Planning for every eventuality is job one at Vintage Wings of Canada. By: Tim Leslie Last month, three of the five Hawk One pilots went through the motions of ensuring we would be able to get out of the Sabre should it stop functioning as advertised. Paul Kissmann, Steve Will, and I (all three of us …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘August, 2008’
From concept to creation, the birth of Hawk One
By: LCol (Ret’d) Dan Dempsey, author, pilot and team historian and Maj (Ret’d) Mary Lee, team public affairs officer. In 2009, Canadians will bear witness to an historic event as one of the most famous aircraft to have served in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) tours Canada as the mainstay of the Centennial Heritage …
Hawk One – the history of Sabre 5 – 23314
By: LCol (Ret’d) Dan Dempsey, Team Historian Canadians will bear witness to an historic event in 2009 as one of the most famous aircraft to have served in the Royal Canadian Air Force tours Canada as the mainstay of the Centennial Heritage Flight celebrating 100 years of powered flight in Canada. Chosen by the RCAF …