September 2024
Aviation and Heritage Roundup
Sept. 29 – The Fairey Rotodyne, another idea that didn’t happen
Grounded Dreams: Fairey Rotodyne, The Hybrid Wish – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 28 – European twin satellites to study the sun by blocking it
European twin satellite mission bids to create total solar eclipse on demand | Space | The Guardian
Sept. 28 – The Shape of Wings to Come. What the next generation airliners might look like.
Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the familiar shape of passenger planes is about to change | Aerospace industry | The Guardian
Sept. 27 – BC Aviation Museum to open Mars exhibit this weekend
Hawaii Mars display opens Saturday at The BC Aviation Museum (cfax1070.com)
B.C. Aviation Museum hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony for Hawaii Mars – Saanich News
Ribbon Cutting Celebration For The Hawaii Mars Water Bomber – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 27 – RAF Museum and Virgin Atlantic partnership
RAF Museum and Virgin Atlantic Announce Official Airline Partnership – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 27 – Norwegian Aviation Museum and some Canadian connections
Up and away at the Norwegian Aviation Museum – The Norwegian American
Sept. 27 – US DoT fines Air Canada for flying over Iraq? Because, flight codes?
Air Canada fined over flights over prohibited Iraqi airspace | CTV News
Sept. 27 – History of passenger seats
How Have Airline Seats Evolved Over The Years? (simpleflying.com)
Sept. 26 – Canada and NORAD modernization
Trudeau’s NORAD modernization moving slowly, documents show (thestar.com)
Sept. 25 – Memorial to students killed in Winnipeg crash in 1972
Memorial honours 8 Bunibonibee Cree Nation students, pilot killed in 1972 Winnipeg plane crash | CBC News
Plane crash victims from 50 years ago memorialized in Winnipeg (aptnnews.ca)
Monument honouring crash victims called reminder of residential schools – Winnipeg Free Press
Sept. 25 – Replica Autogyro flies in Spain
Cierva C.4 Autogyro Replica Flies Again in Spain – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 25 – China tests ICBM over the Pacific, first one in decades
First Chinese ICBM Test Into The Pacific In Decades Is A Big Deal (Updated) (twz.com)
Sept. 25 – Image of balloon shot down over Yukon last year (probably a private venture launched amateur radio balloon)
Image of unidentified object shot down over Yukon (ctvnews.ca)
First Image of Unidentified Object Shot Down By F-22 Over Canada In 2023 Emerges – The Aviationist
2023 Yukon high-altitude object – Wikipedia
Sept. 25 – Fast Facts on the Avro Arrow (US Version. “the design showed promise” No kidding!)
5 Fast Facts On Canada’s Iconic Supersonic Avro Arrow Jet (simpleflying.com)
Sept. 25 – Texas Air and Space Museum planning to create indoor space in former grain storage buildngs (including US Army Caribou.
Sept. 25 – Solar powered hydrogen balloon!
Solar-generated hydrogen balloon takes flight in Gruyère, Switzerland | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org)
Sept. 25 – That funny looking 4 engined (not a fighter, F for Photo) XF-12 Rainbow in detail
Sept. 24 – Drone captures moment lost girl rescued in Louisiana
Drone captures rescue of girl, 10, who sleepwalked into woods (bbc.com)
Sept. 24 – A look at that other senior citizen strategic bomber that is still in service today
China’s 70-Year Old Xian H-6 Bomber Is Still a Killer – NationalSecurityJournal
Sept. 23 – Open Cockpit Day at Alberta Aviation Museum
Open Cockpit Day returns to the Alberta Aviation Museum | Watch News Videos Online (globalnews.ca)
Open Cockpit Day at the Alberta Aviation Museum supported by Global Edmonton – GlobalNews Events
Sept. 23 – Hostages in Space, something I didn’t think we would be seeing
The Space Review: What will happen in the first space hostage crisis?
Sept. 23 – US PBY available
Tunison Foundation Shelves PBY Restoration Project, Seeks Buyer – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 22 – Preserving the Avro Arrow remains, in detail
How Canada is preserving what remains of its iconic supersonic Avro Arrow jet | Space
Sept. 21 – So, where do Aviation Museum people come from?
So You Want to Work at an Aviation Museum? (msn.com)
Sept. 21 – Harbour Air on WHEELS! Say what!
Harbour Air To Start ‘Wheeled’ Service – Canadian Aviator Magazine
Sept. 21 – Girls in Aviation Day in Winnipeg
Girls’ dreams of pursuing careers in aviation take flight at Royal Aviation Museum event | CBC News
Sept. 21 – Heads or Hercs. New RCAF Centennial Toonie
RCAF Centennary Toonie Released – Canadian Aviator Magazine
Sept. 21 – 80th anniversary of Market-Garden remembered in Netherlands
Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden (bbc.com)
Sept. 21 – Pilot held hostage for 19 months released
New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens freed by Papua rebels (bbc.com)
Sept. 21 – PEI Paramotor School
The closest thing to being a bird: Watch this group fly paramotors over P.E.I. | CBC.ca
Sept. 20 – James Bond Helicopter coming to Canada. Just part of an article on the troubled future of Westland (now Leonardo) Helicopters in the UK
Live and let fly: James Bond helicopter firm awaits UK decision on £1bn deal | Aerospace industry | The Guardian
Sept. 20 – SAS flight forced to land by mouse in on-flight meal (read to the end for other flight stoppers)
Mouse crawling out of meal forces plane to make early landing | Air transport | The Guardian
Sept. 19 – Ad Astra Day at National Air Force Museum
29th annual Ad Astra Ceremony marks 40 years of the NAFMC | Kingston/Frontenac This Week (kingstonthisweek.com)
Sept. 18 – If you are not a millionaire and want to go to space, you can get a luxury trip to the stratosphere in a balloon.
The ultimate balloon ride to space launches in Florida (msn.com)
Sept. 18 – 3D CT Scanning for airport security. Seems a little over the top.
Vancouver airport acquires CT scanners to speed up security lines | CBC News
Sept. 17 – First Aviation Future Week in Dubai
Emirates and Museum of the Future to host first-ever Aviation Future Week in Dubai | Aviation – Gulf News
Sept. 16 – We live in vanishing times. Trying to archive the Internet
We’re losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Sept. 16 – Other vanishing things, the turbo-prop regional airline, an overview (although the author misses that the Twin Otter is in fact in production, and the DASH-8 might be again)
Dying Breed: Turboprop Regional Airliners (metroairportnews.com)
Sept. 16 – Iran puts satellite into orbit
Iran says it successfully launched a satellite in its program criticized by West over missile fears (msn.com)
Sept. 16 – Planes, cars and armoured vehicles. Everything for young boys, but I love the diner!
Cruisin’: Wings and wheels focus of Ohio aviation museum | Lifestyles | ncnewsonline.com
Sept. 15 – Space X high orbit craft returns
Polaris Dawn: Space X mission led by millionaire Jared Isaacman returns to Earth (bbc.com)
Sept. 15 – 40th Anniversary of first Solo Balloon crossing of the Atlantic
Ballooning anniversary: 40 years since Kittinger’s solo Atlantic crossing | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org)
Sept. 14 – Up close to RCAF Centennial Hornet
Get up close to the special CF-18 Hornet painted to celebrate the air force’s centennial | CBC News
Sept. 14 – Butterflies and Bees and travelling CASM exhibit (might be a good display at some Aviation museums).
Burlington’s Joseph Brant Museum Flutters and Buzzes with New Exhibit (thespec.com)
Sept. 14 – Window Washing Drones!
Window-Washing Drones – Canadian Aviator Magazine
Sept. 13 – Early historic Canadian home-built returned to Ontario for restoration
Sisters finally see the Canadian ‘aviation artifact’ built by their father nearly 90 years ago | CTV News
Sept. 13 – “Vintage” Twin Otters reviewed by BBC
The 12-day flight across the world in a 60-year-old plane (bbc.com)
Sept. 13 – Ferry boat hits runway! And they kept it secret!
Toronto ferry hit area of airport runway, authority not told (thestar.com)
Sept. 13 – Top 10 jet fighters based on claimed kills. Interesting list
Top 10 jet fighters ranked by claimed kills | Hush-Kit (hushkit.net)
Sept. 12 – Gordon Bennett Cup challenge; that’s a lot of Hydrogen on display!
Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett: Take-off this Saturday from Germany | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org)
Follow the balloons: 67th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org)
Sept. 11 – Launching a Go-Pro to the edge of space.
Man uses balloon to launch GoPro into space – and the results are mesmerising (msn.com)
Here is another launch, the full 4 hour flight from launch to landing, to 120,000′
Bing Videos
Sept. 10 – Not aviation, but a cool story
Thousands of N.B. licence plates — dumped in the woods — thrill collectors | CBC News
Sept. 9 – Airbus Beluga landing at Heathrow
The moment an Airbus Beluga arrives at Heathrow Airport (bbc.com)
Sept. 8 – NATO ramping up training?
Foreign fighter jet carrying nuclear bomb under fuselage spotted over US (msn.com)
Sept. 8 – Original Island Airport terminal and designated historic building abandoned
Toronto Island’s Terminal A: rare historic site left to rot (thestar.com)
(BTW, Billy Bishop Airport, in my mind, has always been in Owen Sound)
Sept. 8 – Boeing reaches contract agreement with Machinist Union, part of which will see it’s next aircraft built in Washington State, not non-Union states.
Boeing reaches tentative contract agreement with machinists union – The Washington Post
But it wasn’t enough
Boeing strike: 33,000 factory workers walk off the job over wages | AP News
Sept. 7 – Video of Starliner undocking and landing
Starliner undocks from ISS and returns to Earth without crew (bbc.com)
and the background
Boeing Starliner spacecraft lands back on Earth (bbc.com)
Another way of looking at it
Sept. 7 – Video of the the Bristol Brabazon in flight
The luxury Bristol Brabazon plane that took flight 75 years ago (bbc.com)
Sept. 6 – Sunrise on the International Space Station
ISS footage captures ‘orbital sunrise’ over Earth (bbc.com)
Sept. 5 – Drone used to find missing child in corn field
Police use drone to find missing toddler in Wisconsin cornfield (bbc.com)
Sept. 4 – Always a pressing question in Canada, one engine or two?
Is one or two engines better in a fighter? | Hush-Kit (hushkit.net)
Sept. 4 – latest on Hawker Typhoon replica project
Hawker Typhoon RB396 – Restoration Update – Summer 2024 – Vintage Aviation News
Sept. 3 – An in-depth and interesting look at Indian’s Space Program, it’s aims and in comparison to other countries
The Space Review: Measuring the depth of India’s space program
Sept. 1 – Last part of Renald Fortier’s articles on bombing whales (with an errata!)
“The bomb that will kill the porpoise” – A shocking use of air power in interwar Québec: The bombing
of the beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River, part 4 | The Channel (ingeniumcanada.org)September 2024
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Sept. 1 – Last part of Renald Fortier’s articles on bombing whales (with an errata!)
“The bomb that will kill the porpoise” – A shocking use of air power in interwar Québec: The bombing of the beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River, part 4 | The Channel (ingeniumcanada.org)
The previous 3 parts of the story are here.
“The bomb that will kill the porpoise” – A shocking use of air power in interwar Québec: The bombing of the beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River, part 1 | The Channel (ingeniumcanada.org)
— ERRATA —
Dear Reader,
I can only hope that you will forgive me for suggesting that your mention of that 4th part of my Ingenium Channel article in your next listing could include a few words on the delivery of a Cierva autogyro to a Canadian buyer in the fall of 1929, almost two years before the delivery of a Pitcairn autogyro to another Canadian buyer, a flying machine thought to be the first autogyro owned by a Canadian operator.
The existence of that 1929 machine came as a total surprise both to me and to a few other people I contacted to see if they had heard of it.
Again, apologies for tooting my own horn,
Hoping that you and your loved ones are doing fine.
— Renald