Glidepath The quarterly newsletter of the Canadian Museum of Flight Spring! 2011 The Hampden Wing Repair Project ….. … Achieves a Major Milestone That was a big day” said Jeff Yoell, BCIT Aviation Technology student. And so it was, as by sundown on Saturday, March 5, the Canadian Museum of Flight Hampden had its port inner wing reattached and structurally sound, and once again stood proudly in the sunshine. For this milestone, the Museum thanks in particular Jeff and fellow students Murat Subasioglu and Renya Chang (please see the sidebar on Page 3). The story of the CMF Hampden, the only Handley Page Hampden currently on display anywhere in the world, has been well told in the Glidepath newsletter over the years. A brief recap is warranted for new readers. During the 1970s and 1980s, dedicated aviation enthusiasts came together under the banner of the Canadian Museum of Flight and Transportation to collect, collected airframes and parts wherever they could find them, from operational aircraft to miscellaneous parts from crash sites, and in a torpedo bomber training role. Sad to say, it was also well represented in crash sites. The CMF salvaged remains of Hampden AN136 from Mt. Tuam on Saltspring Island and AN132 from a mountain-top near Ucluelet. Most spectacularly, the remains of P5436 were salvaged from the sea floor near Patricia Bay by Jerry Olsen and the crew of C LOST (Canadian Lake and Ocean Salvage Team), the Thompson family (Tillicum Towing of Pender Harbour), and International Submarine Engineering. Considering P5436 had spent more than 40 years in salt water, some small components were in magnificent shape- the compass still worked, there was air in the tires, and greased bearings and chains still moved freely. Realistically. however, the CMF at that point had the corroded bones of one Hampden, various bits and pieces from two others, and a huge task ahead. The goal was reconstruction of protect and display A crane gently eases the Hampden’s port inner wing into position, a Handley Page Hampden, aviation artefacts. They ending its three year absence. based on P5436, to display status. That goal was accomplished, driven mainly by Museum volunteer Fred Gardham, who had worked on Hampdens during WWII. The CMF is proud of Fred’s work, and proud to have the on resulting Hampden on display, drawing visitors from all over everything in-between. The Handley Page Hampden had been well represented the west coast of Canada during World War II, serving mainly Please see Page 8 for a list of Museum events for 2011. … continued on Page 3 Please visit our website at www.canadianflight.org for much more information on Museum activities, events and collections. Page 1

The Canadian Museum of Flight Bringing British Columbia’s Aviation Past into the Future Honourary Patron The Honourable Steven L. Point, OBC Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Board of Directors CANADIAN MUSEUM OF Gord Wintrup Colin McDonald Bruce Friesen Bruce Bakker Matt Offer Vic Bentley Daryl Carpenter Capt. Bill Thompson President Vice President Secretary Director Director Director Director Lifetime Director Museum Staff Terry Brunner Douglas Tait FLIGHT Museum Coordinates Telephone Fax e-mail Website Address 604-532-0035 604-532-0056 tbrunner@telus.net www.canadianflight.org Hangar #3 5333-216th Street Langley, BC V2Y 2N3 Museum Hours: daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Membership Benefits! Volunteers Welcome! •Partnershipal Members are entitled to visit, free of charge: Fight Museum in Seattle West Coast Rall Museum in Squamish Military Education Centre in Chilliwack Discounts in the Gift Shop Increased from 10% to 15% The Canadian Museum of Flight is always looking for new volunteers. We are always in need of history and aviation enthusiasts of all kinds, for aircraft restoration, gift shop operations, facility maintenance, and many other tasks. No experience is necessary. We invite everyone, from young students to retirees, to join the team. If interested, please contact the Museum General Manager, Terry Brunner, at 604-532-0035. Cover Photo Flights Bistro Contest George Kirbyson, Chief Pilot at the Canadian Museum of Flight, is all concentration as he runs up the Museum’s Harvard. Each issue, one Museum Member is drawn at random to recieve a certificate for lunch for two at Flights Bistro, in the Museum building, Langley Airport. This issue’s winner is Brian Croft, Member #4083. Congratulations Brian! The Glidepath Newsletter is published quarterly by the Canadian Museum of Flight; Editor Bruce Friesen. Contributions in the form of articles, news items, letters and photos are always welcome, as are comments and suggestions, although no payments are made for manuscripts submitted for publication in the Newsletter. Page 2

Hampden Wing Milestone … continued from Page 1 the world. That display aircraft is not, however, a faithfully remanufactured Hampden. It does contain a large amount of original metal. Indeed, the opportunity for Museum visitors to look up into the bomb bay and the wheel wells and view the corroded consequences of its lengthy submersion is one of its greatest attractions. On the other hand, the parts that are not original were not fabricated to factory drawings nor engineered to aircraft specs. Within the means available to the Museum, the shell of the aircraft was re-created as best could be managed. Crane operator Dustin Yanish, of Bear Crane, checks his rigging for the lift. He tackled this unique job with skill and good humour. Close up view of the inside of the Hampden wing shows both some of the newly fabricated fittings and some of the heavily corroded original structure. December 26, 2008, the lower mainland of British Columbia was subjected to a particularly heavy snow fall, or, perhaps better said, a fall of heavy wet snow. Concerned, Museum staff went beyond the call of duty that evening. They were too late; the weight of the snow on the port wing had broken the connection between the wing and fuselage near the trailing edge. The wing had rotated down and forward fracturing the corrosion-weakened main spar. The wing was dangling, bent and twisted. Over a two year period, students from the University of the Fraser Valley made steady progress, securing the pieces, disassembling damaged areas, and cleaning and painting parts. Starting summer 2010, the team from BCIT arrive to tackle the engineering and fabrication of the components to reattach the wing, both at the main spar and towards the trailing edge. They readily admit the task was a bit daunting at first, looking at all the deteriorated parts. After a while, they decided things were not so bad. Starting with the surviving fittings as guides to bolts sizes and spacings, and consulting standard text books for rules of thumb, they built doublers for the spar and brackets for all the connections. The connecting parts were first clamped to the fuselage and holes drilled; then the process repeated on the wing side. After working long days almost every Saturday and Sunday for over six months, their big day came. Everything was carefully laid out, the original and new hardware. Crane rigging was attached and the wing lifted. Would it work? Indeed it would: the wing components slipped snugly into place within the brackets on the fuselage, and with only the barest of taps from the (middle sized) persuaders, every bolt slid home. Page 3 Over two years after the snow-loading disaster of Christmas, 2008, as Terry Brunner was delighted to note “It looks like an airplane again!” The Hampden Team … While volunteering at the 2010 Abbotsford Air Show, three BCIT students decided to approach the Canadian Museum of Flight tent. Looking for ways to augment their studies with additional experience working on real aircraft, they asked about restoration projects at the Museum. About one second later, Terry Brunner had them lined up for the next phase of the Hampden project. Three amigos. Three very different individuals, with three very different backgrounds. Jeff Yoell had gone back to school after spending several years in construction project management. He says “the smell of an aircraft, it just hooks you”. and confesses an interest in old things cars, airplanes, whatever. Renya Chang had embarked on a career as an Interior Designer, but at her work place in Richmond found herself watching the aircraft on final to YVR, and accepted what she really wanted was a hands-on job in aviation. The Museum project provided the opportunity to become more familiar with the tools of the trade. Murat Subasioglu knew by the time he came to Canada from Turkey at age 16, that he was passionate about aircraft, particularly military aircraft. He found the BCIT program provided the technical background he was looking for, but he was eager to think outside the box, to go beyond the curriculum. At the Museum they found they came together as team, worlding efficiently and effectively through. the series of unique challenges the Hampden High fives all round with successful completion of the job: left to right are Jeff Yoell, Renya Chang and Murat Subasioglu. presented. “We really bust our guts on this job” says Jeff. “but they feed us a good lunch every day. so what’s not to like?” The Canadian Museum of Flight agrees: what’s not to like about these three competent and hard working young people? And wishes them only the best come graduation day August 2011. By the way, did anyone see the smiles on the three amigos’ faces the next day? Something about flights in the Harvard, upside down? Well earned!

Foggin Flying Service…. … A Slice of British Columbia Aviation History by Brenda Ludwig Tucked away in a corner of the Canadian Museum of Flight hangar is a display of “Aviation Artifacts from the Past”. Each one has a story to tell. Here is one of those stories, the story of Leonard Foggin and Foggin Flying Service, a pioneering aviation company in British Columbia. Life in Canada AVIATION ARTIFACTS FROM THE PAST Above: A collection of interesting old things include a galvanized iron gasoline can, a wooden aircraft ski, and the Foggin Flying Service sign. Right: The Foggin Flying Service sign captures an era in light aircraft aviation, an era of promotional rates for introductory flights. Leonard Foggin TOP SPEED 120 DUAL RATES 1200 HR FOGGIN FLYING SERVICE WESTERN CANADA PLY THE AIRPLANE YOURSELF 300 TRIAL INSTRUCTION FLIGHT NEIL CAMERON GILES RETRERENTIrive at La Leonard Foggin was born on February 24, 1905, in Thornaby on-Tees, England. His parents were Henry (Harry) Bradley Foggin and his wife, Mildred Annie Barker. Harry Foggin was a butcher in the town of Thornaby-on-Tees, and also owned a farm. Len came to Canada in 1927. He got a job working night shifts at the B.C. Electric Company gas works as a steam engineer. All his spare time he pursued his love of flight. He learned to fly at the old airport on Lulu Island in 1929, and he was one of the first members of the Aero Club of B. G. Len did not have a lot of suoney; he would take the streetcar to the airport and walk part of the way. He didn’t take any vacations. LEARN TO In The latest ALL METAL LUSCOMBE Monoplan MD SPEED 110 FLY SOLO RATES 800 MEENDELIG 150 NEW CHEIN SHIP In April 1933, Len purchased a Kinner Bird BK biplane from M. Smith of Walla Walla, Washington. Registered as CF-AUB on May 2, 1933, it was all yellow with red scalloped leading edges on the wings and tail. It carried three people, the pilot in the rear with two passengers side by side in the front. Co- lumbia Aviation would put their banner over Len’s Bird and pay Len a commission for the use of the plane. For mainte nance he used the services of the Aero Club’s Bill Bolton. Foggin’s Field Fifty acres of Harry Foggin’s farm, along with parts of the Thornaby Grange, were taken to create an airfield near Middlesbrough (4 miles northeast of Thornaby-on-Tees). This site, opened as a stopover between Catherick and Marsk in 1914, became known as Foggin’s Field. Foggin’s Field was merely a large field with 2 corrugated sheet metal hangers and a few brick outbuildings. The control tower was a small hut with a large notice requesting visiting pilots to report there. That was enough, however, to capture young Leo- nard’s imagination. In 1934, Len acquired the services of Larry Dakin as mainte- nance helper. Larry didn’t actually receive any money from Len until he got his engineer’s license in 1936. During the week Jack Wright did some instructing. The main source of income, however, was on the weekends, taking up passengers on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. In 1936, Len Foggin acquired a Fleet 2 (CF-ANF) from A.H. Wilson and a DH.60M (Gypsy) Moth from Associated Air Ser- vice in Vancouver. The Gypsy Moth (CF-AGJ) was registered to Len on June 15, 1936. Foggin Flying Service was born. Page 4 for LUSCOMBE

Foggin Flying Service Soon Foggin Flying Service was getting busy and it was star- ting to make a profit. When Len became a flying instructor in 1937, he finally decided to quit his job and to spend his time at the Foggin Flying Service, Everyone who came to work for Len Foggin started work in maintenance. After they had spent some time in mainte- nance, and had acquired sufficient hours of flying time, the employees would start to fly aircraft. Larry Dakin would fly the Fleet 2 into logging camps on the weekends. On Satur- day and Sunday, he would give rides. He would then fly back on Monday with $120 to $130 for a weekend’s work. This be- came so profitable in 1937, Len decided to leave the plane on floats. Early in 1938, Neil Cameron came to work for Len Foggin, first cleaning airplanes. Soon he began to work the fence on a commission basis, giving Foggin a real competitive edge. VING SEDV CF NB In 1939 a Luscombe salesman came to the airfield. Neil made sure that Len Foggin met him. Len purchased a Luscombe 8A which he registered as CF-BNB May 11, 1939, and shortly thereafter a second BA registered as CF-BPA. Len was now making lots of money with Foggin Flying Ser vice. He bought a big car. He was a member of the Masons (Lodge No. 7. Mt. Herman). He was reputed to be a ladies man, who liked to party. Many people would borrow money from him. The End of an Era On May 13, 1941, Len and a former student, Jack Hawes, went up in his Fleet 2 biplane. Len was sitting in the front seat and Jack in the back. As this was a dual control plane. it is not known who was flying. About 45 minutes into the flight, while doing acrobatics over Boundary Bay, the plane suddenly went into a spin at 2000 feet, plummeted straight down, striking nose first and turning on its back with its wheels sticking up in the air, about a mile and a half from the shore. Len Foggin was killed instantly and Jack Hawes died about half an hour later. Everyone was in shock that Len Foggin was dead. A te- legram was sent to England to notify his parents of his death. Len was buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Bur- naby, B.C. Len’s long-term employee, Neil Cameron, wanted to continue Foggin Flying Service. However, the govern- ment has passed war-time legislation stating that no new flying schools could be started. If Neil had been a partner, he would have been able to continue the opera- tion. He believed that Len had written a will giving the business to him. However, the will was never found. CF-AUB Neil Cameron in front of Foggin Flying Service Luscombe 8A CF-BNB. People came to the fence to see the airplanes. Some of the pilots would come to the fence and offer rides for a price; for $3.00 customers would get a 15 minute ride over Vancouver and a souvenir card signed by the pilot. Neil saw a money-making oppor- tunity. He would give potential customers a card telling the customers to ask for Neil. If the customers did want a ride, he would quickly put them in an air- plane and find a pilot. This was more efficient than the pilots trying to find business, so Neil could charge a 10% Commission When Larry Dakin quit, Len Foggin asked Neil to take over the maintenance job, Neil looked after the airplanes in the morning and worked the fence in the afternoon. He kept a book listing the customers that he had found, to make sure that he received his commission. There were 541 names in his book. Page 5 Bird Model BK CF-AUB, powered by a Kinner K-5 engine, owned and operated by Len Foggin and then Foggin Flying Service from 1932 through 1941. Neil and some of Len Foggin’s friends, including his girl- friend Marian Kennedy, went to his boarding house on Chilco Street. While disposing of his belongings, they found a box containing $10,000 in cash and the book in which Neil had entered the names of the paying customers. The job of selling the aircraft and closing the business was left to Neil Cameron. Luscombe 8A (CF-BNB) was sold to Gil- bert Flying Service on April 25, 1942. The last Luscombe BA (CF-BPA) was sold to W. Sylvester on April 7, 1942.

Personalities at Our Museum -Gord Wintrup, President An Interview by Carla Deminchuk (The fourth of an ongoing series, profiling some of the personalities that make our Museum tick.) Glidepath: Can you tell us a bit about your past leadership experience and how that led you to the Canadian Museum of Flight? Gord Wintrup: Before getting involved with the Museum I was one of the founding members, and then vice-president, of the Langley Good Times Cruise-In, a car show held in downtown Langley that generates 5.5 million dollars into the Langley economy each year. I was asked to help out on a CMF fund-raising committee years ago by a member of the local press and the executive director and quickly became hooked! Glidepath: What hooked you? Gord Wintrup: What “hooked” me was the people, the history, and-most of all- this piece of history that I can share with my grandkids. They love touring “papa’s airport” as they call it. Glidepath: How long have you been the President of the Canadian Museum of Flight? Gord Wintrup: For the past three years. Glidepath: What was your biggest challenge as the newly- elected president, and how did you tackle that challenge? Gord Wintrup: I have been fortunate to have worked with dedicated board members that rise to the many challenges we face on a daily basis in guiding the CMF forward. We try to look ahead to long-range planning as opposed to the sort of crisis management that is so easy to fall into. Glidepath: What do you consider to be the museum’s biggest challenge today? Gord Wintrup: Fundraisers such as the “Up, Up and Away Auction” coming up shortly have increased by 300% the funds raised, but as our needs and costs rise with the times, fund-raising is still a huge challenge. With government cutbacks, more and more charities are competing for the same fund-raising dollars. Glidepath: What are your short-term goals for the museum? Gord Wintrup: Short-term goals include renovations to our existing hangar, the completion of the Fleet Canuck restoration, and a new paint job for the Harvard. Glildepath: What are your museum long-term goals, say in the next five years? Gord Wintrup: I have drawn up plans for a new museum facility at my own expense, but with increasing costs of construction, and fund-raising dollars at a premium, I feel we now have to look at a new museum as a two-stage plan. The first stage would be to put a permanent building over our courtyard, stopping the deterioration of our precious airplanes and engines currently on display there. Once that was complete, we could then work toward the second stage of replacing the existing hangar with a larger structure in the same place. While the end result may not be the museum of all our dreams, it will be a thousand percent improvement over what we have! Glidepath: In your capacity as museum president, is there anything you find particularly rewarding? Gord Wintrup: All directors, including myself. find satisfaction in doing the best we can to make CMF the best little museum in Canada. Glidepath: Can you give us some idea as to what will be on the upcoming CMF Annual General Meeting format, and why it is important for the membership to attend this year? Gord Wintrup: At the upcoming AGM we will fully review our financial standing, update the members on events, planning, and the future of your museum. It is a chance to share a meal and discuss what we like and what we would like to see changed, face-to-face. I look forward to meeting with all of our Museum Members and supporters personally at our annual general meeting. Glidepath: On behalf of the membership, I would like to thank you and the executive for your continuing dedication, and we look forward to that meal and meet at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday April 30th, 2011. Gord Wintrup: Thank you. Page 6

First You Glimpse a Gun Turret or a Radio Room … by Carla Deminchuk … Then You Wonder Like many of you who frequent the museum hangar, I have examined the Avro Lancaster’s tiny gun turret and replicated radio room and wondered what the complete airplane looks like “in the metal.” The silenced radio room was particularly omniscient; that orchestration of airplane over airwaves- how did it really sound? So when the Canadian Warplane Heritage Society announced they would be dispatching one of the two remaining air-worthy Lancasters to the 2010 Abbotsford Air Show, attendance was a must. My first impression of the Lancaster on the static line was its dimensions. That laundry- chute sized turret is attached to a fairly- large airplane. The open bomb bay confirmed the guts and skill required to get a fully-loaded Lancaster off a short field somewhere in the English countryside. When you think of those RAF and RCAF flight crews-boys as young as 18, some of them plucked right off the Canadian prairie – the magnitude of their courage is not dwarfed by the size of a 36,900 lb. bomber with 14,000 pounds of armaments tucked into her belly. Photo credit: Mike Luedey, Yellow Drum Productions Lanc and I wanted my kids to see this.” Or, “I lost my brother on this airplane and just had to be here.” Historically touted as a heavy bomber with impressive flying characteristics, the Lancaster did not disappoint as she made her 360-degree sweep around the airfield. This behemoth of its day was surprisingly graceful – the engines strangely quiet. I could almost hear the radio room back at the museum picking up the dot-dash-dash- dot from another Morse Code transmission. After the touch down and the stilling of her propellers, who knows how many memories continued to spin- painful memories of those in the Bomber Command who never returned home. But for Burnaby photographer Mike Luedey, grandson of RCAF Flight Lieutenant Arthur William Browne, who received the WWII Distinguished Flying Cross for completing numerous Lancaster sorties and passed in 1995, “Seeing the Lancaster was like being able to say hello to my grandfather after nearly 15 years.” For those involved in the restoration and preservation of military and civilian aircraft, this is what keeps us passionate and committed. Every project is unique, but there is similarity in the reward. cranked her Merlin engines and taxied for Canadian Museum of Flight take-off, the crowd was three deep at the replica Lancaster radio room. When the Abbotsfor◆ Air Show Lancaster spectators’ fence. From the comments overheard, many had waited a lifetime for the chance to validate personal memories with the reverberation of those four powerful Merlin engines: “My grandfather was a navigator on the Page 7 The next time you visit the museum you will no doubt take another look at the Fleet Canuck in the restoration bay or the incomplete Bristol Bolingbroke IV, or any one of the numerous airplanes in our collection we hope to launch skyward one day. And yet again… you’ll start to wonder.

Around the Museum – News and Events Museum Calendar 2011 – Website Enhancements April 30 May 14 CMF Annual General Meeting Movie Night at the Hangar June 24-26 Langley Aero Club Fly-In COPA National Convention Pay Your Membership and Make Donations on Line The CMF has taken a huge step into the modern world, providing the option to buy or extend memberships, and to make donations to the Museum, on line. Simply visit the Museum website, scroll down to the bottom of the home page, click on the dot point “Join the Team”, and follow the instructions. eBay Store The CMF has also established an online extension of the Museum gift shop, in the form of an eBay store. We now have for sale on line some of the more popular items carried in the gift shop, in particular many of the highly sought after die cast models. Please check out the online store through the Museum website or through eBay. Visit often, as some of the most valuable die cast models go up for auction each week. July 9 Hope Flight Fest July 16 Princeton Airshow August 12-14 Abbotsford Airshow August 21 Chilliwack Airshow Sept. 10 Langley Cruise-In Sept. 17 CMF Members’ Day October 21 Teachers Prof. Development Day Nov. 6-10 Semiahmoo Mall Show Nov. 19 Movie Night at the Hangar Note: Event dates may change due to changes in circumstances such as time constraints and schedule conflicts. Please check the Museum website for the latest information or confirm dates with the Museum office closer to each event. Hangar Sale and Flea Market Are you downsizing, moving, or just tired of stuff? The Museum is planning a hangar sale and flea market. This will be a self-contracted sale you reserve your table, do your own pricing and selling. There will be no charge for members for their own tables, but we would welcome a donation from your sale proceeds. Tables will also be available for rental by the public. It would be neat if we could get the aviation community more broadly engaged, and could achieve a bit of an aviation flavour to the goods for sale, but the event will not be restricted to that. The date for this event will be announced later, start collecting your sale stuff now! Canadian Museum of Flight Notice of 2011 Annual General Meeting Date: Location: Time: April 30, 2011 Museum Hangar Dinner at 6:00 p.m. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. The Annual General Meeting will be a brief business meeting, for election of Directors and receipt of financial statements. Nominations for Director positions are open until April 15. Members in good standing 30 days prior to the AGM are eligible to vote at the meeting or by Proxy. Pictures and biographies for the candidates will be posted on the Museum website by April 15. Have you always wanted to write? Join us for an informative and entertaining session with author Ed Griffin, who will share his secrets for writing your story and getting published. Date: Saturday, April 9 Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Location: Museum of Flight Admission: $5.00 More information from Carla, 604-308-7559 Prior to the formal meeting, there will be a Chinese buffet dinner, at a cost of $20. We welcome all those interested in our Museum to join us for both dinner and the AGM. For more information on Canadian Museum of Flight collections, displays and events, please visit our website at www.canadianflight.org We recently added a section on aircraft models at our Museum. Page 8