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Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

Artifact no.: 2016.0005

Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

A heavy-duty transport aircraft designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the United States Air Force (USAF) in the early 1950s.

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Some of the displays of the National Aviation Museum, Uplands Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, early 1960s. CASM, negative number 4446.
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Aviation

Happy birthday to us. Happy birthday to us. Happy birthday dear CASM. Happy birthday to us: A few words on the early days, weeks, months and years of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Oct 25, 2020
25 October 2020 is indeed a joyful day, my reading friend. On this day, 60 years ago, the National Aviation Museum, today’s positively and absolutely amazing Canada Aviation and Space Museum, opened its doors to the public. Yours truly will not keep you busy for long. Nay. Having joined the staff of
A somewhat inaccurate (life-size?) reproduction of Sputnik I on display in Prague, Czechoslovakia, as part of an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Anon., “Modèle du satellite russe.” Le Nouvelliste, 10 October 1957, 1.
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Space

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 4

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Oct 25, 2020
Good morning and welcome to this 4th and last (I hope) part of this article on the media coverage surrounding the launch of the first artificial satellite, in October 1957. I am just as surprised as you are, believe it, by the magnitude of said cover. Your feet will not get cold, I assure you, and
Pierre Dorion, « L’ère des émotions. » La Presse, 9 October 1957, 4.
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Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 3

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Oct 20, 2020
Bienvenue, welcome, my reading friend, and… Um, yes, I am aware that World Space Week 2020 has been over for about a week, and… I am also aware that the question asked in the first part of this article (How the daily and weakly, sorry, weekly French language Québec press described what was being
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