My dad knew a guy in Lahr who was one jump shy of his jump wings from the CF-104. This was pointed out once in the mess by a drunk RCR officer after the said pilot got a skin to skin kill on a Cessna. Apparently that didn’t go over well with the members of the squadron who were present in the mess at that time.
RUMINT of Canada wanting more C-17's
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Built 1984, currently at VDC getting a bit of a refit
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Good ol' JPT. She is still around then! Toured her many years ago. Nice vessel.
I’m not surprised as governments have not been keen to spend on CCGS same as the CAF as they haven’t seen any voting advantage. Look at Louis St.Laurent may be replaced in 6 or 7 years. I just expect that none government ships to be replaced sooner as they become less efficient and maintenance heavy.Built 1984, currently at VDC getting a bit of a refit
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She's a silent indictment of BCF's practices.They are about 20 years old. For merchant ships, and ferries in particular, it's not even mid-life yet.
Look at this young spry who plies her route in B.C. and Washington state. She was "old" when I joined the Navy and is still going strong:
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Seeing what got done for the C-5M modernization effort - the entire airframe got digital models made - so it would be a vastly easier line to re-open than aircraft that where not done with digital modeling (and surprisingly enough a lot of modern stuff was not).
Is it surprising, though?
A lot of "modern stuff" was designed in the late 70's, 80's and 90's & has just been updated/modernized over the decades.
That's actually so damn cool, that it's still in service today
Imagine how many people have sat in the very same seats as the heroes that fought a physical manifestation of literal evil (in conditions that even the Russian-Ukranian war can't quite match) and haven't even known it
(Also a testimate to the workmanship of the era & any subsequent refits that not only is she still in service, but seems to be looking pretty good too in that pic!)
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I was really shocked when I found out that the UH-60 had just been converted over to digital production in the last 2 years.
