For Mighty Mike and Plane people.

Any idea what this highly polished beauty is, I thought that it might be a Bombardier, but I am not so sure.



Volunteers with The Nanton Laccaster Society museum, of which I am one, got invited to visit with the Dambusters Squadron 617 who were visiting Calgary for a couple of weeks of excercises in Southern Alberta. These are the first of many pics I will be posting of our wonderful visit to the airport. (The joystick is just like my one for Flight simulator)



http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/
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FCAS #123
Old Sea Dog/cp 5400/FZ30
Galleries at http://www.pbase.com/oldseadog/galleries

Yes, you are right. The top one is a CRJ. The figter plane is a Panavia Tornado.

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JF

Its a Bobardier CL-600-2B19 (CL-600 for short) it was built in 2005, it seems like it might be operated by Suncor Energy Inc.

Beauty picture!

Castaway said:

Any idea what this highly polished beauty is, I thought that it
might be a Bombardier, but I am not so sure.

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the second picture is a Panavia Tornado, Built by Germany... however if i remember correctly they teamed up with Britain for this project.

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Mike from Canada

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?sort_order=views%20DESC&first_this_page=0&page_limit=31&&emailsearch=mighty_mike88%40hotmail.com&thumbnails=

Yes, please do post more pictures from your vist. Thanks!
Chris

...CRJ & the Tornado and good web-site too. I have only seen a tornado once, about 6 years ago at one of the Avalon airshows and it did one of the l-o-o-w-e-st low passes I have ever seen

• from take-off down the end of the runway, it lifted just enough to re-tract its u/carriage & went straight past the crowd viewing area, full throttle at no more than 30- 40 off the ground for the length of the runway & then gradually peeled left & rose away- unforgettable!
• thanx for the pics & look forward to more. Cheers RonS

The Tornado is in a number of ways an update of the cancelled TSR2 project. The name follows Hawker's tradition of using storms to name their planes, probably the most famous being the Hurricane. Hawker produced a prototype called the Tornado before the second world war, but the Air Ministry told them to forget it, concentrate on the Hurricane. The contract went to Boulton Paul who built the equivalent Defiant. What a disaster that was.

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Al http://www.aeroal.smugmug.com/

Castaway said:

Any idea what this highly polished beauty is, I thought that it
might be a Bombardier, but I am not so sure.

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Thought you might get a kick out of seeing this very same plane in flight (isn't the web amazing !!!).

http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=&picid=2733&SkyID=fac38466eae5736d55cc0719c8a77307

Can't wait to see more of your pics. Love the Tornado.

Mike

One can use the Transport Canada site and search the registration number (in this case GSUW). Here's the link http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/activepages/ccarcs/en/default_e.asp?x_lang=e

Bruce in Regina