by FOH | Mar 18, 2016 | Compagnie aérienne franco-canadienne, Quebec aviation
From an open cockpit in a Schreck FBA-17 flying boat, French aviation pioneer Jacques de Lesseps and his team photographed more than 24,800 km2 of the rugged Gaspé terrain under contract to the Quebec government in 1926 and 1927. The provincial Ministry of Lands and...
by FOH | Jan 14, 2016 | Curtiss JN-4 Canuck, Elliot Air Service, Howard Watt
— Bush flying in the Canadian North has never been a vocation for the faint of heart. My uncle Howard Watt found that out the hard way during the Red Lake gold rush in Northwestern Ontario in 1926. In fact, he nearly died. Flying an open-cockpit biplane, a...
by FOH | Jan 4, 2016 | Introduction
A while back, as I was researching family genealogy, I took a detour into aviation history. Stories about my uncles, both bush pilots, captured my imagination. As pioneer aviators in the 1920s and 1930s they would have faced endless challenges flying in remote areas...
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