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The United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane borrowed by Iron Ore Company of Canada Incorporated in 1951. Anon., “Fret aérien – L’opération Ungava – Le fret aérien accélère l’application d’un projet. » Interavia, December 1951, 672.

“In the interests of national security”: The role played by a United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane in the development of the Knob Lake region’s iron ore deposits

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend, and grab a seat. I will be right with you. Creating a philosopher’s stone is no easy matter, especially when people keep interrupting. Just ask Nicolas Flamel, the Potterian one, not the real one who was a public writer, copyist and sworn bookseller. Not an alchemist. Once upon a time, in November 1949, several (5 or 6?) American steelmakers incorporated Iron Ore Company of Canada Incorporated (IOCC), an American firm in spite of its name. At the time, the

The Vertol Model 42 of Skyrotors Limited of Arnprior, Ontario, chartered by Spartan Air Services Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, as part of Operation High Tower. Anon., “Operation High Tower.” The Ottawa Citizen, 8 November 1961, 3.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to move stuff around: Spartan Air Services Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, the Ottawa radio station CFRA and Operation High Tower

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Given how lazy yours truly tends to be, my reading friend, yes, yes, lazy, I admit it, I chose this week’s topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee because it could be put forward in a relatively brief pontification. Our tale began in the fall of 1961 with a telephone call to John A. “Johnny” Roberts, one of the founders of a firm which, only a few years before, had been one the largest and most active aerial survey and photography firm in Canada, a firm known both locally and globally, Spartan

One of the two life-size aluminum alloy sculptures of whooping cranes created by Wolfram F. Niessen for Regina Municipal Airport, Regina, Saskatchewan. Anon., “Regina Honors the Whooping Crane.” The Ottawa Citizen, Weekend Magazine, 18 November 1961, 38.

Let’s talk about art, humans. All the humans. Louder now. Help me out. – Wolfram F. Niessen, John Cullen Nugent and the life-size aluminum alloy sculptures of whooping cranes created for Regina Municipal Airport

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Let us indeed talk (read?) about art, airport art to be more precise, my reading friend. When the Second World War came to an end, in 1945, the terminal buildings of Canada’s largest airports were by no means huge buildings. Indeed, one could argue they looked a lot, and felt a lot, like bus depots. As the accumulated desire of passengers to travel was released, these terminal buildings became busier and busier. In 1946, approximately 837 000 people travelled by air in Canada. By 1956

A guide stands behind a small plastic aquarium. A big red letter X covers the image.

Adventures in Virtual Field Trips: "Check that camera angle, please!"

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

Hey educators! You may relate — and laugh — at the adventures of Kim Reynolds, a seasoned educator who works with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

An ascent made by Québec female fairground balloonist and parachutist Florida Lanthier. Maurice Desjardins, “Dans une modeste maison de Montréal-Nord -- Florida Lanthier, reine des parachutistes, vit de couture... et de souvenirs.” Photo-Journal, 8 November 1951, 3.

Shadows and light in the skies of Québec: A preliminary look at the life and times of Québec female fairground balloonist and parachutist Florida Lanthier

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It is not every day that a topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee takes the front page of a newspaper, whether that be a daily or weekly. Nay. Yet, that is the case today. The 8 November 1951 edition of the Montréal, Québec, weekly Photo-Journal carried the following headlines, in translation: “Florida Lanthier, without her parachute – Read on page 3.” Yours truly must admit to being intrigued. It turns out that Lanthier was / is one of the rare francophone female fairground aeronauts in Québec

A variety of audio-visual formats, including film, audio, and different kinds of video cassettes, from the Les Harris Fonds are spread out on a table.

View from above: Capturing the experience of flight on film

How do filmmakers capture the experience of flight on film? Read about one filmmaker’s strategies.

A coastal reconnaissance Bristol Bolingbroke destined for the Royal Canadian Air Force being assembled at the Fairchild Aircraft Limited factory, Longueuil, Québec, 1941. Anon., “Les C.F. et la R.C.A.F.” Le Samedi, 18 October 1941, (c).

“We must get aircraft equipment and look after our coasts” – The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Bristol Bolingbroke coastal reconnaissance aircraft

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

How would you like to read a fascinating text while sipping a glass of turnip juice, my reading friend? If so, you are in for a treat, if I may quote the vampire Eric Northman. I think. I hope. And yes, the topic in question is one of the aircraft types in the fabulous collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Before we go any further on the yellow brick road that we are following today, yours truly would like to mansplain the title of the article published in Le

The prototype of the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter on display at the Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, circa 2001. CASM.

From pole to pole and horizon to horizon, the Twin Otter was, is and will be there: A very brief pontification on one of the best Canadian aircraft ever designed

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly is happy to see that you wish to drink once again from the fountain of knowledge that our anarchic and overly chatty blog / bulletin / thingee sometimes constitutes. I will not tell you anything you did not already know by saying (typing?) that the supremely illustrious Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, acquired a very important aircraft in October 1981 and ... What do you say? You do not have a clue of what I am talking (typing?)

The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2009. Wikipedia.

The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ahh, you are back. What a pleasant surprise. Would I be correct in assuming that you wish to see (read?) the second and final part of this article on the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the fantabulastic Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario? Wunderbar! The story of that particular example of the B.E.2 began in England, in the factory of British & Colonial Aeroplane Company Limited, as most of Europe was busy tearing itself to pieces during the First World War. Completed in late

The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum when it belonged to the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario. H.J. (“Titch”) Jenkins, “Correspondence – Ottawa’s – and Sowrey’s – B.E.2c.” Flight, 12 October 1961, 600.

The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

With your permission, or without it if need be, my reading friend, I would like to launch this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question. Do your like mysteries and / or oddities? Me too. By the way, did you know that, as late as 2017, the Public Works & Environmental Services of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the nonbilingual capital of a bilingual country, sometimes used divining rods to locate an underground pipe suspected of leaking? I kid you not, but I do digress. Now that yours

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