Road Trip To Qc

[Captain Canada]

Had a lovely little vacation to la belle Province. Of course we had to stop and see some aeroplanes !

An interesting lineup on the ramp at Trenton



Who's AWACs is that ?



I couldn't believe the size of the Halifax....that thing is huge !



And beautiful.....

[Captain Canada]

Poor old Clunker.....



Somebody's stealing the Kiowa !



This guy was nice enough to fly by



The Mighty Argus ! Give us a kit, already !

[Captain Canada]

Brothers in SAR



If I had a rocket launcher......



Cannons in Quebec. There's hundreds of them there...all shapes and sizes ! No wonder the Brits had such a hard time taking the place.

[Captain Canada]

Looking down at the CCG dock



Another ice breaker, the Pierre Radisson



A Wee Boot



The helo pad. This would make a nice little dio, with CCG SHARs !

[Captain Canada]

And just to be a bit of a braggart, here's me on the gas at the race last weekend.

[B777LR]

The AWACS looks like its RAF, look at the probe  

[kitnut617]

The Mighty Argus ! Give us a kit, already !

I've got one in 1/72 scale!.  It's a Santos vacu-form and is kit #2 of only ten made!!

Lovely photos BTW, What size is the KTM

[Captain Canada]

But the roundel looks French or Italian ?

[kitnut617]

The AWACS looks like its RAF, look at the probe

What probe would that be Thomas, I don't see one.

[Captain Canada]

She's a 2-honey. Sweet little ride. Not as much power as I'm used to, but it's so light and nimble, and it's been lowered for my little legs as well !

I'd be willing to trade it for your Argus kit......



Thanks for the comments !

[elmayerle]

The AWACS looks like its RAF, look at the probe

What probe would that be Thomas, I don't see one.

The first shot shows just the nose of the AWACS and you can see the tip of the refueling probe.  Between that and the CFM56 engines, I'd say it has to be RAF unless the French variant also has the refueling probe.

[upnorth]

Nice pics.

I can say for certain that isn't a RAF AWACS, they don't have glossy paint. Also there seems to be a roundel below the rotodome with a number next to it. The RAF E-3s have their roundels on the forward fuselage with unit colour bars on either side of the roundel.

The RAF AWACS fleet is split between 8 and 23 Squadrons with one unit's markings down one side of the aircraft and the other's on the opposite side. Looking at the right side of the aircraft as the picture shows us, we should be seeing a 23 Sqn. marking on the vertical tail, whatever that marking is, it isn't 23's

I would have to conclude it to be French.

[B777LR]

The AWACS looks like its RAF, look at the probe

What probe would that be Thomas, I don't see one.

Right at the tip of the A300, theres the probe  

[Captain Canada]

Here's another Herc and a pair o' polari.



And a little cropping reveals.....

[B777LR]

Its french!