You know you like planes when you go to an air show alone. It was well worth it to take the drive to Brantford a couple days ago. It's not just the sight of the warbirds, but it's the jet planes are what really gets me excited. Here are some of the highlights.
The Lancaster bomber cooling down after its flight. Really shiny, imposing, classy. One of only two remaining operable craft in the world.
The Snowbirds, with the Hawk One commemorative F-86 Sabre jet, painted like the Golden Hawks from air shows past. This marks the 100th anniversary of air flight in Canada.
Trivia question: Who was the first Canadian to succeed in powered flight, what was the plane and where and when did it happen? (Answer at bottom) Below, you're looking at a specially painted CF-18, the F-86 (backswept wings) and a tutor jet, similar to the snowbird planes.
The f-86 Golden Hawk colours. Flown in air shows around N.A. until 1964.
Snowbirds final fly-over. Nice.
Trivia answers: February 23, 1909
Canada takes fiight: With men on skates to steady the Silver Dart’s wings, J. A. D. McCurdy pilots the biplane for 0.8 kilo-metres over the ice-covered surface of Baddeck Bay, N.S., completing the first flight in Canada by a powered heavier-than-air machine. The plane was developed by Aerial Experiment Association members Alexander Graham Bell, F. W. Baldwin, Glenn Curtiss and McCurdy. Two years later, they are granted United States Patent No. 1,011,106 for their “flying machine.” (from http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/so00/aviation_history.asp)
