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Re: I swear I heard Albatross...
Posted by Steve T on Thu Oct 30, 2003 07:06:04 PM
In reply top Re: I swear I heard Albatross... posted by Jim Bates on Thu Oct 30, 2003 04:42:27 PM
: Anyone know more on that?
Jim--
Just a chance rumour...but from a pretty decent source, namely RJ Franks, over the PA at the Brantford United Way airshow this past August. Unless I utterly misheard him, he said there was an Albatross joining the collection. (Of course there are at least three different "Albatrosses"--there's the HU-16, certainly, which the RCAF used for ASR in the sixties, but there are also the WWI German fighters by that name, and the Aero L.39 jet. However only one of these makes sense from a CWH standpoint.) Time will tell, I suppose; other things have been juicily rumoured as coming to the Hope but never arrived for one reason or another. (A Lodestar back in the 80s, for example; and more recently a persistent T9 Spit rumour--the latter of which I now think pertained to Carey Moore's intended import of a new-build T9, before his death in the Fury crash).
S.