The Canadian Museum of Flight
Glidepath News
Hangar #3-5333 216th Street Langley, B.C., V2Y 2N3
Issue 66
Phone (604) 532-0035
Fax: (604) 532-0056
Summer 2000
Email: museum@direct.ca
Member Fred Gardham (left) of Vancouver, BC and Maurice Curtiese (right) of Guildford, England in front of the Canadian Museum of Flight’s Restored Handley Page Hampden.
Story on page 5
WE DID IT!
The Federal government has announced partial funding for the Canadian Museum of Flight’s Aviation Heritage 2000 Project. This initiative will receive $81,600 through the Canada Millennium Partnership Program, which encourages public and private sector participation to create millennium projects that will make a difference in the lives of Canadians.
Federal funding for each CMPP project is limited to a maximum of one-third of all eligible project costs. The remaining two-thirds come from other partners in the community.
“With the application phases completed, the CMPP is starting to be in full swing. From coast to coast, Canadians are marking the millennium in their own meaningful ways,” said Herb Gray, Minister responsible.” This means that the people of Langley are joining the thousands of people from coast to coast who are promoting our history, our arts and culture, our youth, our environment and the development of our communities with the help of the CMPP.”
The Millennium Bureau of Canada, which administers the CMPP, received more than 5,000 proposals in the final application phase alone. It approved over 700 projects for partial funding, bringing the total number of CMPP projects to over 1,700.
“The Aviation Heritage Project will be a welcome addition to the Canadian Museum of Flight as it will surely encourage interest in the study of Canadian aviation,” said Vancouver South-Burnaby MP Herb Dhaliwal.
The federal government is mainly a facilitator. By partially funding projects, it helps local project organizers to obtain broad community support for their endeavors but the real motivation comes from the people themselves. The Canada Millennium Partnership Program gives Canadians the opportunity to mark the millennium in their own way.
The Aviation Heritage 2000 Project was made possible with the help of numerous partners, sponsors and volunteers, including: The Township of Langley, the Canadian Museum of Flight Members, Bear Crane Services Ltd., and the Canadian Millennium Partnership Program.
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 CMF Newsletter. The Editor reserves the right to make changes in the manuscripts without altering the meaning If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact either Gogi or Sandy Museum by calling (604) 532-0035. Museum is open daily from 10:00 am – 4:00 p.m.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Quarterly Dinner Meeting
Saturday, July 22nd, 2000
Hors d’oeuvres 5:30 pm – Dinner: 7:00 pm – Meeting: 8:00 pm
$20.00 Per Person (GST Included)
RSVP by July 18th, by calling Sandy at 532-0035.
Guest Speaker
Mr. Oli Olson – with slide presentation of “Aviation-Just after the Wright Brothers ”
MEMBERS DAY-Saturday July 22nd
This is our way to thank you… the members and volunteers for supporting the Museum. On Saturday July 22, we will be hosting Members’ Day. From 1:00-4:00 pm you will have the opportunity to fly in either one of the Museum’s aircraft or other airplanes provided for that day. Show your membership card and you will then be able to draw ar aircraft name out of a box. You will then go for a ride in that selected aircraft. This is done to ensure that everyone receives a ride, in past years, certain “favorite” aircraft had long line ups and it was very difficult to give everyone ride. Please note, due to the number of aircraft available, there will be a limited amount of rides and so it will be don on a first come first serve basis. Also, as all aviation related activities….this day is subject to weather.
The aircraft rides will finish at 4:00 pm, but we invite you to stay and socialize prior to the Quarterly Dinner Meeting There will be games and prizes along with a silent auction. For those staying for the Dinner Meeting, Hors d’oeuvre will be served at 5:30 pm with Dinner being served at 7:00 pm. Cost for the dinner meeting is $20.00 taxes included, h the Member’s Day from 1:00-4:00 is free!
LANGLEY CANADA DAY CELEBRATION
The Museum will have a display on the West Side of the field for Canada Day’s along with extend hours in the Off- Shop and Hangar. Hours for June 30th and July 1″ will be 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. Volunteers are needed for both venue
ABBOTSFORD MALL DISPLAY
The Museum will have a full display at West Oaks Mall in Abbotsford from Monday July 31st to Sunday August 6th. We will be requiring a lot of volunteers for this display, if you can help, please call Sandy @ 532-0035.
ABBOTSFORD AIR SHOW
To date, there is nothing confirmed with the Air Show, please call the office if you would like more information.
Volunteer of the Quarter
When you think of the word volunteer, you think of the giving of time. How much time does one have to give to be a volunteer…..of course there is no set limit, any amount is appreciated. In the volunteer core you always find a few rare exceptions, those willing to to give more of themselves than just a few hours here and there. How about giving of y days a week, that is what our Volunteer of the Quarter Jack Lingham gives. You can set your clock to Jack every ng of your time 7. as soon as Planes of Fame is finished on the television, in to Jack every morning. walks Jack for another day. Jack has been instrumental on the restoring of the WACO cabin along with many other areas including his vast wealth of knowledge.
On behalf of everyone….thank you and congratulations Jack for being CMF’s Volunteer of the Quarter.
Thank you to the owners and staff at Hanger 13 Bar & Grill located at the Abbotsford Airport for donating Gift Certificates as door prizes at the Annual General Meeting.
HANGER BAR & GRILL Abbotsford Airports Best Kept Secret Tel: 556-3976 1276 Tower Street Abbotsford, BC
KJELLER FLYHISTORISKE FORENING
Loosely translated means something like Flying History Association or Aviation Museum
Why the interest in a Norwegian Aviation Museum. I’m glad you asked that.
In August of 1940, the Canadian government approved the establishment of a Norwegian-government-in- exile plan to train their airmen in Canada. This was co-opted with the Toronto Flying Club and financed by the Norwegian government. They located their school at the Toronto Island Airport and at another facility at the foot of Bathurst Street. The Bathurst street location became known as Little Norway. They had planned to use three types of aircraft ordered from the US prior to the German’s invasion of Norway. These were to have been Fairchild PT19s, Curtiss P40s and Douglas built Northrop 8A-5 fighters. In the end they used the 1200 hp 8A’s and the blue and yellow Fleet built Cornells powered by L-440-C 200 hp Ranger engines. In 1943 the facility was relocated near the town of Gravenhurst in the Muskoka region. Flight training was provided to some 426 pilots by the end of the program
A Museum in Norway is restoring a Cornell to flying status and this is where we come in. We were pleased to be able to provide them with two large crates of parts from our store of excess Cornell inventory. Some of the larger pieces were cowlings, fuel and oil tanks, ailerons and a rudder as well as a firewall and a center section.
Little is known of the Norwegian experience in Canada and we are happy to be able to have a share in preserving a little of that history for them.
Welcome to our newest members
Kristen Arens Peter & Rita Assion John Bliss Larry Braine Wayne Brinker Keith Brown Les Burkholder Eric Clarke Michael de Verteuil Nick Diachok Ron Fairweather Fred Forster Doug Fraser Andrew Gibson Robert Hansen Steven Hodge Glen Hoffman Langley, BC Surrey, BC White Rock, BC Fort Langley Langley, BC Surrey, BC Langley, BC Langley, BC Langley, BC White Rock, BC Surrey, BC North Vancouver, BC Surrey, BC Surrey, BC Delta, BC Burnaby, BC Coquitlam, BC Kent Johansen Ebeltoft Robert Jonas Burnaby, BC Grant Kruse Surrey, BC Jeff & Michelle Laurie Langley, BC Burnaby, BC Larry Lee Dave Mackay White Rock, BC George McNutt Bill Morgan Langley, BC Langley, BC Robert & Karen Morrison Abbotsford, BC Stephen Mullins West Vancouver, BC Fort Langley, BC Terry Murphy Gordon Petri Surrey, BC Ken Pruden Aldergrove, BC Gordon Rutgers Vancouver, BC Nick Spark Mark Stevlingson Santa Monica, CA Redmond, WA Vern Young Langley, BC
CCW PROGRESS REPORT
You may not be able to look at CCW and notice the progress, but since the last newsletter we are please to report that the brakes are almost done, the plywood is here for the interior panels as is the upholstery material. We have completed a list of materials required to cover and paint, and the instruments to fill all the holes in the newly made instrument panel.
FROM THE DESK OF THE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Ken Knutson, CMF Volunteer Coordinator
We have had a very busy quarter with the Easter Egg Hunt, the Tradex Car Show, Fort Langley May Day Parade, Aldergrove Mall and also Semiahmoo Centre displays.
It was incredible to see so much interest at the Tradex Car Show. Our plywood aircraft carrier had hundreds of landings; wearing out the string and putting significant wear on the model planes wood wheels. At times we had up to 15 people, fathers and sons waiting for a chance to try a landing or two. Many people commented while viewing our under construction Taylor Monoplane that they had never seen an airplane under construction. This event was truly magic.
The Semiahmoo Centre display at White Rock was a very good sales event but it was the children’s day Saturday June 10th that was particularly memorable. Between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm we lifted nearly 200 children into our Struchen Helicopter. Who needs to go to the gym to lift weights! There was one five-year-old boy that was particularly moving. He was all smiles and chuckles as he took his turn; it didn’t make one bit of difference that none of his fingers were complete. He was flying a helicopter and on top of the world. Isn’t that what life is all about!
Volunteer work is very rewarding and exciting. At the Tradex display we met the builder of the flying Avro Arrow model used in the Arrow Movie. While tour guiding at the Museum we also met one of the engineer-designers of our Handley-Page Hampden who came all the way from England to view our plane. Our Hampden is the only one on display in the world. The Fort Langley May Day parade was just pure fun for us adults.
Thanks to all the people who volunteered. Please consider volunteering, you won’t be disappointed and you can have a lot of fun.
Attendance at the Annual General meeting held April 15 was an all time high. Over 110 people enjoyed a delicious dinner in the Hangar prior to the Elections of the 2000/2001 Board of Directors.
Following are the newly elected Board members.
- Terry Wadhams President
- Werner Griesbeck Vice President
- Mike Davenport Treasurer
- Dan Holliday Secretary
- Don Butterley
- Gil Fanslau
- Jane Robinson
- Doug Schwann
- Bill Thompson Lifetime Director
The Board of Directors would like to give a special thank you to Ron McWilliams, and Ron Krywiak for their service on the Board in 1999/2000. Also, thank you to Bob Fowles, Dan Millsip, Glenn Rachel and Lew Twambley for allowing their name to stand for election.
In Memory
The Museum lost a dear friend and member in the passing away of Dick Kendall. Dick was a dedicated volunteer and past member of the Board. Dick passed away suddenly at the start of his vacation overseas, and will be missed greatly by everyone at the Museum. Dick volunteered in the Gift Shop regularly on Mondays, and attended most off site special events. His love of aviation was very apparent, and his love of reading brought a vast wealth of knowledge to the Museum. The Museum showed its respect by flying the “Missing Man” formation over his services in Maple Ridge.
HAMPDEN- Front cover photo
On Wednesday, June 7th the Museum was visited by a surviving Hampden pilot, Sergeant Maurice Curtiese of Guildford England. Maurice Curtiese’s Hampden had the misfortune to be shot down over Germany in 1942 and he suffered three years as a prisoner of war.
Over 30 members and guests came to the Museum to share stories and reminisce about flying, navigating and maintaining not only the Hampden, but also the Lancaster, Halifax, Mosquito and many more.
Although the weather did not cooperate, the small crowd gathered under the wing of the Hampden to hear Terry Wadhams, President of CMF and Lieutenant Paul Seguna representing the Department of National Defence thank not only the men and women who served during the war, but also the dedicated volunteers who have restored the Hampden to static display as a lasting memorial.
CMF is attempting to acquire an Expo 86 Pavilion. These buildings were used at the fair to house the various countries that participated during the event. Ours would be without walls or roof to become an atrium forming a courtyard and landmark over our entire front yard.
The connection with Expo 86 is a natural as CMF participated with a display of aircraft under- going restoration on site for the entire duration of the fair.
Efforts are now underway to secure funding for the project with participation by governments, both Provincial and local, and personal participation being invited. This program is intended to be a self- funded project. We welcome you to come into the Museum to see the model on display and give us your comments or suggestions.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Sir:
The new branch, extension, of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum being built at Dulles airport is expected to open December 2003.
$130 million is needed. A Californian businessman who is also an aviation buff has donated $60 million. Another $28 million has already been raised from corporations, individuals and foundations. The fund is “on target”.
If only we could raise a hundredth part of those figures (even in $ Canadian). Are there no Godfathers here?
Best wishes, and always hopeful
Jack Meadows
Thank you to those members that donated their newsletters to bring our archives up to date! Also, a very special thank you to Peter and Judy Harraway for reading our last newsletter and realizing that the Museum was in need of certain items….because of them, the Museum now has 200 lbs of wonderful clean rages and a new belt sander.
NOTICE
- Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARS)*
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Part 0, Section 000, (a) 1 (c) - Section I-No pilot or pilots, or person or persons acting on the direction or suggestion of a pilot or pilots, may try or attempt to try to make or make an attempt to try to comprehend or understand any or all, in whole or in part of the herein mentioned Aviation Regulations, except as authorized by the administrator or an agent appointed by or inspected by the administrator.
- Section II-If a pilot or pilots or group of associate pilots becomes aware of or realized, or detects or discovers or finds that he or she or they, are or have been beginning to understand the aforementioned Aviation Regulations, he or she or they must immediately, within three (3) days of this realization, notify in writing, the Administrator or an agent appointed by the Administrator.
- Section III- Upon receipt of the above-mentioned notice of impending comprehension, the Administrator shall immediately rewrite the applicable Aviation Regulation in such a manner as to eliminate any further comprehension hazards.
- Section IV-The Administrator may, at his or her discretion, require the offending pilot or pilots to attend a remedial; instruction in Aviation Regulations until such time that the pilot or pilots is/are too confused to be capable of understanding anything.
- Apologies to Transport Canada
June 17th was the first annual CMF Father’s Day Aviation Fly Market and Pancake Breakfast.
The weather cooperated, and there were many good deals to be found. Just ask Werner!!
CANADIAN EH?
Just a couple news items which arrived from anonymous donors. Globe and Mail story dated April 20th, 2000 follows the career of a Chilliwack man who started his RCAF career in 1944 at the age of 20 and passed away at the age of 76 with the rank of Air Vice Marshall. According to the Globe & Mail, his name will be listed in a new book by David Bradshaw-finally-56 years late!
A Canadian lost in the records of the RAF, Albert “Lucky” Nelson flew 239 missions in Spitfires according to Maj. Retd. M.F. Thurgood writing in “The Now” asks why a volunteer with such a record has virtually no recognition – Maybe we as Canadians are to polite to talk about our accomplishments. If you have any information about these two items, we would love to hear from you.