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Screen capture of the Digital Archives welcome page.

Ingenium’s Digital Archives opens museum vaults to the curious

Researchers, creators, and digital citizens rejoice – the vaults have been opened! Thanks to a new Digital Archives portal from Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, Canadians now have unprecedented access to the archives of three national museums. This means a whole new level of access to digital copies of holdings – and a look at naked catalogue records – from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology

The first Bell Aerospace Model 7380 Voyageur, Grand Bend, Ontario, December 1971. Michael L. Yaffe, “Air Cushion Cargo Craft Tested in Canada.” Aviation Week and Space Technology, 20 December 1971, 58.

A Puffalo! A Puffalo! My kingdom for a Puffalo!, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Yours truly was so fascinated by the story of the Air Cushion Landing System that I decided to dig further still. Thus, let it be known throughout the land that, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Aerosystems Company, a subsidiary of Bell Aerospace Corporation later known as the Bell Aerospace Company Division of Textron Incorporated, was the most experienced manufacturer of air cushion vehicles / hovercrafts in North America. The American company, for example, held the license for the

The de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo used to test the Air Cushion Landing System. Anon. “Air cushion landing system Buffalo taxi tests prove successful.” The Canadian Aircraft Operator, 1 May 1974, 1.

A Puffalo! A Puffalo! My kingdom for a Puffalo!, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome back, my eager to learn reading friend, to the continuing saga of the air cushion landing gear. Do you remember the names of the main players? Yes? No? No matter. You can go back to the first part of this article. There will be a test. Just kidding. Having realised that the concept actually worked, the Flight Dynamics Laboratory of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Bell Aerospace Company Division of Textron Incorporated, a new name adopted around January 1970, decided to test

Two United Air Lines, Incorporated loading stands, the old vs. the new. Anon., “Air Transport – Keeping up with the ‘New Look’.” Aviation Week, 22 March 1948, 46.

A new look at a stairway to heaven

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

How are you today, my reading friend? Are you in need of a leg up? If so, search no more for yours truly has what you need. Behold, one small step for a woman, many small steps for womankind! Sorry, sometimes I get carried away – or upward. Being somewhat lazy by nature, yes, yes, it’s true, I thought best to tell part of our story by quoting the brief text that accompanied the photo above.

The Lake LA-4 fitted with an experimental air cushion landing gear by Bell Aerospace Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York, 1967. Anon. “Bag down and inflated…” Air Progress, March 1968, 47.

A Puffalo! A Puffalo! My kingdom for a Puffalo!, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome, my reading friend, and apologies to any English major who may stumble across this webpage. Yours truly was suitably intrigued when he came across the photo above. How could one resist? Resistance was indeed futile. Once upon a time, an original start to a story if there ever was one, in late 1963 to be more precise, a subsidiary of Bell Aerospace Corporation by the name of Bell Aerosystems Company began to develop a concept. The American company’s internally-funded investigation

Google Arts & Culture virtual exhibition screenshot, featuring the Central Experimental Farm

Ingenium reaches international audiences through Google Arts & Culture app

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Google Arts & Culture recently made headlines with its selfie-to-painting recognition app, as people eagerly tried out a new facial recognition feature to see if they resemble the Mona Lisa or van Gogh. What many people don’t know is that Google Arts & Culture has been around since 2011 – and is partnered with museums and galleries across the globe. Ingenium has been a partner in this world-wide initiative since 2015. So, why would a science and technology-focused organization be featured in an

Charles Yves Joseph Éboué, then captain with the Union aéromaritime de transport. Maxime Reno, « Le coin du pilote – Charles Éboué, commandant de bord à l’U.A.T. » Aviation Magazine, 1 March 1958, 15.

An exceptional pilot, Charles Yves Joseph Éboué

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings and welcome, my reading friend. Yours truly came across this week’s story quite by chance, which is not necessarily a good thing. I should have noticed it during my first look at the 1 March 1958 issue of the French bi-monthly Aviation Magazine, an excellent publication if there was one. A publication, dare I say, that allows us to approach the evolution of aviation and spaceflight from a point of view that is not American or British - or Anglo-Canadian. But back to our story. We are

Some of the water bombs used by the United States Army Air Forces to fight forest fires during the summer of 1947. Tamara Andreeva, “Water Bombers.” Skyways, February 1948, 22.

Turning swords into ploughshares in the great state of Montana

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You seem puzzled, my reading friend. Is the expression “water bomb” new to you? Fear not. Yours truly has an explanation. Our story, a sad story, began around 1925 with one of the most devastating forest fires in the history of the north-western United States. This crown blaze jumped uncontrollably from tree top to tree top. United States Forest Service teams paid a heavy price to bring this monster under control. Several men were injured and many mules used to carry equipment perished in the

A Tupolev Tu-4 on display at the Tsentral'niy Dom Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika, Monino, near Moscow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

An American in Moscow, or, How a Soviet clone cost North American taxpayers a fantastic sum of money, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Are you still interested in linking the fantastic sum of money in our title to the Tupolev Tu-4 long range heavy bomber? Yes? Wonderful. Let us proceed. The prototype of this clone of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress first took to the sky in May 1947. As was to be expected for such a reverse engineering programme, the engineers at the many factories involved in the production of the airplane and its many components, from its landing gear to its engines, had to overcome

A passion strong enough to last a lifetime

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A lifelong passion for aviation connected Austin Douglas with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum – where he’s been a dedicated volunteer for over a quarter of a century. Douglas – who recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday – retired from a colourful career at Transport Canada in 1990. At the tail end of his career, he worked on the master plan for the Rockcliffe Airport, located right behind the museum. The following year, he began his volunteer work. “It became a habit,” says Douglas of

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