Three jets on sticks going nowhere in the same direction, Manitoba.
I have to apologize to Donna in Manitoba who had this post up all weekend but I failed to browse that way. I understand there are even more which can be posted in the replies here with some basic HTML to your site location for them Donna...or should I say Task Force Prairie Wing Commander.
The rest of the planet can also please forward your photos of jetsicles (or their prop predecessors) to this blog at the email me link to the right or by posting to this replies thread. Silly titles will be issued accordingly.
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Donna, is that a chopper on a pole through the trees on the right?!?!?
Comments
Nils Ling - June 8, 2004 10:02 AM
To identify the aircraft: The jet in the foreground is a T-33 - the rounded nose and wing tanks are its distinctive features. It was used primarily as a training jet, until the Tutors came into the picture. The Tutor is the jet flown by the Snowbirds - side-by-each seating (as opposed to one behind another) and squared-off wingtips.
The jetsicle in the middle is a Sabre (I could be wrong, but CF 100 sticks in my mind). It was among the first jets flown in the Korean conflict. In Canada, it was the jet of choice for the Golden Knights, the RCAF aerobatics team that was the precursor to the Snowbirds.
I can't make out the jetsicle in the rear ... it looks like a 104 in length, but the wings are too long and appear to have wing tanks ... so ... no good guess on this view.
Alan - June 8, 2004 10:15 AM
I am thinking "starfighter" for the third but that is a mid-1970's junior high school memory popping up. At the time I lived next to CFB Greenwood airforce base in Nova Scotia and we just called the T-33 "trainer" somewhat distainfully. The middle one is the same jet shown in the Wobblie Jet post (link in post above) from Brockville's waterfront in its Golden Knights paint job.
portland - June 9, 2004 1:29 AM
this summer i'll get you a pic of the tow truck up on a post out on route nine; lord's well drilling. will that get me in the club or does it have to be deadly miltary machinery? hey, those drills are sharp.
Alan - June 9, 2004 7:47 AM
You would be so in. There is a car on a stick south of Ottawa on route 16 I think. I wonder what and where we could find the biggest and dumbest transportation device on a stick. Or the lamest reason for putting it up on a stick.
By the way, don't Americans celebrate jets like Canadians?
Ale Fan - June 9, 2004 8:39 AM
Your Jet On Stick feature keeps reminding me of the ice lolly I used to favour as a nipper: The Zoom. 3 ghastly colours (artificial probably) with a tip of 100's & 1000's encrusted chocolate.
Oh happy days !
Alan - June 9, 2004 9:19 AM
Ale Fan, you really need to open up the western front in this matter and find some military stuff on sticks in the UK.
By the way, have you had the Belhaven Fruit Beer? I have two pints in the cupboard waiting for a moment. Along with four bottles of different wits to compare. Unfortunately, I am on a drastic diet to lose the gut for fitba and I need to do extra exercise, something I am loath to do.
Nils Ling - June 9, 2004 9:51 AM
Random other "objectsicles": a race car on a stick at Oyster Bed Bridge raceway. And my favourite - "Stephenge" - a set of concrete steps on a giant stick in Sherwood, PEI. "Its origins lost in the mists of time ... its history murky and clouded ... but at dawn on the solstice, if you face due east ... you can see the image of a giant door ..."
Alan - June 9, 2004 10:14 AM
That is right, Nils! I bought my septic concrete materials there and could only marvel at the businessman who thought it wise to put a concrete front step up a pole. Can you get a pick?
Donna - June 9, 2004 9:30 PM
<i>Donna, is that a chopper on a pole through the trees on the right?!?!?</i>
Not in that pic, but there is a chopper on a stick elsewhere in the park. I just put it up on my blog tonight. Check it out.