Warbird Information Exchange

Canucks, hmmm....

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

In my opinion, the jet would have made a far better mascot for our hockey team than some killer whale.

-WC

Nice beast too bad theres none flying

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Cheers,
Peter

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Hey Brian,

Yeah, that's the CMF's bird! Comlete with gun pack. It's been on the ground so long that I forgot that it was once in the air.

When you were with the CMF did you ever look into the condition of the engines? I wonder how many millions it would take to get'er flying again.

I do know it's a complete airframe. But having sat outside, and knowing that ever winter there's a lake in each nacelle makes me thing it would be in pretty poor condition.

Thanks for posting that. It's a great picture!

Cheers,

David

Hi David,

Thought you’d like that photo.

Re: the engines, when the CMF got it from PVI (now BCIT) it was in running condition as the students did engine run-ups with it. I was told it was still in running condition up until the time the museum moved from Crescent Beach but I doubt it. The Clunk has been sitting outside for twenty years now, not properly inhibited or preserved from the elements so my guess is the airframe and engine have a lot of corrosion and other nasty things.

With a lot of time and money, nothing is impossible but I think there are better candidates out there that could be used made into a flier.

“Lakes in the nacelles”, you’re gonna make me cry !

BTW, the tail and wings are from a Mk5.

Brian….

Hey,

Yeah, I was aware that the wings and tail were from another airplane, but I didn't know that they were actually from a different mark entirely.

Interesting.

Sorry I mentioned anything about the lakes.

Cheers,

David

A real shame none are still flying!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

It really is a shame. I have no idea what they ever sounded like, but I imagine that they made quite the loud racket.

-David

They also served with the Belgian Air Force but they were all scraped and melted Not one survived in Belgium for a museum.

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

Here's a photo from the BCIT archives of CF100 18138 at PVI getting prep'd for run-up. The ex-RCN HUP3 running in the background was also at the CMF at one time but was sold by the CMF to Classic Rotors.



Also in the book CF-100 Canuck Canadian Profile by SMS Publishing, there are a couple of good photos of 138 at PVI.

Brian....

It is sad to hear that no Canucks survived in Belgium. I find it unusual that they didn't consider saving just one.

And BLR, that picture is great! Thanks for posting it.

Cheers,

David

Yes and the airplane of the Army Museum in Brussels is a former RCAF.

Daveymac et al--

The Clunk had a nice deep BOOM sound to it. Kinda like two Sabres in close formation...course that's more or less what a CF is from the standpoint of its engines. I saw and heard a Clunk in the air exactly once, in early 1982 at Mt.Hope when all-black 100785 did two flybys during the dedication ceremony for 447 Wing RCAFA's pylon Clunk.

An interesting detail about the Belgian batch. One of the 53 Mk.5s allotted to Belgium suffered a gear collapse at Malton before being delivered, and was replaced in the order by another Mk.5. The damaged Clunk, 18731, was repaired and taken back onto RCAF strength. The cool part is, 18731 survives today, on display on the grounds of Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. So, by a couple quirks of fate, though no Belgian AF Clunk survives, a NEARLY Belgian one does! (The two owners should swap Clunks...then 731 could take on the Belgian livery she was meant for...)

Cheers

S.