Pic of the day.

Like I said...

Damn conservatives....
 

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restoman said:
Like I said...

Damn conservatives....
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*chuckle* :D

Well...it was the Liberals who cancelled the Avro Jetliner, only to commission the Arrow a few years later so that the Conservatives could cancel it.

It's a sad fact of Canadian politics that as soon as a new government is elected, the purge begins. As many of the previous parties programs as possible get cancelled or gutted, no matter if they were a good or bad idea....all that matters is blind devotion to ideology. Thus we spend millions and millions of dollars to accomplish absolutely nothing. Both the left and right right are guilty of it. Saskatchewan being the home of the extreme radical left, it's even worse at the provincial level, with busy bloody city hospitals being shut down to spite the other guys.

The Avro story goes far beyond an airplane tho. Thousand jobs went away overnight, but we also lost our brightest engineering minds, who all drifted away to other opportunities in the U.K. and U.S .

We have never recovered from that. :naughty: It's shameful.
 
Here's today's picture from me:

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Anyone else?
 
Well it ain't art but they looked good to me, pulled the old plugs today all bout the same tan color no major foulouts?
don't mind the blue paint, just didn't want any in the block when I painted it!:shifty: Rich.
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Backyard shparkies from a coupla weekends ago.

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That one fell over. You can see where one hit my son-in-law in the leg.

The firefighter in attendance said, "I wasn't here," when all was done, but not because of this one. There were no other mishaps, but some were super dupers that were questionably legal for backyard use - and yet, they all came from the same store that anyone can walk into and buy. So...... BOOM! Oooooohhhh....
 
Not A Duster said:
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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Makes me want to scoop up one of these before they're gone too.
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1952 Nimbus, German made. Check the exposed valves, rubber bungee seat springs, flat steel frame riveted together. It's attached to a sidecar that was covered with leather.
Rolling art. [smilie=::


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Not A Duster said:
Wow. Looks pretty modern for it's time.
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Gotta love the shaft drive and monster oil capacity.
With the in-line engine placement and shaft drive, that must have some ferocious torque twist under throttle. The flat steel frame would be even less rigid than tubular, making the twist even worse. The early Beemer boxers had a problem with torque twist and they were only twin cylinders. I remember driving one back in the 60's. The first time I pulled the wick, I thought the back wheel was trying to pass me on the left.[smilie=2:
 
restoman said:
Gosh, that thing is beautiful!
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Ain't it though? I spent nearly half an hour checking it out, I've more from that day..stay tuned.

Torque twist not really an issue with it as the power output is fairly low and riding a sidecar hack is totally unlike riding a regular bike, owner says it's fun and comfy for putting around on back roads.
 
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