Over the decades much has been written about the demise of the delta winged CF-105 Avro Arrow. There is a great deal of mystery surrounding this magnificent aircraft. Conspiracy theories abound. While more terrestrial reasons for its cancellation are most likely – high cost, government incompetence or personnel antipathy, I did come across a passage […]
Credit for the first Me 262 be brought down in combat belong to Maj Joseph Myers and 2Lt Manford Crory of the P-47D-equipped 78th Fighter Group, who manoeuvred a 1./KG 51 machine into the ground west of Brussels on August 28, 1944. This occurred with a shot being fired by both sides. A similar thing occurred […]
After seeing the privately owned Sea Harrier wow the crowd during the latest instalment of the Toronto International Air Show, one has to wonder why there isn’t a fully restored CF 100 flying in Canada. With so many jet fighters restored and flying throughout North America and Europe, I think its time the venerable Avro […]
Coming up in September I will be joining my partner in crime, Dan Patterson for another photo shot at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa. Dan will be shooting the collections aircraft cockpits. As one of the world’s première aviation photographers, Dan has developed a new technique to photograph an aircraft cockpit without the […]
