aflyer
Airman
Hi folks, 
I wish I could remember how I found this forum, but I've been surfing all over the place the last couple of days doing research on the Northwest Staging Route (i.e. route to deliver Lend-Lease aircraft to Russia in WW2) and somehow found myself here. (My browser history suggests it was due to my Googling Aircobra/P-39 that led me here.)
Anyway I poked around and read some threads and decided to join up. Looks like a great place.
I am an ex Royal Canadian Air Cadet, getting my pilot's license (licence) in 1965 in a Fleet 80 Canuck through the Edmonton Flying Club. Am not personally a veteran, though I grew up an army brat, Dad being a veteran of Normandy, NW Europe and Korea... so I consider myself an "associate veteran".
I live in Washington State and volunteer at a local museum. Heritage Flight Museum Heritage Flight Museum Welcome Page.
My wife and I are also currently involved with a foundation organizing and helping to plan a flight from Great Falls Montana to Russia along the Northwest Staging Route and Alaska Highway. It was also called the Alaska Siberia Ferry Route or ALSIB.
The flight will be done in a PT-13 Stearman in 2010. (I know, there weren't any Stearmans delivered to Russia, but that is what the founder plans to fly, and in any case, he figures he'll be the first to do it in a WW2 biplane.
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Anyway, I'd be happy to have any first-hand experiences from folks who might have participated in the Lend-Lease flights, the Alaska Highway construction, or were based at any of the stations along the route. This requests applies to American, Canadian, or Russian/Soviet participants.
Also, as part of our longer range objectives we are discussing a flight of actual aircraft types that were featured in the Lend-Lease flights (P-40, P-39, P-63, B-25, A-20, C-47) in 2012 to commemorate the first flights in 1942.
That's all for now, I just noticed it is almost 0045 here and that must be why I am starting to doze off!
I wish I could remember how I found this forum, but I've been surfing all over the place the last couple of days doing research on the Northwest Staging Route (i.e. route to deliver Lend-Lease aircraft to Russia in WW2) and somehow found myself here. (My browser history suggests it was due to my Googling Aircobra/P-39 that led me here.)
Anyway I poked around and read some threads and decided to join up. Looks like a great place.
I am an ex Royal Canadian Air Cadet, getting my pilot's license (licence) in 1965 in a Fleet 80 Canuck through the Edmonton Flying Club. Am not personally a veteran, though I grew up an army brat, Dad being a veteran of Normandy, NW Europe and Korea... so I consider myself an "associate veteran".
I live in Washington State and volunteer at a local museum. Heritage Flight Museum Heritage Flight Museum Welcome Page.
My wife and I are also currently involved with a foundation organizing and helping to plan a flight from Great Falls Montana to Russia along the Northwest Staging Route and Alaska Highway. It was also called the Alaska Siberia Ferry Route or ALSIB.
The flight will be done in a PT-13 Stearman in 2010. (I know, there weren't any Stearmans delivered to Russia, but that is what the founder plans to fly, and in any case, he figures he'll be the first to do it in a WW2 biplane.
)Anyway, I'd be happy to have any first-hand experiences from folks who might have participated in the Lend-Lease flights, the Alaska Highway construction, or were based at any of the stations along the route. This requests applies to American, Canadian, or Russian/Soviet participants.
Also, as part of our longer range objectives we are discussing a flight of actual aircraft types that were featured in the Lend-Lease flights (P-40, P-39, P-63, B-25, A-20, C-47) in 2012 to commemorate the first flights in 1942.
That's all for now, I just noticed it is almost 0045 here and that must be why I am starting to doze off!
