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Picture Post => Current and Finished Projects => Topic started by: Alvis 3.1 on May 08, 2006, 02:43:50 PM

Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Alvis 3.1 on May 08, 2006, 02:43:50 PM
Utilising a close working relationship with both Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas, Canadair Aviation built five top secret electronic reconaissance aircraft in the late 1980s for Revenue Canada (our version of IRS/Inland Revenue). Occasionally utilised by CSIS (our version of MI-6 or the CIA, but with lower expectations) to gather electronic information on suspected terrorists and other malcontents, the FU-2 EH (Fighter Utility Model 2, Extended height) is primarily used by Revenue Canada to monitor financial transactions and other electronic communications from an altitude of over 75,000 feet. Several tax evading suspects have been fully prosecuted to the fullest extent of Canada's fully effective and fully enforced tax laws thanks to evidence gathered by the FU-2 EH! One more tool in the arsenal of peace, order and security in the modern world of governmental capability!


or: What you get when you combine a 1/48 Monogram F-18, a Testors TR-1 and blunt head force trauma when I was a small child. or maybe it was the oxygen deprivation?
I've posted this here before, but I thought it deserved another look in light of my other unarmed recce planes.


Alvis 3.1
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: The Rat on May 08, 2006, 03:25:48 PM
QuoteI've posted this here before, but I thought it deserved another look in light of my other unarmed recce planes.
Understatement of the year!  ;)   :wub:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: gooberliberation on May 08, 2006, 05:00:17 PM
:wub:  I wouldn't be suprised if boeing comes up with a recon-hornet once the U-2s start getting too old.

Uh-oh, another un-whiff? :lol:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: rallymodeller on May 08, 2006, 06:17:57 PM
Oh, ain't that just the prettiest damned thing? :wub:  :wub:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Sentinel Chicken on May 08, 2006, 06:50:55 PM
So that's where the money from the GST goes!
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Tophe on May 08, 2006, 08:27:23 PM
So cute... :wub:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Dork the kit slayer on May 09, 2006, 01:39:57 AM
Nice one Alvis. :cheers:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: lancer on May 09, 2006, 01:45:15 AM
Brilliant Alvis, of course there is another meaning to the FU-2 designation when it comes to taxing missions isn't there? Oh, pun's very much intended :D  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: B777LR on May 09, 2006, 04:35:53 AM
Quote:wub:  I wouldn't be suprised if boeing comes up with a recon-hornet once the U-2s start getting too old.
uhmm, the U2s will be replaced by satelites and UAVs.
Nice it is though.
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Gary on May 09, 2006, 04:59:30 AM
Heh heh heh... it's back.

And considering the timeof the year, it's equally important for that reason too!
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: anthonyp on May 09, 2006, 05:03:22 AM
Always entertained whenever I read one of Alvis' backstories.  Helps the models are top-notch as well.  I can see the IRS asking to lease them around April 14-15.

:cheers:  :cheers:  
Title: Revenue Canada Recon Aircraft
Post by: Brian da Basher on May 09, 2006, 05:28:26 AM
Another masterpiece Alvis! I love the FU-2 designation..most fitting!

Brian da Basher