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THE FLYING HADFIELDS

This past Canada Day, as many Canadians do, some members of one particular Canadian family gathered in Ottawa to have some fun and get their photograph taken as a memento of the day….

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THE TWEET

Being in my seventh decade, and comfortable living at the trailing edge of technology, I was somewhat slow to sign up for a Twitter Account and become a card-carrying member of the Twitter Generation,

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GODSPEED CHRIS HADFIELD

On the afternoon of 19 December 2012, Chris Hadfield, member of the Board of Directors of Vintage Wings of Canada and one of its senior Squadron Leader Fern Villeneuve Hawk One F-86 Sabre pilots, will lift off the vast, sparse …

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2012 — It Was a Vintage Year

From the bizarre appearance in the Egyptian desert in April of a Kittyhawk that looks an awful lot like ours, to Chris Hadfield's end-of-year rocket ride to the International Space Station (ISS), 2012 turned out to be the busiest and best year for Vintage Wings…

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THE HADFIELD EFFECT

I often shake my head today at the voyeuristic and Pavlovian attention certain, shall we say, “celebrities” get for doing so very little. In the worst case scenarios, you have those plasticized…

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