Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program

[Greg and April]

Some quick checking shows that Canada has at least 80 CF-18's that were upgraded in the 2003/2004 time frame and are in the process of being upgraded again to US Navy specs.   Canada had at one time ( current status unknown ), CF-5's which is still a hot little aircraft, in some respect's comparable to a F-16 without all the extra fancy stuff ( and at almost half the cost of a combat ready F-16 ).    The US Air Force still uses the T-38, which is nothing more than a striped F-5 used to teach pilots how to fly.    A updated version is known as the F-20 Tigershark ( 1 engine instead of 2 is about the biggest design change ).   If you are interested ( and I get some time ), I know a book at the library that can give a better picture of current Canadian fighters.   Greg H.   BTW, better than 90% of the aircraft at Davis Monthan AFB, are not service ready, but are in storage ( it takes at least 1 month to put a single aircraft into action once put into storage and most take 2 or more months ), and most of those are way out of date.    Some of those are providing parts and equipment to keep other aircraft flying.    Others are rebuilt for drone duty ( which much of the time means they are shot out of the air ), or for testing of equipment.    I doubt that Davis Monthan AFB, could even defend it's self if attacked.    Talk about hanging onto old junk, the bone yard still has aircraft from the Korean war.        ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Street To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 14:50 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program I admit I don't know the exact number of aircraft in readiness status, who does? They do some funky stuff that the americans are embarrased and envious they didn't think of themselves like painting a mock canopy on the underbelly which fakes out the enemy and confuses the hell out of americans who can't decide which way they are turning in combat so maybe that counts as having two planes for every one?? They are still hanging on to a bunch of ancient junk as well like the sea king, but I do know that Canadian pilots take a tour flying a desk simply because there aren't enough planes to go around.  In comparison the US pilots have their names painted beside the canopy on 'their' machine.  What term would you use when comparing the number of servicable Canadian fighter aircraft to the number in the US arsenal?  They've got a ferkin desert full of almost servicable ones in reserve as well down in Tucson I've seen them. Sorry if I've offended any Canadians, I know our military is proud my father was air force and I also know that Canadian pilots regularly out 'score' americans in training exercises but are you going to tell me we have any chance of even bluffing our way through a conflict with the US? Get real. J Greg and April wrote: What number do you consider to be " the handful "? Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:45 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program snip Our military is laughable -our pilots litterally have to take turns flying the handfull of aging f-18's in the air force. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/

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