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Royal Canadian Air Force 15 Wing Moose Jaw reports ejection from CT-156 Harvard II
At approximately 10:30 a.m. Central Standard Time, a Royal Canadian Air Force (#RCAF) flight instructor and RCAF student ejected from a CT-156 Harvard II training aircraft based at 15 Wing Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan. The plane crashed southwest of Moose Jaw. (www.facebook.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thanks guys. I thought I recognised the Texan in the photo. The RNZAF have recently taken delivery of a small fleet of them. Maybe eight airframes? I am old enough to remember the Argus in RCAF service. Although piston engined, I seem to recall that the airframe (at least the wing) had a lot in common with the turboprop Bristol Brittania. The RAAF here in Aus are starting to take delivery of their early P-8A Poseidons. Personally, I think that four engines are preferable for the maritime mission.
You are right...it was called the American Bristol Britania at first but had little in common after the wings. It had piston engines and was unpressurized; slow but amazing endurance of over 25 hours. It had a crew of 14-16 who by the end of a mission were deaf as posts as the noise factor was huge. As I did their aircrew medicals in the early '70's I could tell from the hearing test whether the crewman was from the Argus or was on Sea Kings by the hearing loss. The Argus guys got their high frequencies wiped out whereas the helo types lost mid range. Some of the crewmen would come in with a huge number of hours in their log book in the previous 12 months. Some who wiped out on the Argus for hearing got posted to Sea Kings.
Stories went around with about a crew commander getting punished for a trans-Atlantic flight losing an engine after leaving GIB, continuing on losing a second mid Atlantic and arriving back at Greenwood with one good engine and one sick one.
The Yukon was eh Canadair replica for the Bristol Briania, but with Rolls Royce engines and a huge endurance. I flow on one from Edmonton to Halifax non-stop with us all sitting backwards. It was a nice aircraft.
Stories went around with about a crew commander getting punished for a trans-Atlantic flight losing an engine after leaving GIB, continuing on losing a second mid Atlantic and arriving back at Greenwood with one good engine and one sick one.
The Yukon was eh Canadair replica for the Bristol Briania, but with Rolls Royce engines and a huge endurance. I flow on one from Edmonton to Halifax non-stop with us all sitting backwards. It was a nice aircraft.
In the mid sixties my wife was a teacher on the Canadian bases in northern Germany, they were brought over and back on Yukons. She doesn't remember much more than the noise.
If you don't like the fb article, then try this one http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VI-20170128-56935-CANm or maybe this one http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=index&crtr.page=1&nid=1183119
Thanks for that. Couldn't get the RSOE link to work (and I'm a premium member) but government site link worked.
Curious habit of the RCAF in that they rename all of their operational aircraft types. For example, the Lockheed P3 is NOT known as an Orion! I had absolutely NO clue as to what precisely was a Harvard 2 until I saw the accompanying photo...
Curious habit of the US to rename also a Pilatus PC-9 into a Texan T-6....
The Brits named the Catalina, which stuck with the Consolidated (US) product.
The Catalina. One of my faves of all time.