Can we blame the liberal bogeyman, or should we blame harper the guy actually running the country? I blame both; the Liberals for dragging their feet with the AIMP, and the Conservatives for failing to line up a replacement. AIMP (well, the upgrades at least) needed to happen a decade ago, along wi...

Essentially what happens when we operate a orphan fleet again... the Aurora's are essentially P-3 Orion's but fitted with the sensor suite of the S-3 Viking... while everyone else has benefited from the various USN updates to their P-3's, we have to develop our upgrades ourselves. At the time, it ki...

Any politician who states that decaying wrecks laying around are the property of the government and are heritage pieces makes me wonder what they are going to do about all the car wrecks that are laying on the side of the road and in the bush. I don't see the Heritage Minister making plans on remov...

I could see this happening when our ground commitment winds down. However, I do remember that the major coalition airfields in Afghanistan are very clogged with air traffic anyways, and usually, if someone is arriving with their jets, someone else is packing to go home. Most likely they will be base...

I believe James Bond had a similar car controlled by his cell phone in Die Another Day...

North Shore wrote:...Tried those already. Bought for $500 mill, sold a few years later for $30

Not the fault of the ship mind you... just really bad specifications. You can build the best damned ship in the world, but if the specifications are shoddy, the end result is a shoddy ship.

Wow, Mr. Harper has finally said something I agree with - must be an election coming.... This is not a winnable situation, nor has it ever been, nor was it ever really meant to be. Obama's strategy of a troop increase will only serve to escalate the fighting, that much is even obvious to me, so it ...

I do have to say this: McKay played the media very well... I'm having a good chuckle at how well McKay managed to create such a buzz.

What ever happened to Canada's white elephant subs? If memory serves one was called Chicoutimi and had a fire that tragically killed an officer. I've asked myself the same question, to add further to your question; Why the hell did we buy those subs from the UK (assuming that they knew that they we...

They don't know if there was a problem with the landing gear or it was pilot error. But I can tell you this airplane will be repaired and put back into service, as the C-17 has seen mishaps far more severe than this one and are still flying today after repairs. This bird is built tough.

For those who believe the C-27J has "as low stall speed as the Buffalo", Google "EASA certification C-27J", and you will find out that VMCA is 105 Knots. You might want to rethink that statement about flying around at 80-90 knots. Civilian certification and military certification are two totally di...

The Dash-8 would not be ideal in the mountains. But don't forget that the C-27J is a 40 year old cargo plane (the G.222) with new engines and avionics, that is designed to cruise 60 knots faster than the Dash, and far faster than the Buff. The C-27J was not originally designed to be a SAR airplane,...

As said before, the Buffalo is too slow, getting too cramped, not pressurized, and is too dated. I doubt that a new build Buffalo would be a major success (or even break even for Viking Air), so we would again end up with strategic orphans... I would rate their proposal to be high risk, non-complian...

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Spokes wrote:You might want to tell these guys that.



They have been operating jets low level for alot of years.

Is this a Comet?

Heavily modified Comet airframe.

. wrote:How about this the Japanese built

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan--- ... 1448517/M/

Japan does not export their military hardware... would take a ton of arm twisting to get them to even consider to sell to us.

I still fail to believe that neither aircraft had a TCAS advisory. That's almost impossible. The Legacy's Transponder was in standby, you can't have a TCAS resolution or even an advisory without a Transponder. Read up on the accident before making a post like that. Wow you must be some kind of geni...

415 MP Strength and Versatility Flexibility and ruggedness are the hallmarks of the Bombardier 415MP amphibious aircraft. This versatile mission-specific aircraft combines a state-of-the-art surveillance suite with direct water intervention capabilities. It offers exceptional low-level, low-speed m...

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yes i agree he should have kept in Canada for sure, even his GF says that, but for anyone to have to spend 5 years or life in prison for anything like that is still beyond comprehension and logic and it doesnt matter what party is in power, the one in power should do something to rectify the situat...

Conservative, as the Liberals are a lame duck as they have a incompetent leader and zero money in their war chest to even fight a election, the NDP is a bunch of unelectable idiots, and the Greens are a single issue party.

It would be better to blow money on some kick-ass icebreakers and search and rescue, IMHO. Once the Northwest Passage is being used for oil tankers, there's gonna be a lot of people up there that will need rescue services or navigation help so the waters don't turn black. -istp :roll: You will stil...

That's what happens when you try to build a one of a kind wonder ship that can do everything... it would have been more economical to purchase a off the shelf AOR from another nation (say Germany with their Berlin class AOR's or the Spanish Cantabria AOR) and Canadianize if necessary.

I would actually suggest you contact Citizenship and Immigration Canada for assistance... they can provide you with the legal assistance and direction you will need to prolong your stay here in Canada.

You have gotta love Senator Colin Kenny... a straight talker and knows essentially what he is talking about. One of the few allies that there is of the Canadian Forces in Parliament.

Lockheed knows how to build their birds tough. Look at how long some of our Hercs have been flying and the flight hours and cycles accumulated; we have blown well past the manufacturer's expected airframe life a long, long time ago. Hence why they are completely bent out of shape and are due for ret...