by Diana Trafford | Apr 23, 2022 | Air navigation, Aviation biography
Jeppesen is a name familiar and dear to pilots, who have been using the Jeppesen aviation navigation notes and charts ever since 1934. My introduction came by a different route – a 2003 article in Art of the West magazine about a monumental statue of Jeppesen by...
by Diana Trafford | Apr 4, 2022 | US Army Air Corps
First Goodwill Visit by US Army Air Corps At noon on 24 January 1927, twelve American Curtiss Hawk P-1B fighter planes swooped down on Canada’s capital. This was a friendly “invasion” – a goodwill visit by the First Pursuit Group of the U.S....
by Diana Trafford | Jan 31, 2022 | Consolidated Liberator, Ferry Command, Gander, RAF Transport Command
Bomber Delivery at Record Speeds In April 1943, normally tight-lipped officials of the Montréal-based Royal Air Force Transport Command (formerly RAF Ferry Command) did the unthinkable. They broke the veil of secrecy that shrouded wartime bomber ferry operations. With...
by Diana Trafford | Sep 13, 2021 | Ferry Command, Gander
Twenty years ago, 42 aircraft descended on Gander. Not by choice. The date was September 11, 2001. An hour after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration shut down American air space. All pilots halfway...
by Diana Trafford | Aug 4, 2021 | Consolidated Catalina, Flying boat, Gander, RAF Transport Command
The Royal Air Force Transport Command (RAFTC), formerly Ferry Command, faced one of its toughest jobs in the spring of 1944 – to diplomatically help Russian aircrews ferry four dozen PBN-1 Nomads from the eastern seaboard of the United States to Murmansk. There...
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