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Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators There is an old fighter pilot adage – beware the Hun in the sun. Allied pilots were constantly on the lookout for enemy fighters, but there was little they could do about the randomness of another deadly enemy – Flak. Follow this link to learn more : http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists, let us know. |
Forwarded message -From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Sergeant Andy Carswell, a 20-year old Canadian bomber pilot on his fourth combat mission finds himself floating towards the German countryside, at night and in the dead of winter. Follow this link to read the gripping account of his bail out : http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists, let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators As Christmas comes upon you, please find a minute in your hectic life to give a thought to all those boys so long ago who gave to us their futures. Take just a moment to contemplate the immensity of this gift and the freedoms they offer you still. It will be, by any measure, your finest gift of all this Christmas whether you acknowledge it or not. Merry Christmas from Vintage Wings of Canada Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators It is our tradition at Vintage Wings of Canada to offer up a story of an American aviator on the occasion of Thanksgiving, that most important of American holidays. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists, let us know. |
 Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators It has been a tough week here in Canada. Duty, Honour and Sacrifice – human values we don't speak of much anymore in our self-gratifying world – are resurgent. Let them stay that way. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists, let us know. |
| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators In 2015, the Vintage Wings of Canada Westalnd Lysander will tour the Ontario/Québec air show circuit. To get ready for this flying season, new pilots have qualified on the rare and technically challenging aircraft. Both quirky and capable, the "Lizzie" is no aircraft for the beginner. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
---------- Forwarded message ----------| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators It's been a few months since the 70th anniversary of D-Day. On that day, 70 years ago, Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen pulled off one of the most complicated battle plans ever devised. Now, three months later, we offer up a view of a very special day and the airmen we at Vintage Wings were honoured to honour. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Today, some of the greatest aviation artists are putting down brushes and oils and palette and creating art with distinctly modern tools – algorithms, photo mixing, and digital paint boxes. They share, collaborate globally and produce works of magic surreality out of the experiences of men long ago lost in aerial battles. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators When a Maximum Effort raid was called for by Bomber Command, upwards of 600 four-engined bomber crews could find themselves converging on the turning point for the run-in to target – at night! With 600 bombers, timed in groups to cross the target in just twelve minutes, disaster and death were just a second's miscalculation away. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators The RCAF operated only six B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second World War, but not as offensive weapons. Instead, they were stripped of their guns and, operating from Ottawa, were stuffed with letters and packages for Canadian servicemen fighting in Europe. Their only enemy was the weather, and as you will see, it took a devastating toll. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators In some of us, the passion for aviation is not just a burning ember so much as a raging fire. Photographer and aviator John Davies was one, for whom the passion was not just a fire, but a conflagration. He was one of our volunteers, and a friend. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
 Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators While many may never forgive the Japanese Navy for its surpise attack at Pearl Harbor, no one can deny the courage, training and skills of the individual pilots involved. At the time, they were the finest carrier aviators in the world. Now, for the first time in English, we hear from Mori Juzo, one of the pilots who put the battleship USS California on the bottom of Pearl Harbor and out of the war for years. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
: Vintage Wings| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators One terrible night in 1944, as the moon rose over a sleepy and blacked-out Bradford-on-Avon, England, a burning Canadian Halifax bomber fell from the sky, its crew struggling to free themselves before the end. Six men did not survive. Two did. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
 Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators There is an old marketing slogan used by florists worldwide that has been in use for years: "Say it with Flowers!". The carrier equipped navies of the world have a better way to express sympathy, love, admiration, pride, patriotism, commemoration and the odd birthday– they SAY IT WITH SAILORS! Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators How an off-handed and sarcastic witticism of Franklin Delano Roosevelt became a naval legend and the strangest ship name in the navy. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators When Spitfire pilot Fred Mitchell got his wings at RCAF Uplands, Ottawa in 1943, he could never have imagined that his future son and grandson would follow in his footsteps as a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
 Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators War weary, but still warlike, legendary and sacred artifacts, 141 Canadian-built Avro Lancaster Mk10s, destined to fight the Japanese, languish on the Canadian prairie and await their fates–some good, some tragic. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
| Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators If one single aircraft type can be said to represent the flying spirit of New Zealand and its adventurous citizens, it is the delicate looking yet rugged de Havilland DH-83 Fox Moth. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators When RCAF and RAAF Vampire fighter aircraft became surplus, Johnny Skyrocket had an idea... albeit a half-baked one. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |
Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings | Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators Nearly 70 years after VE Day, the world finally has a repository of photographic memories that anyone can explore. Social Media is fast becoming a cyber-archive for almost-lost photographs of the Second World War. Let's take a look at three collections of photographs from No. 36 SFTS Penhold found on Flickr. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada If you wish to be added to or removed from our lists let us know. |