Vintage Wings of Canada : Warbird Educational Events

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With all we've learned flying a hangar full of classic warbird fighters and trainers, it would be a shame if we didn't share that knowledge with the world. We don't just build them, maintain them and fly them... we share them. Click this link to learn about three upcoming warbird education events at the Vintage Wings of Canada hangar:

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Vintage ings : Selling Valour

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The slender thread that connects us with those members of our families who served in the Second World War is the only thing that keeps the memory of many alive. Today however, when the thread is broken, many of the mementos of this service - the log books, decorations, photographs and personal artifacts - end up sold on eBay, the priceless with a price tag, valour for sale. Click here to read more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/en-ca/home.aspx

VintageWings : 70 years Since the Dam Busters Raid

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators It has been 70 years since Wing Commander Guy Gibson led his famous Dam Buster Lancasters deep into Germany to execute an attack which was so daring and so innovative that no one, least of all the Nazis, saw it coming. Like the Doolittle Raid, it stunned the enemy, was tactically brilliant, strategically superficial, but galvanized and inspired a nation looking to strike back at a haughty opponent. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know.

Rose of York

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators With Queen Elizabeth II's 87th birthday coming up this week, we take a look at the story behind a Second World War bomber with a Royal lineage. Follow this link to learn more:  http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

Vintage Wings of Canada : Royal Canadian Inspiration

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators For many a young flight-obsessed youth in the 1970s, the Royal Canadian Air Cadets were the only doorway to the skies. For some, like Jack Neima, it opened outwards into a lifetime of flying, aircraft ownership and a family of aviators. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

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Canadian Vintage Wings : Busy Flying and Keeping Warm

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Robert "Kirk" Kirkpatrick is an American who joined the RCAF, not before, but after Pearl Harbor. He went on to fly de Havilland Mosquitos on 24 ops over Europe. As the 2012 edition of our American Thanksgiving Story tradition, we offer up this vignette of a great American aviator in a Canadian uniform. Follow this link to learn more - http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

Canadian Vintage Wings : Dinner with Harry

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Like Maximus Decimus in the motion picture Gladiator, the citizen warriors of the Second World War wanted nothing more in payment for their sacrifice, than to return home and pick up the threads of their former lives. Those who were granted this priviledge of an ordinary yet beautiful life are heroes to us at Vintage Wings of Canada. Follow this link to read about a simple dinner with a gentle man of great kindness and civility - http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

Vintage Wings : Flying the High Arctic

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Pilots and aircrew who fly in Canada's High Arctic, do so in the world's most challenging flying environment – with professionalism, experience, skill and a whole lot of compassion. First Air pilots and engineers have produced a Calendar of Arctic flying operations to raise money for a trust fund for the surviving young children of four fellow air crew lost in a 737 accident last year. Follow this link to learn more and to purchase a calendar: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx

www.vintagewings.ca Queen's Jubilee Medals

Not sure it will ever happens here ... But Canadians are definitively airminded

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Five key aviators, aviation historians and aircraft restorers are honoured at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada... plus one of us! Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Direct link : http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/375/language/en-CA/Jubilation.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

http://www.vintagewings.ca : We've Got You Covered

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Living Canadian veterans and the souls of departed RCAF comrades are honoured at the recent unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial in London. Follow this link to learn and see more of this long overdue and moving tribute to a diminishing cohort. http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada

vintage wings of Canada : Seeing Double

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Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators The de Havilland Beaver is perhaps the greatest bush plane of all time. There are not many who would dispute this, but one aftermarket variant of the ubiquitous classic, the DHC-2ZB, did not share this reputation. Part chimera, part laughing stock, part legend, part small business triumph, the Zwillingsbiber Twin Beaver, The Edsel of de Havilland, is today the Holy Grail for Beaver collectors. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/en-ca/home.aspx If you wish to be added to or removed from our list, let is know. Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada