TAILS OF GLORY
When Captain Gunnar Neiguffson of the Royal Canadian Air Force completed his training as a Public Affairs Officer in 2008, his first posting was as an exchange officer with the Luftforstvaret…
THAT LITTLE FOKKER — Models and Vintage Wings
A year and a half ago, we ran with a little April Fools story about the Royal Newfoundland Air Force. It was done with great respect, a smidgeon of humour and lots of supporting historical data ..
THE PINK AND THE BLACK
This year marks the 100th anniversary of powered flight in Canada and across this broad nation everyone joins the celebration with great joy and excitement. Well, not everyone. April 1, also marks the 85th…
GHOST of the NORTH
Today marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest mysteries, tragedies and legends of Canadian aviation history. On the night of March 31st, 1930, the last garbled radio transmission was heard from the massive Royal Canadian Navy dirigible…
DOUBLE DOUBLE
On Wednesday, August 11th, 1954, a tired looking and disheveled Dieter Zwillingsbiber, wearing the same overcoat as he did when he was captured in 1945, was shoved out of a drab green army van in the town of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern…
THE BREAKING POINT — MiG-21 Redhawks of the RCAF
October 31st, 2002, right wing blabbermouth and two-time Republican presidential nominee hopeful, Pat Buchanan misguided by a knee-jerk notion that Canada was a cesspool of anti-American “scentiment” referred to our country as Soviet Canuckistan…
Achtung Eisfeuer!! — The Supermarine Spitfire APR-IX
Vintage Wings of Canada is proud to announce that, as the restoration of Spitfire TE294 nears completion, it will no longer be painted to resemble 442 Squadron Spitfire…
WWII PROPAGANDA AND AVIATION MOVIE POSTERS ACQUIRED
Vintage Wings of Canada is proud to announce the acquisition of the Adolphe Cassandre Collection of vintage Second World War and Cold War propaganda, recruitment, and motion picture posters. After nearly a year of negotiations…
AT YOUR SERVICE ANYWHERE
These days, we look upon aerial refuelling as the purview of the world’s largest air forces—a force multiplier, a reach extender, a vital link in the projection of force. But it was not always this way. In the beginning, …
EAT AND GET GAS
On Saturday 22 March 2014, a new era dawned for warbird operators across the planet when a delicate, lime green Second World War Fleet Finch took to the air in minus 22 degree temperature. Her pilot, George Arborpremo, eased the throttle forward…
THE FAIREY-VINTECH FV.1 TURBOFISH
In 1990, when Basler Turbo Conversions of Oshkosh Wisconsin rolled out the first Basler BT-67 with its DC-3 airframe and modern turbine engines, vintage aviation and radial engine enthusiasts around the world were aghast. Replacing the sonorous and oil-flinging Pratt and Whitney radials of the venerable Gooney Bird …