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[Patrick H]

Canadair CT 170 Magister as flown by the famous Canadian display team "the Goldilocks"



More pictures and the full story can be seen here at my webpage.

cheers

Patrick

[Patrick H]

The kit is the Heller 1/72 Fouga Magister and decals came from the Leading Edge "RCAF Harvard MK4 Goldilocks team" Kindly provided to me by Captian Canada.
Thanks buddy




cheers

Patrick

[Mike Wren]

very nice Patrick    

[Ollie]

Very nice buddy!!

But I doubt that the Magister would be a match for the Tutor... he he he...

I have a friend who has a Magister, and that thing flies like a pregant cow...

 

Seriously, very nice job!!  Congrats on the choice of markings!!!

     

[Aircav]

Hi Patrick
Great model, it looks very right in thoughs colour's
           
Steve
Love the FOD barrel BTW

[Gary]

Heeeeey That's pretty cool! And a nice job building to mate!

[Bryan H.]

Beautiful!  

Bryan

[nev]

Very cool  B)

And the thing about the Magister, it was flown by that many different AFs you'd have to be a real spotter to know if it was whif or real  

Although I'm not to sure about naming a display team "goldilocks"       Not very inspiring!  

[The Rat]

Although I'm not to sure about naming a display team "goldilocks"

There actually was one. Back in the days of the RCAF Golden Hawks flying Sabres, one of the training squadrons decided to have a bit of fun and put together a team. They flew Harvards, worked out some whacky manoeuvres, and called themselves the Goldilocks. In fact one of their routines, a flypast in formation but with all the aircraft with one or the other wing low, was incorporated into the Snowbirds' routine a few years ago as a tribute. I'll search the net and see if I can find any pics for us all.

[The Rat]

Lovely job Patrick, my hat is off to you Sir! And I just checked out your page and was glad to see you included a mention of the real Goldilocks.

[The Rat]

Okay, if you Google for goldilocks+rcaf you get one picture of the formation I mentioned, but the link itself is belly up. Worth a look anyway.

[Ollie]

Rat, do you remember the story about the team that used T-33s (The Smokers) and were invited by the Goldilocks at their base for a meal.  The Harvard guys had a shock when they saw the 10 or so T-33s arriving in the Crazy formation!

     

[The Rat]

Rat, do you remember the story about the team that used T-33s (The Smokers) and were invited by the Goldilocks at their base for a meal.  The Harvard guys had a shock when they saw the 10 or so T-33s arriving in the Crazy formation!

     

Haven't heard that one, but I would give five years off my life to have been there.

And from the official CAF site, here's a great pic;

[Captain Canada]

Great stuff, Patrick !

Keep 'em coming, eh ?

How about a Belgian Crusader ? And you know you want to do an Arrow in Belgian colurs ! I think one would look just splendid in those anniversary F-16 markings, you know, the one with the spitfire on it's back ?

 

[John Howling Mouse]

Nice work and great idea, Patrick!



Extra points for the subject being Canadian, eh?!