Les premiers vols à Ottawa - Épisode Trois
Cecil Malcolm Peoli construisait encore des modèles volants en 1911. Il a appris à piloter à l’âge de 17 ans en 1912, et un an plus tard, il pilote un avion Baldwin Red Devil autour de la colline du Parlement à Ottawa
Premiers vols à Ottawa — Èpisode 2
Lee Hammond a été le premier à piloter un avion devant la foule d’Ottawa à l’Exposition du Canada central en 1911. Il a toutefois failli mourir noyé dans un accident d’avion à Brooklyn la veille. Il s’est séché, a pris le train suivant pour Ottawa et le lendemain, il a sauté dans l’aéronef « Red Devil » de Tom Baldwin et ceci fait maintenant partie de l’histoire locale.
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 Three
Cecil Malcolm Peoli was still building flying models in 1909. He learned to fly at age 16 and three yers later he was flying his Red Devil airplane around Parliament hill in Ottawa at just 19 years old.
First flights of Ottawa - Episode Two
The balloon ascents of the 19th and earlier 20th centuries made by Thaddeus Lowe, Miss Carlotta, the Lowandas and Professor Grimley (See Episode One) were more theatre than technology, more hustle than promise.
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.
THE SILVER DART, THE BLUE HORNET AND THE GOLDEN HAWK
Canada is a country of extreme distances and scattered population. To say that the flying machine has greatly and positively affected our lives is an understatement. To say that most Canadians have never taken the time to fully understand …
THE LAST FLIGHT — Of John Alexander McCurdy
After reading the Vintage Wings of Canada piece on the Silver Dart I was reminded of Douglas McCurdy and that he and I did his last flight together! McCurdy died in Montreal on June 25th, 1961 at the age of 74.
YOU’VE GOT MAIL — Katherine Stinson and the Curtiss Special
On July 9, 1918, famed American aviatrix Katherine Stinson flew a mailbag containing 259 letters from Calgary to Edmonton in western Canada’s first air mail delivery. Eighty-eight years later, on July 9, 2006, …