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Salty Beaver
BBC | Submitted by: McPubes
He said: "The cause of death was ingesting large quantities of sea water."
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From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 6-Jun-2008 19:25
You know something, Bella? If we ever meet, we will have the BIGGEST platonic laugh ever. Until then, do you think that you could HANDLE the Canadian squirrels that I'd bring?
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 6-Jun-2008 19:26
PROJECT H.o.S.E.R. After the Avro Arrow (Google it, a fighter that was 15 years ahead of its time) was cancelled in the late 50's because Prime Minister Diefenbaker had to go to the White House to deliver a Presidential rimjob, Canada was left without any real way of offering any significant independent resistance to the Soviet Union. A few years later, Dr. Hors D. Tete developed a "juicing" technique to pump soldiers up with the first synthetically produced, and still classified, "hyper steroids". This was tested on rodents before being administered to humans. The results were phenomenal. It was then decided to take a group of test squirrels and see if the could survive a nuclear blast. The U.S. Dept. of Energy set up a test shot in Nevada (still classified, but commonly known as the "nutcracker" shot) at the request of the Canadian government. The rimjobs the PM gave to the prez paid off. The test squirrels were sent to Nevada and nuked under the most stringent of Canadian scientific methods. The nuked Canadian Squirrels survived and were pretty upset at the whole thing, so they started killing everyone in sight. The problem was solved, however, when a Canadian physicist intervened. Dr. Doug McKenzie most fortunately had a large supply of beer on hand which was raided by the Canadian SuperSquirrels. Once the squirrels were thoroughly soused, it was explained to them that all evil in the world was the fault of the Soviet Union. Why, if it weren't for those dirty communists, the Canadian SuperSquirrels would still be in the wild, happily playing with their nuts. The Squirrels flew into another 'roid rage and insisted on being tuned loose in the USSR. Dr. McKenzie quickly orchestrated Operation H.o.S.E.R. (Holy Shit, Eh, Russians?). Upon being let lose in Russia, the SuperSquirrels, over the course of the next 30 years, sabotaged everything and got the Russians really, really drunk.  
From: ciaochowbella
[I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 6-Jun-2008 20:24
Mike, my mister thinks this strange flirtation we engage in is highly amusing and has told me if you and I ever meet, he's buying the drinks. He thinks you and I would be fun drunk together. He's probably right. BTW, he also wanted to know what the Saran wrap is for....I said we like REALLY safe sex and then proceeded to describe how we would mummify our tasty bits in the Saran and then heap the mayo on for the pleasurable slickness. He needs your confirmation. He doesn't want to know what the squirrels are for.
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 6-Jun-2008 20:55
WELL! I say...I never... If he doesn't want to know about the squirrels, he doesn't want to know about anything.  (Mind you, If you're ever both in town, I'll take the free drinks).
From: ciaochowbella
[I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 7-Jun-2008 05:54
Damn, Goyle.....you are the MAN. Mike, the drinks will be on Mr. Bella and so will the driving. I think of it as a double date with the odds in my favor. Can't spoil our good time with a nasty accident and bloody wreckage. Goyle, want to come along and be my third date? Never dated a whole mess of men at once before....this might be fun.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 7-Jun-2008 16:34
Sorry, but the Avro CF-105 Arrow was cancelled because it was too damned expensive. By the late 1950s, when it first flew (March 25, 1958), single-mission interceptors like the CF-105 were giving way to multi-role aircraft, like the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, which first flew on May 27 of the same year. The CF-105 Arrow was a very poor design as a multirole aircraft. The tailless delta wing layout is good for only one thing - going fast at high altitude. Consider though, what happens when the plane is trying to land - the elevons are raised to pitch the nose up for landing, but by being raised, they act as the opposite of flaps, which kills lift and raises the airplane's stall speed. To compensate, wing area was increased in these designs, to increase lift. This creates another set of problems, though, as an airplane built like this has such a low wing loading that when making a high-speed tactical bombing attack in the dense air at low altitude, gust response is terrible. A Mirage III (another tailless delta) is hopeless in this respect, with 70 half-gee bumps per minute. This makes for miserable accuracy with free-fall bombs.
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 7-Jun-2008 19:28
I know, Mike, but it would've been one HELL of an interceptor. (Please let us have some aerospace pride. We did give you guys the Canadarms for the Shuttle and the Station. Oh, and thanks for keeping Stalin's dirty mitts off of us. Some of us still appreciate that.)
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 8-Jun-2008 05:29
It WAS a hell of an airplane, though. The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was big and fast and used only one Pratt & Whitney J-75, while the Arrow used two. Canada ended up using the F-101 Voodoo as a replacement. Unfortunately, the Voodoo used the Falcon missile, instead of the Sparrow planned for the Arrow, and the Falcon wasn't as good. The USAF did not begin using Sparrow until it got its first Phantoms - Sparrow was originally a navy missile project for the F-3H Demon. Tactical strike versions of the Voodoo were also built, basically a restressed version of the intercepto (F-101B) version. The only US tailless deltas to enter service were the F-102 and F-106, but these ween't good for much of anthing else. Canadair, by the way, built 1815 F-86 Sabre fighters, supplying most of the Sabres used by European NATO members. The RAF, for instance, got 427 of these. Curiously, the development of the Phantom into a multi-role aircraft was almost an accident. Company studies at McDonnell produced the AH-1 attack aircraft with two of the then-new J-79 engines and a large external load on 11 pylons. In the meantime, the same company's F-3H Demon fleet-defense fighter was suffering from the miserable performance of the Westinghouse J-40, which was unreliable and did not deliver anything like the promised thrust (other casualties of the Westinghouse jet engine fiasco were the Vought F-7U Cutlass and the Grumman F-10F Jaguar). While the Allison J-71 was being adopted in place of the Demon's J-40 (they should have used a J-75; then the Demon really would have been a Demon), the navy asked McDonnell to revise the AH-1 into the F-4H fleet-defense fighter, equipped with only one pylon (for a drop tank), but with four recessed Sparrows, a second crewman and a powerful radar. In the end, other weapon pylons were put back and later on, an internal M-61 Vulcan gun; with space on aircraft carriers necessarily quite limited, multi-role aircraft made a lot of sense for the navy. The air force became very interested in the Phantom, and was originally going to call it the F-110 Spectre, until 1962, when Congress unified aircraft designations across the services.
Updated: 8-Jun-2008 05:29
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