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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

Some mothers and children about to get aboard one of the Douglas DC-3 airliners converted into Nurseryliners by United Air Lines Incorporated, San Francisco, California, April or May 1946. Anon., “Service aérien pour bébés.” Photo-Journal, 20 June 1946, 12.

Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the flight – Babies on a plane: United Air Lines Incorporated and its Nurseryliner service

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

May I begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question, my reading friend? Do you think babies are cute? Human ones of course, but also puppies and kittens? Well, it looks as if this cuteness is no accident. No siree. The cuteness of these little burpers is built in so that their parents will lavish love and attention upon them, thus improving said burpers’ chances of survival, thus improving the likelihood our species will survive to mess up the environment even further – a

The prototype of the Fairchild F-11 Husky bushplane shortly before its first flight, June 1946. Canada Aviation and Space Museum KM-05311.

You’re good, doggy, but as long as the rodent’s around, you’ll always be second best, see: The brief yet long story of the Fairchild F-11 Husky bushplane

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly would like that you share with me, virtually of course, the large 75-candle birthday cake which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Fairchild F-11 Husky bushplane, in June 1946. And yes, you have… unmasked me. I like anniversaries, and… My subtle allusion to an unmasking does not ring a bell, now does it? Have you not seen and liked the movie The Mask, released in theatres in 1994? Sigh. Fairchild Aircraft Limited of Longueuil

A cutaway view of Canada’s Fleet Model 50 Freighter bushplane. Anon., “Fleet’s Trainer and Transport.” Aviation, May 1941, 61.

It could (and should?) have been one of the greats: Canada’s Fleet Model 50 Freighter bushplane

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As you may have realised by now, my reading friend, I am a bit of a wing nut. I know, it’s embarrassing. Now that the Felis catus has exited the proverbial container made of flexible material with an opening at the top, used for storing / holding / carrying things, let me add that I feel a certain fondness for some specific types of flying machines. The Fleet Model 50 Freighter bushplane happens to be one of them. Fleet Aircraft of Canada Limited of Fort Erie, Ontario, started as a subsidiary of

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.

The cyclecar / “vélomobile” / “vélocar” / bicycle car / “automouche” with pedals and / or auxiliary engine Le Dauphin. Edmond Massip, “Un cyclecar à pédales et moteur auxiliaire.” La Vie automobile, 25 May 1941, 153.

The cyclecar / “vélomobile” / “vélocar” / bicycle car / “automouche” with pedals and / or auxiliary engine Le Dauphin: An (extreme?) solution to the fuel shortage in Paris during the German occupation in the Second World War

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend. Yours truly would like to converse with you on this day about a vehicle which looked somewhat unusual, strange and bizarre. As you might expect from reading some of the many issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I have a slight penchant for the unusual, the strange, and the bizarre. I am not denying it. If you do not mind, I will be brief, and… What is it, my reading friend? Is it skepticism that I see on your face? If I may quote, in translation of course

A mid-sized biplane with distinctive yellow wings, photographed outdoors from the back right.

From cobwebs to Interwebs: Uncovering vintage photos of the museum’s aircraft

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

History hits close to home when the Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s interpretive planner flips through a box of aircraft photos from her parents’ basement.

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.

The Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum during its grand tour of the United States, when it was owned by Sealed Power Corporation. Anon. “Pohled na Ciervovu autogiro za letu.” Letectvi, November 1932, 310.

“‘Flying Windmill’ here on Wednesday”: The great journey of Donald Walker and the Pitcairn PCA-2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You came back, my reading friend? Really? Yours truly is touched, really. No pun intended. You will remember that this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee will be concerned with the Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and… You have a question, don’t you? Let me guess, and answer it forthwith. “Pohled na Ciervovu autogiro za letu” means “view of a Cierva autogiro in flight” in Czech. And yes, the photo just above came from a Czech magazine. I must have told

The Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum when it was owned by Standard Oil Company of New York. Anon., “Advertisement – Standard Oil Company of New York.” Aviation, May 1931, 22.

“‘Flying Windmill’ here on Wednesday”: The great journey of Donald Walker and the Pitcairn PCA-2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. May I wish you a happy International Workers’ Day? Yours truly must admit that I rather like union people, the gentlepeople who gave me paid holidays, a retirement pension, a reasonable work week and many other things I often took / take for granted, but I digress. As you may perhaps have noticed, I am also quite fond of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario, one of Canada’s national museums. You may have been amused, or irritated, by the many

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