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Spring 2009 (Volume 47 Issue 1)

  • p.6 “Engineered For Success” by Clayton Glenn
  • p.12 “Sketches From Gander” by Story Adapted from Wings: Log of the RCAF
  • p.16 “John Bogie: A Lifetime In Aviation” by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
  • p.24 “The Imperial Gift” by Hugh A. Halliday

 

Summer 2009 (Volume 47 Issue 2)

  • p.42 “Adventures in Procurement: Canada’s First-Generation Postwar Fighters” by J.E. (Jerry) Vernon
  • p.54 “Air Canada and the Supersonics, 1964-1972” by Clayton Glenn
  • p.58 “Robert McCowan, Aviation Pioneer And Entrepreneur” by Earle Ripley
  • p.64 “Big Yellow Birds” by Leo Pettipas

 

Fall 2009 (Volume 47 Issue 3)

  • p.78 “’What A Pity’ Westland Wapitis of No. 3 Squadron” by Fred H. Hitchins & Hugh Halliday
  • p.86 “Flying The RCAF Crane -  Narrative and Period Cartoons” by Robin Higham
  • p.90 “Auxiliary Pilot – A 1950’s ‘weekend warrior” in the Mustang’” by George Stewart
  • p.96 “A Cadet’s Life – A Prairie boy’s wartime experience as an Air Cadet” by Bill Cameron
  • p.103 “The Harvard Decade at 402 ‘City of Winnipeg’ Squadron” by Leo Pettipas

 

Winter 2009 (Volume 47 Issue 4)

  • p.116 “Photography of Air Commodore Gerald Gordon Diamond” by Hugh Halliday
  • p.122 “Pioneering in Maritime Air Transport” by Harold E. Wright
  • p.126 “CAHS Web Preview” by CAHS Communications Officer Bob Baglow
  • p.128 “Airing It Out – Life & Times of Floyd Carson” by Gord McNulty
  • p.136 “The Genesis of Quebec Regional Carrier Nordair” by Fernand Henley
  • p.138 “Canadian Pilot Flying Training for the Second World War” by Jack Meadows
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Spring 2008 (Volume 46 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “The Travel Air 6000 In Canada” by Bruce W. Gowans
  • p.14 “George McCullagh’s Aeroplanes” by Patrick Fitz Gerald
  • p.20 “Beavers Galore – Photos” by various credits
  • p.23 “How Casual It All Was” by Jack Meadows
  • p.26 “Father Thibeault’s Forgotten Air Service” by Pierre Thiffault

 

Summer 2008 (Volume 46 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “Those Fabulous TCA Super Connies” by Peter F. Marshall
  • p.56 “Experiences In The Bush: An Air Engineer Remembers” by Larry Carroll
  • p.64 “Death Of A Giant: Destruction Of The Blohm & Voss BV 238-V1” by James A. Schauer
  • p.74 “Prime Minster Trudeau’s Preferred Transport” by Gordon McNulty

 

Fall 2008 (Volume 46 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “Allied Night Fighting Techniques During The Second World War “ by Jack W. Meadows
  • p.92 “The Life And Times Of Travel Air CF-AEJ” by Bruce W. Gowans
  • p.104 “The Red Knight: The RCAF/CAF’s Solo Aerobatic Display Aircraft” by John Corrigan
  • p.112 “On The Trail Of A D.F.W. CV” by George A. Fuller
  • p.113 “Final Flight: Maurice C.W. (Moe) Grant” by Bob Cameron

 

Winter 2008 (Volume 46 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “Relief Landing Fields: Little Known BCATP Feature” by John Higenbottom
  • p.132 “Recollections Of A Radio Operator” by Bert Huneault
  • p.140 “Aircraft Seen At CAHS Convention ’08 – Photos” by various credits
  • p.142 “CAHS Convention ‘08” by Gordon McNulty
  • p.152 “John Alexander Griffin 1922-2008” by Bill Wheeler with Pat Griffin
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Spring 2007 (Volume 45 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “Hatching the Snowbirds: The Canadair CL-41/CT-114 Tutor” by R.W. Dishlevoy
  • p.14 “Operation Amigo – RCAF North Stars Fly a Chilean Mercy Mission” by L. Motiuk
  • p.20 “Photographs – Flying Miscellany: A Canadian Collection” by Neil MacDougall
  • p.22 “The BCATP Experience” by Matthew J. Falls
  • p.32 “Allan Galbraith Wingate” by Alan Redway & Bill Wheeler

 

Summer 2007 (Volume 45 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “C.S. ‘Jack’ Caldwell: Ocean Flying in Winter - Part 1” by Colin S. Caldwell
  • p.54 “Donald Howard Rogers 1916-2006: Test Pilot Extraordinaire” by Gordon McNulty
  • p.60 “The Elusive Wilfrid T. Reid” by Pierre Thiffault
  • p.68 “A Grassroots Pilot: Charlie Catalano 1915-2006” by Jim Mason & Bill Wheeler

 

Fall 2007 (Volume 45 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “The Road To Ferry Command” by Fred W. Hotson
  • p.92 “C.S. “Jack” Caldwell; Ocean Flying In Winter – Part 2” by Colin S. Caldwell
  • p.104 “’Hang On, Jack!  She’s Going Into The Bush’” by J. Rennie & R. Terpening
  • p.111 “Introducing The New Katherine Stinson Special” by Tony Cashman

 

Winter 2007 (Volume 45 Issue 4)

  • p.128 “The Arrow Replica Project” by J.C. Sherwood
  • p.134 “Commemorating A Trans-Atlantic First” by David Godfrey & Bill Wheeler
  • p.138 “The Charron Lake Ghost” by Clark G. Seaborn
  • p.144 “Fokker Universal G-CAJD (General Arrangement Drawing)” by Clark G. Seaborn
  • p.148 “Convention ‘07” by Gordon McNulty
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Spring 2006 (Volume 44 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “The Katherine Stinson Special” by Tony Cashman
  • p.12 “Canada’s Sub Hunters” by David Godfrey
  • p.20 “No. 6 Repair Depot, Trenton, In Photographs” by John Caron
  • p.22 “History Recreated” by Gord McNulty
  • p.26 “Remembering Those Who Fell” by John Chalmers
  • p.28 “The Beech 18D’s Of Prairie Airways” by William Cameron

 

Summer 2006 (Volume 44 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “Flying The Mackenzie” by Archie McMullen
  • p.54 “An Air Gunner’s Story” by Paul Morley
  • p.60 “From Newfoundland, Across The Atlantic” by Don Simmons
  • p.62 “What Really Occurred At Passboro” by Clark Seaborn
  • p.68 “A Seabee Connection” by Russ Janzen
  • p.73 “Miss Veedol II Comes To Canada” by Ross Smyth

 

Fall 2006 (Volume 44 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “The Return Of An Electra “ by Norman P. Etheridge
  • p.94 “Living And Flying In The Wilderness” by Verna Emberley
  • p.100 “Early Cominco Operations In Northwestern Canada” by R.E. Walton via Clark Seaborn
  • p.102 “’Baker Uncle Able’” by R. H. (Bob) Cameron
  • p.108 ‘“F’ For Freddie” by W.J. (Bill) Wheeler

 

Winter 2006 (Volume 44 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “Hampden Ops with 44 Squadron RAF” by W.J. “Mike” Lewis
  • p.134 “Two Air-Minded Men and the Supreme Court” by P. Fitz Gerald & B. Johannesson
  • p.142 “Photographs - First World War Flying in the Middle East” by B. Johannesson
  • p.144 “Fighting Forest Fires with the Douglas A-26 Invader” by R.H. Janzen
  • p.148 “CAHS 2006 Convention & AGM” by G. McNulty
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Spring 2005 (Volume 43 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “The RCAF in the Congo, 1960” by William K. Carr
  • p.12 “The Mountain Man and the Air Board” by Patrick Fitz Gerald
  • p.20 “Windsor’s Walker Airport, 1927-29” by Dr. Charles H. Spurgeon
  • p.22 “Herman Peterson, Yukon Legend” by Robert B. Cameron
  • p.27 “The Crash of Pacific Western Flight 3801” by Robert Drinkwater
  • p.29 “Arms Smuggling North Star” by Joop Gerritsma

 

Summer 2005 (Volume 43 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “Smoke Jumpers, A Challenging and Dangerous Occupation” by Will Chabun
  • p.50 “From Junkers to Jets with CPA” by Fred Hotson
  • p.58 “National Air Transport Limited” by Chris Hargreaves
  • p.66 “The Demise of “Vic”, The Final Adventures of a Famous Aeroplane” by Clark Seaborn
  • p.72 “Goodbye to a Friend, Tribute to a Long-time CAHS Member” by William J. Wheeler

 

Fall 2005 (Volume 43 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “The Vampire Years, Flying the RCAF’s First Jet Fighter” by G. Robert Guillet
  • p.96 “The Prussian Officer’s Son” by James R. Stevens
  • p.104 “Capt. C.G. (Gord) Ballentine” by Fred E.W. Smith
  • p.110 “The Life and Death of Hervé St-Martin” by Pierre Thiffault

 

Winter 2005 (Volume 43 issue 4)

  • p.128 “The Vickers vanguard” by Joop Gerritsma
  • p.138 “The Cambria Incident, A Very Public Mishap” by Patrick Fitz Gerald
  • p.146 “Victory lake, The Christening of a Northern Lake” by Lt. Gen. W.K. (Bill) Carr
  • p.150 “Charles Keith Barlow, Remembering an Enthusiast” by Cyril Fry
  • p.152 “One to One Hundred, Our Society’s 42nd Convention and AGM “ by Gord McNulty
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Spring 2004 (Volume 42 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “The Cancargo CBY-3 Loadmaster” by Ray Conrath
  • p.14 “A D-Day Story, Two Pilots Renew an Old Friendship” by Ted Barris
  • p.21 “A 55-Year Leap into the Past” by George Stewart
  • p.28 “The Wrekin, An Operational Training Unit Experience” by Bill McRae

 

Summer 2004 (Volume 42 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “Spitfire Saga, How NH188 Came to the Canadian Aviation Museum” by Brick Billing
  • p.52 “The Coppermine Expedition of 1930” by William G. Jewett
  • p.56 “History Repeated, Historic Aeroplanes Recreate the Ford Air Tour” by Clark G. Seaborn
  • p.64 “Captured from the Air, Axis Shop Surrenders to RCAF Stranraer” by Fraser M. McKee
  • p.69 “A Record to Beat, Aviation come to the Ontario Agricultural College” by W.J. Wheeler

 

Fall 2004 (Volume 42 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “Carrier Pilot, Flying Fighters in the Royal Canadian Navy” by Kenneth S. Nicolson
  • p.96 “The Hangars of Camp Borden, Rare and Historic Structures Endangered” by N. Marion
  • p.106 “Birth of a Thoroughbred, Politics and Dash 8 Development” by John W. Sandford
  • p.114”Canadian Expatriates, Canadian Anson V’s in Central America” by Santiago A. Flores

 

Winter 2004 (Volume 42 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “Ellwood Wilson, Forester and Visionary” by Pierre Thiffault
  • p.132 “1952: Sabre Training, No. 1 OUT, Chatham, NB” by Jock Carroll
  • p.134 “Carrier Pilot (continued)” by Kenneth S. Nicolson
  • p.144 “Canada’s Air Forces @ 80, The 41st Annual CAHS Convention and AGM” by G. McNulty
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Spring 2003 (Volume 41 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “A Career in Aviation, Breaking Fresh Ground for Women” by P. Fitz Gerald
  • p.12” Russ Norman, A Lifetime Dedicated to Homebuilding” by Gord McNulty
  • p.20 “Some Austin Airways Aircraft, A Selection of Rare Photographs” by E. Ruddick
  • p.22 “Forced Down in Labrador, A Grueling Northern Experience” by F.W. Bone
  • p.32 “Alfred John (Fred) Shortt, Tribute to a Respected Friend” by B.J. Griffiths

 

Summer 2003 (Volume 41 Issue 2)

  • p.34 “Elmer Ruddick, Four Decades of Bush Flying” by William J. Wheeler
  • p.44 “An OPAS Legend Tells His Story” by G.H. R. Phillips
  • p.56 “The Master Class, The Miles Master, an All-wood Advanced Trainer” by D.W. Godfrey
  • p.60 “PPO Training at Camp Borden” by P.F. Hayes
  • p.62 “A Provisional Pilot Officer at Camp Borden in 1931” by William J. Wheeler
  • p.64 “From Britain to Canada, An RAF Flying School in Canada” by Hugh A. Halliday
  • p.71 “Janusz ‘Zura’ Zurakowski” by William (Bill) Zuk

 

Fall 2003 (Volume 41 Issue 3)

  • p.83 “The Manitoba Goodwill Air Tour, 1932” by Ray H. Crone
  • p.92 “The Mosquito F-8 in American Service” by Norman Malayney
  • p.104 “An OPAS Legend Tells His Story (conclusion)” byG.H. R. Phillips
  • p.110 “Wellington Disinterment” by J. Rouwenhorst
  • p.114 “Comments on ‘The Mosquito F-8 in American Service’” by George Stewart

 

Winter 2003 (Volume 41 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “Leading from the Front, A Squadron Commander’s Story” by W.H. Swetman, DSO, DFC
  • p.134 “The Many Lives of a Tin Goose” by Clark G. Seaborn
  • p.138 “CAHS Convention ’03, Our Society’s 40th Convention and AGM” by Gord McNulty
  • p.146 “Bill Longhurst Remembered” by D. W. Godfrey
  • p.151 “A Graphic Perspective, Learning to Fly in the BCATP” by Dr. Robin Higham
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Spring 2002 (Volume 40 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “My Flying Career, A Legendary Northern Pilot Reminisces” by S.R. (Stan) McMillan
  • p.16 “The Canadian Vickers Vancouver” by John A. Griffin
  • p.24 “’Over There’ and Over the Atlantic” by C. Ernest French
  • p.30 “The Flying Superintendent’s Fairchild KR-34C” by S. Bernard Shaw
  • p.33 “In Memoriam: Don Campbell, Flying with the Sask. Air Ambulance” by Will Chabun

 

Summer 2002 (Volume 40 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “The Empire Test Pilot’s School, Farnborough: 1963” by Richard Bentham
  • p.52 “I Remember Helen, The No-Nonsense School of Flying Training” by Lou Wise
  • p.56 “Flying with the AOS (Part I)” by Al Wingate
  • p.66 “Royal Canadian Navy Hybrids” by Leo Pettipas
  • p.72 “Jimmy Wedell and the Three-Capitals Flight of 1932” by William Wheeler

 

Fall 2002 (Volume 40 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “A Canadian Perspective, Training on the F-4C” by Robert Merrick
  • p.94 “The Empire Strikes Back, Destruction of a Zeppelin” by Ian White & Jack Meadows
  • p.100 “A Year in the Bush, On Mining and Aviation” by Paul Dilworth
  • p.106 “Flying with the AOS (Part II)” by Al Wingate

 

Winter 2002 (Volume 40 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “The Beginning of Bush Flying” by S. Graham with R.E. Graham
  • p.128 “RCAF Armstrong Whitworth Siskins” by Clark Seaborn
  • p.142 “The Grumman Goose in the RCAF” by Jerry Vernon and G. Beauchamp
  • p.153 “CAHS Convention 2002, Vignettes of 6 Group and 426 Squadron” by W.J. Wheeler
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Spring 2001 (Volume 39 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “’Ore by '54:’ Flying with Hollinger Ungava Transport” by W. McIntosh
  • p.14 “Stearne Tighe Edwards: Ace of Naval Nine” by H.A. Halliday
  • p.20 “Recovering the ‘Cagney Norseman: ‘” CF-AYO” by R Mauro
  • p.29 “Messerschmitt Me 262s in Canada” by W. Wheeler

 

Summer 2001 (Volume 39 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “1960: Flying with Lamb Airways; A Year of Northern Operations” by J Lamb
  • p.52 “A Lib Called ‘Basterpiece’" by R Crone
  • p.56 “The Last Stranny: Stranraer RCAF 920/CF-BXO” by A Simpson
  • p.60 “Cold Weather Navy” by Leo Pettipas

 

Fall 2001 (Volume 39 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “Mosquito PR Pilot Over Burma” by J.H. Winship and N. Malayney
  • p.94 “The Life of a Bush Pilot:  Douglas S. (Doug) Pickering” by R. Pickering
  • p.104 “Foss Lake Diary:  Recovering a Piece of Canadian Aviation History” by M.L. McIntyre
  • p.112 “A/C L.J. (Len) Birchall:  Hall of Fame Induction Acceptance Speech” by L.J. Birchall
  • p.113 “LGen W.K. (Bill) Carr:  Hall of Fame Induction Acceptance Speech” by W.K. Carr

 

Winter 2001 (Volume 39 Issue 4)

  • p.122 “Getting the Picture:  Flying Alone and Unarmed Over Hostile Territory” by Bill Carr
  • p.132 “Fokker Universal G-CAHE:  The Story and Disposition of An Historic Aircraft” by Clark Seaborn
  • p.136 “Convention 2001:  Clear Skies and Aviation History” by Gord McNulty
  • p.142 “Canada’s Twin Pins:  The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer on Northern Ops” by Dirk Spencer
  • p.150 “Cold War Capers:  Flying with the RCAF NATO Air Division” by Ken Hagarty
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Spring 2000 (Volume 38 Issue 1)

  • p.4 “The Alaskan Adventure; The Genesis of 111(F) Fighter Squadron” by L. Wise
  • p.14 “Ab Initio to World Class ; Canada’s Bid as a Jet Engine Leader (Pt 1)” by P.B. Dilworth
  • p.22 “RCAF Station Whitney” by S.B. Shaw
  • p.24 “The Norseman on RCAF Photo-Survey Operations (Part 2)” by W.R. McRae

 

Summer 2000 (Volume 38 Issue 2)

  • p.44 “Ab Initio to World Class; Canada’s Bid as a Jet Engine Leader (Pt 2)” by P.B. Dilworth
  • p.52 “1942; The In-Between Year” by A.B. Wahlroth
  • p.62 “The Rebirth of a Legend ; Restoration of Avro Anson RCAF 7401” by B.W. Gowans
  • p.66 “Republic’s Misjudged Amphibian” by A.G. Wingate

 

Fall 2000 (Volume 38 Issue 3)

  • p.84 “A Tech Rep in Korea: Adapting the DHC-2 Beaver” by B. Best
  • p.94 “The Knob Lake Airlift” by F.W. Hotson
  • p.102 “Ab Initio to World Class; Canada’s Bid as a Jet Engine Leader (Pt 3)” by P. Dilworth
  • p.114 “On Defining ‘History’” by F.H. Hitchins

 

Winter 2000 (Volume 38 Issue 4)

  • p.124 “How I Learned About Bush Flying” by L.O. Carroll
  • p.136 “The Skeena Queen Mystery” by D. Septer
  • p.138 “Canada’s Liberator Conversion Programme” by N. Malayney
  • p.144 “Forced Landing!; An Engine-Out Experience” by M.E. Servos