History of the 400 Series Squadrons – http://www.airforce.dnd.ca/airforce/eng/history_400s/rcafsqns.htm, Wings Over Alberty web site – http://collections.ic.gc.ca/flyboys/homefront/bcatp_sites.htm, information supplied by Hunter Wight, Executive Director, Public Affairs and Development...
while a guided bomb in Kharkiv region killed a man. Russians have startedtargetingUkrainian air bases in advance of the delivery of F-16 fighter jets. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán went to Kyiv for afrosty meetingas Hungary assumes the rotating presidency of the EU. Orbán thenheaded ...
With the happening of World War ll Vi became one of four Canadian women and the longest serving pilot to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary during World War ll delivering 47 different types of airplanes from factories to military bases. It was here that she met her future husband ...
DND manages infrastructureat numerous sites including water systems serving military bases and local municipalities. The aim of theWTPOP is to enhance public health protection and to cost-effectively optimize water systems. This paperwill summarize the background, approach and results of ongoing ...
Beausejour, with the radar functions being run by No. 48 Radar Squadron. This was part of an arrangement with the United States that came as a result of the cancellation of the Avro Arrow. Canada would lease 66 F-101 Voodoo fighters and take over operation of 12 Pinetree radar bases. ...
The BIE would then just demand Nova Scotia, which was still refused, primarily due to its crucial Canadian military bases, and the Canso launch site, the only surviving site capable of launching ships into space, when the British government was dissolved, all military and civilian assets were ...
Along the way today I’m dropping in a few photos that we’ve taken lately while visiting RCAF bases (some of ye old book publisher – yes he’s actually still “out there”). Impressive subject matter on the 442 Squadron ramp at Comox on May 11, 2023. First, one of 442’s ...
The National Hockey League, was formed in 1917 to fashion ice hockey into a profitable entertainment. NHL owners paid coaches, players and publicists so they could work full-time, and the NHL quickly became the premier professional league. By 1940 it had strong bases in Montreal, Toronto, Bost...
As the Allied ground troops swarmed across the Rhine in the eerie darkness, the airborne forces were just beginning to form up in bases in England and France. The aerial armada, numbering 1,696 troop transports and 1,050 tug aircraft towing 1,348 gliders departing from 26 airfie...
Endorsed by the American Heart Assocation, the Cardiological Society of India, and Sociedad Latino Americana de Cardiologia Intervencion; Affirmation of Value by the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology-Association Canadienne de Cardiologie d’intervention...