Baby Flattops of the Royal Navy’s Ruler Class
While the big fleet carries all the glory, the Royal Navy’s carriers did yoeman service protecting convoys, fighting enemy in the Atlantic and Pacific Theatres, ferrying aircraft, and repatriating servicemen and prisoners of war…
BLIND FAITH
On September 23, 1953, a little remembered but near-tragic incident took place on the high seas. As one of the 42 pilots involved in this terrifying event, it remains strong in my memory. ..
MAGNIFICENT MOMENTS
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Canadian Navy, the progenitor of the modern Canadian Navy. Throughout 2010, Vintage Wings of Canada will join our brothers-on-the-sea…
BUT SIR, I’M A RESERVE!
"But Sir, I m a reserve". Back in the Fifties, that little phrase struck terror into the hearts and minds of Royal Canadian Navy Permanent Force officers and petty officers. It was a great way “out” for those of us
BODY ENGLISH — The Science and the Art of the LSO
You are standing at the very edge of a steel cliff, high above the Indian Ocean. You look backwards across a hot steel deck shimmering in the 100ºF heat to the vast expanse of pale white-blue ocean….
CANUCKS IN THE ZONE
At 1500 Wednesday 16 March 1949, seven Hawker Sea Fury FB 11 fighter bombers thundered off the light fleet carrier HMCS Magnificent, steaming off Colón, Panama on the…