Ride the Redbird

Ride the Redbird

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Feel the sensation of flying without leaving the ground! Try out the Museum’s Redbird FMX flight simulator.
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Fly into the Future: Aviation and Space Career Exploration Fair

Aviation and Space Career Exploration Fair

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Special Event
Have you charted a course for your future career, or are you still looking for inspiration? Whether you’re grounded in indecision or ready...
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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Permanent Exhibition
Listen as astronauts share their first-hand experiences, and explore surprising artifacts that reveal how Canada has contributed to...
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Membership is the ideal way for you and your family to enjoy all of the fascinating exhibitions and activities at all three Museums as often...
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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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From the Channel
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A black-and-white image of a plane in flight.
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Aviation & Space

The death of a dream: The sixtieth anniversary of Avro’s Black Friday

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Feb 20, 2019
Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the cancellation of the CF-105 Avro Arrow, Canada’s first and only supersonic fighter interceptor. It remains one of the most contentious moments in Canadian aerospace history.
Jasmine Lydia Bligh, television hostess at the British Broadcasting Corporation, aboard a Cierva Rota autogiro of the Royal Air Force with Reginald Alfred Charles Brie, Hanworth, England. Anon., “On a ‘télévisé’ les évolutions d’un autogyre.” Paris-Soir, 21 February 1939, 10.
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Come with me Jasmine in my flying machine

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Feb 18, 2019
Hello there, or is it here, my reading friend. No matter. Yours truly is pleased to present you a little something that should pique your interest. Before going too far in this peroration, I thought you might be interested in reading the caption of the photo that initiated it. Said photo was found
A Zavod Imeni Likhacheva ZIL-111 limousine, Moscow. Anon., “–.” L’Action catholique, 1 February 1959, 20.
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A limousine from a den of communist atheists in a catholic newspaper

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Feb 4, 2019
What’s this, my reading friend? You wonder why our blog / bulletin / thingee, dedicated as it is to all things aeronautical and spacey, is once again dealing with something as mundane and boring as an automobile? Well, for starters, yours truly was intrigued by the presence of a photo of a Soviet

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