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On the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum reflects on the BCATP and Canada’s important role in training Allied air crews for victory.

Ian Willoughby Bazalgette was Alberta’s sole Victoria Cross recipient of the Second World War.

Today in our Honouring the Brave series, read about David Ernest Hornell and the heroic sinking of a German submarine.

Read about brave Canadians like Andrew Charles Mynarski as we commemorate the end of the Second World War.

Ahoj, my reading friend, hello. It is, as always, a pleasure to welcome you to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Quick question. Do you know what homebuilding is? (Hello, SB!) Yes, you are correct. The term homebuilding refers to the construction of aircraft by individuals working at home using plans or kits more or less ready to be assembled. Does this mean that this week’s topic of our intergalactically-read blog / bulletin / thingee has to do with homebuilding, you ask? Yes, it does

Welcome, my reading friend, welcome. May yours truly propose that we listen to our passion for wings on this day in May? We have, after all, ignored it for some weeks. Any objections? Objection denied. The year I intend to bring to your attention being 1910, put on your time travelling goggles and take a deep breath. In mid-May of that year, a brand new Blériot Type XI, a French aeroplane type made famous by Louis Charles Joseph Blériot’s crossing of the English Channel in July 1909, a world

During the weeks that followed the Allied landing in Normandy, in June 1944, large swaths of Western Europe were freed from German occupation, including a small portion of the Netherlands. In the rest of the country, where the great majority of its population lived, there was hope that their suffering at the hands of a cruel enemy would soon be over. In September, hoping to assist the Allies’ continuing offensive and hasten the liberation of the Netherlands, the country’s London-based government

The Ingenium museums are currently closed, but Marie-Josée Menard is one of the friendly faces you'll see when the Canada Aviation and Space Museum reopens!

Hello, hello, my reading friend, and welcome to the second part of this article on the Lockheed Georgia L-402 / Aeronautica Macchi AL-60 utility aircraft. If you do not mind, let us really get to the heart of the matter. I shall be brief. Let me quote the legend of the photograph above, wrestled to the ground from the July 1969 issue of the American monthly Air Progress.

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