By Dan Dempsey Dear Friends: I thought you might be interested to know that I will be flying Hawk One to Kingston this weekend to participate in the annual ex-Cadet weekend at RMC, as well as an Open House at the Kingston Flying Club on Sunday, 4 October to help celebrate their 80th anniversary. Aside from the Snowbird …
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Hadfield dans son Hawk One
Photo : Janet Trost Chris Hadfield présenta une lithographie de Hawk One à M. Harold Guay, maire de Sainte-Marie de Beauce le 15 septembre. Étaient présents Réal Turgeon, coordonnateur de l’équipe Hawk One et Mme Pauline Vachon, présidente de La Maison Dupuis. Cet évènement eu lieu alors que l’Escadrille du patrimoine centenaire, avec Chris Hadfield …
Visite surprise des Snowbirds
Reprinted from Le Quotidien, 16 September A la surprise générale, sept pilotes des Snowbirds ont survolé le ciel du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, hier en fin d’après-midi. Les membres de l’équipe de démonstration aérienne des Snowbirds, rattachée à la Défense nationale du Canada, ont effectué une tournée québécoise durant la journée du mardi 15 septembre. “L’activité s’inscrit dans …
A century of flight
By Jamie Rieger, Cypress Courier, 2 September Reprinted with permission from Jamie Rieger. There was a rare occasion last Monday for the public to attend a static air show at the Medicine Hat where on display were some of the most historical aircraft to fly the Canadian skies and for one locall man, the Centennial …
Snowbirds big draw at Yarmouth airshow
By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau Sun. Sep 13 Reprinted from the Chronical Herald YARMOUTH — It’s been a busy summer for the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds aerobatic flying team. It’s in Yarmouth today to finish the weekend at the Nova Scotia International Air Show. “The crowd was huge,” said Greg Moulaison, an air show public relations …
60th International Air Show launches with sound of thunder and beauty of poetry
By Dan Robson, Toronto Star, 6 September Reprinted from the Toronto Star Mike Goulian falls from the sky. Inside the tiny aerobatics plane, he can’t hear the crowd cheer as he plummets. It’s only him and the music–AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, to be precise. The plane twists and jolts, tumbling to the water. In the last moment …
Celebrating 100 Years of Powered Flight at CIAS
By Bill Taylor, Toronto Star, 13 August Reprinted from the Toronto Star It’s one thing to restore a 55-year-old car back to its former glory and take it out for its first test run. But a 55-year-old jet fighter? You’re certainly not going to get away with the equivalent of a couple of gentle laps …
Air show dazzles flight buffs; Crowd awed by precision manoeuvres
By Don Lajoie, 31 August 2009 Reprinted from the Windsor Star There was thunder and lightning in the skies over Windsor on the weekend but it had nothing to do with the weather. The thunder came from the jet engines of some of the most awe-inspiring military aircraft in the Canadian and U.S. arsenals and …