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James Brooke flying KDN at Bagby Aerodrome, North Yorkshire UK.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 4

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

I was working in my hangar one winter evening, 14 years ago. My friend James Brooke dropped by. I had met James years before when he volunteered to fly one of our fleet of Aircoupes that we were donating flights to the EAA Young Eagles program. James was a mathematics Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He had spent time working in the UK and had a soft spot for British aircraft. That night he had brought over a list of RAF Bulldog military trainer aircraft for sale by auction in the UK

De Havilland Canada Chipmunk DHC-1 G-AKDN

Aviation Ambassador - Introduction

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

De Havilland Canada Chipmunk DHC-1 G-AKDN — 2016 United Kingdom Tour The de Havilland Canada Chipmunk S/N 11 is a pre-production aircraft, designed and built in Downsview, Ontario. Bearing tail number G-AKDN, this DHC-1 is the oldest flying example of the type. Designed 70 years ago, G-AKDN symbolizes the birth of de Havilland Canada aerospace industry. This historic aircraft is available by appointment throughout the United Kingdom during the summer of 2016 for display, demonstration flights

1966 Alon Aircoupe. If I blurred my eyes, I saw a Chipmunk.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 3

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

I was 12 years old and heard on the news that the RCAF was selling their Chipmunks to be replaced with the next generation trainer. The selling price was $10,000. I burst thru the door at home and told Dad we needed to buy one of the Chipmunks! He just looked at me and said if he didn’t have a mortgage, 5 kids and a dog to feed, and paying for a new station wagon (that cost $2300), He would love to, but no. But he said, if I were to get my pilots license, he would match every dollar I spent to

KDN test flight photo with scale pole in front and spin test parachute on tailcone. 1947 Photo: deHavilland archives

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 2

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The deHavilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. was based at Downsview Airport in downtown Toronto. They started building aircraft there in 1928. Most of the designs they built were under license from the British parent company deHavilland Aircraft. These included some very famous aircraft designs, the Tiger Moth, and Mosquito. The Canadian company was tasked with designing a primary trainer aircraft to replace the aging Tiger Moth biplane. The new design had to be suitable for initial training for

Magazine cover with Tiger Moth and the new Chipmunk

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 1

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

We are at full throttle, in a left hand 60 degree, 2 G banked turn, at 500 feet over the lush English countryside. I am focused on 2 airplanes only meters ahead of me. I feel their wake turbulence nibbling at my controls. Out of the corner of my eye is a purple flash. Another aircraft is passing us on the outside of the turn, and when I look right to see him, I am looking almost straight up into the early afternoon sun. The heat from which, has nothing to do with the sweat I have worked up. An

Cover of Canadian Aviation magazine featuring the first Canadian-made Hawker Hurricane, February 1940. Source: Ingenium

Hawker Hurricane

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Hawker Hurricane gained fame for its role in defeating the German air force during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Robust and rugged, the Hurricane was a single-seat monoplane launched in 1935. It was an aircraft of technological firsts: it was the first Royal Air Force (RAF) monoplane to feature an enclosed canopy and retractable landing gear. The heavily-armed Hurricane was also fast and became the first RAF aircraft to fly over 485 km/h in level flight. Admired for its ability to operate

Wilbur Franks trying on his G-suit, 1941: Library and Archives Canada PA-063923

Dr. Wilbur Franks: Developing the G-Suit

Canadian War Museum

Dr. Frederick Banting, best known as the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of insulin, assembled a group of doctors before the Second World War, and they turned their attention to aviation medicine. In 1941, Dr. Wilbur Franks, one of those researchers at the Banting Institute, developed a flying suit reinforced with fluid channels to help pilots withstand the extreme G (gravitational) forces exerted on their bodies during air combat. When performing high-speed manoeuvres, pilots tended to lose

Propeller model used by W. Rupert Turnbull in 1923. Source: Ingenium 1967.1152

Variable Pitch Propeller

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The variable pitch propeller gave pilots a new measure of control over their aircraft’s performance.

Carl’s suggestions of a bubble window cockpit and landing skids became standard features on later models of the fragile, low-powered Bell 47. Kelowna Public Archives 9184

How to fall off a mountain in a Helicopter

Kelowna Museums Society

Carl C. Agar DFC was a pioneer in the field of small helicopter flying. He was a high altitude pilot for Okanagan Air Services Ltd in the mountains of British Columbia in 1947. He created a special technique for landing and taking off from high mountain perches using a Bell 47-B3 helicopter. A helicopter’s fast-turning rotors creates lift to hover, while an airplane’s forward motion generates lift with its wings. The thinner air at higher elevations affects the amount of engine power produced to

Avro CF-105 Arrow at the roll out ceremony, October 4 1957. Source: CAVM-1763

Avro Arrow

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Avro CF-105 Arrow was the first and, so far, the only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. The Avro CF-105 Arrow was Canada’s first and, so far, only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. Developed during the Cold War in the 1950s, the Arrow was designed to intercept Soviet bombers in Canada’s Arctic airspace as they attacked North America. Avro Canada developed the massive interceptor and a wholly-new jet engine, the Iroquois. The Arrow first flew on March 25, 1958, and was among the

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