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A small plane drops presents over a snowy field full of people.

A sweet finale: Bush pilot Johnny May leaves an inspiring legacy

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Every Christmas for more than half a century, a bush pilot named Johnny May dropped a medley of candies and gifts for the residents of Kuujjuaq, a village in Nunavik, Quebec.

Victor Deng the student intern standing in front of the Avro Arrow and the CF-18

Project Log #1: Getting Started

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Working in an environment that’s full of airplanes has been my dream since childhood. So, when I learned that a summer internship at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum was a possibility, I jumped at the chance.

Sisters Maria Cleofas and Maria Innocenza of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Aloysius Gonzaga aboard an AVIA / Lombardi FL.3 light / private airplane during their flight training, Turin, Italy. Anon., “Le ciel leur appartient.” Le Soleil / Perspectives, 20 February 1960, 12.

Sister Bertrille was not the first flying nun, or, Let’s talk about Sisters Maria Cleofas and Maria Innocenza – and about Sister Mary Aquinas too

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Good morning, my reading friend of the Milky Way. Yours truly dares to hope that the weather, outside, does not affect your little neurons too much. I would like to offer you this week a subject of a scale that could not be more reasonable, inspired by a very brief article found in the 20 February 1960 issue of the weekly magazine Perspectives inserted in the same day issue of the daily Le Soleil of Québec, Québec – and of La Tribune of Sherbrooke, Québec, my homecity, and… You are quite right

The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, ca 2007. Wikipedia.

So far away from home: The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You made it, my reading friend. Yours truly is very glad to, err, acknowledge you presence. Given that last week’s issue of our, oh, so fascinating blog / bulletin / thingee dealt with the potted history of the descendants of the Wright Bellanca WB-2 Columbia / Maple Leaf record breaking airplane, made by the American firm Bellanca Aircraft Corporation and by Canadian Vickers Limited of Montréal, Québec, in the 1920s and 1930s, and Northwest Industries Limited of Edmonton, Alberta, in the 1940s

A Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker operated by Alaska Coastal Airlines, Incorporated, Juneau, Alaska. This floatplane is now on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Keith Petrich, “Bush Flying Is Dead.” Air Trails Pictorial, February 1945, 26.

So far away from home: The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You will have undoubtedly have noted, my, oh so observant reading friend, the presence of a few automobiles, microcars to be more precise, in recent issues of out blog / bulletin / thingee. It’s not that yours truly loves / likes automobiles. I was simply intrigued by the existence of these vehicles. This week, I would like to assume my wingnuttyness, for a change. Let us therefore look into the story of an airplane, and that of its designer, through a photograph found in the February 1945 issue

Charles Aznavour with the Beehoo / Magna Amphicat all-terrain vehicle he was examining, Montréal, Québec. His daughter Seda is near him. Suzanne Piuze, “Aznavour m’a dit…” La Patrie, 25 January 1970, 20.

I would love to own one; on my boat, that would be dandy: The off road journey of the Beehoo / Magna Amphicat

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As a greeting, my reading friend, I make you the solemn promise to be brief, at least for this week. Let us begin our peroration, dare I say (type?) pontification, with a visit to the second edition of the Salon (international?) de l’Auto, held at Place Bonaventure, in Montréal, Québec, from 15 to 25 January 1970. One of the many, many visitors at this event was none other than Charles Aznavour, born Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian. This world famous French author composer interpreter, actor and

A demonstration of the lightness of the Williams Jet No.1 turbojet engine. Anon. “23-lb. Turbojet Develops 70 lb. of Thrust.” Aviation Week and Space Technology, 18 January 1960, 126.

This engine may have been a bit heavy but her smile still stayed on: The Williams Jet No. 1 and its successors

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

My dearly beloved reading friend, it is with ever renewed pleasure that I, yours truly, welcome you to the wonderful world of aviation and space – and whatever else happens to tickle my funny bone – in an intellectual manner of course. This week’s topic should also tickle your funny bone. The caption of the photograph I came across while perusing the 18 January 1960 issue of the well-known American weekly magazine Aviation Leak and Space Mythology, sorry, Aviation Week and Space Technology

The General Development / Christmas airliner, near New York City, New York. Anon., “Potężny łoskot silników powietrznych gigantów powitał rok nowy.” Lot Polski, January 1930, 1.

The powerful roar of the aerial giants’ engines greeted the new year: The troubling saga of William Wallace Whitney Christmas

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

I would like to begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee, the first of the year 2020, the final year of the 2010 decade, with heartfelt wishes of good health and fortune. We all need both and, in most cases, we deserve both. There are people, however, about whom one has to wonder whether or not such good health and fortune may have been bestowed a wee bit undeservedly. One such person was / is William Wallace Whitney Christmas. Yours truly will endeavour to untangle the web of confusion

A man speaks at a podium, in front of a small group of people, with black-and-white images on the wall beside him.

An aviation milestone: 100 years since the first commercial bush flight in Canada

Claudine Drolet

The historic landing of Canada’s first commercial bush flight in 1919 has been forever encapsulated through a special centennial project.

The Piaggio P-7 at rest in its element. Joaquin de la Llave y Sierra, “Antes y después de la Copa Schneider.” Aérea, December 1929, 8.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try again: The odd story of the Piaggio P-7

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It is with a certain trepidation that yours truly approaches the subject of this week, my reading friend. I feel a certain discomfort at the idea of talking about an aircraft designed in Italy during the years during which the Partito Nazionale Fascista, an unsavoury organisation led by Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, a pompous brute and buffoonish dictator mentioned in August 2018, December 2018 and July 2019 issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee, held the reins of power. This being said

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