133 replies to this topic

[Sparky]

^ Are there a lot of fires in the desert, or are they just mothballed in the boneyard?

[Victoria Watcher]

BC has relatively abundant but sometimes smaller sources of water so they choose other aircraft with the ability to do quicker runs.

Can’t land a DC10 on Elk Lake.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 June 2023 - 08:07 AM.

[E2V]

BC has relatively abundant but sometimes smaller sources of water so they choose other aircraft with the ability to do quicker runs.

Can’t land a DC10 on Elk Lake.

Or on any other lake.

[LJ]

^ Are there a lot of fires in the desert, or are they just mothballed in the boneyard?

In storage.

[LJ]

BC has relatively abundant but sometimes smaller sources of water so they choose other aircraft with the ability to do quicker runs.

Can’t land a DC10 on Elk Lake.

I've never seen an amphibious DC10, they need a runway and get refilled with retardant. They can drop 9400 gallons on over a mile run.

 

California has some in service, unfortunately the best ones are used by the forest service and don't always get called in by the fire service in an ongoing dick swinging contest. They can also fly at night, when it is much easier to see where the flame is.

[Victoria Watcher]

Supersonic jet heads to Victoria via complex highway journey

 

 

A CF-104 Starfighter is headed from CFB Comox to the B.C. Aviation Museum at Victoria International Airport as its newest display

https://www.timescol...journey-7240533

 

[Victoria Watcher]

For Ken Lett, it was like reuniting with an old friend.

 

“It’s wonderful and so good to see it again … it always was a beautiful airplane,” the veteran aviator said as he looked down the nose of the CF-104 Starfighter at the B.C. Aviation Museum on Friday.

 

The supersonic jet was the first aircraft to hit Mach 2 — twice the speed of sound — and Lett was the first in the cockpit and at the controls for the Canadian Air Force in 1962.

 

https://www.timescol...arrival-7251122

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 July 2023 - 04:18 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Lancaster love: Dedicated group of volunteers restores a Second World War bomber

Former pilots, mechanical engineers and aerospace workers, carpenters, retired firemen and air force members work to piece together the giant Lancaster for the B.C. Aviation Museum

https://www.timescol...-bomber-7400881

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 August 2023 - 05:14 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

B.C. Aviation Museum: What's on display, and how it got there

The B.C. Aviation Museum’s aircraft range from a replica of a “hang-glider” built in 1896 to a Cold War fighter-bomber. Here’s a rundown on what the museum has, and how they ended up there.

https://www.timescol...t-there-7400064

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 August 2023 - 05:14 AM.

[Sparky]

Here is a pic of the cold war fighter jet that the article referred to.

 

 

I got to sit in the cockpit.

 

[Mike K.]

That’s wild, Sparky. How high up is the cockpit? Looks about 6’ to the bottom of the glass?

[Sparky]

^ Maybe 10 feet or so?

 

[Mike K.]

Oh wow, those pylons must be huge then. I didn’t even notice the guy in your photo, above the cockpit.

[Victoria Watcher]

That Tuck Tape^TM  on the nose must be good to withstand Mach 2.0.  And 100,000 feet.  

 

Maybe we can build my Saanich Inlet Bridge Of Destiny^TM out of that stuff.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 August 2023 - 07:51 AM.

[AllseeingEye]

Nice Sparky - the Widowmaker, aka the Missile with a Man in It. 

[LJ]

I think the altimeter is reading incorrectly.

[Matt R.]

#landriseduh

[Barrrister]

This museum is absolutely great and is not promoted by the city enough. 

[Victoria Watcher]

They’re outside the hangar, but the two newest additions to the BC Aviation Museum are used to the elements.

“They’ve been outside for 20-plus years,” says museum president Steve Nichol.

The additions in question are a pair of Piasecki H21 helicopters, commonly known as “Flying Bananas.”

The Cold War-era choppers are on a gravel pad outside the museum’s restoration area. Both were used by the Royal Canadian Air Force for search and rescue, and later in commercial logging operations in B.C. They were delivered by flatbed trucks last week after a two-day journey from a donor in Golden.

https://www.cheknews...oppers-1169613/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 September 2023 - 07:53 AM.

[Nparker]

...The additions in question are a pair of Piasecki H21 helicopters, commonly known as “Flying Bananas.”...