by Diana Trafford | Dec 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Highway 148 at Luskville, Québec With photos by John Frazer Crook Airborne Getaway After countless hours of aviation history research, I needed something to perk me up. Like going joyriding. “Come fly with us,” my friends said. Who could resist on...
by Diana Trafford | Dec 11, 2016 | Early air mail, St. Lawrence River
© Paddy Gardiner, 2016 Why an Airplane Sank at Shelter Bay in February 1930 By permission of Chris Hargreaves, editor of The Canadian Aerophilatelist, quarterly journal of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society. Originally published in issue # 109, December 2016....
by Diana Trafford | Dec 9, 2016 | Bruce Watt, Ferry Command, Gander
The only Lockheed Hudson still flying today. Shown here at Point Cook, Greater Melbourne, Australia, it was taken on by the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 December 1941, two days before the war in the Pacific started. After serving with RAAF Survey Flight during the...
by Diana Trafford | Oct 23, 2016 | Ferry Command, Howard Watt
Venturas, Mitchells and Liberators at Dorval, Québec, awaiting delivery by Ferry Command to the United Kingdom and points beyond, 13 May 1942. Photo: Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-114759. Howard Watt was one of several...
by Diana Trafford | Oct 4, 2016 | Compagnie aérienne franco-canadienne, Nieuport-Delage 391, TravelAir 4000
The Nieuport-Delage 391 was widely used in France by the Compagnie aérienne française. In Canada, it was the aircraft of choice for the Compagnie aérienne franco-canadienne for its 1929 airmail route. What a Sinking Feeling… Aviation...
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