I see more numbers than I should tbh.
914Driver said:
I'd be offended, if there wasn't a basic truth there. We don't need a lot of stuff, though, because we have neighbors who spend a frickin fortune on their stuff, and they still like us.
So far ....
In reply to 914Driver :
Not like we haven't invaded Canada twice already.
I'm retired USAF. Met Candian pilots.
Crazy bastards will fly through any weather, and not crash.
I need a meme, anyone?
In reply to Bent-Valve (FS) :
The CF-100 Canuck used alcohol de-icers for the engine inlets.
The CF-100 also used compressor bleed air to supply the pilots.
In icing conditions, the pilots were breathing vapourised alcohol and getting drunk while flying.
In reply to Bent-Valve (FS) :
Still need this shirt.
ShawnG said:In reply to Bent-Valve (FS) :
The CF-100 Canuck used alcohol de-icers for the engine inlets.
The CF-100 also used compressor bleed air to supply the pilots.
In icing conditions, the pilots were breathing vapourised alcohol and getting drunk while flying.
I could swear that there was a movie quote to the effect of "You think I would fly that thing sober?" and I wasted far too much time trying to find it.
I vaguely remember some reports in Germany about the readiness of the then Soviet airforce back in the late eighties and apparently there was always a shortage of alcohol-based deicer.
Usually because it was safely stored inside the ground and flight crew members...
Methanol = bad
Ethanol = good
Seems like people in Middle East really love their Kia Bongos...
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