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[Canadian PM] Harper takes flak over plane's red, white, and blue paint job
TORONTO SUN ^ | JUNE 8, 2013 | DAVID AKIN

Posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:53 AM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: DoughtyOne
Blacque Jacques Shellac, Canada's very own French-Canadian Yosemite Sam, can be seen and heard uttering the phrase here.
21 posted on 06/08/2013 10:08:46 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

Put a maple leaf or two on this baby and your PM would turn some heads arriving in Washington,London or Beijing!

22 posted on 06/08/2013 10:09:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: rickmichaels
The Winnipeg Jets (National Hockey League) logo:


23 posted on 06/08/2013 10:12:40 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: EricT.

Yeah, Dickenson is multi talented. I believe he’s also one of the top rated fencers in the world.

He was rescuing people trapped in Lebanon during the last round of heavy fighting.


24 posted on 06/08/2013 10:13:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Is it rusted?

I like the new paint job. Very snappy and a good ad for Canada.


25 posted on 06/08/2013 10:13:42 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: cripplecreek

Now that’s a bad@ss jet.


26 posted on 06/08/2013 10:18:38 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: buffaloguy; rickmichaels
Is it rusted?

Yah,I should have specified that it needed a cleanup before the maple leafs were applied.

27 posted on 06/08/2013 10:19:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Canada once had an airline with a similar paint scheme: CP Air


28 posted on 06/08/2013 10:22:51 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: headstamp 2

It’s an A320 variant.


29 posted on 06/08/2013 10:24:17 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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To: andyk
Why can’t we get upset over $50K? Seems like it has to be in the billions before anyone cares in this country.

This has been a nearly 4 year long dispute; the present paint scheme is slightly updated from the current vip paint scheme, but the dispute wasn't over the extra cost of the paint job, it was over a plane that is designated for multiple missions, including missions into combat territory, where the (politicians) military wanted a lo vis paint scheme.

In reality, they are up in arms not over a 50k additional cost of painting, but in the effective seizing of a military asset for use by politicians. The silly argument that it is in the colors of a particular political party is sideshow stuff to try to make an old dispute appear fresh and relevant.

As others have said, this paint scheme is a better image for Canada for foreign dignitary visits. But the paint and the internal upgrades makes this a single mission aircraft, likely unfit for moving troops in battle areas... Well, maybe not really, since when this plane is used, the US is typically using commercial charters, which don't have lo vis paint schemes. And some of the upgrades have made the plane more survivable in an engagement scenario, and neither paint scheme was effective against the biggest danger in a combat arena.

30 posted on 06/08/2013 10:25:38 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: 3Fingas

I’m surprised that AF1 doesn’t have a Kenyan Flag on it. Or the Obama symbol.


31 posted on 06/08/2013 10:25:57 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: EDINVA

The old paint job was RCAF standard for troop transports; RCAF-01 was acquired as part of a fleet of transport A/C.


32 posted on 06/08/2013 10:26:19 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Obama was born in Mobassalulu.


33 posted on 06/08/2013 10:27:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: rickmichaels
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

34 posted on 06/08/2013 10:31:52 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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To: rickmichaels; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

35 posted on 06/08/2013 10:32:14 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Flap track fairings and Boeing uses them as well.


36 posted on 06/08/2013 10:35:56 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: Squawk 8888

A ‘camo’ look for troop transport is understandable, but not for transporting the PM on international junkets that always involve ‘selling’ his country.


37 posted on 06/08/2013 10:36:18 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: kingu

Thank you!


38 posted on 06/08/2013 10:38:06 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Squawk 8888
A310

The A320 is a single aisle, not a widebody like the A310, similar in size to a 737.

39 posted on 06/08/2013 10:41:33 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: Squawk 8888
I landed in Chicago from Mpls many years back and many passengers on our airplane happened to be Japanese. As we rolled toward the terminal, the Japanese guys let go with a verbal Oh-aaah !
A big Flying Tigers 747 freighter whistled past us on another runway. it was painted with the familiar Flying Tiger jaw full of teeth and looked great in the afternoon sunlight.
40 posted on 06/08/2013 10:43:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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