Recent content by macharvard

The lady isn't often wrong and it is really unfortunate that she wasn't Prime Minister of Canada instead of Trudeau when this war/special military operation started. Many situations might have seen a more positive result then - and might still be doing so..

I wonder who the prospective pilot thief was supposed to be. Clint Eastwood would be too old this time around.

Cuba has been in the throes of an economic and energy crisis for several decades, a situation that got much worse when the soviets left. One of the major props for the island for 40 years has been Canadian tourists (roughly 40% of the annual total) and I wonder how the news that Cubans are...

15 years ago, my wife and I bought a 130 year old farm house and we're still making modifications and upgrades. 3 years in, I decided to tear out the existing basement staircase and get rid of all the junk that the previous owner had left underneath it. One of the pieces of 'junk' turned out to...

I will never understand politicians. I have to assume that they have never served and have no clue. Richard Norden and Teddy Sheehan should both have been honoured appropriately decades ago. The situation in Canada is no better.

The americans were using the BC-1 and BT-9, (BT-14 hadn't arrived yet), the commonwealth was using Harvards and NA-64s (the only use of NA-64 legitimately called Yale) and the French had placed massive orders for both the NA-57 version of the BT-9 and subsequently the NA-64 and the aircraft were...

Just when you think you've seen it all! I had no idea that Lufthansa had ordered this type, let alone 6 of them. However, these would not fit strictly in the beute category, would they? They were commercially ordered. Anyway, thanks for improving my education!

What is interesting to me is the apparent lack of standardized markings, like the underwing positioning of crosses and lettering. Once again, thanks for digging these out Snautzer01!

Never seen this one or SG-IT before. Thanks for your hard work! BTW, Snautzer01, I know it's not your mistaake, but VE-RM is an NA-57.

That's him! Newspapers across the country thought the story was newsworthy at the time. My tired old memory had him in Winnipeg , but it looks like he had moved west, to BC.

Dimlee, I will be 81 this year and have spent my life with Ukrainians here in Canada. I went to high school with Ukrainian kids, served in the army (a Highland regiment!) with Ukrainians, and chuckle when I remember the court battle of Bill Konyk, when he decided to call his restaurant Hunky...

I apologize if this has been mentioned previously, but I just watched Trump state that he would like to have Russia back in the G7. It was apparently an error to throw them out because of the Crimea. That's a great start to 'negotiations'.

interesting photo, Snautzer. These are actually NA-64s and there is a nice mix of camo and 'out of the box' machines.

Interesting scheme on this NA-57. Looks like yellow rear fuselage and tail feathers with white cowl. Unusual to see the drooping flaps as well. Nice find.