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Subject:F/ White Salmon River damn "burst"
From:Roger Whittaker
Date:Fri, 4 Nov 2011 20:17:17 -0700

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 histor

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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