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Keith S. Hopkinson with his Stits SA-3 Playboy, an aircraft now owned by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Ray Blair, « New boom for home-builts. » Canadian Aviation, September 1957, 64.

One small step for a man, one giant leap for homebuilding, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

At first glance, the Stits SA-3 playboy of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, is not particularly impressive. Its very ordinary appearance, however, conceals a most interesting story dating back more than 60 years, as suggested in the photograph above, published in the September 1957 issue of the monthly magazine Canadian Aviation. Homebuilding, in other words the construction of aircraft by individuals working at home using plans or kits more or less ready to be assembled

Federal Funds for the Mont-Megantic Observatory

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The Mont-Megantic Observatory has been in operation since 1978 as one of Canada’s premier astrophysical observatories. In order to ensure it remain on the frontier of astrophysical research, the Federal government, through the Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions Agency, has provided a $1,000,000 for the development of new instrumentation.

The one and only Helicopter Technik München Skyrider on display at the XXXe Salon international de l’aéronautique et de l’espace, at Le Bourget, Paris, France, in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTM_Skytrac.

Driving and flying Miss Daisy, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello again, my reading friend. As promised in the first part of this article, I am pleased to offer you some Canadian content. At the end of 1979, a virtually unknown company by the name of West German Aircraft Development Corporation founded Manitoba Aircraft Corporation Limited to produce helicopters at Gimli, Manitoba, in the shops formerly occupied by a small aircraft maker, Saunders Aircraft Corporation Limited. The history of this Canadian company is fascinating to say the least. Let us

Jo Lancaster, one of the first to use an ejection seat in an aircraft

Inside the ejector seat

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The ejection seat is ubiquitous nowadays in military fighter crafts, but it wasn't always so. Jo Lancaster became one of the first to use an ejection seat 70 years ago. This great video from BBC Science News explains the engineering behind early ejection seats.

More Test Flights for Airlander 10

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The Airlander 10, combination plane and airship, is the world's longest aircraft measured at 92 meters long. It took to the air recently for its fourth test flight, reaching a height of 1,067 meters. The developer, Hybrid Air Vehicles, is saying it might be how we all get around one day. Thoughts?

The one and only Wagner Aerocar roadable helicopter. Anon., “Aviation générale.” Aviation magazine international, 1 August 1967, 42.

Driving and flying Miss Daisy, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome, my reading friend, to this last minute addition to this bulletin / blog / thingee. Having realised that there were five weeks in August, yours truly scrambled like mad to find a topic that could be of interest – and include some Canadian content. And here it is. Around 1960, a new small West German company set out to design a family of multipurpose helicopters fitted with two coaxial main rotors that turned in opposite direction. The government provided some funding to help it. One of

A Westland Dragonfly of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm carrying a man dressed up as a witch for a special event, September 1962. CASM, Molson collection negative.

Is it an H-5? Is it a Dragonfly? No, it’s an S-51, Part 4

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome back, gentle reader, and take a seat while yours truly gathers his thoughts. Do you remember the Dragonfly? In January 1947, a well known British aircraft maker bought a license to produce the Sikorsky S-51 and sell it around the globe, with the exception of North America, thus initiating decades of cooperation with the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation. This approach allowed Westland Aircraft Limited to bypass the expensive and time consuming design and

The museum’s S-51, Rockcliffe, Ontario, 2 June 1967. CASM, Molson collection positive.

Is it an H-5? Is it a Dragonfly? No, it’s an S-51, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If this writer may be so bold, he has the feeling that the Sikorsky S-51 owned by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the very first helicopter flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), is a plain and simple S-51, bought pretty much off the shelf. In other words, one might not want to call it an H-5 – or a Dragonfly for that matter. And here lies a tale. The RCAF acquired three S-51s in 1947 to gain experience in helicopter operations in various terrains and under winter conditions. It

A Sikorsky HO3S of the U.S. Navy conducting a rescue exercise with a dummy aviator. CASM, negative number 32049.

Is it an H-5? Is it a Dragonfly? No, it’s an S-51, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome back, my reading friend, and relax. This won’t hurt a bit. The story of the Sikorsky S-51 began in December 1942 when the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, a giant in the American aircraft industry, set out to design an observation helicopter for the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force. The new machine, the VS-327, was to be superior in performance to the Sikorsky R-4, the very first helicopter put in series production

The first helicopter accepted by the Canadian armed forces, the Sikorsky S-51 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Spring 1947. Anon., “Advertising – Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited.” Canadian Aviation, August 1947, 2nd cover.

Is it an H-5? Is it a Dragonfly? No, it’s an S-51, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

While most of the prototypes found in the aircraft collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, attract the attention of the specialised press when they first come out, the same cannot be said of the run of the mill aircraft on display or in storage. Given this state of affair, the writer of these lines was tickled pink when he came across this full page ad, published in the August 1947 issue of the monthly magazine Canadian Aviation.

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