18 Jun
2015
18 Jun
'15
7:33 a.m.
Hi Christian,
I'm guessing by the CLLI code in your sig, you're maybe close to St.
Catharines, ON, CA?
If that's true, I just wanted to let you know that - IIRC - there is a
SR-71 on static display within a car trip of your location in Kalamazoo, MI
at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. It's actually a B-model ... trainer ... I saw it
a few years ago when I was in town visiting my parents and it was pretty
cool ... I think it's still there:
http://www.airzoo.org/page.php?page_id=192
It doesn't do flying demos but it is a complete aircraft in "mint"
condition and you can get right up there and touch it.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 June 2015 at 06:06, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com
<javascript:;>> wrote:
I'd have directed you to
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ if Rob hadn't
already. Sometimes, though, it flies near places not on the official
list -
for example, I've seen it fly almost over our
house (we live near
Elvington)
on two different Fridays in the last month or so.
Presumably in transit
to
some other show.
Very neat. It's too bad it's never flown to Canada before. Then again,
why
would it? I feel kind of miffed that I've not really gotten the chance to
see any really "cool planes" flying. (I'd have loved to see the SR-71 in
flight, or to see an SR-71 up close at all; the latter is still possible
but I don't quite have the money for it...)
Sadly, on the first occasion it flew circuits for
a quarter of an hour,
but
I didn't hear it (or realise it was the
Vulcan) until my wife said
something
like "Oh, that triangular aircraft has been
flying around a bit for a
while." (We often get noise from Elvington and sometimes I tune it out.)
I
watched it fly a couple of circuits before I
thought to fetch the camera
-
by which time it was almost out of sight. On the
second occasion it was
so
cloudy I couldn't get a decent shot. Sigh.
I've had the fortune of seeing the former RCAF FM213 (now registered as
C-GVRA) flying a few times. I honestly can't really tell if it is the
Lancaster by looking at it (my eyes are shit), but the sound is
sufficiently different from any5thing else there's little doubt. Though I
may have mistook the B-25 or C-47 for it.
Did you get a chance to see both of the flightworthy Lancasters together
last year? I didn't since I'm not in the UK and the time that FM213 was
over in the UK intersected with my university terms.
Regards,
Christian
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Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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