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Bienvenue and welcome to the fabulous world of aviation and space. Did you notice that last week’s article in our blog / bulletin / thingee was about an excellent Canadian aircraft, the de Havilland Canada Caribou? Yes? Wunderbar. Are you happy with this choice? Doubly wunderbar. Having mentioned the name of another aircraft designed by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) of Downsview, near Toronto, Ontario, in said article, the idea occurred to me to discuss its story this week. And

Welcome aboard this edition of our blog / bulletin / thingee. I would like to speak (type?) to you this week about one of the very successful aircraft designed and manufactured by one of Canada’s leading aircraft manufacturers, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) of Downsview, Ontario – a firm mentioned many times in this place, since February 2018. This aircraft is the de Havilland Canada Caribou. In the months following the service introduction of the de Havilland Canada Otter single

Last year, legendary Inuit bush pilot Johnny May made his final candy drop before saying goodbye to a sweet tradition.

High flyer Emily Crombez is an inspiration to young female pilots everywhere.

Hello, good day, my reading friend. What would you think of a brief excursion into the wonderful world of aviation and space? Surprise! It will not be news to you, aviation enthusiast that you are, if I said (typed?) that it was in December... I can see in your face that you are puzzled by a sense of déjà vu. Are the first words of this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee all but identical to those of another December 2020 issue, you ask? Yes, they are. The content will not, however, be the

If yours truly may be permitted to jump into the fray without so much as a hello, the great American stand-up comic Rodney Dangerfield, to use the stage name of Jack Roy, born Jacob Rodney Cohen, used to say that he got no respect. It might be exaggerated to say (type?) that the subject of today’s article got no respect, but I will argue that it deserved more success than it got. The subject of today’s article, as you may have guessed by now, I hope, is the Vickers Vanguard short to medium range

Hello, good day, my reading friend. What would you think of a brief excursion into the wonderful world of aviation and space? Surprise! This is not news to you, aviation enthusiast that you are, that it was in December 1950 that North America’s first turboprop airliner flew for the first time. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair, worked with the Allison Division of General Motors Corporation, an American automotive giant mentioned several / many times in our blog / bulletin /

Greetings to you, my reading friend, and welcome to the second part of this article on one of the most successful aeroengine of the 20th and 21st centuries, the PT6. Did you know that United Aircraft of Canada Limited (UACL) of Longueuil, Québec, a firm known today as Pratt & Whitney Canada Incorporated, played a significant role in the introduction of a new type of aeroengine on agricultural aircraft? Well, it sure did. One could say it first became involved in agricultural aviation, somewhat

Allow me to offer you a big safe aerospace salute, my reading friend. I would like to talk (type?) to you about an engine, and what an engine! In 1956, realising very well that the heyday of the piston engine had passed, the American parent company of Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited of Longueuil, Québec, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of the American aeronautical giant United Aircraft Corporation, gave it a mandate to develop jet engines of limited power. Shortly

Greetings and salutations, my sophisticated reading friend. Please take a few seconds to ponder the implications of what is shown in the photograph above, and the one below.