The Northern Lights are gone. Just before they were about to enter the
first season with the L-39s the owner of the company that sold them
the L-39s died in an crash. The insurace companies pulled out, they
had no insurance which means no shows, no shows mean no money to pay
for the shiney new jets, they went bankrupt.

They are trying to start again in the Extras again. Hopefully they are
able to they were a great group.

aboyd@igs.net (Pile-It) wrote in message news:<a329e9fd.0204200404.d0ecfdf@posting.google.com>...
> Dumb suggestion: Why doesn't the Canadian Fed Gov't simply
> become a significant new sponsor of the Northern Lights,
> who are ex-Snowbird pilots who fly are already flying airshows
> in four Canadian-registered L-39's?
>
> For a lousy US$1M from the feds - a tiny fraction of what it
> would cost to buy 9 new jets for the Snowbirds - the NL could
> buy three more really nice L-39's.
>
> Paint them red and white, and the Snowbirds fly again.
>
> This is inline with the "downloading to private sector"
> policy that we keep hearing from the feds these days.
>
> Just a thought from a Canadian taxpayer at tax time :-)

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