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 year-end celebrations in Moose Jaw later, on 23 Oct, this will mark our last event of the season as our 100th anniversary of powered flight celebrations draw to a close.

For anyone that might be interested, here is my tentative schedule (weather permitting):

Friday, 2 Oct – arrive over the Kingston area at 1100 ET, landing by 1130.

Saturday, 3 Oct – flypasts over RMC in conjunction with their annual First-Year ”Badging Parade”. The parade starts at 1030 ET with the flypasts occurring at the end of the parade (anticipate between 1130 and 1200). 

Sunday, 4 Oct – flypast over the RMC Memorial Arch in conjunction with the annual Memorial Service. The parade commences at 1100 ET at the Arch which is at the entrance to the college. Following this flypast, I will be returning to the Kingston airport where Hawk One will be on display until 1700. Following the static display, I will be meeting with local Air Cadets.

Please note that we are hopeful that three additional Vintage Wings of Canada Warbirds will be participating in the weekend flypasts as well – a Corsair, Spitfire and Mustang, all flown by ex-Cadets as well. For those who have never seen these parades at RMC, they are highly worthwhile.

For additional information about our Hawk One team and our sponsors, please browse our website. Later in November, I will post an article about the ex-RMC cadets who are on our team or who have been instrumental in the Air Force Centennial of Flight celebrations. The article will first appear in Veritas, the RMC Newsletter.