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MY WEEKEND WITH PAULIE

If you are a pilot, and somehow, despite all the stupid, regrettable and bonehead pilot stuff you did over your career, you find yourself in heaven, God will check you out in the airplane of your dreams,…

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A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS ARCHIE

Archie Pennie is a man of uncommon forthrightness, who continues to share with anyone interested, the nature and the detail of his personal experiences as an instructor pilot for the BCATP and as a …

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A THUNDERING HART - The Hart Finley Story

During the Second World War, more than 72,000 young men served as pilots, navigators, air gunners, bomb aimers and flight engineers with the Royal Canadian Air Force, but following the end of hostilities, the vast majority never flew again.

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IN ARCHIE’S NAME

Vintage Wings has recently created a program unique among vintage aircraft operators worldwide - dedicating each aircraft in their collection to a specific Canadian airman, whose personal story exemplifies…

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FIDELITAS — Bunny McLarty dies at 89.

Born in Newcastle, England, McLarty moved to Buenos Aires as a boy. In response to Hitler's invasions, Don volunteered as an Argentine national for the Royal Canadian Air Force…

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IN HIS NAME

Certainly, the most spectacular things about Vintage Wings of Canada are the exquisitely restored and meticulously maintained vintage aircraft of the collection. Pilots love and live to fly them,…

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A CLASS ACT

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning around 11:30 a.m., rain or shine, winter or summer, former fighter pilot Tim Timmins wheels his car into the parking lot at Vintage Wings of Canada. As the wind sweeps hard …

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LIVING LEGEND — A Visit from Stocky Edwards

This past weekend, 1 June 2013, the great Canadian fighter ace, Wing Commander James Francis Edwards, paid a visit to the Vintage Wings of Canada hangar in Gatineau. Stocky and his wife Toni were in town for …

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ARCHIE PENNIE — A short goodbye

The first time I met Archie Pennie, he was 92 years old—a tall, slender and boney man in a blue on blue argyle sweater and powder blue trousers. His face was long and narrow, full of anticipation…

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DEAR ARNOLD — A Letter to the Soul of a Spitfire

Dear Arnold, My name is Dave O’Malley. We’ve never met before. In fact, I was born 6 years and 5 months after that terrible day over Saint Martin de Mailloc, France. But, I must admit, sometimes I feel I know you. Well, maybe not well …

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ARCHIE PENNIE — Un bref au revoir

La première fois que j’ai rencontré Archie Pennie, il avait 92 ans; un homme grand et mince revêtant un pull argyle bleu et un pantalon couleur bleu poudre. Il avait un visage long et étroit, des mèches de cheveux blancs fins…

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Un homme de cœur—L’histoire de Hart Finley

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, plus de 72 000 jeunes hommes ont servi comme pilotes, navigateurs, mitrailleurs, viseurs et ingénieurs de bord au sein de l’Aviation royale canadienne. Toutefois, après la fin…

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Un homme de classe

Tous les mardis et jeudis matin vers 11 h 30 beau temps mauvais temps, hiver ou été, l’ancien pilote de chasse Tim Timmins gare sa voiture dans le stationnement des Ailes d’époque du Canada. Alors qu’un vent fort…

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