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Do you like gifts, my reading friend? And no, in this case, this is not a rhetorical question. This being said (typed?), I do not have the slightest intention of giving you anything. I simply wish to make use of an advertisement which appeared in the September 1941 issue of the Québec monthly magazine Le Bulletin des agriculteurs of Montréal, Québec, to pontificate on the question with which I have just introduced this September 2021 issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. You are obviously

Greetings, my reading friend. The superannuated teenager that I am is pleased to have you here. As the title of this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee suggests, the first issue of our fifth year (!) together, I would like to speak (type?) to you today about an aircraft which is part of the incomparable collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. Said aircraft is the last surviving example of the first series-produced airliner in Canada – the Canadair North Star

Read about the first British Commonwealth pilot to shoot down a German Focke-Wulf Fw-190, who spent the end of the Second World War as a POW, and, went on to be the first Canadian to fly combat missions during the Korean War.

Read about the first Canadian-born Black jet fighter pilot who also became the first Human Rights Officer for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Yours truly must admit that I racked my brains to find an agricultural topic for this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. The grayness which affects our little corner of the Milky Way is getting a bit heavy. This being said (typed?), I think I found a little something in the 3 March 1951 issue of the daily L’Action catholique from Québec, Québec, which might intrigue you a bit. Our story began in February 1872 with the creation, in Brünn, Austro-Hungarian Empire, of Erste Brünner Maschinen

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum highlights a new oral history project that is working to preserve an important chapter in women’s air force history.

Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aeronautics and astronautics. Yours truly would very much like to offer you a peroration, if not quite a pontification, on one of the most famous combat aircraft of the 20th century – an aircraft acquired in February 1971 by what was then the National Aeronautical Collection, today’s Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa / Rockcliffe, Ontario. (Hello, EG!) The story of the Fokker D.VII was / is inseparable from that of

If it is okay with you, yours truly would like to start this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question. Do you like flight simulators, or video games inspired by this type of technology? If so, please read the following. If not, please read the following anyway. Please note that this article had its origins in a photograph that yours truly found in the February 1961 issue of the monthly magazine Canadian Aviation, a go-to source for anyone interested in the history of aviation in

Hello there, my reading friend. Do you like editorial cartoons? If this introduction sounds strange to you, the fact of the matter is that there is a method behind the madness, or is it madness behind the method? I forget. I am getting old. In any event, editorial cartoons can be very interesting for anyone interested in any topic. They sum up in a few incisive strokes a question which made / makes the headlines. The editorial cartoon above, for example, appeared in the 22 February 1951 issue of

Do you like helicopters, my reading friend? As a reader of our ode to science, technology and innovation, you must have some thoughts on the matter. Yes, yes, you must. Personally, while yours truly cannot say that I like helicopters, I must admit they are pretty amazing machines, which explains why this article of our blog / bulletin / thingee will go over the history of one of the types of helicopters on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. And yes, I forgot to