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 < captainkirk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 June 2015 at 06:06, Pete Turnbull <p...@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 > -- > Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove > STCKON08DS0 > Contact information available upon request. > > > -- > Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove > STCKON08DS0 > Contact information available upon request. >
