Unlike a painting which is the artist's perception of what he sees, a photograph captures that moment in time when the shutter is released. Photography, especially that of its early practitioners,…

Nigel Harris grew up in England immediately after the Second World War. Steeped as he was in the history of that immense conflict and Britain's role in it, Harris has just recently come to fully understand the true nature…

To be a part of the Canadian Air Force Centennial of Flight celebrations in 2009 has been a rare privilege and an honour for me. Few people have worked harder or longer than Brigadier-General Cloutier,

In the summer of 2004 during a routine flight to Northern Québec, Patrick Cloutier, a bush pilot for Aventures Norpaq, noticed a familiar shape of an airplane reflecting from the vast plain of sub-arctic wilderness…

Several months ago, there was to be a foreign exchange of sorts at Vintage Wings of Canada. Howard and Peta Cook would come to Ottawa to fly and share the fun of the Classic Air Rallye…

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 ..

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…

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…

Over the past three years of Vintage News stories, there has been much research to verify facts and find images that help tell the remarkable stories of Canada's aviators. Throughout that time,…

No one has ever accused me of being a religious man. Not in the last four decades anyway. Perhaps it was all those years as an altar boy trudging to church through ice pellets and snow squalls at 5 AM …

Imagine discovering a grassy airfield located in a beautiful valley. This airfield hosting over 80 aircraft, all lined up perfectly. Among the aircraft there are five Curtiss P-40s, four P-51 Mustangs, one Spitfire, one Hurricane, one Corsair…

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Geneseo Air Show, an event the warbird world in the East has come to know as the “Greatest Show on Turf”. …

As we walk into the hangar, the sound of our footsteps echoes in the vast expanse. The low, early morning sun blazes through the row of windows on the closed hangar doors…

Sometimes, amidst all the self-imposed and real deadlines, the e-mails that buzz around like flies at a picnic, the passing of yet another cherished warrior, the technical hoohaw, the incessant rivet-counting…

The Ottawa Valley in the 1940s thundered and clattered to the sounds of the yellow training aircraft of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In fact, it was one of the busiest pieces of flying real estate…

Though they are in fact machines, each and every aircraft type, by virtue of its design, its purpose and its history, carries with it a unique signature which gives it its own personality. …

This a visual story of two photo shoots of vintage warbirds that happened on the very same day - one in bright sunlight, the other in total darkness….

For weeks on end every spring, air forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization send fighter elements to train in the unlimited, unregulated and unsullied skies of Northern Alberta as part of a multi-national fighter training exercise known as Maple Flag. …

In the beginning—the very beginning—aircraft designed and built by early aviators like the Wrights, Curtiss or Blériot had more in common with dragonflies or even scaffolding than eagles or sharks….

Of the hundreds of thousands of pilots and aircrew who participated in training and/or combat operations during the Second World War, a mere handful can find an airplane from their log book entries that is still flying today…