1ng. Plus,the added bonus feature is now all the “refugees” will have to swim to get here. Maybe the Piling it Higher and Deeper snowflake can lead them.
A few years ago, I was outside on my balcony late one summer morning when I saw a magnificent sight: a B-17 flew over my part of the city, not once, but twice. It came here as part of some sort of function at the local air museum.
As far as I was concerned, it could have done that all day. Like the Lancaster you referred to, that was something worth going outside to see.
Then again, I’ve been an aviation buff almost my entire life.
Lol…There is a commenter ‘Jay Kelly’ on the Rebel Media link who is dissing Ezra and Brian for ‘complaining’ about the air show….reading skills deficit? Must be a grad of our lefty system….
Whats that noise?
Its the sound of Freedom baby!
This is such a classic example of how the canadian media works. This guy thinks because his friends and neighbours don’t like the airshow everyone must feel the same way. He also knows no one who votes conservative, owns a gun, does a real job or anything else worth writing about. He is the personification of everything we all hate about Toronto. These twits don’t realize that the feeling is mutual do they?
The “journalist” must have talked to “experts” no doubt.
“The Liberal government has done an outstanding job of capitalizing on Canadians’ sense of moral purpose. There is palpable relief that we can get back to our image of an open society playing a constructive international role”.
Implying that we haven’t for the past 9 years.. And this from a PHd candidate in Poitical Science, no wonder our education system is ridiculed by employers.
Spot on Liz!
At one time, some few years ago, this erosion was insidious. Now it is blatant.
So if I’m traumatised by muslims because of the attacks a lot of their followers commit, I can propose a muslim ban (“once and for all”)?
For those who don’t know, the Merlin is a 12 piston engine made by Rolls Royce for large airplanes during world war two.
To give you an idea, it is about 10 times larger than the average engine you will find in compact car.
thus the airplane Phantom is referring to has the equivalent of about 40 Hyundays or 40 Toyota
but it sounds much better than that!
I believe WWII was a sort of golden age for mechanical engineering, they made leaps and bounds and created beautiful things that we still benefit from today.
In my opinion WWII airplanes are the coolest and best looking airplanes ever.
and the sound of a powerfull propeller piston airplane is way cooler than a jet engine.
Exactly Liz. This poor deluded Marxist fool if a product of what has happened to our educational system. If you recall, I have told the story a number of times of how a now retired teacher friend had a communist in his early 1960s educational training classes at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. As well, of a now deceased teacher future (1981) step-brother, who encountered communists in his educational training classes during the same time period at the University of Saskatchewan.
The products of these communist efforts are now teaching our kids and grandkids and this fellow is a prime example. He is no doubt opposed to any military in any form except when it is used to advance the Marxist utopia.
I live near the comox airbase. Aircraft both civvie and military are always in the air. Twice I’ve seen the last surviving Martin Mars water bomber fly over my property. Love the view and the sounds. I also remember seeing national guard F4s at Abbottsford air show years ago. When they licked in after burners it was awesome.
mid island make
Hey now. I flew in them coppers. (-:
Exactly. If he wants a perspective about warplanes, he should ask the people who lived in Berlin 70 years ago.
During WW II, the sight and sound of enemy aircraft meant only one thing: someone was coming to kill you. During the early years of the Cold War, those same planes meant something completely different: life and freedom. Many of the aircrews who earlier came to destroy the city returned with vital supplies to keep the British, American, and French sectors of the city alive during Stalin’s blockade and to prevent him from invading them.
My mother often spoke fondly of the British Sunderland flying boats that landed on the river.
The people of Berlin were enormously grateful for what their former enemies did and, when the blockade was finally lifted, a monument to honour the aircrews that were killed during that operation was erected.
And the photo at the beginning of that story shows the red & white Tutors of the Snowbirds (an a/c built in the early ’60s for pilot training). I’m sure smith really believes the nonsense coming out of his mouth but I question whether he should be considered as a Phd candidate since it’s obvious that he doesn’t have the God given common sense to say anything intelligent. If his beloved refugees and leftard friends are afraid of airplanes he should remind them to never go near places called airports.
Every time I think the wackos have reached a new high in stupidity another one comes forth, this one has just blown the ceiling off stupidity.
I grew up in northern B. C. and during my last years of high school, the local airport served as a base for contract water bombers that were brought in for firefighting. Many of those were WW II and Korea vintage, like B-26s and C-54/DC-4s.
During those summers, people often went there just to look at the planes. For some of them, they likely brought back memories as a lot of veterans settled in the area.
We didn’t have many quiet evenings as those water bombers were busy flying in and out of the airport. But what a sound!
The sound of a lancaster is the sound of sacrifice, bravery and triumph over evil. Only two left in flying condition. They are Glorious.
“The other thing is that the kept flying the Lancaster wherever and whenever they damn well liked. Quite often they fly right over my house. Like, -right- over the middle. And every single time, if I’m home, I run outside to see”
I had the very good fortune on Canada Day, at my local schoolyard flying a “maple leaf” kite that I had saved for just this day (literally, a big red Maple leaf, and no it wasn’t a hockey jersey, jeez). Kites, big, small and complex are a bit of hobby. While I had it fairly high up, the Lanc came thundering low over the Niagara Escarpment and around my kite (not in his airspace), wing low to me, and carried on over the Dundas Valley. It returned a few minutes later and did an almost complete 360 around my kite, and went off to tour another local area. A few minutes later, it was back again, and circled me once again. And then, a few minutes after that, it circled one last time for finally going off on the rest of his flight plan! I’m not naive enough to believe he was showing off the kite on Canada Day to likely tourists or dignitaries on board, but the 3 repeat trips were awesome. Of course, I’m hanging on to a kite and had no camera handy… :(, but for me, Canada Day doesn’t get any better than that.
A candidate who is emblematic of “Pile it Higher and Deeper (PhD)”.
“Wankerdom” doesn’t begin to describe such utter unhistorical, phantastical crapulence spewed by this intellectual midget in search of a functioning neuron.
Even Pravda, at the height of its Cold War rhetoric, would be em’bare-assed’ to associate with such complete vapid stench producing offal; unworthy of wiping one’s colo-rectal sphincter, such as the Toronto Star.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
While I was working on my doctorate in electrical engineering, it became clear to me that if intelligence, talent, or hard work had anything to do with getting a Ph. D., most universities would have to close because they wouldn’t have enough qualified faculty.
It was nothing but politics and whether or not one was liked by the supervisor. It also went a long way in explaining why many profs often seem dim–they are.
He says he’s a Ph. D. candidate. That means he’s passed a qualifying oral exam where he’s demonstrated that he’s been given clearance to finish his thesis and, then, defend it. Having gone through the whole process myself more than 15 years ago, I found my candidacy exam rather easy, though passing that by no means guaranteed that I would succeed in my defence.
Considering what he wrote and what he’s studying, I can well imagine what sort of questions he was asked.
“The sound of a lancaster is the sound of sacrifice, bravery and triumph over evil.”
I really like that.
The British have a second Lanc in pre-flight trials. They’ve been cobbling one together over the last while and when VERA was there, it was running on the ground but not yet airworthy. Don’t know if they’ve got it flying yet or not.
Wow – messed up the blockquote on that one – left off a closing”/” I guess. Anyway, doesn’t change the sentiment.
The professor’s commentary: a whinge from a dinge.
Nothing beats the sight of a CF-101 VooDoo accelerating down CFB Chathams runway.
Then pulling the nose vertical and hurtling straight up into the clouds, the deafening roar lasting well beyond the craft leaving your sight!
Oh to be 12 years old again….
Why go to an airshow? Hell, you can see air anywhere…
From all the comments here it might be helpful if you send in a donation to the Nanton Museum in Alberta and help with their recognition program in keeping a large part of Canada’s flying heritage alive. The Nanton Lancaster should have received a grant during the Harper years to help get the old war bird back into the sky but sadly it didn’t happen. Now the Liberals are too busy selling our heritage to acquire new votes to ever put grant money into programs that celebrate our contribution to history. To all of you that enjoy vintage planes the museum has a great many commemorative “T” shirts for sale. I’ve send a few back to England to pilot friends who enjoy displaying them. The ‘Dambusters” “T” is especially prized. The museum is also trying to restore a Mosquito so all donations would be greatly appreciated. Now for those of you who aren’t intimidated by the sound of ‘fearful’ airplane engines enjoy this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw
To Smith air show mongers have not “experienced the trauma of war; it is insulting, invasive, and violent.”
Because well he’s been to war and knows all about it, so we should pay attention to his wise wagging fingers, and try to not be so ignorant and violent.
What’s that again hypocrite? This reinventing of the wheel of human thought by Millennials and Gen Xers is getting expensively tiresome.
Then again, as Cat Stevens wrote, “you’re still young, it’s not your fault, there’s so much you have to go through;” and to learn as Cat further opines.
Too bad we all have to go through it, again, with them, so they can experience it for “themselves,” with their entitlements to help out.
IOW, they’ll grow up, eventually. Figuring this shit out before age thirty would be a good idea imho, so we don’t have to keep having these discussions.
Thumbs up for the video from a P-51 Mustang fan.
Seeing that reminded me of the last airshow that was held at CFB Namao just north of Edmonton. I recall that, among all the jet-powered warbirds that were present (you name it, it was probably on display), there was a B-26 (I believe it was the A-26 Invader version) and a 3/4-scale Corsair. I think there might have been a Mustang there as well.
Near the end of the show, the ’26 and another single-seat fighter flew over the crowd along with a B-1. They were quite the show-stoppers.
B, you would have enjoyed the heart stopping moment at Duxford in 2013 when the Hurricane and Messerschmitt took off together for their dog-fight, quite a sound as the engines reverberated off the hanger walls behind us.
Lover that Lancaster, seen her many times occasionally flying in formation with a P-40, P-51, B-25, C-47 and probably others. Canadian Warplane Heritages Museum and HCMS Haida are the best reasons to ever visit the armpit of Ontario called Hamilton. Pity the government does their best to hide these attractions.
I bet that was quite an experience! The sound of those piston engines is always exhilarating.
Grew up in Tranna, so the air show at the CNE was a regular stop. Vulcan bombers were a prime attraction one year. BIG. NOISY.
Best impromptu air show I ever saw was downtown Vancouver in the early 90’s. Abbottsford was on & the War Birds were in town. So was the “Mighty Mo” (USS Missouri for those who don’t know). It couldn’t make it under the First Narrows bridge at low tide, so it was parked outside in the bay. The War Birds found it & spent some time & fuel doing dummy runs over the target. Just like old times!
For the poster above mentioning the 101 Voodoos at Chatham NB, I used to sail on the Texaco tankers that kept those beasts in fuel. When they took off you could not hear yourself speak & all we ever saw from our spot on the Mirimichi was a couple of specks already at altitude & a thunderous roar!
Tranna is nothing but a no fun town & has been that way ever since I lived there. Bunch of stuck up, stuffed shirts.
Bah! Nonsense. My doctoral supervisor and I hated each other. And he was hated and feared by many of his colleagues. Made no difference. He did his job and I did mine, and all went well. Anyway, it is difficult to play politics with theoretical physics. Or electical engineering for that matter. Where the Hell did you go to school?
Ah yes, Friend. I almost agree.But I have a weakness in my heart for the F-86, and the Hawker Hunter.
The F-86 was a surprisingly dangerous aircraft. Several of my schoolmates at Namao lost their fathers in F-86 crashes. But it was dearly loved, and no one ever said anything, except “tough luck.”
I was posted to CFB Toronto when we lost a Snowbird and pilot at the CNE on the Sunday before Labour Day 1989.
It was a pretty tough time for all concerned. The locals were great and as requested brought in all kinds of home made video of incident, which help the Flight Safety Teams and Board of Inquiry. Many of us had to cut short our weekend of course to deal with this terrible incident.
I was called into the Operations Centre to do the Admin side of getting teams in and coordinating their needs with local military and civilian assets, an unfortunately, recovery. That was a busy and stressful time, with the Padre even monitoring our demeanour.
I remember there was a press conference at the Downsview Officers’ Mess where some so-called journalist, when we were told of the good safety record at CNE (true, we only killed seven people so far wasn’t a great way to put it as the Base Commander said), decided to editorialize that this “stiff upper lip attitude” was unacceptable in her arrogant and ignorant view, of course.
All she succeeded in doing was showing herself as someone disinterested in facts, just making some anti-British comment I guess, ruining what was left of the press conference and everyone wondering where this idiot got her flight safety training.
Quite a sad spectacle which really drove home the point the media, far from being the 4th estate purveyors of truth to the citizen, were ill-informed but opinionated blowhards who could care less we were all dealing with the loss of one our pilots, as long as they were the news, not the actual events.
Some of us may remember the Red Knight which, as I recall, was part of the RCAF Golden Hawks show. (Yup, I’m *that* old!) When I was in early elementary school, the pilot who was the RK at the time flew his T-33 over the town I lived in. I recall that he was killed a few weeks later.
In the following years, sadly, there were more. The RCAF decided that went through too many Red Knights and the show was suspended for good around the mid-1960s. The casualty rate was far too high.
The Golden Hawks faded into obscurity. I don’t remember if they were disbanded at the same time as the Red Knight or they were lost in shuffle with the unification into what became the Canadian Armed Forces.
Still, the military wanted to entertain the public and their successor was the Snowbirds. If I’m not mistaken, they were named after that song Anne Murray recorded and which every radio station in the country played to death.
One of my best friends, Chris Weicht, has written 8 books on the history of aviation in BC, Alberta, the Yukon and Alaska. The pioneer aviators he writes about and their aircraft helped open up Canada and bring the prosperity we now know, at times giving up and risking their lives to do so. We should not forget them and this airshow and many others that take place acknowledges their history. As for the museum in Nanton “yes, donate to a worthwhile cause”. I had the pleasure of going through a Lancaster there and it made me realize how much the men in the RCAF had to deal with and how many sacrificed their lives so we could have the precious freedom we have today.
Airshows are part of our culture. Any immigrants who don’t like them don’t have to attend, or they can go back to the ‘old country’. Immigrants should adapt or get the hell out.
I don’t recall any of the survivors of WW11 complaining about air shows.
Yeah…Well..
This same liberal idiot will probably tell his climate change masters that he will fly anywhere the lamestream media is willing to pay him.
Then in private he tells his friends that flying is the fastest and safest way to travel around the world, never mentioning the noise.
Its only when serving his liberal news flock that he mentions riding a bicycle and running miles and miles.
Next he will probably tell us it took him 34 days to bicycle across the Atlantic Ocean when he visited Syria..
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Purple Morons..
Pity our poor PHds like Mr. Smith. Wrestling these weighty agonies on a daily basis.
The sad thing about this is that Trudeau will probably scrap the show for that very reason.
If anyone is delusional enough to think we are not losing everything we stand for, the Canada our forefathers built on strong Judeo-Christian principles, fought and died for, they need to wake up, look around, give their heads a shake. We’ve been sleepwalking through the past two decades while the socialist creep came into full bloom in our education systems from kindergarten right on through to the halls of higher learning. We have arrived, stand for nothing, made to feel ashamed of our heritage, our values.
Some Vietnam combat veterans tell me they are intimidated by the sound of Choppers.
I always tell them I enjoyed the ride,
It was much better than having to walk through those fricking jungles..
The giant Sikorsky put on a show lifting the final pieces of the C N Tower. Back then the pussies posted red danger zone posters of the topple zone, if the tower fell over.
So do these airshows tramitize these little sniveling little wanks and so the airshows must be banned so these pathetic little twats wont be scared? why dont they just go back to where they came from so no one has to listen to their constant whining
It’s ok for selfieking paride marshall pm to beat on drunk suicidal Indians, as long as it’s a conservative.
I want the Toronto Star cancelled because it traumatises Canadians, but I don’t get my way on that either…
I have seen this before. Once upon a time, the Canadian Warplane Heritage used to fly the Lancaster bomber over Ancaster Ont. all the time. We would all rush outside to see it. Every time.
Then one day some woman complained in the local paper editorial section about the black noisy aircraft ruining the lovely quiet of her summer afternoons with its racket.
Two things happened. First, there was a flood of letters to the local paper in support of the Lancaster, its crew, and the CWH. They got a bunch of donations out of that.
The other thing is that the kept flying the Lancaster wherever and whenever they damn well liked. Quite often they fly right over my house. Like, -right- over the middle. And every single time, if I’m home, I run outside to see.
Because four Merlins, baby.
Mr. Craig Damian Smith has two problems. First is, he’s a member of the New Puritains. As such, he is possessed by the crippling fear that somewhere, somehow despite Craigie’s best efforts, someone is enjoying himself.
His other problem is he thinks he’s in the majority. BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!
So when do we shut down all the airports in Ontariowe and Querbec? They must be really scary to these “refugees” living off the Canadian taxpayer and still bitch1ng. Plus,the added bonus feature is now all the “refugees” will have to swim to get here. Maybe the Piling it Higher and Deeper snowflake can lead them.
A few years ago, I was outside on my balcony late one summer morning when I saw a magnificent sight: a B-17 flew over my part of the city, not once, but twice. It came here as part of some sort of function at the local air museum.
As far as I was concerned, it could have done that all day. Like the Lancaster you referred to, that was something worth going outside to see.
Then again, I’ve been an aviation buff almost my entire life.
Lol…There is a commenter ‘Jay Kelly’ on the Rebel Media link who is dissing Ezra and Brian for ‘complaining’ about the air show….reading skills deficit? Must be a grad of our lefty system….
Whats that noise?
Its the sound of Freedom baby!
This is such a classic example of how the canadian media works. This guy thinks because his friends and neighbours don’t like the airshow everyone must feel the same way. He also knows no one who votes conservative, owns a gun, does a real job or anything else worth writing about. He is the personification of everything we all hate about Toronto. These twits don’t realize that the feeling is mutual do they?
The “journalist” must have talked to “experts” no doubt.
“The Liberal government has done an outstanding job of capitalizing on Canadians’ sense of moral purpose. There is palpable relief that we can get back to our image of an open society playing a constructive international role”.
Implying that we haven’t for the past 9 years.. And this from a PHd candidate in Poitical Science, no wonder our education system is ridiculed by employers.
Spot on Liz!
At one time, some few years ago, this erosion was insidious. Now it is blatant.
So if I’m traumatised by muslims because of the attacks a lot of their followers commit, I can propose a muslim ban (“once and for all”)?
For those who don’t know, the Merlin is a 12 piston engine made by Rolls Royce for large airplanes during world war two.
To give you an idea, it is about 10 times larger than the average engine you will find in compact car.
thus the airplane Phantom is referring to has the equivalent of about 40 Hyundays or 40 Toyota
but it sounds much better than that!
I believe WWII was a sort of golden age for mechanical engineering, they made leaps and bounds and created beautiful things that we still benefit from today.
In my opinion WWII airplanes are the coolest and best looking airplanes ever.
and the sound of a powerfull propeller piston airplane is way cooler than a jet engine.
Exactly Liz. This poor deluded Marxist fool if a product of what has happened to our educational system. If you recall, I have told the story a number of times of how a now retired teacher friend had a communist in his early 1960s educational training classes at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. As well, of a now deceased teacher future (1981) step-brother, who encountered communists in his educational training classes during the same time period at the University of Saskatchewan.
The products of these communist efforts are now teaching our kids and grandkids and this fellow is a prime example. He is no doubt opposed to any military in any form except when it is used to advance the Marxist utopia.
I live near the comox airbase. Aircraft both civvie and military are always in the air. Twice I’ve seen the last surviving Martin Mars water bomber fly over my property. Love the view and the sounds. I also remember seeing national guard F4s at Abbottsford air show years ago. When they licked in after burners it was awesome.
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Hey now. I flew in them coppers. (-:
Exactly. If he wants a perspective about warplanes, he should ask the people who lived in Berlin 70 years ago.
During WW II, the sight and sound of enemy aircraft meant only one thing: someone was coming to kill you. During the early years of the Cold War, those same planes meant something completely different: life and freedom. Many of the aircrews who earlier came to destroy the city returned with vital supplies to keep the British, American, and French sectors of the city alive during Stalin’s blockade and to prevent him from invading them.
My mother often spoke fondly of the British Sunderland flying boats that landed on the river.
The people of Berlin were enormously grateful for what their former enemies did and, when the blockade was finally lifted, a monument to honour the aircrews that were killed during that operation was erected.
And the photo at the beginning of that story shows the red & white Tutors of the Snowbirds (an a/c built in the early ’60s for pilot training). I’m sure smith really believes the nonsense coming out of his mouth but I question whether he should be considered as a Phd candidate since it’s obvious that he doesn’t have the God given common sense to say anything intelligent. If his beloved refugees and leftard friends are afraid of airplanes he should remind them to never go near places called airports.
Every time I think the wackos have reached a new high in stupidity another one comes forth, this one has just blown the ceiling off stupidity.
I grew up in northern B. C. and during my last years of high school, the local airport served as a base for contract water bombers that were brought in for firefighting. Many of those were WW II and Korea vintage, like B-26s and C-54/DC-4s.
During those summers, people often went there just to look at the planes. For some of them, they likely brought back memories as a lot of veterans settled in the area.
We didn’t have many quiet evenings as those water bombers were busy flying in and out of the airport. But what a sound!
The sound of a lancaster is the sound of sacrifice, bravery and triumph over evil. Only two left in flying condition. They are Glorious.
“The other thing is that the kept flying the Lancaster wherever and whenever they damn well liked. Quite often they fly right over my house. Like, -right- over the middle. And every single time, if I’m home, I run outside to see”
I had the very good fortune on Canada Day, at my local schoolyard flying a “maple leaf” kite that I had saved for just this day (literally, a big red Maple leaf, and no it wasn’t a hockey jersey, jeez). Kites, big, small and complex are a bit of hobby. While I had it fairly high up, the Lanc came thundering low over the Niagara Escarpment and around my kite (not in his airspace), wing low to me, and carried on over the Dundas Valley. It returned a few minutes later and did an almost complete 360 around my kite, and went off to tour another local area. A few minutes later, it was back again, and circled me once again. And then, a few minutes after that, it circled one last time for finally going off on the rest of his flight plan! I’m not naive enough to believe he was showing off the kite on Canada Day to likely tourists or dignitaries on board, but the 3 repeat trips were awesome. Of course, I’m hanging on to a kite and had no camera handy… :(, but for me, Canada Day doesn’t get any better than that.
A candidate who is emblematic of “Pile it Higher and Deeper (PhD)”.
“Wankerdom” doesn’t begin to describe such utter unhistorical, phantastical crapulence spewed by this intellectual midget in search of a functioning neuron.
Even Pravda, at the height of its Cold War rhetoric, would be em’bare-assed’ to associate with such complete vapid stench producing offal; unworthy of wiping one’s colo-rectal sphincter, such as the Toronto Star.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
While I was working on my doctorate in electrical engineering, it became clear to me that if intelligence, talent, or hard work had anything to do with getting a Ph. D., most universities would have to close because they wouldn’t have enough qualified faculty.
It was nothing but politics and whether or not one was liked by the supervisor. It also went a long way in explaining why many profs often seem dim–they are.
He says he’s a Ph. D. candidate. That means he’s passed a qualifying oral exam where he’s demonstrated that he’s been given clearance to finish his thesis and, then, defend it. Having gone through the whole process myself more than 15 years ago, I found my candidacy exam rather easy, though passing that by no means guaranteed that I would succeed in my defence.
Considering what he wrote and what he’s studying, I can well imagine what sort of questions he was asked.
Wow – messed up the blockquote on that one – left off a closing”/” I guess. Anyway, doesn’t change the sentiment.
The professor’s commentary: a whinge from a dinge.
Nothing beats the sight of a CF-101 VooDoo accelerating down CFB Chathams runway.
Then pulling the nose vertical and hurtling straight up into the clouds, the deafening roar lasting well beyond the craft leaving your sight!
Oh to be 12 years old again….
Why go to an airshow? Hell, you can see air anywhere…
From all the comments here it might be helpful if you send in a donation to the Nanton Museum in Alberta and help with their recognition program in keeping a large part of Canada’s flying heritage alive. The Nanton Lancaster should have received a grant during the Harper years to help get the old war bird back into the sky but sadly it didn’t happen. Now the Liberals are too busy selling our heritage to acquire new votes to ever put grant money into programs that celebrate our contribution to history. To all of you that enjoy vintage planes the museum has a great many commemorative “T” shirts for sale. I’ve send a few back to England to pilot friends who enjoy displaying them. The ‘Dambusters” “T” is especially prized. The museum is also trying to restore a Mosquito so all donations would be greatly appreciated. Now for those of you who aren’t intimidated by the sound of ‘fearful’ airplane engines enjoy this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw
To Smith air show mongers have not “experienced the trauma of war; it is insulting, invasive, and violent.”
Because well he’s been to war and knows all about it, so we should pay attention to his wise wagging fingers, and try to not be so ignorant and violent.
What’s that again hypocrite? This reinventing of the wheel of human thought by Millennials and Gen Xers is getting expensively tiresome.
Then again, as Cat Stevens wrote, “you’re still young, it’s not your fault, there’s so much you have to go through;” and to learn as Cat further opines.
Too bad we all have to go through it, again, with them, so they can experience it for “themselves,” with their entitlements to help out.
IOW, they’ll grow up, eventually. Figuring this shit out before age thirty would be a good idea imho, so we don’t have to keep having these discussions.
Thumbs up for the video from a P-51 Mustang fan.
Seeing that reminded me of the last airshow that was held at CFB Namao just north of Edmonton. I recall that, among all the jet-powered warbirds that were present (you name it, it was probably on display), there was a B-26 (I believe it was the A-26 Invader version) and a 3/4-scale Corsair. I think there might have been a Mustang there as well.
Near the end of the show, the ’26 and another single-seat fighter flew over the crowd along with a B-1. They were quite the show-stoppers.
B, you would have enjoyed the heart stopping moment at Duxford in 2013 when the Hurricane and Messerschmitt took off together for their dog-fight, quite a sound as the engines reverberated off the hanger walls behind us.
Lover that Lancaster, seen her many times occasionally flying in formation with a P-40, P-51, B-25, C-47 and probably others. Canadian Warplane Heritages Museum and HCMS Haida are the best reasons to ever visit the armpit of Ontario called Hamilton. Pity the government does their best to hide these attractions.
My favourite scene from “Empire of the Sun”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTQSbvlutg
“Cadillac of the Skies”–a fitting description of one of the best planes ever made.
I bet that was quite an experience! The sound of those piston engines is always exhilarating.
Grew up in Tranna, so the air show at the CNE was a regular stop. Vulcan bombers were a prime attraction one year. BIG. NOISY.
Best impromptu air show I ever saw was downtown Vancouver in the early 90’s. Abbottsford was on & the War Birds were in town. So was the “Mighty Mo” (USS Missouri for those who don’t know). It couldn’t make it under the First Narrows bridge at low tide, so it was parked outside in the bay. The War Birds found it & spent some time & fuel doing dummy runs over the target. Just like old times!
For the poster above mentioning the 101 Voodoos at Chatham NB, I used to sail on the Texaco tankers that kept those beasts in fuel. When they took off you could not hear yourself speak & all we ever saw from our spot on the Mirimichi was a couple of specks already at altitude & a thunderous roar!
Tranna is nothing but a no fun town & has been that way ever since I lived there. Bunch of stuck up, stuffed shirts.
Bah! Nonsense. My doctoral supervisor and I hated each other. And he was hated and feared by many of his colleagues. Made no difference. He did his job and I did mine, and all went well. Anyway, it is difficult to play politics with theoretical physics. Or electical engineering for that matter. Where the Hell did you go to school?
Ah yes, Friend. I almost agree.But I have a weakness in my heart for the F-86, and the Hawker Hunter.
The F-86 was a surprisingly dangerous aircraft. Several of my schoolmates at Namao lost their fathers in F-86 crashes. But it was dearly loved, and no one ever said anything, except “tough luck.”
I was posted to CFB Toronto when we lost a Snowbird and pilot at the CNE on the Sunday before Labour Day 1989.
It was a pretty tough time for all concerned. The locals were great and as requested brought in all kinds of home made video of incident, which help the Flight Safety Teams and Board of Inquiry. Many of us had to cut short our weekend of course to deal with this terrible incident.
I was called into the Operations Centre to do the Admin side of getting teams in and coordinating their needs with local military and civilian assets, an unfortunately, recovery. That was a busy and stressful time, with the Padre even monitoring our demeanour.
I remember there was a press conference at the Downsview Officers’ Mess where some so-called journalist, when we were told of the good safety record at CNE (true, we only killed seven people so far wasn’t a great way to put it as the Base Commander said), decided to editorialize that this “stiff upper lip attitude” was unacceptable in her arrogant and ignorant view, of course.
All she succeeded in doing was showing herself as someone disinterested in facts, just making some anti-British comment I guess, ruining what was left of the press conference and everyone wondering where this idiot got her flight safety training.
Quite a sad spectacle which really drove home the point the media, far from being the 4th estate purveyors of truth to the citizen, were ill-informed but opinionated blowhards who could care less we were all dealing with the loss of one our pilots, as long as they were the news, not the actual events.
Some of us may remember the Red Knight which, as I recall, was part of the RCAF Golden Hawks show. (Yup, I’m *that* old!) When I was in early elementary school, the pilot who was the RK at the time flew his T-33 over the town I lived in. I recall that he was killed a few weeks later.
In the following years, sadly, there were more. The RCAF decided that went through too many Red Knights and the show was suspended for good around the mid-1960s. The casualty rate was far too high.
The Golden Hawks faded into obscurity. I don’t remember if they were disbanded at the same time as the Red Knight or they were lost in shuffle with the unification into what became the Canadian Armed Forces.
Still, the military wanted to entertain the public and their successor was the Snowbirds. If I’m not mistaken, they were named after that song Anne Murray recorded and which every radio station in the country played to death.
One of my best friends, Chris Weicht, has written 8 books on the history of aviation in BC, Alberta, the Yukon and Alaska. The pioneer aviators he writes about and their aircraft helped open up Canada and bring the prosperity we now know, at times giving up and risking their lives to do so. We should not forget them and this airshow and many others that take place acknowledges their history. As for the museum in Nanton “yes, donate to a worthwhile cause”. I had the pleasure of going through a Lancaster there and it made me realize how much the men in the RCAF had to deal with and how many sacrificed their lives so we could have the precious freedom we have today.
Airshows are part of our culture. Any immigrants who don’t like them don’t have to attend, or they can go back to the ‘old country’. Immigrants should adapt or get the hell out.