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Delve into real-life accounts of aviation in the Second World War, learn about asteroids, and find tips on how to observe upcoming celestial events.

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One of the wings of the Holste MH-20, or Holste 20, under construction. Anon., “Ceux qui veulent du travail font leurs preuves – Pour la coupe Deutsch un avion construit par des chômeurs prendra le départ.” Ce Soir, 2 August 1939, 1.

A racing airplane made in Paris by unemployed workers

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello comrade. (Hello, CF!) I invite you today to another journey in time and the wonderful world of aviation and space. Our goal is a dead end at the end of a Paris street that you have never heard of, Angoulême Street. Interestingly, at least for yours truly, the city of Angoulême, in the south of France, had / has among its many attractions the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image. I had the great pleasure to visit the museum

The prototype of the Saunders ST-27 commuter airliner in flight, May 1969. Anon., “Air Transport … Light, Commercial & Business.” Flight International, 7 August 1969, 200.

A venture worthy of success, the Saunders ST-27 and ST-28 commuter airliners

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Yours truly would like to offer you a small topic this week. Yes, yes, I shall be brief and succinct. Said subject was inspired by a photograph found in the 7 August 1969 issue of the British weekly Flight International – a remarkable publication if there was / is one. Once upon a time, there was a British pilot and aeronautical engineer, now forgotten, who started a very interesting project in the second half of the 1960s. As you can probably guess, my reading friend, this was not the first

The Canadian anti-submarine hydrofoil HMCS Bras d’Or travelling at high speed. Anon., “World’s fastest warship.” The Gazette, 18 July 1969, 13.

Marine Transportation

And now for something completely different: a flying ship from Toronto, Ontario

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Oyez, oyez, let it be said everywhere on this Earth that the subject of our blog / bulletin / thingee for this week does not touch upon aviation or space. Yours truly wanted to broaden your horizons, my reading friend. The photograph with which I kickoff said subject comes from The Gazette, a daily newspaper from Montréal, Québec, that I do not consult very often. It comes, say I, from the 18 July 1959, sorry, 1969, issue. The legend of said photograph read as follows:

Gérard Duquette, foreman at Héroux Incorporée, on the right, with many family members and 2 of his workers, 20 July 1969. Roger Nadeau, “Les ouvriers de la Héroux ont tressailli de joie en voyant le LEM sur la Lune.” Le Petit Journal, 27 July 1969, 4.

Did you know that the Eagle landed on the Moon on legs made in Québec?

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Grab a chair, or a beanbag, my reading friend. While it is true that we are not in Longueuil, Québec, in July 1969, waiting for a human being to set foot on the Moon, we nonetheless have the right to have a little comfort. Let us start our weekly peroration with a review of the situation. The photo above was / is from the 27 July 1969 issue of the weekly Le Petit Journal of Montréal, Québec, a publication gone for many years now. Let us continue our peroration with the question you probably

A composite image made up of three pictures: David Saint-Jacques, a barren desert, and a grocery store customer.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — July edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Kyrke Gaudreau. This all-star trio works as Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their area of expertise. For the July edition, they tackled how blockchain

Canadian engineer Owen Eugene Maynard with a model of the Convair Atlas launch vehicle topped by a McDonnell Mercury space capsule, 1962. Roger Nadeau, “Une foule de techniciens canadiens ont pris part au vol d’Apollo 11.” Le Petit Journal, 20 July 1969, 4.

The little guy from Sarnia who put the first human on the Moon

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If I may be permitted to paraphrase Lawrence Henry Gowan, a Scottish Canadian singer, Homo sapiens is a strange animal. Our history can be the best of times. It can also be the worst of times, if I may paraphrase Charles John Huffam Dickens. All of this to say (type?) that July 2019 was / is quite the month from an anniversarial point of view. Fifty years ago this month, a human, 2 humans actually, set foot on an extraterrestrial body. And what a body! The Moon, to paraphrase the title of a 1966

A group of students poses in front of the Lancaster bomber at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Innovative math teacher brings war history to life through math

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

Imagine a math class that involves remote-controlled planes, a museum of world-class aircraft, and a poignant connection to an important military mission from the Second World War. That’s exactly what Grade 11 math students at Lisgar Collegiate Institute get to experience, thanks to a unique museum-school collaboration between Lisgar and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Math teacher Robert Tang has created the Dambuster Math Summative, an innovative full-day program connecting math to

The first Taylor J.T.1 Monoplane, White Waltham, England. Anon., “Sport and Business.” Flight, 19 June 1959, 839.

Tinker, Taylor, monoplane

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Do you like airplanes, my reading friend? Yes, you do, and so do I. Let us therefore peer into the deep well of time, all the way to the 19 June 1959 issue of Flight, in order to tell the story of a most interesting airplane. And no, I’m not getting paid to pay homage to this British weekly magazine, one of the greatest aeronautical / aerospace periodicals of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sadly. The main character of this week’s story was / is John F. Taylor, a gentleman born in the United

A black and white image of Gander Airport.

Stepping inside an artifact: A visit to Gander International Airport

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

Three of the main performers of the musical soap opera Amour, délices et cie, with its creator, Joseph Louis Réal Giguère, Montréal, Québec. François Piazza, “Sur les ailes de Télé-Métropole – Amour, délices et cie s’envole.” Photo-journal, 18 to 25 June 1969, 44.

Amour, délices et cie

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As I began writing this article of paramount importance for the future of the human genome, yes, yes, paramount, absolutely, some notes of the musical theme of Amour, délices et cie popped into my mind, after more than 50 years. And the craziest thing is that this show was of no interest to the young geek I was at the time – and that I am still, in an older form of course. Memory is a strange faculty, is not it? Anyway, let’s move on. So, hello, my reading friend. Did you miss me? A little? A

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