Explorer

Yours truly must admit that I am not fascinated by automobiles. I have never been. This being said (typed?), I must admit that I was struck by the elegance of the Ferrari 512 Pininfarina Modulo. The history of this unique vehicle apparently began with the Ferrari 512 racing car, designed around 1968-69 to compete in the World Sportscar Championships races organised by the Fédération internationale de l’automobile and the Fédération international du sport automobile. After a somewhat difficult

Good morning, good day or good evening, my reading friend. Yours truly dares to hope that all is well in your little corner of our galaxy. Not being sure that your encyclopedic knowledge of the world around us allows you to identify the people in the above photograph, allow me to quote its caption:

Allow me to offer you a big safe aerospace salute, my reading friend. I would like to talk (type?) to you about an engine, and what an engine! In 1956, realising very well that the heyday of the piston engine had passed, the American parent company of Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited of Longueuil, Québec, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of the American aeronautical giant United Aircraft Corporation, gave it a mandate to develop jet engines of limited power. Shortly

Let’s be original and daring today, my reading friend. Would you like to take a look at one of the aircraft in the prodigious collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario? No? Let me respectfully reject your reality and substitute my own. And yes, yours truly was paraphrasing Adam Whitney Savage. This co-host of the very popular Australian American (!) television series MythBusters presumably heard this sentence in the 1984 American fantasy / horror / science fiction

Before you hit the roof, my reading friend, please allow me to welcome you to the wonderful world of science, technology and innovation. And yes, it is true that there will be precious little aeronautical content in this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. All right, all right. I will include a bit more. Let us begin, then, with a gentleman, an Englishman to be more precise, by the name of Lawrence “Lawrie” Bond. Born in August 1907, he worked in various engineering firms during the

Guten morgen, my reading friend. May I welcome you to the first full week of the new fiscal year? And yes, my reading friend, the title of this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee was inspired by that of an American television series, In Search of, mentioned in a July 2019 issue of our fascinating, yes, yes, fascinating blog / bulletin / thingee, but I digress. Have you ever heard of the Glas Goggomobil T700, an automobile later known as the Isar / Isard T700? No? That’s what I thought. I

Yours truly hails you, my reading friend. May I welcome you to a new fiscal year? I dare to hope that you are well on this hysterical day. Being both lazy and curious by nature, I thought of killing 2 birds with 1 stone, metaphorically of course, by presenting not 1 but 2 mysterious and magical subjects this week – 2 subjects on which I know very little. Who knows, you may hold the key to either of these vehicular enigmas. And no, the subjects in question are not Aprilian subjects. They are

My reading friend, let me welcome you to the wonderful world of science, technology and innovation. I would like to titillate your little gray cells with a short, yes, yes, short examination of a motor show which was held in the metropolis of Canada, Montréal, Québec, from 26 March to 3 April 1910, at the Coliseum, the largest ice rink in said metropolis, and… What is it, my reading friend? A veil of perplexity is blanketing you. You want to know more about the content of the above drawing

How are you, my dear reading friend? Fear not, this kindness does not hide dark designs. Yours truly plans to be brief in his account of the microcar he discovered in the 14 January 1950 issue of the daily L’Action catholique of Québec, Québec, which is now gone. Where to start, where to start, where? Come, children of the personland, let us begin at the beginning. Once upon a time, there was a small French firm which produced New-Map motorcycles, and… Yes, yes, French and not American, British

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