Episode 2: The Co-pilot

The AEA Silver Dart, Canada’s first powered aircraft. Find out more about it in this episode

News

• “Top Gun” turns 25 years old (Hamilton Spectator)


• Canada to put ‘Royal’ back in its Navy, Air Force (Toronto Star)


• Canada and Europe Enhance Aviation Safety with New Agreement (Aviation.ca)
  
  For more information about this agreement, please visit www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/bilateral-agreements and click on “Europe”.


• Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash (MSNBC)

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2011 Waterloo Airshow Coverage

Had a great time at the air show and we recorded an interview with a Dash8-100 pilot for the RCAF. Also took a ride on a helicopter and the video is below.

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Canadian Aviation History Series #1 – The AEA Silver Dart

This time on Cleared En Route’s: History of Canadian Aviation we are looking at the plane which began it all for powered flight in Canada:  The A.E.A. Silver Dart.  This plane was designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association (That’s the A.E.A).  It undertook its first flight on February 23, 1909 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

References

http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/aeronautics/clips/2424/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Experiment_Association

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Opening and closing music is Dolphin’s Day by Robert Walker.