TonyH Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Hi all Starting a thread for this great bird. Please add any pics you may have of it. Cheers Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcaf_100 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Here's all of the ones I've seen in museums (I'm a little young to have seen any flying...born in '87 ) Mk. 2 18106 at Campbellford, Ontario (formerly at the Lambeth Legion) Mk. 4 18241 at Dayton, Ohio Mk. 5 18757 at Ottawa, Ontario Mk. 5 18774 at Trenton, Ontario Mk. 5 Insructional 814B (not sure of the RCAF service number yet) at Trenton, Ontario Mk. 5 18506 on the pole at Hamilton, Ontario airport (across the parking lot from CWH) And of course CWH's Mk. 5 18785, but I'm sure Tony has a much nicer picture than I do, so I won't put one here. But I will post a picture of the model I built of it for Heritagecon '08. (when I finished it I found out that I forgot to put weight in the nose ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TonyH Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Here's all of the ones I've seen in museums (I'm a little young to have seen any flying...born in '87 :))Mk. 2 18106 at Campbellford, Ontario (formerly at the Lambeth Legion) :lol: Wow luv that Mk 2 Are they going to restore it? I sure hope so,very rare bird!!! As for the bird at the Wing next door,I see it everyday but have no pics of it :blink: Thanks for posting Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcaf_100 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Wow luv that Mk 2 Are they going to restore it? I sure hope so,very rare bird!!! As for the bird at the Wing next door,I see it everyday but have no pics of it Thanks for posting Tony Probably won't be restored any time in the near future. It's at Harold Carlaw's Memorial Military Museum. If he does someday, I hope he keeps the VC markings under the wings! And I was referring to CWH's Mk. 5 in the retirement scheme, not the one on the pole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madmanrick Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Love the Clunk! Keep 'em comin! Rick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Cheetah Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Ill have to take a picture or 2 of the on "on a pole" here by a well know park here in Moncton, Its a Mk5, possibly from Vu33 but not sure and Id love some confirmation. Here is a pic I took a few years back with a cheaper camera, it was posted to Modeling Madness for thier "Planes on Poles" gallery, looks like Scott Van Aken corrected my description, he says its from EWU? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sukhoi Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) O.K....Who saw thoses birds fly !! I saw them ..Gee! :) I am old!....they put on great show! Ah.. thoses old times...when Canuck, Voodoo and Starfighter were buzzing around :wacko: Edited August 14, 2011 by Sukhoi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian_maw Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 No Sukhoi, I don't think you're old if you remember seeing them fly. And just to prove you're at least as young as me, here's a pick I took of a Clunk while she was still very much alive. Moose Jaw I'm thinkin 1980 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian_maw Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) A few more dead ones 416 sqn reunion, actually a gate guard moved for the event. This was at CFB Edmonton back when it was a "real"base And 790 again, Comox 1995 Edited January 31, 2009 by ian_maw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TonyH Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 We have the black one at work now on loan to us from Ottawa. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alvin5182 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 TonyH: Ahhh the retirement schemes! Probably flying within a mile or two of my house in '81 How about a 3 engined model? Taken at North Bay in the late 70s or 1980. Alvin5182 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Bratton Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) 410 Squadron At gun camp, Deci, Sardinia. 440 Squadron discovers the peril of building one to one scale is having to move it. 445 Squadron, Marville, France 1958 445 Squadron, Marville, France 1958 433 Squadron 1958 Edited February 6, 2009 by Sean Bratton Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Bratton Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 425 Squadron Rocket Meet, Cold Lake 2 Wing Alert, Grostenquin, France 428 Squadron CF-100 Mk4A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alvin5182 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Gents: A Mk III out of North Bay I believe! Alvin5182 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jinxx1 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) A very attractive airplane! 18241 at the US Air Force Museum. 100799 at Peterson AFB. And 100504 at Castle AFB in 1989. Edited February 8, 2009 by jinxx1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kevan Vogler Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 This was at CFB Edmonton back when it was a "real"base I remember that one well! A Mk.5D playing the part of a Mk.4 I also remember CFB Edmonton well as an air base. I grew up in Edmonton and was an Air Cadet there. My unit went to the base regularly. I recall when the Alberta Aviation Museum got the aircraft from the base when the base was handed off to the army. Last I saw that Clunk, it was rather faded and kept outdoors at the museum at the Edmonton municipal airport. I also recall a CF-100 in 416 markings at the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwin. I have a few photos of both, unfortunately they are well away from me and in boxes at my mom's place back in Canada. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aggressor Supporter Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Nice pics of a neat looking plane everyone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alvin5182 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Gents: A couple of scanned Kodachromes from the 1981 Retirement party for the "Clunk" at North Bay. Alvin5182 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richter111 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 After seeing all these pics, I decided to actually look up the bird, very nice, and impressive, well built and everything! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Some great pics in this thread - I have a 1:72 kit to build, and will definitely use some of these as references. I have some black and white pics of the Clunk that I will post soon (can't do it from work; photobucket is banned on my work network). My father was a Navigator on the CF-100 in Bagotville (where I was born while he was here finishing up a squadron tour). He loved the airplane, which was quite high performance for its time. Some facts he told me about it, which are quite impressive considering this aircraft flew in the early 50s: -it would climb quickly to 40,000 feet (something like 7 minutes) -when his squadron received Mk 5s (with wing extensions), they flew them like the Mk 4s, but found out some time later that they had been overstressing the airframes. Apparently, the Mk 5 had about 2 G less permissible than the Mk 4. Good thing they were built strong - no wings fell off during that period. -his favourite tale was of a squadron party on a Friday night sometime circa 1958, where one of the other Navs had received an 8mm film back from developing. Remember when you used to send films in the mail and wait for weeks to get them back before putting them in the projector and showing them to family and friends? OK, I'm old now too Anyway, the big group was drinking beers and smoking cigarettes, cheering as they saw the jumpy black and white film clips, and suddenly dead silence. One small voice that said "let's see that again". the sound of the projector being rewound a few seconds. More silence as the images replayed. The scene that got everyone's attention so completely was taken by the Nav in a back seat, filming one of the wingtip mounted rocket pods as it was fired during a rocket meet. The rockets came out in a fast volley, and the part that turned the film-taking Nav white was where two of the rockets collided on their way out, and one veered suddenly toward the fuselage, and roared by within inches of the top of the canopy! Seems they had fewer volunteers to live fire those rockets after that little incident. ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alvin5182 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Gents: A CF-100 retirement "zap"! I knew I had one somewhere. Alvin5182 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 As promised, some pics that came from my father's log book. He is the Nav standing nearest to the engine. Taken in Bagotville, circa 1957, 413 squadron. ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TonyH Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 As promised, some pics that came from my father's log book. He is the Nav standing nearest to the engine. Taken in Bagotville, circa 1957, 413 squadron.ALF Great shots! thanks for sharing with us Cheers Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alvin5182 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Alf: What Tony said!!! Alvin5182 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Rat Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) No pics, but a question for Clunkophiles - does anyone know where I might obtain a detail cutaway, the sort you would see in 'Flight'? I'm doing a 'what if' (what else?) and I might need to justify a few things. Edited February 20, 2009 by The Rat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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