{"id":3224,"date":"2012-06-30T19:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T01:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2012-06-30T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T01:47:51","slug":"rcaf-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"RCAF revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back (well 2 years ago anyway…) I mentioned I had come across a CF-100<\/a> at the Alberta Aviation Museum and subsequently discovered my Father had flown it a month or so before he died. Zak had texted me and said he saw a Golden Hawk CF-86<\/a> fly by on Wednesday, so after leaving downtown today we decided to see if it had landed at the museum. It had.<\/p>\n

They were letting people tour it so we paid our fee and wandered in. Dan Dempsey (the pilot) was there and While I sat in the cockpit we discussed the history of that aircraft and a bit about the RCAF. This particular Sabre had been in Marville (441 Checkerboard squadron) but a few years before my father.<\/p>\n

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This was a bit more exciting than the last time I sat in one as it was still flying and of a reasonable comparable model to my father’s (he flew Sabre 6’s, this was a Sabre 5). I also chatted withe mechanic for a while. He said that the Orenda engines are still being serviced because the oil industry uses them in pumps… huh.<\/p>\n

While we were there an old Stearman took off on a joyride and a P-51 mustang landed, all here for tomorrow’s festivities.<\/p>\n

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I had mentioned to Dan that my father had often flown from Gimli to Calgary to date my mother and he said a lot of that happened back then and it was likely a T-33 (which I had known) and gestured over to the two on the tarmac. That got me thinking.<\/p>\n

On the way out I took a look at the tail numbers and when I got home I checked the log books. He’d never flown the one but T-33 21533 had been stationed at Gimli while he was there. He’d never flown it to Calgary, but had flown it on at least 11 different occasions. <\/p>\n

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It’s parked right beside CF-100 18476.<\/p>\n

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Of course as these things go, one google lead to another and I came across this listing which I had never seen before: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial<\/a> and its link to my father. Even mentions me…<\/p>\n

It also has an image of the page in the non-virtual memorial.<\/p>\n

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A few months back (well 2 years ago anyway…) I mentioned I had come across a CF-100 at the Alberta Aviation Museum and subsequently discovered my Father had flown it a month or so before he died. Zak had texted me and said he saw a Golden Hawk CF-86 fly by on Wednesday, so after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}