Cold Lake AB

[Captain Canada]

Had to go out to Alberta to do some training. What a time ! Got my ticket to enter the Cold Lake Weapons Range too.

Who's the pig in poo-poo ?


Hornet's having fun over the CLAWR


A little Hawk flew over with an ACMI pod and a 'winder


A pair of Hornets heading back to base

[Captain Canada]

Head over to the base to look around




Gotta love the good old fighter break




The Hornets were everywhere....

[Captain Canada]

Must be the one that crashed last year. There were three trailer loads of it.


Gate Guards

[Captain Canada]

[The Rat]

I really miss those beasts. 

[markmarples]

cool photos!

i believe the hawk is a RAF T2 that the USN have been evlauating to use as a Trainer, a friend of mine is a Goshawk instructor and they have been playing with it

[Captain Canada]

Thanks dude !

The Hawk is probably from 417 Squadron...I think ! The RCAF uses them for the NFTC as well as training/aggresor roles for our own forces. If you look at the sixth pic down you can see three of them taxiing.

[markmarples]

ar ok, i didnt put 2 and 2 together, i know that the t2 is floating about in the US and canada, US for Sales and Canada, trying to see the upgraded avionics i believe, so i just assumed

still cracking photos

[Captain Canada]

Haha...no prob ! I get excited when I see aeroplanes myself 

It would be pretty sweet if Canada did buy up more hawks.....love that little aeroplane* !






*But we never should have sh*t canned the Tutor so soon.....

[philp]

Seen Pinocchio in active times.

[PR19_Kit]

I've never seen a place with so many gate guardians! 

And it's obvious why it's called 'COLD' Lake!

[Rheged]

AAAGH! It's either a strike Dakota (quite rare nowadays) or its mother had an illicit transatlantic relationship with  a  meteorological Hercules called Snoopy

[kitnut617]

Hi Todd, nice pics.  sorry I couldn't get up there to meet you, would've been nice.  BTW it's only 6 1/2 hrs drive to Bonnyville, not the 8 I said, keep forgetting I'm a 100 miles further north than Calgary.  Back in 2001 or 2 I went to the airshow they put on and had a great time there.

[kitnut617]

I've never seen a place with so many gate guardians! 

And it's obvious why it's called 'COLD' Lake!

It was one of the biggest NATO training bases for quite a long time, the weapons range is about as big as half of Europe.