Canada doesn’t need the modern equivalent to the F-111.

There is a vast difference between a 10 min scramble to intercept a Russian bomber in Scandinavia and a 1 hour intercept out of North Bay orbiting over an area with very few divert possibilities...

That is the real deal in nose part of the airframe.

It was in the Toronto Aviation Museam in a hanger on the old Downsview airbase but the Harper Conservatives (same party that killed the Arrow) sold the property to a party bag man for hockey rinks (like Canada needs more rinks!) and this full scale replica (well done by the way) is in a hangar near Pearson Airport…

But a bitch to restore. The fibreglass body was bonded right around the tubular ladder type chassis. Apparently they are considered to be real flexi flyers and not considered to be hard core ‘racers’ even back in the day when they stuffed an 8 cly in a couple and scared the crap out of the factory drivers.

The TUV standards that they have passed ‘are’ tough. But, there are great differences in standards that have been passed in Germany than those of the U.S. Many of these models are grandfathered in even if re-constructed in 2015 as long as they meet the as built specs from back in the day and basic road equipment such…

But that’s a political issue - not a technical issue.

Reminds me of the steering I had on an old Chysler...

Catholic hardware failure...

It *was* an anchor considering we never ever left the earths gravitational field and went elsewhere. THATS what Tyler is saying. He never said it didn’t have value. Read tve Space Task Groups reports in the era of 1970 when Nixons cost cutting was going on and NASA’s senior leadership were desperate to come up with a…

‘Still, perhaps the Shuttle’s retirement was premature as it came once we finally learned how to confidently operate the complex system in a safe manner.’

Servicing debt is usually the largest expense.

The front reminds me of the Areo 4 (IndyCar chassis under it) that AJ drove to a speed record in Texas one year.

No. You. Didn't. Don't lie.

The biggest problem was in house fighting between Korolev and Chelomei. Add to that the issues of both Khrushchev and Brezhnev’s cool support for a space program that would have very little to do with supporting the military rocket forces and as a result being saddled with modified R7 engines instead.

Shrug.

1. That was John Aaron with his famous, ‘Try S-C-E to Aux’ call that CapCon Jerry Carr related to Pete Conrad. FYI: Al Bean was the only member of the crew that could recall where this switch was.

Urban legend. There were lots of Cosmonauts that died - none died before Gagarin’s attempt.

Joe Lawrence to be appointed as head of PCNA. You heard it here first.

“That could be as easy as an engine computer reflash done under recall, and maybe even without any costly hardware add-ons.”