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johnfowles · 10-11-2003, 03:53 PM

Great to see a posting from native of Orillia Kyle even if you are an unregistered and anonymous fan
I have just replied to the h2g2 conversation
at:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabas...?thread=322151
Hi Kyle aka chipster
I was pleased to not only find where my reply ended up but also to read your corfid Discussion
Forum message in the topic I began about the regular Friday evening Lightfoot chat sessions:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001708.html
I was also most interested (as a former employee of Rolls-Royce Canada Limited of Montreal in your enthousiasm
for the Avro Arrow) . For a while I was working at Air Canada's Dorval overhaul base alongside on ex-Orenda Engines
chap called Jim Seaton. Jim I seem to remember had had to offload his Brampton house at a vast
loss after the Arrow cancellation then moved to R-R for whom he had worked in England during the war I have perused the avroarrow.org site but ewas unable to find ant reference to you there on the site you said you started. As I was therfore unsure if I were to send an e-mail to ther wenbmaster whether it would reach you
By the Way Kyle you said in your corfid message that:-
"I only learned of this site because John Fowles left me a note on h2g2 - the site where I've put a bio of Gord."
I find that a strange comment because you had aleady referenced the corfid site in your Gordie Bio
I also note that although you are able (and of course did so) to post to a corfid topic "unregistered" this means that there is no clue to your e-mail addy
Perhaps you could now as previously suggested send me a private e-mail
As an inducement I have a very fine UK video "TSR2 The Untold Story" which I can convert to the North American NTSC standard if you are interested . It includes many in-flight film shots rescued from destruction by British Aerospace!!
lots of parallels to the Arrow!!
Afterthought. "gord" Sir Gerald Pudding and I have recently been boring those not interested with steam train pics. So here to flesh out the above discussion is a pair of aeroplane pics of wonderful aircraft both tragically cancelled and their remains mostly reduced to scrap-

1,The mighty British TSR2:-

2 The superficially similar Canadian Avro Arrow

Also note that as this topic led into the discovery of Kyle's Gord bio on the BBC site it is being developed here and not in the "small talk" forum
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 11, 2003).]

10-11-2003, 03:53 PM	#11
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Great to see a posting from native of Orillia Kyle even if you are an unregistered and anonymous fan I have just replied to the h2g2 conversation at:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabas...?thread=322151 Hi Kyle aka chipster I was pleased to not only find where my reply ended up but also to read your corfid Discussion Forum message in the topic I began about the regular Friday evening Lightfoot chat sessions:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001708.html I was also most interested (as a former employee of Rolls-Royce Canada Limited of Montreal in your enthousiasm for the Avro Arrow) . For a while I was working at Air Canada's Dorval overhaul base alongside on ex-Orenda Engines chap called Jim Seaton. Jim I seem to remember had had to offload his Brampton house at a vast loss after the Arrow cancellation then moved to R-R for whom he had worked in England during the war I have perused the avroarrow.org site but ewas unable to find ant reference to you there on the site you said you started. As I was therfore unsure if I were to send an e-mail to ther wenbmaster whether it would reach you By the Way Kyle you said in your corfid message that:- "I only learned of this site because John Fowles left me a note on h2g2 - the site where I've put a bio of Gord." I find that a strange comment because you had aleady referenced the corfid site in your Gordie Bio I also note that although you are able (and of course did so) to post to a corfid topic "unregistered" this means that there is no clue to your e-mail addy Perhaps you could now as previously suggested send me a private e-mail As an inducement I have a very fine UK video "TSR2 The Untold Story" which I can convert to the North American NTSC standard if you are interested . It includes many in-flight film shots rescued from destruction by British Aerospace!! lots of parallels to the Arrow!! Afterthought. "gord" Sir Gerald Pudding and I have recently been boring those not interested with steam train pics. So here to flesh out the above discussion is a pair of aeroplane pics of wonderful aircraft both tragically cancelled and their remains mostly reduced to scrap- 1,The mighty British TSR2:- 2 The superficially similar Canadian Avro Arrow Also note that as this topic led into the discovery of Kyle's Gord bio on the BBC site it is being developed here and not in the "small talk" forum ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 11, 2003).]