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The prototype of the Canada North Star, 1946. Canada Aviation and Space Museum, KM-08329

Around the world in eighty hours: A few pages on the Canadair North Star, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

A black-and-white image depicts two men in military uniforms, standing in front of an aircraft. The man in front is a pilot, and is being helped into his parachute by the man standing behind him.

Joseph Auguste Omer Levesque: The first Canadian to fly air combat missions in the Korean War

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

A colour image depicts a Black man in an aviator uniform posing inside the cockpit of an aircraft.

Major Walter “Wally” Watson Peters: Canada’s first Black jet fighter pilot

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

An advertisement from Langlais & Frère Incorporée of Québec, Québec, extolling the merits of the Zetor 25 tractor. Anon. “Advertising – Langlais & Frère Incorporée.” L’Action catholique, 3 March 1951, 14.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares; or, A brief look at the Czech state-owned firm Zbrojovka Brno Národní Podnik

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

Two servicewomen in flight suits pose confidently atop a fighter jet at an airstrip on a clear blue day.

A forgotten fortieth: Remembering the SWINTER Aircrew Trial

Camas Clowater-Eriksson

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.

The Fokker D.VII of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, March 2019. CASM.

One of the great combat aircraft of the 20th century and one of the many jewels of one of the most remarkable aviation and space museums on planet Earth: The Fokker D.VII and the airplane of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

A Jacobs Jaycopter at rest, Edmonton, Alberta. Lyn Harrington, “Cutting helicopter training cost.” Canadian Aviation, February 1961, 20.

A helicopter simulator with a difference: it flies – Canada’s Jacobs Jaycopter

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

Editorial cartoon showing King Neptune offering his crown to the crew of the English Electric Canberra which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in February 1951. Charles R. Knight, “Ready to Abdicate.” The Windsor Daily Star, 22 February 1951, 4.

Several thousand words on the English Electric Canberra / Martin B-57 Canberra and the small role played by Canadair Limited in its history

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

The first production example of the Piasecki HUP Retriever helicopter. Anon., “News Picture Highlights.” Aviation Week, 15 January 1951, 9

“Shoe,” Retriever, “Hupmobile” or Army Mule – a HUP by any other name is still a HUP: The Piasecki HUP Retriever and H-25 Army Mule helicopters, and the HUP of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

The 5th pre-production de Havilland Canada AC-1 Caribou. Larry Booda, “Aeronautical Engineering – Aviation Week Pilot Report – STOL Caribou Calls for Special Handling.” Aviation Week and Space Technology, January 23, 1961, 56.

A flying truck which gave soldiers atom-age mobility: The de Havilland Canada Caribou

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome aboard this edition of our blog / bulletin / thingee. I would like to speak (type?) to you this week about one of the very successful aircraft designed and manufactured by one of Canada’s leading aircraft manufacturers, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) of Downsview, Ontario – a firm mentioned many times in this place, since February 2018. This aircraft is the de Havilland Canada Caribou. In the months following the service introduction of the de Havilland Canada Otter single

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