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C-102 Jetliner during a flight, October 24, 1950. Source: Library and Archives Canada/a067504
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The C-102 Jetliner

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Dec 10, 2015
On August 10, 1949, A.V. Roe (Avro) Canada Ltd.’s C-102 Jetliner took to the sky. It was the first Canadian passenger jet aircraft to fly in North America. Unfortunately the C-102 Jetliner was 13 days behind the first flight of the de Havilland 106 Comet out of the United Kingdom, making it the second passenger jet aircraft to fly in the world. While the C-102 Jetliner would never carry any paying passengers, it did conduct the world’s first jet airmail flight from Toronto, Ontario, to New York
Pierre Jeanniot with his famous “Black Box”. Source: Library and Archives Canada/ e011166702
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Pierre Jeanniot and the Black Box

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Dec 7, 2015
On November 29, 1963, a Trans-Canada Air Lines flight (today’s Air Canada) crashed four minutes after take-off about 32 km north of Montréal, near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, claiming the lives of 118 people on board. After an extensive investigation and airline technicians’ best efforts, the cause of the crash could not be determined. In early 1964, Trans-Canada Air Lines maintenance division chief (and future president and CEOof the company) Pierre Jeanniot was asked to install a device
Elsie Gregory MacGill, 1927. Source: Library and Archives Canada/a200745
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Elizabeth Muriel “Elsie” Gregory MacGill: Pioneer, Innovator and Inspiration

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Nov 20, 2015
In 1927, Elsie MacGill graduated from the University of Toronto, becoming the first woman in Canada to receive a degree in electrical engineering, and later became the world’s first female aircraft designer. In 1929, MacGill earned her master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan, and was shortly thereafter afflicted with acute infantile myelitis, a form of polio. Determined to walk again, MacGill supported herself during her recovery by writing articles on
Roots of Radar
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Roots of Radar

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Nov 2, 2015
During the Second World War, Canada’s National Research Council was the centre of Canadian contributions to radar technology. With NRC’s help, Canada installed the first operating radar system in North America – a coastal defence system near Halifax. A few years later, building on secret British war plans, NRC designed one of the first mass-produced radar systems manufactured in Canada. In the late 1930s, NRC began to explore the possibility of detecting aircraft by electrical means. Meanwhile
Dehavilland Canada Beaver
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De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver

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Apr 28, 2015
A dam good aircraft, the Beaver is a model bush plane: hard-working, reliable, and rugged. The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is one of Canada’s most successful aircraft — almost 1,700 Beavers were made and sold around the world between 1947 and 1968, more than any other Canadian aircraft. The Beaver was designed in consultation with bush pilots, who asked for a short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft with a large cargo capacity. De Havilland engineers responded with an all-metal airplane with high
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