by Diana Trafford | Dec 5, 2024 | Quebec aviation
If you receive this post via email, try reading it here on the internet. Waterfowl flapped madly as they rose from the water to escape the massive bird that splashed down among them, darkening the sky with its 74-foot (22.5 m) wingspan. A Curtiss HS-2L flying boat had...
by Diana Trafford | Nov 9, 2022 | Compagnie aérienne franco-canadienne, de Lesseps, Early Canadian aviation, George Fuller, Quebec aviation
Tribute November 17, 2022 — at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (Montréal) On July 2, 2022, we lost one of our most respected Canadian aviation historians. George Fuller had a special interest in Québec aviation, and in early aviation generally. He shared his knowledge...
by Diana Trafford | Jan 29, 2021 | Howard Watt, Quebec aviation
It was Uncle Howard’s last flight. He loved every minute of it. Howard Watt had flown everything from Curtiss JN-4 Canadian “Jennies” to four-engine Liberator wartime transports during his three decades in commercial aviation and RAF Ferry Command. To fly in a...
by Barbara Campbell | Mar 21, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by guest author Barbara Van Orden Campbell From 1950 until 1953, Con and Barbara Campbell ran a refueling base and weather reporting station for Gold Belt Airways of Noranda at Bachelor Lake, Québec, 180 miles northeast of Rouyn, near present-day...
by Barbara Campbell | Mar 19, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by guest author Barbara Van Orden Campbell In 1950, Con and Barbara Campbell took a job with Gold Belt Air Service of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, running their float plane base at Bachelor Lake. Flights of History is proud to feature chapters from...
by Barbara Campbell | Mar 10, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by Barbara Van Orden Campbell Barb and Con Campbell were cutting survey lines in the bush north of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, when they heard that Gold Belt Air Service was looking for someone to run their refuelling base at Bachelor Lake. They jumped at the chance to...
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