Last week my wife and I spent a few days in Ottawa and Hull (Hull is
just across the Ottawa river in Quebec). I took along my MZ-7 &
FA 2-90mm, together with my 1927 Zeiss-Ikon Cocarette and my 1937
Rolleicord II.
I've loaded up some images to my webpage. If you'd like to see
them please go to htt
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From: "Fred Widall"
Subject: OT: Ottawa trip
I hope he's happy in his new location, although instead
> of a beautiful view of Parliament Hill he's now surrounded by
> drug dealers in the park.
Apropos, don't you think?
No polit
--- Fred Widall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the plus side We did visit the 'Diefenbunker'. A
> four story, 100,000
> square feet, underground bunker constructed during
> the height of the cold
> war to protect the Prime Minister
Just in case anyone was wondering (as I'm sure you
were!), th
- Original Message -
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(snip)
>
> Other than having the Diefenbaker constructed, he's
> best known for scrapping the Avro Arrow, an all
> Canadian supersonic fighter aircraft that would have
> been the most advanced military aircraft of its day.
--- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Other than having the Diefenbaker constructed
Typo.
I meant "other than having the DIEFENBUNKER
constructed..."
-frank
=
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it
is true." -J. Robert Oppenhei
Hi Frank, and welcome back...
frank theriault wrote:
Just in case anyone was wondering (as I'm sure you
were!), the Diefenbunker was named after our Prime
Minsister of the late '50's and early 60's, the Right
Honourable John George Diefenbaker.
At least I now know where the wolf in "Due South" got
--- mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Frank, and welcome back...
>
> At least I now know where the wolf in "Due South"
> got its name from.
>
> Rather like our TSR2, whose printed circuit boards
> ended up made into
> minidresses in Carnaby Street.
>
> mike
>
Hi, Mike,
Glad to
Hi,
frank theriault wrote:
--- mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Frank, and welcome back...
At least I now know where the wolf in "Due South"
got its name from.
Rather like our TSR2, whose printed circuit boards
ended up made into
minidresses in Carnaby Street.
mike
Hi, Mike,
Glad t
Well that must annoy WW so he couldn't have been all bad :-)
frank theriault wrote:
--- Fred Widall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the plus side We did visit the 'Diefenbunker'. A
four story, 100,000
square feet, underground bunker constructed during
the height of the cold
war to protect the P
The guy was a bleedin' idiot!
keith whaley
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Subject: OT: History That Will Interest No One-was: OT: Ottawa trip
Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:51:47 -0400
Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:51:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: frank theriault &l
- Original Message -
From: "Peter J. Alling" <
Subject: Re: OT: History That Will Interest No One-was: OT: Ottawa
trip
> Well that must annoy WW so he couldn't have been all bad :-)
Frank's view of history is a little narrow.
There is much more to the
The parallels between the TSR.2 and the Arrow are remarkable. I seem to
recall stories about Israel and Japan also developing leading-edge fighter
aircraft, but being pressured to buy American, so that the Western-bloc
countries would have "compatible" equipment. In the cases of Canada and
Britai
--- William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank's view of history is a little narrow.
> There is much more to the Arrow story than the brief
> synopsis that
> was posted.
>
My view of history is a bit broader than this forum
will allow. Besides, I was editing for humour...
cheers,
fra
Thats cool, I've seen the SR-71 at that museum, but not the YF-12, which
is apparently in an annex. Didn't have time to see the whole place that
day. But a fighter with those parameters would have been almost
useless, since it was optimized for flight way above normal fighter
operating range.
mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So, what was the TSR2?
>
>Pretty much the same as the Avro; 25 years ahead of its time, double
>supersonic, nuclear capable jet fighter which apparently scared the
>Soviets silly. Not to mention our allies.
>
>Cancelled by a rabid socialist Chancell
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: OT: History That Will Interest No One-was: OT: Ottawa trip
> Apparently you never heard of the YF-12
> http://www.visi.com/~jweeks/sr71/usafm-yf12.html.
>
> Gonz wrote:
>
> > Fascinating reading. Really
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