Premiers vols à Ottawa
L’historique de chaque ville du monde reconnaît le jour où est arrivé en soufflant le premier train à vapeur, où l’électricité a éclairé pour la première fois l’une de ses rues, où une automobile est apparue en effrayant le bétail. Peu après, un premier appareil plus lourd que l’air chancelant prend son envolée et franchit la dernière frontière, celle du le ciel.
First Flights of Ottawa — Episode One
Every town in the world has, in its recorded history, a particular day when the first puffing steam train arrived, when electricity first illuminated one of its streets, when a motorcar first appeared to scare the livestock, or when the first wobbly flight was made in that last of frontiers — the sky above.
TRIUMPH ON THE OTTAWA
After many technical and administrative flaming hoops were jumped through and after a prodigious amount of last minute assistance from the Vintage Wings maintenance team, it was finally time to light…
FAIR CHILD — Our newest baby is airborne
Isn't she lovely... Isn't she beautiful... Isn't she precious?” So goes the happy and proud lyrics of Stevie Wonder's song about his new born baby girl. Well, we feel the same way about …
STRINGBAG — A First Flight
Once again, Gatineau Executive Airport in beautiful Québec, Canada was the site of an historic flight. After nearly five years in the overhaul abyss, the hearty Bristol Pegasus engine powering the Vintage Wings of Canada Fairey Swordfish…
GHOST — The First Flight of the Roseland Spitfire
Arnold Roseland was just 28 years old when he died in an aerial gunfight over Normandy in the summer of 1944. He had fought both the Japanese in the Aleutians and the Nazis…