Lockheed CP-140 Aurora Lockheed CP-140 Aurora The Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is a maritime patrol aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The aircraft is based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe, but mounts the electronics suite of the Lockheed S-3 Viking. "Aurora" refers to the Roman goddess of dawn who flies across the sky each morning ahead of the sun. Aurora also refers to the Aurora Borealis, the "northern lights", that are prominent over northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean. The CP-140A Arcturus was a related variant used primarily for pilot training and coastal surface patrol missions. The CP-140 Aurora is very
Linnaea borealis at the base. The flowers are paired, pendulous, long, with a five-lobed, pale pink corolla. "Linnaea borealis" was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in "Species Plantarum". It was then the sole species in the genus "Linnaea". The genus name had been used earlier by the Dutch botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius, and was given in honour of Linnaeus. Linnaeus adopted the name because "Linnaea borealis" was his favourite plant. "Linnaea borealis" is considered to be a single circumboreal species, with three generally recognized subspecies: The English name "twinflower" for "Linnaea borealis" refers to the plant's paired flowers. "Linnaea