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2005-02-18 Great White North

Canadian, US forces announce joint exercise

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-18 1:42:14 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No hockey season, so they've got to keep themselves busy somehow...

Posted by Jonathan 2005-02-18 4:32:49 PM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2005-02-18 4:32:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Facts about the Sea Kings - they're antique aircraft:

The Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King: Canada bought 41 Sea King helicopters in 1963; 28 are still in service. Each of the remaining Sea Kings requires 30 hours of maintenance for one hour of flight. The Sea Kings were first purchased in the 1960s. In 1993, then prime minister Jean ChrÃÂ©tien cancelled an order for 50 EH-101 helicopters to replace them.

From: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/12/canada/sea_kings040112

Posted by AJackson 2005-02-18 6:35:53 PM|| 2005-02-18 6:35:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Aurora's (Canadian equivalent of the P3-Orion ASW aircraft) are much newer - only a 25 years old.

Posted by AJackson 2005-02-18 6:38:11 PM|| 2005-02-18 6:38:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Canada is reportedly eliminating between 1/3 to 1/2 of their relatively new F-18 aircraft fleet - doing their Canuck all to make NORAM safer for the Commie Airborne. * "ATTACK/INVADE ME NOW, D*** YOU, aka Savin' Hillary, and Hillary and Boxer-Pelosi-Dean for POTUS!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-02-18 10:06:21 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-02-18 10:06:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I used to have an mp3 of this...

Good bye papa please pray for me
My helicopter's crashing in the sea.
I honestly don't mean to poke
But my future is in doubt
My co-pilot just fell out

Good bye papa it's hard to fly
When my air frame's cracking in the sky
For every hour in the air
It takes some thirty to repair
We fly these things on a dare

We had joy we had fun
We had sea kings in the sun
But the engines are on fire
And the sea kings must retire

Good bye good chair my stingy one
You could have bought the E-age warner ones
Instead you blew five hundred mil
Just to cancel out the bill
Now I need an airsick pill.

We had joy we had fun
We had sea kings in the sun
We'll be lucky if we reach
A crash landing on the beach.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-18 11:06:27 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-18 11:06:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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