WINGS OVER GATINEAU, CANADA‘S FIRST EAA FLY-IN!

[petezut]

WINGS OVER GATINEAU,
CANADA‘S FIRST EAA FLY-IN!

Mark your calendars for the first Canadian National EAA Fly-in! September 17 through 19. Canadians will have the opportunity to take part in the inaugural EAA fly-in in the Nation's Capital. September 18 is Vintage Wings of Canada‘s Victoria Cross Airshow. This yearly event draws hundreds of aircraft and spectators. This year will feature, among other aircraft, their Goodyear FG-1D Corsair in honour of the Victoria Cross posthumous recipient, Lt.Robert Hampton Gray. This date also coincides with the Battle of Britain celebration held at Rockcliffe on September 19. Flying aircraft will include the ”Merlins‘; Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum‘s Lancaster, Spitfires, Hurricanes, and perhaps Russell‘s Bf 109 Messerschmitt.

So tentative plans include Vintage Wings Victoria Cross Airshow together with a tour of the Vintage Wings collection of pristine warbirds, and collector‘s aircraft at Gatineau; a bussing excursion to Rockcliffe for the Battle of Britain celebration and re-enactment; a tour of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum; all together with the camaraderie and making of friends from across the nation that is expected from an EAA Fly-in.

Aircraft parking and camping with showers, etc., Plus camping and parking for the wheeled variety of RV‘s will make the visit comfortable and convenient. Local EAA Chapter 245 and a newly formed EAA Warbird Squadron will host the fly-in. NavCan will declare the airspace as Class F with arriving and departing aircraft under air traffic control. Transponders are not required, but radio communications will be. Plans include a giant B-B-Q on Friday night hosted by Vintage Wings, breakfast on Saturday morning hosted by EAA Chapter 245, and a sit-down dinner with French Canadian cuisine and live entertainment in the theme of the events on Saturday evening. Breakfast on Sunday morning will also be available.

So check off these attractions: the sight and sounds of these magnificent aircraft; Vintage Wings‘salute to the Victoria Cross winners with their annual airshow; EAA playing a supportive role to the event with our first Canadian Fly-in; the battle of Britain re-enactment; the Canada Aviation and Space Museum; the camaraderie of aviation enthusiasts; airplanes; our unique cultural diversity; fantastic fall colours; Frenchcuisine. What‘snot to like?

Links:

Arrival Procedures, schedule and general information:
http://www.eaacanada.webs.com/

Event Description (starts @ minute number 36) in the EAA video:
http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=595033254001

Significant Aircraft History:

Corsairs were first operated from carriers by the Fleet Air Armof the Royal Navy.Trained in the US, RNFAA pilots including Canadian Lt.Robert Hampton Gray were deployed on carriers such as HMS Formidable and Victorious and carried out daring fighter escort and attack operations in the North Atlantic.This included the famous raidsagainst the holed-up German battleship Tirpitz. HMS Formidable also fought in the Pacific theatre later in the war where Lt.Gray won the Victoria Cross. The VintageWings of Canada Corsair, presently in standard U.S.—shipyard blue markings, will be painted in markings to honour Hampton Gray .

The Lancaster was the Allied Command‘s—best of the Bombers“.Powered by four RollsRoyce or Packard-built Merlin engines, it was the only aircraft capable of carrying the 22,000pound —Grad-Slam bomb. It had speed, ceiling,and lifting power that no othe raircraft of the day could match. Weighing 36,000lbs empty, it was capable of lifting another 33,100 pounds of fuel and bombs .The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum‘s AVRO Lancaster Mark X is painted in the colours of Lancaster KB726 (VR-A). This was the aircraft that earned P/O Andrew Charles Mynarski the Victoria Cross posthumously, the Commonwealth‘s highest honour for valour.

[fleet16b]

Sounds like it will be a good event but FYI it is not Canada's first EAA fly-in.
There were many EAA fly-ins back in the 60's and 70's when EAA and EAAC were very popular in Canada.
Eventually EAAC, COPA, RAA became more popular and EAA started taking a backseat in Canada. However, there are still some original EAA Chapters active up here.

[erics2b]

Some pictures to and at the event (I'm in the Cornell, Hedley's in the Stearman):

http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/04Jcl
http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/Jpbwl
http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/gYXOv
http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/SSYHs
http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/m6RoZ
http://epboyd.imgur.com/all/share/1qMAP

[cgzro]

Hedley's 400 MPH bananna pass in the L39 was very pretty. Especially liked the top rudder at about midfield, you don't usually see top rudder knife edge application in a jet

Rick Volker did a nice rolling loop in the Sukhoi .. very tricky stuff to do.

Sunday (today) the Lancaster was doing low high speed fly bys and pulling and turning 45 degrees at about midfield. Was really a site to see.

Sigh .. I guess this marks the end of summer ..

Peter

[Hedley]

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[Meecka]

I was going to reply to the thread in the General forum, but some overzealous individual jumped on the opportunity and helpfully locked the thread for us. God forbid we have a duplicate... The natural order of things will be sqewed!

Tentative numbers right now have attendance at somewhere near 15000. We didn't get the number of fly-ins we were expecting, but that can be attributed to the shyte weather saturday am. We're hoping next year will be bigger and better.

[cgzro]

attributed to the shyte weather saturday

Fog in the morning till about 10:00am is a permanent feature of Gatineau in September/October but it almost always gives way to spectacular afternoons. For some reason CYND always seems to take a bit longer to burn it off than the surrounding areas.

[Hedley]

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[. ._]

Oh, so that is true. I know a guy that flew T-33s and said you only really used the rudder to point where your bullets were going. Thought he was joking, but I guess not.