Volume 32, No. 1 THE Winter 2014 Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame Featured In This Issue: Introducing Inductees for 2014 (pages 4 & 5) More Photos of the Induction 2013 (pages 6 & 7) Special Guest Speaker Chris Hadfield (page 12) Clive Beddoe Lorna deBlicquy Robert Engle Fred Moore ST INDUCTION CEREMONY & DINNER 2 014 Thur., May 29, Calgary, AB 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]) Mike Matthews, BC and ([email protected]) 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: Robert Bailey 2 Information about The Hall PATRON: 3 Chairman’s Message His Excellency, the Right Honourable David Johnston, 3 New Nomination Deadline C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada 3 CAHF’s Birthdays 4 & 5 41st Annual Induction Nominees 6 & 7 The Induction Gala 2013 8 & 9 Books I Want To Share 10 What’s on the CAHF Website? 11 Milestones in Canadian Aviation 11 Nomination Process 12 41st Induction Ceremony & Dinner firmament with his enthusiastic social Chairman’s communications and masterful agenda to inspire the involvement of Canada’s youth in space flight. Not only did he create Message millions of new followers of his exploits by Tom Appleton in space, including many youth across Canada, under his leadership the crew also Tom Appleton completed a busier space science agenda than accomplished on any previous ISS Expedition. This year, the 41st Annual Induction Blicquy, flight instructor and trailblazing Ceremony and Gala of Canada’s Aviation advocate for the role of women in aviation; Unplanned in the final hours of Chris’s Hall of Fame will be presented in Calgary, Robert Engle, founder in 1960 of Northwest command was a space flight first: without Alberta, on Thursday, May 29th, 2014. It is Territorial Airways at Yellowknife, a leader warning, an emergency required his always a very exciting event for Members and in heavy-lift cargo operations supporting crew to make an immediate spacewalk to Friends of the Hall: an opportunity to honour development of the resource industry replace a leaking external ammonia coolant those who have distinguished themselves throughout the north; and Frederick Moore, pump! Sounds simple, but in truth it was a through their accomplishments for aviation who contributed much to the progress of complex task with a hazardous risk profile, in Canada. It is also an opportunity to get flight simulators in military aviation and happening as the crew were preparing to together with kindred interests in aviation made his mark on the world of rotary wing enter their Soyuz space capsule for their and aerospace to celebrate the contribution aviation, both internationally and in Canada. return to earth. As Chris says for the benefit of aviation to Canada’s development as a of golfers on earth, “there are no ‘Mulligans’ country and as an industrial power. To top it off, Hall of Fame Member in space flight”. Talk about the consummate Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and professional under pressure! Four superb individuals whose contributions Commander of Expedition 35 to the to Canadian aviation and aerospace have International Space Station, has honoured us The 2014 CAHF Induction Gala promises been judged worthy of induction: Clive by agreeing to present induction credentials to be a memorable evening in WestJet’s Beddoe, who lead the WestJet team that to the new Members and be the evening’s stunning Calgary Campus. I hope to see you founded and executed the novel airline’s guest speaker. Chris certainly raised there. innovative, winning strategy; Lorna de Canada’s place in the world’s astronautic Tom Appleton Please Note: New Deadline for Nominations by Blain Fowler, OpsCom Chair To You! March: I wish to bring to everyone’s attention a as well as more time for the subsequent Ron Peel, March 10 change in the deadline for the receipt of review of files by the members of the William Carr, March 17 nominations for Membership in The Hall of Nominations Review Committee. The intent Fame. The new deadline is May 31st. of these changes is to make the process more April: efficient and to encourage the submission of Pierre Jeanniot, April 9 Nominations sent to The Hall by mail and well-founded nominations. May: which are postmarked no later than May 31 Laurent Beaudoin, May 13 will be considered to have met the deadline. The nomination forms are posted on CAHF’s website, www.cahf.ca, for nominations of Les Kerr, May 15 This will provide more time for the initial individual Membership in The Hall and for Dave Williams, May 16 processing of new nominations by Hall staff, the Belt of Orion Award. Claude Taylor, May 20 Walter Chmela, May 28 3 41st Annual Induction, May 29, 2014 By John Chalmers Portraits by Robert Bailey Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame was founded in 1973 to honour Clive Beddoe saw opportunities in commercial aviation to make individuals and organizations that have made outstanding air travel more affordable and has built WestJet into a successful contributions to aviation and aerospace in Canada. and admired company with an excellent safety record and 9,300 employees. Recently established is WestJet Encore as a new On May 29, 2014 The Hall of Fame will hold its annual induction regional airline, and in 2014 the company will be making its first ceremonies in Calgary, Alberta, in the WestJet Campus hangar trans-atlantic flights. on Calgary International Airport. Beddoe serves as WestJet chairman of the board and has been Four individuals will be inducted as Members, bringing to 216 honoured many times for his success in business, as well as the number of individuals recognized by the Hall since its first receiving honourary doctorates from Wilfrid Laurier University induction in Edmonton in 1974. There will be no presentation of in 2009 and the University of Calgary in 2008. In addition to the Belt of Orion Award this year. his business pursuits, Beddoe has fostered a legendary corporate culture among employees, and has become well known for his extensive philanthropic activity focused on children. Clive J. Beddoe, LLD Born in England in 1946, Clive Beddoe learned to fly gliders, Lorna V. deBlicquy, C.M. earned a private pilot licence, and then learned to fly helicopters. After graduating from Epsom College he came to Canada, Born in Ontario in 1931, Lorna deBlicquy had an early interest starting a new life in Calgary, first in real estate and then became in aviation, leading to a private pilot licence before her 17th involved with his dream of creating a new Canadian airline in birthday. At 16 she took up skydiving and was the youngest the mid 1990’s. person in Canada to make a parachute jump at that time. A commercial pilot licence followed in 1952 and she graduated The resulting WestJet phenomenon has revolutionized air travel from Carleton University with a B.A. in 1953. Eventually she in Canada with its legendary attention to the customer experience, held licences for gliders, helicopters and multiple engine aircraft, its competitive pricing, its strong commitment to employees and as well as earning an instrument rating. its excellent safety record. Beddoe successfully weathered early difficulties at WestJet and since 1996 the airline has operated at Lorna deBlicquy served as a flying instructor and for years a profit for 17 years, growing from three airplanes to 100 Boeing flew in Canada’s north on tundra tires and floats as a bush pilot 737 aircraft serving 85 destinations in 18 countries. and charter pilot. She was a role model for women in aviation 4 and an advocate for women’s rights in aviation, fighting hard north and cargo service was offered from Vancouver, Calgary, against discrimination in hiring practices. She set an example Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto. by becoming Canada’s first female Flight Inspector for the Department of Transport. She was instrumental in providing air In 1988 Northwest Territorial Airways was sold to Air Canada, services, training and humanitarian relief in many parts of the and NWT Air became the first scheduled service of Air Canada world, especially in Canada’s high Arctic. in the North. Robert Engle was founding chairman of the Northern Air Transport Association, based in Yellowknife, and Active in aviation for nearly 50 years, she was the first woman was awarded the Order of Canada in 1989. to be awarded the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy, received in 1993. A long-time member of the Canadian Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, deBlicquy was admitted to the Order of Ontario in 1994 and awarded the Order of Canada in 1995.