The Little World

Blow, Boys, Blow!*

I have just had the thrilling experience of talking with someone who has personal knowledge of RCAF Wet Dog in Alberta. It’s the closest contact I have had so far with this legendary BCATP airfield.

I met the chap at the IPMEX show yesterday – the plastic modellers convention held at Cannington Showground over Saturday and Sunday. I had a great time during my visit and got several new kits and packets of decals. And I was introduced to two members of the MOFA – The Modelling Old Farts Association – one of whom knows about Wet Dog.

I’ll return today and see if he can tell me more details so that I can get them right in my model of the airfield. It’s rare that you get actual primary source information for modelling – I know the colour photographs taken at Waterloo of the Duke Of Wellington on the Ospreyflex digital camera system in 1815 have been of great help in getting the uniform details right.

Mind you, there are skeptics in every crowd that try to make out that places like Wet Dog and Narnia and Shangi-la are just a construct…but it’s the same with the wonders of modern engineering. Like the Model A gasoline pill that got 200 miles to the gallon on water, but the big oil companies bought it up and suppressed it. Why, I’ve met men in hotel bars from Perth to Saskatoon who have actually seen the pill…or at least they know of a chap who has actually seen it. How much more proof do you need?

I wonder if I should ask him about other airfields; USAAF Little Farting in Barsetshire or RAF Colde Wellcome near Twatt in Scotland. Or the coral strip on Lakanuki Atoll. No, better I should keep to Canada as he obviously knows it better. And I do need more information about RCAF Douk Lake in British Columnbia, RCAF Gleet Bay in Nova Scotia, and  RCAF St. Merde in Quebec. If anyone can supply Merde, I suspect it will be the Old Fart.

*  Old sea shanty.