Pic of the day.

I always loved the Red Holsteins. We had several red carrier heifers and sometimes we'd breed them to red bulls. It was always heartbreaking when a black one would still come out. :D
 
Well, heck, I ain't no farmer, fer sure, but I have NEVER heard of a Red Holstein. Quite an attractive beasty....... I'll go out on a limb and say they are rare (?), so congratulations DD2! :giggedy: We are going to the Smithville Fall Fair tonight, mostly for the demo derby, but maybe we'll see one there...... :D
 
Moparlady said:
Well, heck, I ain't no farmer, fer sure, but I have NEVER heard of a Red Holstein. Quite an attractive beasty....... I'll go out on a limb and say they are rare (?), so congratulations DD2! :giggedy:
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Somewhat rare. We always told people that the red Holsteins gave chocolate milk.
Its all genetics .. kind of like getting a red hair, blue eyed, girl. It happens but may take some effort :D
 
ok a view I enjoy

yes folks I'm still alive going to be at this pic in a couple of weeks for vacation
 

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...twas gatlinburg in mid july
And I just hit town and my throat was dry,
I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table, dealing stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue."
 
Whoops sorry!

edit: oh you meant a Johnny Cash pic! now I get it. God I'm so dense sometimes.

here...
 

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Hey Restoman - nice Louisbourg pictures. The wife and I try to get to Louisbourg every year. I love it there. We didn't get there together this year, but in May I was surveying on St. Anne's Bank. When it got crappy we'd head to Louisbourg for shelter. I hate sitting around onboard so I resurveyed Louisbourg Harbour (concentrating on the wrecks from the 1749 attack). Here's a few shots from May (not to the standard of yours, but my first shots of the fortress from the wet side.
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I love that place, not a bad photo op anywhere.
It was sunny when you were there, what's up with that? :)

Nice harbour. A couple years ago when the Tall Ships gathered there, they all motored into the harbour. The Bluenose II came in under full sail, not an easy feat in that harbour. I would have loved to have been there then with my camera. Dad took some beautiful pictures that day.
 
What kind of jet is that?

I remember growing up in Okinawa, Japan and always seeing SR-71 Blackbirds. Very cool! Always liked jets of all kinds.
 
It's the CF-105 "Arrow" supersonic interceptor it was designed to meet and kill Soviet long-range bombers during the cold war, developed & built in Canada by AVRO during the late 1950's. When built & test flown, it was 30 years ahead of it's time - fastest, highest, potentially deadliest etc, etc. It would have been a monster, particularily had it made it to the next stage with the engines that were being designed in house rather than the pratt & whitney engines used for first tests. You can see a lot of the design elements on later supersonic jets, particularily the concorde. (Which is where some of the AVRO design team ended up after the cancellation, although the bulk of the team landed at NASA where they helped with the Apollo moon program & space shuttle.)

It was scrapped due to change in Canadian government, politics and more than a little American interference. Not only was the program cancelled, but the completed aircraft were cut up for scrap, all technical documents plus tool & dies were destroyed.

Interesting that you mention the SR-71. The Arrow would have been the only aircraft at the time that had the potential to pursue & kill the blackbird. The US was deathly afraid that the technology would end up in Soviet hands, which is reportedly one of the reasons it was cancelled and then wiped from the face of the earth.
 
The Arrow would have significantly altered Canada's place on the world stage, and in the burgeoning technological jet age. Canada could & would have contributed much more than just all the brains that left the country afterward.

Damn Conservatives....
 
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Interesting that you mention the SR-71. The Arrow would have been the only aircraft at the time that had the potential to pursue & kill the blackbird. The US was deathly afraid that the technology would end up in Soviet hands, which is reportedly one of the reasons it was cancelled and then wiped from the face of the earth.
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WOW!!! That's pretty damn impressive!!!
 
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The movie; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118641/, starring Dan Akroyd tells the whole story and is extremely interesting. It is well worth the search if you can rent/buy/steal/download it.
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While the movie is quite good, (I own a copy) there's a few factual issues that were added for dramatic effect that reduce the accuracy:

There was never "one that got away" as shown at the end of the movie. All of the existing aircraft, complete and under construction were cut up and sold for scrap. (They were built with a lot of titanium.) All we have left of the original aircraft is a nosecone and cockpit in a museum...the newer photos I posted are of non-flying replicas.

Also, the arrow never flew to the upper reaches of the atmosphere in testing as shown in the movie. There was potential for it to do so with the orenda engines that were being developed for it, (matter of fact, that was a design requirement put forward by the CDN military at the time) but with the P&W test mule engines it just would not have been possible.

The movie also tends to overstate the United States involvement in the cancellation of the project. While there is no doubt that pressure from US government and business interests played a huge role in it's death, in the end it was a new government in Canada doing everything it could to destroy or minimise anything that might have been seen as a good thing from the previous administration...purely politics. :doubt:

The sad part of this story is that this wasn't the first time for avro. In 1949, they also developed what would have been the world's first viable passenger jetliner for the then Government owned Trans Canada Airlines. The finished product was so successfull and exceeded design specifications so much that hughes aircraft expressed an interest in building the damn things under licence for use by TWA. But again, because it was intially a government funded project and some politicain decided it wasn't worth pursuing any further, it too was scrapped.

Fishy:

In my enthusiasm for the topic I also screwed up some of my facts. The SR71 blackbird was actually produced a few years after the cancellation of the arrow. As a matter of fact, I think some of the former avro engineers ended up at Lockeed working on that project. (As well as NASA, boeing, Hughes etc...etc....) It was the the earlier U2 spyplane that was the concern, as the Arrow's altitude and speed pontential would have made the U2 an easy target.

edit: This is supposed to be a picture thread so I'll wrap up my highjack with one more image:
 
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