CANADIAN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT NEWSLETTER ISSUE 59 FALL 1998 CANADIAN MUSEUM of FLIGHT
Peter M. Bowers Well known aviation writer, member of the board WWI Aero. Designer of the famous “Flybaby” homebuilt of the 1960’s. Aircraft is CMF’s SESA Photo credit: Dennis Cardy
EDITORIAL…..by ‘Gogi” Goguillot
Writing editorials is always a problem. Does one write about the good, the successes, the neat stuff, sweetness and light, or about the
facts of life, the truth about where we are “Really at”. Do we write about Milt and his beautiful Waco Pedal car he built to be raffled off or about the fact that we had so few members requesting tickets for the dinner meeting that we were forced to cancel it?
Do we rejoice because a few of our dedicated members donated cash to keep our flyable airplanes flying and to maintain a small amount of activity in our restoration projects? Is this all we want? What about re-focusing on our need to increase our shop and display space and drastically reduce our storage costs? What about our need for a site which will accommodate activities like wings and wheels-our own aviation events which increase our visibility, our income and our members (your) participation and enjoyment? What is the problem? It is very easy to be critical, but we must decide where we are trying to go and determine where we are actually going.
How much space do we need inside and outside when we get a new site? Should we examine the profitability of our activities? How do we finance our projects? How do we cut expenses? Or more positively. How do we generate more income?
The preceding basic questions were part of a questionnaire distributed among the directors in August. How many were returned?-Three. How many had constructive comments? – None.
We must do better and all pull in the same direction-Now!
We have the projects. We have the core of people with the expertise.
As the old saying goes-Lead, Follow or Get out of the way!
MISSION STATEMENT.
“The Mission of the Canadian Museum Of Flight is to tell the fascinating story of aviation by collecting, restoring and preserving aircraft and artifacts.”
Front page photo: Peter M. Bowers at the controls of Canadian Museum of Flight’s SESA Canadian Museum Of Flight
- INSIDE
- Editorial – by Gogi Goguillo……. Page 1
- Museum Executive, Administration & Committees.. Page 2
- Odds & Ends…… Page 3
- Memorials Page 4
- Around the Museum. Page 5
- Articles of interest…… Page 6
- Articles & Information.. Page 7
- Hanger Humor Page 8
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- General (Age 16 thru 59)… ..5.00 plus GST
- Senior (Age 60 plus).. …4.00 plus GST
- Youth (Age 6 thru 15). ..4.00 plus GST
- Family (2 adults + 4 youth)… .. 12.00 plus GST
- Children (under 6).. Free
- Museum members… .Free
- 1999 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES (GST incl.)
- General 37.45
- Senior 26.75
- Family 48.15
- Student 26.75
See page SEVEN
The CMF Newsletter is published quarterly by the Canadian Museum of Flight.
Contributions in the form of articles, news items, letters and photos are welcome, as are comments and criticism. No payment can be made for any manuscripts that are submitted for publication in the C.M.F. Newsletter.
The Editor reserves the right to make changes in manuscripts without altering the meaning.
- Editor………… “Gogi” Goguillot
- Printing…… ..Morice Kapustianyk
- Photographer… ……..Larry Niven
All mail and correspondence can be sent to:
Canadian Museum of Flight c/o The Newsletter Editor Unit No. 200-5333-216th. Street Langley, B.C. V2Y 2N3
Tel: (604) 532-0035
Fax: (604) 532-0056
E-Mail: museum@direct.ca
- Directors
- Butterley, Don. 576-1175
- Chmilar, Sheila…. 507-0187
- Griesbeck, Werner. 856-5222
- Holliday, Dan 291-0934
- Kendall, Dick 463-6181
- Kingston, Barry. 826-2712
- Krywiak, Ron 433-6240
- Manning, Wayne. Fax..538-9829
- McWilliams, Ron 590-0226
- Proulx, George 538-3836
- Read, Michael. 536-7402
- Robinson, Jane… 536-3287
- Founding Directors Thompson, Capt. Bill 883-2445
- General Manager: “Gogi” Goguillot
- Office/Library: Bev Watson
- Gift Shop: Sandy Tinsley
- Office Phone….. 532-0035
- Fax. 532-0056
- Executive Committee
- President………. ………..George Proulx
- Vice President… …Don Butterley
- Secretary-Treasurer….. Sheila Chmilar
- Standing Committees
- Magazine Collection…………………..
- George Proulx 538-3836
- Muir Adair 530-9758
- Volunteer Coordinator. …
- Merillee Elgood 279-2062
- “Gogi” Goguillot 823-6428
- Corporate Liaison.. Bev Watson 532-0035
- Special Events.. ..
- George Proulx 538-3836
- Jane Robinson 536-3287
- Newsletter layout/printing.. Morice Kapustianyk 857-0551
- Restoration.. Wemer Griesbeck 856-5222
- Research……………. Jerry Vernon 420-6065-Fax 420-1684
- Computer Services. Michael Read 536-7402
- Exhibits & Displays.
- Ron McWilliams 590-0226
- Sheila Chmilar 540-6236
- Grounds & Janitorial. Ron McWilliams 590-0226
- Transportation.. . open
- Meetings/Prep Entertainment. open
- Hampden (Ad Hoc)… ..Fred Gardham 681-6886
- Disposals Committee Chairman. 590-1855
- Disposals Committee….
- open …
- Gogi Goguillot 823-6428
- Casino.. Jane Robinson 536-3287
- Lodestar. John DeVisser 277-4377
- Aircraft/Flying Committee… Gogi Goguillot (current pilot) 823-6428
- Keeper of Aircraft.. Ron Krywiak 433-6240
- Magazine Collection…………………..
ODDS & ENDS
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
GENERAL MEETING & DINNER
CMF HANGAR NOVEMBER 21, 1998
Cocktails 6:00 P.M.- Dinner 7:00 P.M.
Tickets: $ 18.00 p.p. (plus GST) Available at the Gift Shop Langley Airport RSVP before November 14, 1998 call: 532-0035 Bring a New Member
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SMALL MUSEUMS WORTH FIGHTING FOR….
Periodic trips to a nearby museum by students are becoming less viable among cash-poor school boards
Gerald McDuff
The fading interest in Canadian history could speed up even more as funding for small museums-the stored memories of hundreds of communities across the county-dries up
What could be lost is the country’s heritage displayed in buildings that are a familiar part of a town’s landscape a converted country schoolhouse or as old grist mill-rather that in large institutions. It is a pity since the opportunity exists: students are already among the most frequent museum-goers, but their visits are too often a relief from classroom boredom instead of a formal, curriculum aid to teaching history.
ALL members are entitled to a 10% discount on regular priced merchandise in the GIFT SHOP
Just how much this possibility is ignored is obvious from the fewer teaching options that are available as result of education cutbacks in too many communities. Periodic trips to a nearby museum, even as a holiday, are becoming less viable among cash-poor school boards.
Busing is an example. Parents will, of course, favor having their children driven to and from home safety, if they are forced i choose the service over museums lours.
That’s only one of the contradictions of running museum of any size. Another is even more surprising: Atendance is rising steadily, yet the upkeep of the collections to preserve them and make them historically meaningful is more difficult.
Statistics Canada reports almost 113 million Canadian and foreign visitors went to heritage institutions in 1995-96, a two-per-cent increase over 1993-94. Among them 55 million went to muscums. “Here is a tremendous potential for museums to play a much more dynamic role,” says John McAvity, director general of the Canadian Museums Association, lobbyist for about 2,000 of the country’s 2,200 museums.
“Stories about Canada are locked up in museums and we want to get them out… Canadians are apathetic about their history,” he adds.
Over the year, museums have had to tap a variety of sources as public grants continued to dwindle, from charging or raising admissions, to buttonholing donors for larger gifts to hiring staff through government youth employment programs.
And museums have to be as self-promoting as their competitors: Multi-theatre movie complexes, computer games, the Internet and the unending demands for money by amateur and professional sports.
Big name museums can often count on generous corporate and private donations to add to their government grants in return for the free publicity and tax deductions. Less so at institutions where curators limit them selves to collecting objects that tell the story of a town or region’s development. Until recently, they relied on steady government support to supplement a small admission, gift shop sales and infrequent donations. Curator Mary Lettner, the only full time employee at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte, Ont, (population 4,500) worries the museum will simply turn into an inadequate exhibition hall.
She administers a museum that commemorates the textile industry from its roots in homestead weaving by Scottish settlers to a time in the 19th. Century when the area was the largest textile centre for all of North America.
“Our acquisitions are suffering. I don’t have time to work on artifacts since the provincial government cut off the operating grant,” she says. Stats Can notes grants from all governments are not keeping pace with operating expenditures.
SPECIAL “Pioneering Aviation In The West” Price: $5.00 GST included
At Ottawa’s Bytown Museum that stands cheek to jowl with the Parliament Buildings, curator Lana Shaw looks around her compact museum that tells the story of the Rideau Canal’s construction and is concerned: Parks Canada, the buildings owner, may raise the rent and the city could reduce it’s contribution. Heritage Canada has slashed the budget of the museum assistance program to $6.5 million, down from the $ 18 million forecast eight years ago. in the federal museum policy, according to the museum association’s McAvity.
“Museum assistance] is really the only program of federal funding.” he says. The reduction means museums have to “scrounge around” for other funding. Some smaller museums are getting rid of objects of minor or doubtful value. By limiting their holdings, they hope to reduce conservation and storage costs, among other expenses. Amid all the free-floating angst about funding, it was up to MP Pat O’Brien (London-Farshawe) at a recent Commons committee hearing to connect museums with heritage: “It may not be the political word but the level of ignorance of many Canadians about our own country, our history and our own culture concerns me very gravely. As a Liberal, he is in an ideal position to persuade his government to be more active. And he would be helping small museums that are doing their share to break through the indifference to our history.
In Remembrance of a Friend…
The Canadian Museum Of Flight regrets to inform you that again we have lost a valuable member and a good friend with the passing of Ted Harris on: September 8, 1998 in his 76th. year.
Ted was a twenty-five year member and director of the Canadian Museum Of Flight. He served with the Royal Navy during World War Two and later with the RCAF Search and Rescue. Ted rebuilt a Cessna, built an RV6, was involved in the restoration of our Tiger Moth and had 10,000 incident free flying hours.
Ted was a members of “Friends Of The DC3” and he also helped design and build our Airport Memorial Cairn.
He will be missed.
The AVRO ARROW from display to dismay…
This photo of mockup AVRO ARROW No. 201 is seen just prior to the disassembly of the aircraft for transport back to Wetaskiwin, Alberta where it will be on a permanent display in their museum.
A sad end to a Gallant Lady after she had been dismantled for shipment to her final resting place in Alberta. Many thanks to our CMF personnel who were on hand to take part in the hard work of disassembly at the Abbotsford International Airport this summer.
Lest we forget attend a Memorial On November 11th.
FAMED SPITFIRE CRASH Takes life of Young Pilot…
Sadly, we report the loss of a young aviator’s life in Classic Spitfire RW382.
Tom Jackson, who was known by many friends at Victoria International Airport died in the crash of the World War II fighter near Lake Tahoe.
The ‘Spit’, which flew in the film “Battle of Britain” was owned by Bemie Jackson and had been a “gate guard” at Uxbridge until restored in 1991.
For the past several years Bernie and Tom Jackson would fly the Spitfire t from Victoria Airport while on vacation here.
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Members Only !!! 25% off
ART PRINTS ALL JACKETS IN STOCK 25% off LOOKING FOR SOME NEW IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS CARDS THIS YEAR? Come in and see us at the We’ll print your Christmas cards Canadian Museum of Flight “Personalized” Colorful “Stranraer” Aircraft Bring us your personalized Christmas message for you of the and leave the rest to us! Cost: $5.00 per dozen
Volunteer/Member Airplane Rides and Social Events
V.P. DON BUTTERLEY about to brave the elements in “Breezy”.. Pilot – Bill Marr with owner Stan Vivian passing sage advice…
Dan Holiday pre-flights Steve Deroo prior to hop in CMF WACO
Mike Davenport about to transport Daryl McIntosh in the Stinson…
CMF ANTIQUE AIRCRAFT DISASTER AVOIDED BY QUICK ACTION OF OUR VOLUNTEERS AT THE KAMLOOPS AIRSHOW
Who are these VOLUNTEERS? Taken during the Kamloops Airshow, forest fires and high winds….
Photos by Sandy Tinsley
Neither wind nor forest fire shall deter this lovely Volunteer from selling CMF Gift Shop items at the Kamloops Airshow.
Dinner BE General Meeting Cocktails 6:00 P.M.- Dinner 7:00 P.M. NOVEMBER 21, 1998 $18.00 per person (see page 3)
John Clark hard at work at a lathe donated by Don Dines
CMF Museum Raffle
POWER Kiddie version of our award winning WACO I.N.F. For pilots 3-5 years. See it on display at the CFM GIFT SHOP Draw Date is… DECEMBER 17, 1998 Tickets: $2.00 each/ 3 for $5.00 Available at the CMF GIFT SHOP or use your credit card and order by phone. 532-0035 To all members! Help support your Museum-Please pick up a few books of tickets at the CMF Gift Shop and sell them to your friends and neighbors! NC 60SY Piloting the Prize WACO is young Dillon Cole PHOTO BY: Dennis Cardy
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT TAKES HIGH HONORS AT INTERNATIONAL “FLY-IN” AT ARLINGTON, WASHINGTON
By Dan Holliday
Along about the first week of July, a group of volunteers were standing around CFCJR (the WACO) after having completed work on the elevator horn and someone said; “Well, the elevator is fixed, the insurance is paid, why doesn’t someone take it to Arlington?”
Werner Greisbeck was going with his beautiful Fairchild 24, so he said I should fly the Waco and we could go as a Museum of Flight contingent.
After getting the appropriate approvals and explaining to my wife that it would be perfectly safe (in answer to her question “you’re going where in an airplane that is how old ??!”). We gathered up bunches of brochures and some large coroplast signs and we were off. The trip down was perfect although I did notice more golf courses than I had ever noticed on that leg before. I’m not sure whether it is a result of an open cockpit on a gorgeous July day or flying behind a 68 year old engine and subconsciously looking for emergency landing spots. Anyway, the Kinner never missed a beat and we arrived safely.
After clearing Customs on the field, we taxied into our prime parking spot at the top end of the row. When we got our tent set up and our Museum of Flight signs placed in strategic places around the airplanes, we went and registered. When you register they give you a prop sleeve to put on your airplane and a little green sticker that says “JUDGE ME” if you want to be judged. Well, we are here, so why not? The little green sticker went on. We then spent the rest of the day wandering around kicking tires, talking to old friends and things you do when you’re at a fly-in.
Next morning. I wake up to Werner getting dressed at 5:00 am. with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye-saying someone has to do it! having been here before I know “it” is DAWN PATROL!
So we get dressed and push the airplane out to the taxiway and we’re off. At precisely 5:30 a.m. with the sun peeking over the mountain tops, there was the sweet sound of a Kinner power WACO doing a low and over! After spending another great day and watching the airshow, it was time to head back to Canada. The folks at Arlington were great and asked us to make sure the Museum sends some airplanes next year.
The flight back was as good as the flight down and arriving at Langley at dusk with a beautiful red sky was a special treat. Oh yeah!– the little green sticker on the prop sleeve. It turns out that our 1930 WACO IN.F. won Reserve Grand Champion in the Antique Division, so we now have a beautiful plaque in our trophy case at the Museum.
FAIRCHILD R24 Grand Champion-Antique 2 years back & INF WACO Reserve Grand Champion 1998
For me personally, it was like a dream come true. I got to fly an open cockpit antique bi-plane to the largest fly-in on the West Coast. Camp under the wing of the airplane, do the Dawn Patrol and come home with a very nice trophy. It just doesn’t get any better than that!!
Congratulations on your efforts Werner and Dan on behalf of the Canadian Museum of Flight gang!
MEMBERSHIP
We are working diligently on the new membership database and hope to be complete by the time this newsletter is printed. The last few mailing have seen quite a number of returns obviously our information is not all correct. Please bear with us – eventually we will get it right. Some members are still sending in full year renewals. We will refund these and continue pro-rating until our new system an application. starts March 1, 1999.
The chart below shows the membership rates(including GST) until the new fiscal year:
| General | Family | Student/Senior | |
| November | 12.49 | 16.05 | 8.91 |
| December | 9.36 | 12.04 | 6.69 |
| January | 6.24 | 8.03 | 4.46 |
| February | 3.12 | 4.01 | 2.23 |
In March 1999 ALL membership renewals will be due :
***All members whose 1999 dues are paid on or before February 28, 1999 will have their name entered in a draw for a beautifully embroidered leather/wool jacket (only sizes in stock).
UPDATE ON GAMING
by Jane Robinson
The Museum submitted an application for a casino event in February 1998. Since then the gaming rules have changed again and, as of June 1, 1998 our application was transferred to an application for Direct Charitable Access to Gaming Revenue.
The significant difference is that we longer have to provide volunteers to staff casino events. We access the money generated by casinos by simply submitting
As part of this process we have been asked to make our membership aware of the contents of the Terms and Conditions for Direct Charitable Access to Gaming Revenue. These are too lengthy to reproduce here but a copy is available in the Museum office for anyone wishing to read it.
Listed below are the main points covered by the document…
- Part 1- Definitions (a glossary of terms used)
- Part 2- General (Law compliance, record keeping, financial control/reporting, acknowledgment of support, etc.)
- Part 3- Eligibility for Direct Access
- Part 4- Categories of applicants (CMF’s category is “Cultural Organizations”)
- Part 5- Use of Gaming Proceeds
- Part 6- Appeal Hearing
If anyone would like further information about the Museum’s requests for gaming money call June Robinson at: 536-3287 Evenings, or leave a message for me at the Museum at 532-0035.
HANGAR HUMOR ”
After the Rector of our church joined the Canadian Armed Forces as a Chaplain, he wrote to me about his first day in uniform “I am a Lieutenant in the Navy, which is the same as a Captain in the army or air force.. I wear two rings on my sleeves. My first day. I saluted privates before they saluted me. So I waited for the next person I passed to salute me. He was a General. The next man down the street had rings all over his sleeves, I gave him the smartest salute possible. Then I noticed his shoulder patch He was a bus driver. I hid in the Chaplain’s office the rest of the day.”
SOLO The Instructors job, is dead easy!
By Barry Kingston
Flying’s a piece of cake. I mean there is nothing to it. Just match an airplane with your average, intelligent, well coordinated human being, and you have the ultimate in transportation. Fast, comfortable, safe. At any airport, at any time…
“Watch your circuit height.”
“O.K. Bill.”
-you can see airline types. Handsome devils, competent. Natural lords of the clouds. But, of course, there’s nothing to flying, if you’re a natural. And if you’re a natural, the instructor’s job is dead easy. Little encouragement here, few hints there. Good hours, pleasant life. No problems.
“Keep your nose up.”
“O.K. Bill.”
The view from up here is just great. Mt. Baker looks like a great big birthday cake. Cars look like little toys. Cows look like insects. Hey, fancy using a car to get around in. All that traffic down there. Old fashioned. No imagination. Most of those guys down there probably don’t have what it takes. Poor devils. Still, I guess we can’t all have it.
“Don’t throttle back too soon.”
“O.K. Bill”
I wish he wouldn’t interrupt, but I suppose he has to say something, guess he’s only doing his job. That’s what he’s paid for.
“Slow it down a bit on final.”
“O.K. Bill.”
Picky… yeah, that’s what he is picky. Probably didn’t catch on too quickly when he was a student. Can always tell. Inferiority complex or something
“Think you’ll make the field?”
“Sure, Bill.”
I’m beginning to have a sneaking suspicion that he doesn’t realize that he’s flying with a natural. Someone who’s got a little more on the ball that your average, run of the mill student pilot.
“How about using some flap?”
“O.K. Bill.”
Boy, what an approach! Right speed. Right angle glide. Did all the checks (I think). Well, the main ones anyway. Over the fence. Ease back. Flare out. Squeak, squeak…
little bounce. Nothing to worry about. Heck, you should see the way some of those guys bounce. Enough to make your nose bleed. Anyway, have to be firm. Make sure you fly the plane. Make sure it doesn’t fly you.
Come to a full stop in front of the hangar,
“How d’you feel?
“Fine.” What a stupid question!
(to be continued in next edition)
More from Dan Holliday…
August 8, 1998-Abbotsford Airport and there is an Airshow of sorts plus a car show and even some antique military vehicles.
When the Airshow Society decided not to have an Abbotsford Airshow in 1998, the folks at the Abbotsford Flying Club felt something should be done and what happened was WINGS and WHEELS-a good old fashioned kick the tires fly-in and show and shine for antique and classic cars.
Estimates were about 100 cars ranging from British sports cars to Model A Fords to 50’s classics to street rods. For the military buffs, there were about 15 antique military vehicles and for aircraft enthusiasts, there were about 40 display aircraft, home-builts, classics and antiques.
The Canadian Museum of Flight was well represented with its mobile souvenir stand surrounded by the SES: The Fleet Finch; the WACO INF and the Fairchild 24. There were some fly-bys by Globe Swifts (some Swiftbirds plus some American friends). The aerobatics box was open so some of the fellows from the aerobatics club went up to practice their routines for all to watch.
The airport was open while all this was going on so there was lots to see in the way of WestJet flights, Conair Water bombers coming and going and the regular light plane traffic.
At the end of the day, the Abbotsford Flying Club hosted a barbecue at their clubhouse and plaques were given to the best airplanes and cars in each category. Thanks to all those people who put together a very good 1st. time event and we look forward to the next Wings & Wheels. Also special thanks to the volunteers who manned the Museum sales booth and the pilots who flew our aircraft to the event.
JOHN CLARK
Bringing the trailer w/Sopwith Camel & Inventory from the BIG KIDS TOY SHOW at B.C. PLACE came off the 401 Freeway at 200th. Street when the truck began acting up. When he got out the truck was on fire. Two gentlemen assisted him in unhooking the truck and push it away from the trailer.
As the truck was burning, he realized his jacket was on the front seat, so bravely he goes back to retrieve it when he notices the $$$ Cash $$$ box with all the receipts from the Toy Show on the seat as well. Well, he salvaged everything including the “Magnetic signs” off the truck doors.
“WAY TO GO, JOHN !!”