Posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:53 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Looks like a flying turd.
Canada is in fantastic shape economically. We are awash in oil and gas and other resources. PM Harper is doing an outstanding job of managing the country and its finances. Our biggest problem is getting all that oil out to the market.
The opposition parties are populated by idiots and lunatics. They are: the left, the far left, and the separatists who think they are going to leave Canada, be better off, and get paid to do so. They have absolutely nothing to complain about. So they complain about a fantastic paint job on a plane that will probably be a prototype for every RCAF plane that gets repainted.
That's about it.
Thanks. Labeau on Hogan’s Heroes used to say it quite often.
My spousal unit is a Maritimer. I showed her this and her opinion is not the cost but that the Pea Soupers were not consulted from a fashion sense.
Paint it like a plate of poutine and all will be resolved.
The hammer & sickle would be even more fitting.
Among my most vivid airport memories was,while leaving the old Kai Tak Airport after having just arrived for my first visit to Hong Kong,looking up and seeing a bright orange Braniff 747 just about scraping the nearby rooftops as it approached the runway.I managed to shoot a picture of it but have since lost it.This was something like 30 years ago.
Yep. The old paint job looks awful for a plane that has to make diplomatic trips. Imagine AF1 painted dark grey.
Remind me to never go there.
True that.
I flew Allegheny in a Shorts Brothers wing-over plywood airplane into Indianapolis from Cleveland. After we all got on the plane, a crew member duct taped the door to keep out wind whistles... There was no stewardess, so the co-pilot pushed a cooler full of Cokes back from the front and said, "take one and pass it back."
Reminds me of the old CP Air ads with Chief Dan George. Two Indians meet and the first one raises his hand and says, “How”. Dan George looks at him and says, “How? CP Air.”
AF1 should be painted to look like the US Constitution or the Holy Bible. Maybe then Zero wouldn’t use it to fly more campaign missions than the US Army Air Corp and the RAF flew bombing missions in WWII.
The new paint job looks much better. I guess the Critics missed seeing all the big red Maple Leaves.
I have an alternative outlook that is growing on me. Treat politicians like monks. Royal expenses have always been justifies as a means of making the country look better, and politicians in western nations have moved right into that mold.
Perhaps we should let a country's reputation speak for itself and make our politicians live an official life of poverty and utilitarianism (like monks). Essentially, remove all the perks of office.
Our congress critters now have larger personal staffs and more perks than your average Fortune 500 CEO.
A de havilland Twin Otter.
Well, opinions are worth about what you pay for ‘em and here’s mine:
1. The new paint doesn’t look ‘regal.’ AF1 certainly does. The new paint job looks, instead, like a sort of an airlines paint job. It’s too commercial. It tries too hard. It’s asking for the contract, your vote, your applause...”
2. “The True North Strong and Free” is a rather embarrassing thing to paint under the cockpit. It’s just, well... Faggy.
3. Yep, I DO like the old paint job better. It’s strong, understated, elegant, with just a hint of military bad-ass.
4. The cool thing about the old paint job is that it looks just as ‘strong and free’ as AF1 but looks TOTALLY different. Hard to do.
Final call? The design won’t survive the next election.
Ha, that's nothing compared to the big ego just south of there.
Yep I remember the charter from his first campaign. Can’t believe AF1 has escaped the paint job for this long.
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