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    Why propellers of P-38 Lightning rotate outwards?

    I was lucky enough to fly a P-38 and, ignoring all of the technical possibilities, it made the aircraft a "torque free" handling situation, unlike other twins I have flown, including the Mosquito, which required your attention. The P-38 had zero torque reaction when rapid, full-power was...
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    Bailing out or Ditching at Sea: Which was Safer?

    When I was with 403 RCAF Squadron, in Calgary, during the sixties, we had a War Two Mustang pilot, Freddie Clarke. He was the first to be shot down in the type. He ditched in the Channel and received a terrible gash on his face from collision with the gun sight. The radiator scoop turned him...
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    ABANDONED EX-RCAF MUSTANG FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO 1962

    Sometime in 1961 - 62 I was ferrying Ex-RCAF Mustangs from their storage site, in ex-RCAF Station Fort Macleod, Alberta. On this particular flight my associate, Milt Harradence, and I had refueled in Lakehead, Ontario and headed for Syracuse, New York. At 6,000 feet over the Great Lakes I...
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    Best flying boats, from War over the Wine Dark Sea

    Many years ago, my partner Mike Haller, and I arranged the return of the Emily, illustrated, to Japan, from the American site where it was stored. I originally spotted in in 1967 when I picked up my F4U-7 Corsair 133693 the Navy had stored at the same location, after transporting it from Rota...
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    Calgary's Hurricane on the Move

    It is really amazing to see how well the project has progressed, over the years. I had originally collected a lot of War Two aircraft for display in my hometown, Calgary. Unfortunately, a few greedy people sold a lot of displays, but a few key ones remain. My Lancaster FM-136, Mosquito and one...
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    Vought Kingfisher

    I salvaged a Kingfisher from Calvert Island, off the coast of British Columbia during the sixties. It is now on th North Carolina Battleship Memorial
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    DeHavilland Mosquito

    I still have a Fokker Dr.1 in California. I owned the Blue Max collection of aircraft and retained that one. Loaned 2 SE5s to Frank Tallman and these remain registered to me in Ireland, even though no one knows where they are. Seems as though Custom and Practice in aviation would be an...
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    DeHavilland Mosquito

    I hear additional rumors that the Mosquito isn't the only aircraft those in Calgary are thinking of selling. Someone suggests they are thinking of selling the last remaining Hurricane. I had two and the other was sold by a Peter D. Norman to a group that eventually saw the aircraft shipped to...
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    DeHavilland Mosquito

    The Mosquito in question was purchased by me, from Spartan Air Services, in 1963. It is on loan to the City of Calgary. I collected a number of aircraft personally while flying with 403 City of Calgary Squadron, and attending the University of Alberta. Lancaster FM-136 is one of these. I also...
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