A story about the studies, trials and debates of transporting canoes by bush planes in the early days of flight in Canada. | One of the enduring Canadian images is that of the voyageur making long and arduous canoe trips from eastern Canada along a mostly unmapped network of lakes and rivers. Read More
A story about how the Ontario Provincial Air Service planned to use pigeons as message-bearers, c 1920s | George O’Reilly and Thomas Mahon, Erin’s salty but competent contribution to the pilot corps of the Ontario Provincial Fire Service, were patrolling for forest fires in an HS2L flying boat that day in 1924 when the inevitable happened. Read More
A story about how Junkers JU-52/1M, CF-ARM, was almost wrecked by weather at Eskimo Point, Hudson Bay, September, 1932. | The flying career of CR-ARM nearly came to an early end when high winds pushed it onto rocks when it was anchored at Eskimo Point, a tiny trading post on the coast of Hudson Bay, about 180 miles north of Churchill in September, 1932. Read More
History of how stainless steel came to be used in building aircraft and how production of railway equipment contributed to the increase | Aviation provides new and expanding markets for stainless steel, it is reported by the Iron Alloys Committee of the U.S. Engineering Foundation research agency of the national engineering societies. Read More
