dear Lancaster

my dad sailed on the bona venture ... canada's one and only ground breaking
and world s most technologically advanced air craft carrier
he tried to make super 8 movie of the Lancaster landing on the hardwood
deck ...
alas with out gimble tripod he shot the sky and the deck as the ship
pitched and rolled ...

I still have the reels of produced film ... one year I gave him a VHS
cassette of the event
he liked that ... interestingly it would have been his birthday yesterday
... but he has been gone for more than 11 years already

two other points of interest about Canadian military / industrial history
...
from what I have been told Canada developed and may have invented using
steam sling to launch aircraft from carrier deck and also developed  and
may have have invented the capture system (it was told to me that France
then co-opted both for their failing aircraft carrier program ) then the
USA got their hands on the technology

and I just read Arrow through the Heart the Crawford Gordon Story

http://www.amazon.ca/arrow-through-heart-Crawford-Gordon/dp/0075601028
that little tome went a long way to correct my world view ... my dad blamed
Dieffenbaker for the arrow failure and and also complained bitterly that
the "Americans" had stolen the technology ... this book take s both of
those very popular "historical facts " and places them in the light of
truth

so now I have been made into a person who will call you on your bs facts
(even if you are the national news ) print broadcast or Internet )

so needless to say today when I read the demands of the Vancouver Canada
occupy group ,.... I was pleased to see that they were demanding stuff
germane to Canada ... rather than USA ... that they are silly and have
overstayed their welcome .... not withstanding

regards ....
On Friday, November 4, 2011, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> the Lancaster is a famous WWII bomber.
>
> Since we're on planes a little...
> in my opinion the British have a unique knack for making ugly large
military
> aircraft.
>
> Good thing they weren't  involved with developing syncro vanagons !
> both mechanically/technically, and appearance wise..
>
> the longer I look at Vanagons,
> the more perfect the shape looks. I couldn't change one line on them.
> As classic a shape as say the  Jag JX6 ..
> 300 SL Gulling, etc
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ed donnen" <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:38 PM
> Subject: F/ White Salmon River damn "burst"
>
>
>> >alistair
>>>
>>> I thought that a squadron of Lancasters had come in to do the job.
>>
>> Lancasters, now THAT would have been a Dam Site
>>
>> ed- Lancasters Spit Fire?
>

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roger w
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Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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