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Volume 31, No. 3-4 THE Fall 2013 Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame Featuring the 2013 Induction Gala Pages 6 & 7 Also in this issue: Gifts of Aircraft, page 12 Books to celebrate, pages 8, 9 More stories from Members, page 4 Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame Panthéon de l’Aviation du Canada CONTACT INFORMATION: BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Tom Appleton, ON, Chairman Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame James Morrison, ON * NEW - P.O. Box 6090 Barry Marsden, BC, Vice-Chairman * NEW - Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 2E8 Canada Denis Chagnon, QC Phone: 780.361.1351 / Fax: 780.361.1239 Walter Chmela, ON Website: www.cahf.ca John Crichton, ON Email: see listings below: Bill Deluce, ON Blain Fowler, AB, Secretary, Treasurer STAFF: Miriam Kavanagh, ON Executive Director: Rosella Bjornson ([email protected]) Dwayne Lucas, BC Administrator: Dawn Lindgren ([email protected]) and (cahf@ Mike Matthews, BC telusplanet.net) Anna Pangrazzi, ON Curator: Robert W. Reader, MLitt ([email protected]) Bill Elliot, Mayor of Wetaskiwin, AB (ex-officio) Assistant Executive Director: Robert Porter ([email protected]) OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: (Wetaskiwin) OFFICE HOURS: Blain Fowler, Chairman Tuesday - Friday: 9 am - 4:30 pm / Closed Mondays Rosella Bjornson John Chalmers CAHF DISPLAYS (HANGAR) HOURS: Perry McPherson Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm / Closed Mondays Denny May Winter Hours: 1 pm - 4 pm Marg May Please call to confirm opening times. Mary Oswald Robert Porter To change your address, contact The Hall at 780.361.1351, ext. 278 THE FLYER COMMITTEE: Mary Oswald, Editor ([email protected]) 780.469.3547 John Chalmers, CAHF Historian Janice Oppen, Design and Layout PORTRAITS: 2 Information about The Hall Robert Bailey 3 Chairman’s Message 3 CAHF’s 2014 Induction PATRON: 4 Across Canada in my Navion His Excellency, the Right Honourable David Johnston, 4 Casualty at Babdown C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada 5 Members in the News 6 & 7 The Induction Gala 2013 8 Places that Books Can Take You 9 Books I’ve Been Reading 10 A Beaver Moves West 10 Introducing CAHF’s Curator and Portrait Artist 11 Donations 11 Things With Wings 12 Museums Receive Gifts The Nomination Review Committee has made their recommendations for inductees Chairman’s for 2014, which were unanimously accepted at the September board meeting and will be Message announced shortly. by Tom Appleton A reminder: Once more it should be the pleasant duty of all Members of The Hall, Tom Appleton Friends and Directors to reach into their past aviation experiences, to start thinking of new At this year’s 40th Annual General Meeting and deserving candidates for nomination in in Ottawa in May, two Directors of very Both individuals will be sorely missed and a 2014, to convince people acquainted with long standing, Ken Dandy, of Vancouver, resolution was passed expressing the thanks potential nominees to get together and put and James McIntyre, of Montreal, duly of the board of directors and the Members forward a nomination. The CAHF website retired from membership on the Board for their exceptional efforts. can be a great resource: just click on the having served two full three-year terms. ‘nomination’ tab and follow the posted Both individuals have worked very hard Meanwhile, Anna Pangrazzi, of Toronto, instructions. The process has been somewhat on behalf of The Hall. Among their many and Dwayne Lucas, of Abbotsford, BC, simplified to make it easier and less contributions, Ken chaired the organising were duly nominated to replace Ken and demanding of the nominator, so please step committee of the very successful Induction Jamie and were welcomed to the board forward and ensure deserving individuals Gala in Vancouver in 2010, while Jamie has of directors of Canada’s Aviation Hall of and potential Belt of Orion winners are contributed his skills and the resources of Fame. We all look forward to working with nominated for election to Canada’s Aviation his aviation PR consultancy, Romeo Oscar Anna and Dwayne, who will no doubt leave Hall of Fame. Inc., in support of The Hall’s activities. their mark. Tom Appleton Announcing CAHF’s 2014 Induction The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the 2014 Induction Ceremonies will be held in Calgary on May 29th. A brief description of the inductees is as follows: Beddoe, Clive J.: An early interest in aviation in his native England blossomed into a dream of creating a new Canadian airline in Canada in the mid 1990s. The resulting WestJet phenomenon has revolutionized air travel in Canada with its leg- endary attention to the customer experience, its competitive pricing, its strong commitment to employees and its excellent safety record. Beddoe successfully weathered early difficulties at WestJet and has now launched a spin-off to extend service far beyond traditional markets. In addition to his business pursuits, Beddoe has become well known for his extensive philanthropic activity focussed on children. De Blicquy, Lorna: A trailblazing advocate for the role of women in aviation and supremely accomplished pilot, instructor and examiner, Lorna De Blicquy played a significant and highly recognized role in changing the face of aviation in Canada. Active in aviation for almost fifty years, Lorna was instrumental in providing air services, training and humanitarian relief in many parts of the world, especially in Canada’s high Arctic. Engle, Robert Parsons: Engle enjoyed a career of some fifty years in aviation in Canada’s north. From very early contract flying out of Yellowknife, he went on to expand his operations across the length and breadth of the Arctic and in so doing change the way in which remote communities are supplied by air. He created Northwest Territorial Airlines which was sub- sequently taken over by Air Canada, pioneered the use of heavier cargo aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules and championed the expansion of commercial routes linking northern communities with each other and destinations in southern Canada. Moore, Fred: Fred Moore spent a lifetime in fixed and rotary wing aviation in both the military and civilian fields. As a young officer he was given significant levels of authority to improve acceptance standards for military aircraft ordered for the RCAF and subsequently to manage the early efforts to develop simulators for increasingly complex weapons systems. In industry, he rose quickly to senior management levels with NWI in Edmonton and then Okanagan Helicopters and its successor companies. His skills, technical expertise and business acumen have been widely recognized in Canada and other countries. The Committee considered four candidates for the Belt of Orion but decided against making a recommendation for the Award in 2014. More details will be coming in the January issue of The Flyer. 3 Across Canada in My Navion Portage unless I wanted to sit on the ground for So that led to a quick but complete Air by Robert ‘Bud’ White a week! The 3rd and 4th days got me through Force medical, ejection seat and safety re- Thunder Bay, and on through the Sault to qualification, and a most memorable flight with Sudbury - where I had to wait for a couple of the Snowbirds during that Gatineau Airshow days for the weather to clear in Ottawa. That September weekend. What a thrill! gave me a chance to fly up over Timmins I savoured that Snowbird flight all the way (where my Grandfather had been the editor of back to Vancouver in my Navion! But my the Porcupine Advance newspaper), and over flight back had its own highlights. In fact, the Kirkland Lake & Larder Lake (where I’d grown first day across the Gatineau Hills and up our up and learned to fly). Ottawa River - with all the Autumn colours Finally arriving over Ottawa, I was able to park in full bloom - and from the Sault across the my Navion at the Gatineau airport, and rush off south portion of that great inland ocean we I’d always dreamed of flying my own aircraft in time to meet up with Lee - who had wisely call Lake Superior to the Lakehead - that too solo across the continent. So having purchased a decided to “go commercial”! was spectacular! The second day all the way to Navion aircraft last year - and with 3 Fall events Brandon was memorable for its turbulence, and scheduled in Ontario - I started planning a flight Vintage Wings at Gatineau welcomed me with for the immense amount of dense black smoke from BC to Ottawa. A final engine compression open arms! They secured and looked after my in the air across half of Manitoba from an oil check before leaving, however, meant that not Navion - while Lee and I hustled off to our 60th storage explosion south of Winnipeg. only did I have to change a cylinder, but also wedding anniversary with family, and then to had to ‘run-in’ the new cylinder at high power our Sabre Pilots Association of Air Division Then the weather deteriorated along my planned and low level for 20 hours before leaving. That Squadrons (SPAADS) and RMC Reunions.Then southern route, and I had to make a big right I did over the next 4 days - with runs up the during their Gatineau Air Show, Vintage Wings hand hook from Brandon up through Yorkton coast to Port Hardy and a circumnavigation included my Navion in their Static Display. and Saskatoon then back towards Medicine Hat flight around Vancouver Island. Only then was and Lethbridge. Fun low route-flying across When Mike Potter (Vintage Wings Chairman) I able to aim myself Eastward - and that in the endless miles of prairies and dodging around discovered that I’d been involved during AETE’s face of deteriorating weather, forest fires raging all those rain showers! But the fourth day was 17 flight test programs flown in 1967 to clear in Alberta and a major storm front moving north the best - utter blue sky and a 35 kt tail wind the Tutor trainer for the Golden Centennaire into the prairies from the US.