• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Mini-tornado at Rockcliffe on Saturday

mike_cyul

mike_cyul

SOH-CM-2025
cid_24AA8737-2C22-40C3-8F6F-A3E4517.jpg
cid_62B6D423-6EFD-47EB-A269-D350FD5.jpg

cid_F256EE39-8941-4D10-9C25-4E87C3D.jpg
cid_962CA319-68B9-4DBF-98E1-4E986BB.jpg

cid_3765393F-464C-4189-A69B-E805786.jpg


Rockcliffe (CYRO), just East of Ottawa. No one hurt, but 17 aircraft destroyed, among them three Challengers (of which a friend sent these photos).


Mike
 
looks like a sad day for a bunch of owners

any word on damage to the museum or it's aircraft?

(BTW Mike, I'll be down at the end of May/early June. I'll send a PM when I have dates)

Rob
 
srgalahad said:
looks like a sad day for a bunch of owners

any word on damage to the museum or it's aircraft?

(BTW Mike, I'll be down at the end of May/early June. I'll send a PM when I have dates)

Rob
Click to expand...


No word from the Museum, but I gather the tornado cut a pretty narrow path - diagonally across the flightline, from the south-west. I expect the Museum may be ok, seeing as it's about 300ft south of the most damaged aircraft.

Latest news is that the owners of the three completely destroyed Challengers (two others were damaged) did not have insurance for this kind of event. I guess that's the end of their hobby, at least for now. Hope they can get back in later.

And Rob, yup, just pm me.

Mike
 
"The front that's hammered the central part of the continent for the past couple of days took a particularly vicious toll on an airport in Ottawa, Canada. On the same night that members of Rockliffe Flying Club were celebrating their annual black-tie Wings Dinner on Saturday night, a destructive weather system ripped through the flight line only yards away on their airport grounds. As they left the dinner, they were greeted by a debris field of aircraft and parts mixed with uprooted trees, a smashed clubhouse, trashed storage boxes, and two inverted aircraft, each of which was left blocking access to the airport's taxiway. According to the Rockcliffe Flying Club Manager Simon Garrett, at least 22 aircraft were damaged by the severe storm, half of which appear to be probable write-offs.

"The destruction was unbelievable," said Garrett. "I wasn't sure how we'd get operational again." The spontaneous efforts of over 80 club members had the airport back in operation by noon on Sunday; however, the club's entire fleet has been grounded pending inspection of damages to their aircraft. Included in the list of aircraft casualties were five or six ultralights that were "torn apart" and tossed halfway along the airport's flight line from where they'd been parked and picketed. Damage to the club's fleet will also force cancellation of all instructional flights until inspections can be carried out. So far, weather specialists haven't determined exactly what hit the airfield, which traces its aviation roots as far back as WW1. A fast-moving cold front appears to have been the culprit in creating what's speculated to have been either a tornado, a squall line or a localized microburst.

More photos:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/StormDamages22AircraftInOttawa_200263-1.html#gallery

The "museum" Mike and I spoke of isn't the 'local' variety; it's the Canada Aviation Museum ... the national collection.
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

Rob
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top