Month: August 2011

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The AEA Silver Dart, Canada’s first powered aircraft. Find out more about it in this episode

News

• “Top Gun” turns 25 years old (Hamilton Spectator)
• Canada to put ‘Royal’ back in its Navy, Air Force (Toronto Star)
• Canada and Europe Enhance Aviation Safety with New Agreement (Aviation.ca)
  For more information about this agreement, please visit www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/bilateral-agreements and click on “Europe”.
• Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash (MSNBC)

Upcoming Events

• Canadian International Air Show, Toronto, On. Sept. 03 – 05
  Static: None
  Performances by: Snowbirds, A-10 Warthog, V-22 Osprey (first CDN. appearance ever), CF-18 demonstrator flight, Avro Lancaster from the CDN Warplane Heritage Museum, Royal Canadian Air Force Skyhawks parachute team, many other acrobatic/formation demonstrations.
• Windsor International Air Show, Windsor, On. Sep. 10 – 11
  Static: invited(F/A-18, F-15, B-52, F-16, C-2, MH-53), confirmed(C-130, C-17)
  Performances by: RCAF Skyhawks, Snowbirds, Canadian Harvards, CF-18, Sabre 5 (Gold Hawk), MIG-21, MIG-15, Avro Lancaster.
• Snowbirds over Gore Bay, Gore Bay, On. Sep. 14
• Reno Air Races, Reno, NV, USA Sept 14 – 18

2011 Waterloo Airshow Coverage

Had a great time at the air show and we recorded an interview with a Dash8-100 pilot for the RCAF. Also took a ride on a helicopter and the video is below.

Check out our YouTube channel where we will be posting more videos.

Canadian Aviation History Series #1 – The AEA Silver Dart

This time on Cleared En Route’s: History of Canadian Aviation we are looking at the plane which began it all for powered flight in Canada:  The A.E.A. Silver Dart.  This plane was designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association (That’s the A.E.A).  It undertook its first flight on February 23, 1909 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

References
http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/aeronautics/clips/2424/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Experiment_Association

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Opening and closing music is Dolphin’s Day by Robert Walker.

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Pictured above: Burt Rutan’s Hybrid Gas-Electric, Road-Air Vehicle: Model 367

In this episode:

News

• Space Station to be sunk after 2020 (via Discovery News)
• Bigelow Aerospace Commercial Space Stations
• Boeing workers will fly to ISS aboard their company’s new spaceship ( via PopSci)
• U.S. resumes F-35 ground tests after device failure (via The Vancouver Sun)
• Burt Rutan’s Final Design at Scaled Composites (PDF)
• Burt Rutan Designs a Hybrid Flying Car (via Wired)

Upcoming Events

• The Waterloo Air Show
  • August 20th and 21st at The Waterloo International Airport (CYKF)
• Southern Ontario Model Airshow
  • August 19th to 21st at the Stoney Creek Airfield
• Canadian International Air Show
  • September 3rd, 4th and 5th at the Canadian National Exhibition

Danny’s Topic

• deHavilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
• Buffalo 461 Restoration Project

I had the chance to interview one of people involved in the restoration of a DHC-5 Buffalo as a tribute to Canadian Peacekeepers and the crew and passengers of the last flight of Canadian Forces Buffalo 115461. Visit the link above, Buffalo 461 for more information on the restoration project.

Chris’ Topic

• Interorbital Systems
• TubeSat Personal Satellite

You can send your very own satellite to space for less than $10,000. Interorbital Systems is making space experimentation a possibility for the average space enthusiast.

Shout Outs

• The Airplane Geeks Podcast
• Plane Crazy Down Under

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Opening and closing music is Dolphin’s Day by Robert Walker.