Tag: Alberta
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De Havilland Heron Mk II – Part Six – Boarding Now On The Tarmac
No smoking, please. The De Havilland Heron Mk II has just been rolled out onto the tarmac at Wet Dog Regional – ready to inaugurate the first Wet Dog – Quesnel – Salmon Arm – Milk River service. The company anticipates a steady flow of passengers over this vital route. They are counting on it,…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Four – Spirit Of Lodgepole
CF-ACL is ready for service. The Spirit of Lodgepole is named after a small town in the Pembina that serves the oil industry and was once the main service town for the Brazeau Dam project. It had an RCMP post, a hotel, a school, and a general store, as well as repair shops for the…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire – Part Four – Whooooosh
Flying a Vampire must have been an exhilarating experience for pilots who had trained on propeller-driven aircraft. Or perhaps I should say propeller-pulled aircraft…as there were very few pusher planes past the WW1 era. Of course pilots who had flown with twin-engine bombers and other multi-craft would be used to a clear field in front…
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I Don’t Think I’m Working Hard Enough At Being Lazy
I mean, procrastination starts with ” pro ” and you’ve gotta be dedicated for that, right? I’m typing this because there is a backlog in the Little Workshop – but it is a deliberate thing. I’ve been working on the A-20 Havoc, several P-39’s and a B-25 Mitchell. They’ve all got to the undercoat stage…
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Well Sir,…
The business of looking for scale models to build in a particular size is one thing. Finding aircraft to suit a particular air force is another. And getting a particular period of time… I always look for 1:72 RCAF WW2 through to 1966. To the great credit of the model kit companies, I can sometimes…
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