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johnfowles · 01-22-2004, 08:10 AM

quote:Originally posted by gwen snyder:
ok John, you have to talk to me now. Whose plane and what is it? I am dreaming about this type but, lookin at a cute c150 to buy.
When you worked for rr did you build engines or were you an engineer?

Ok the easy one first. It is definitely a LearJet I am not familiar enough wit the multiple varieties to know which actual
model might be a 55 as below

Next whose was it?.I seem to recall that in the great Spenser Liegh BBC interview in 1999 Gord was quite defensive about his use of private jets to fly to and from Toronto when Spenser intimated that Gord was some sort of plutocratic jet owner. So peresumably this the one on Pee Wee's site was hired
when I worked for Rolls-Royce Canada in Montreal I was primarily an engineer/rep.
For two years I was one of the R-R Service Representatives at the Air Canada Overhaul/repair base at Dorval
specialising on the R-R Tyne

a mighty 5000 plus HP turboprop that powered Air Canada's Vickers Vanguards and the Montreal built Canadair (Now Bombardier)
CL-44 freighters

. So no I never actually built any engines
Finally
the picture on PW's site shows 2 gentlemen by the Learjet
To me it looks like Gord on the left but is the other man Pee Wee or Barry Harvey(I only saw PW once (London 1981)
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01-22-2004, 08:10 AM	#14
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by gwen snyder: ok John, you have to talk to me now. Whose plane and what is it? I am dreaming about this type but, lookin at a cute c150 to buy. When you worked for rr did you build engines or were you an engineer? Ok the easy one first. It is definitely a LearJet I am not familiar enough wit the multiple varieties to know which actual model might be a 55 as below Next whose was it?.I seem to recall that in the great Spenser Liegh BBC interview in 1999 Gord was quite defensive about his use of private jets to fly to and from Toronto when Spenser intimated that Gord was some sort of plutocratic jet owner. So peresumably this the one on Pee Wee's site was hired when I worked for Rolls-Royce Canada in Montreal I was primarily an engineer/rep. For two years I was one of the R-R Service Representatives at the Air Canada Overhaul/repair base at Dorval specialising on the R-R Tyne a mighty 5000 plus HP turboprop that powered Air Canada's Vickers Vanguards and the Montreal built Canadair (Now Bombardier) CL-44 freighters . So no I never actually built any engines Finally the picture on PW's site shows 2 gentlemen by the Learjet To me it looks like Gord on the left but is the other man Pee Wee or Barry Harvey(I only saw PW once (London 1981) ----------------- My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited January 22, 2004).]