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I'd like to ask for help in identification of the High Frequency (HF) radio set from ca. 1963 used on the Canadian CH-113 Labrador helicopter (a version of the CH-46 Sea Knight). The control unit of the HF set is visible on the image below under #8. Notably it has separate controls for the...

From Canadian Aircraft Since 1909, RCAF announced for a Navigation Trainer contest in 1944/45,and the tenders were; 1- Fairchild Canada F-8 2- Noorduyn design 3- Victory,may be Model-10 ? 4- Fleet Aircraft,may be Model-70 ? 5- Canadian Car & Foundry design

Hi, this Canadian company was formed in 1942,produced from Model 1 to 5 aircraft as in the text,and here is a two little known Projects,Model 7 & 9. Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Aircraft

Aircraft-Related Canadian 500-Series 'AN' Equipment Designations I've decided to post my compilation of Canadian numbers from the Army/Navy - and, later, Joint Electronics Type Designation Systems. I am not trying to list all equipment used by the RCAF, RCN, or Canadian Forces. Rather, I have...

Canada will have its own Space force in 2022: https://spacenews.com/canadas-answer-to-space-force/

While some weird dudes are celebrating the epitomized image of an autocrat*, the french AdlAE discretely commemorates one of its hero pilot (Poet and novelist), Mr Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Free French air Force pilot, Croix de Guerre with palms, MIA, with the birth of its most famous...

Even though the elementary flying training schools of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) flew Fleet Finches and de Havilland Tiger Moths for a good part of the Second World War, the RCAF realised even before the end of 1940 that these biplanes no longer had much in common with the combat...

In January of 2021, the RCAF issued an ITQ to replace their 40 year old CC-150 Polaris tanker aircraft. The requirement states that their replacement must be operated by a fellow NATO nation, thus narrowing the tender to the KC-46 and A330 MRTT. The A310s were originally purchased by Wardair...

I checked, no thread for this one. It was developed by RCA between early 1956 and september 1958 when it was canned. Before and after these dates, ( sigh...) the prefered option was the MX-1179 / MA-1. While the Sparrow II missile is well known, Astra 1 remains kind of mystery. It has been...

Is there a SAM today that can kill a target at 446 miles and over 100,000 feet? (It's a rhetorical question. There isn't.)

OTL in 1963, the Royal Canadian Navy received their first Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King Helicopters. They flew from Canadian ships for more than 50 years. I greased and refuelled Sea Kings on the flight decks of HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Iroquois. I also washed innumerable GE-T58-8F engines...

This one is not really feasible but it does produce some interesting models or artwork. The USAF had its Hound Dogs in service from the Cuban Missile Crisis well into the 70s. If politics and other considerations had not got in the way, permutations of NATO Hound might have served on the...

Re my MapleHawk enquiry, there was a website up till last year called CASR - Canadian American strategic think tank and it listed current and potential DnD RCAF. Canadian Army and Navy equipment. Couple of ideas came out such as debating what the Canadian Coast Guard were going to pic re the...

True hero sadly departs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854

A pair of unbuilt Avro Canada projects from Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 by K.M. Molson (ISBN: 0370300955). First, a 1955 design for a four-engined bizjet with CF-100 overtones. [Edit: presumably the "Small High-Speed Jet Transport" mentioned in Jim Floyd's summary of Avro Canada feasibilty...

Hi, the Canadair CL-45 was ASW helicopter project,CL-52 was Boeing B-47B and CL-61 snow mobile project, what were the Canadair CL-65 (old design) and CL-212 ?.

Hi, A new program for US Navy the MMA (Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft) is now fullfied by Boeing 737-800ERX.

In AJ Jackson's book Avro Aircraft since 1908 reference is made to a predecessor design to the CF-105 Arrow that would have used two stacked turbojet engines (like the EE Lightning), a swept delta wing and conventional tailplane. This is the first I've heard of such a proposal and am wondering...

I was reading a little about the Avro Canada CF-100 on the net yesterday, and came across reference to a proposed CF-103 program. It stated that the CF-103 was a refined and swept wing development of the CF-100, when the CF-105 Arrow was unfortunately cancelled. The article stated that only a...