Recent content by macharvard

Wow. It never ceases to amaze me how many different stories people have to tell about cancer. They call Lupus the disease of 1000 faces, but man, the Big C sure seems to beat that. On a lighter note, I certainly don't call my sister SWMBO and Im not aware of my brother in law doing it, but I...

An interesting article. I thought the members might find it interesting to read an article I wrote a few decades ago for the Latin American Aviation Historial Society.

You have my deepest sympathy, my friend. I do not want to play oneupmanship. Rather I just want to make the point that there is something to be said for socialized medicine. My baby sister (she's 70) is fighting stage 4 metastatic cancer - and she is making the bastard work for it - but thanks...

Thanks for the link to the production lists. An incredible collection. However, there's a glitch that needs to be fixed in the NAA list. The NA-68 was the P-64; NA-69 was the A-27 and the NA-71, -72 and - 74 (Chile) were, with some minor differences, all the result of the NA-68's promotional...

The lady isn't often wrong and it is really unfortunate that she wasn't Prime Minister of Canada instead of Trudeau when this war/special military operation started. Many situations might have seen a more positive result then - and might still be doing so..

I wonder who the prospective pilot thief was supposed to be. Clint Eastwood would be too old this time around.

Cuba has been in the throes of an economic and energy crisis for several decades, a situation that got much worse when the soviets left. One of the major props for the island for 40 years has been Canadian tourists (roughly 40% of the annual total) and I wonder how the news that Cubans are...

15 years ago, my wife and I bought a 130 year old farm house and we're still making modifications and upgrades. 3 years in, I decided to tear out the existing basement staircase and get rid of all the junk that the previous owner had left underneath it. One of the pieces of 'junk' turned out to...

I will never understand politicians. I have to assume that they have never served and have no clue. Richard Norden and Teddy Sheehan should both have been honoured appropriately decades ago. The situation in Canada is no better.

The americans were using the BC-1 and BT-9, (BT-14 hadn't arrived yet), the commonwealth was using Harvards and NA-64s (the only use of NA-64 legitimately called Yale) and the French had placed massive orders for both the NA-57 version of the BT-9 and subsequently the NA-64 and the aircraft were...

Just when you think you've seen it all! I had no idea that Lufthansa had ordered this type, let alone 6 of them. However, these would not fit strictly in the beute category, would they? They were commercially ordered. Anyway, thanks for improving my education!

What is interesting to me is the apparent lack of standardized markings, like the underwing positioning of crosses and lettering. Once again, thanks for digging these out Snautzer01!

Never seen this one or SG-IT before. Thanks for your hard work! BTW, Snautzer01, I know it's not your mistaake, but VE-RM is an NA-57.

That's him! Newspapers across the country thought the story was newsworthy at the time. My tired old memory had him in Winnipeg , but it looks like he had moved west, to BC.