Article: G-CASK and Lady Luck
History of Fokker Super Universal, G-CASK, honoured with inaugurating the first Canadian Prairie mail service. | Certain flights are outstanding in the history of aviation. Read More
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Article: Stevenson Aerodrome – From Prairie to Flying Field
History of the beginning of Stevenson Aerodrome in Winnipeg, c 1930s | In the spring of 1928 after the ‘break-up’, Western Canada Airways decided on a field at St. Charles some six miles west of Winnipeg on the main highway as the most suitable location for their future activities. Read More
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Article: Flying Fur Trader Upsets Decades of Tradition
A story from the early 1930s about the changes introduced to the fur trade in Canada due to the airplane | Canada’s northern fur traders abandoned their dog sleds in favour of airplanes as soon as it became obvious that they could easily make more money flying over the wilderness than “mushing” through it. Read More
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Article: The Long Night
A story about flying bush planes in remote northern communities before long-range communication was available. | Long-range radio was already standard equipment for aircraft all over the world by the 1960s, but for pilots flying out of northern communities such as Churchill and The Pas, Manitoba, it remained largely unavailable. Read More
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Article: Walter Gilbert Flies G-CASK North in Successful Three-part Mission
A story from 1930 about a flight into the high Arctic in Fokker Super Universal, G-CASK | In the late summer of 1930, Walter Gilbert, of Canadian Airways Limited, was assigned to be the pilot of a government-sponsored aerial charter into the high Arctic, a trip that covered 5,000 miles. Read More
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