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As 2015 comes to a close, the RCAF Association would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the RCAF Assocation News a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.
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Gander Beacon
From April 10, 2015: The RCAF Station Diary of Gander Military Airport was classified as top secret for many years after the war. Following are some interesting Diary entries.
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Warbirds News
From March 27, 2015: As Warbirds News reported previously, the combat veteran Avro Lancaster KB882, which has long been on outside display in Edmundston, NB, was set to move to a new home. The local town council, which owns the former RCAF bomber, had come to the sad conclusion that they no longer had the means to care for the rare aircraft in its deteriorating state, and decided they had to pass the torch to another group, even if that meant that KB882 had to leave its home in the maritimes.
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Warbirds News
From Sept. 11, 2015: Jim Brickel called it "flying in the barrel." To take the RF-101C Voodoo over North Vietnam, a pilot had to stake himself and his aircraft against flak, fighters, and the ever-present danger of some awful mechanical catastrophe within the churning guts of a complicated aircraft that, as Brickel put it, "felt like a thousand pieces of metal grating against one another and trying to rip everything to pieces."
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National Post
From Aug. 7, 2015: With the death of Les Munro, an icon of Royal Air Force history, and of aviation itself, has been lost. As I got to know him, I found that this last surviving pilot of the Dambusters raid was like most of the men of his wartime generation, a private man, and simply couldn't understand why people were interested in his life and career. This understated attitude is part of the reason that he deserved our unbending admiration. But there was more to it than that.
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Ottawa Citizen
From Nov. 27, 2015: Media reports out of the United Kingdom indicated that a RCAF CP-140 was recently sent to take part in a hunt for a Russian sub.
But the Canadian Forces is not saying much except to indicate a plane was sent to a RAF base as part of a routine operation. Here is the statement issued to Defence Watch:
"Following a request for assistance, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) deployed one CP-140 Aurora Aircraft to RAF Lossiemouth. The CAF routinely conduct operations and exercises with British Armed Forces as part of a long-standing and mutually beneficial defence partnership."
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Hamilton Spectator
From Jan. 30, 2015: A trailer from a documentary film about the historic trip by Hamilton's Lancaster to England last summer is going viral online.
Return of Giants is being produced by the Dundas documentary company Suddenly SeeMore and is scheduled for release this summer.
The company was hired by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, which is hoping to have the documentary shown on television and then sold on DVD.
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Cape Breton Post
From Sept. 4, 2015: If you drive through Whitney Pier and turn up the road called East Broadview, you can't miss seeing the big tower with a large dome on top. You can find your way to the large entrance to CFS Sydney where a lot of businesses and residences now exist. There is no military sign near the entrance.
These grounds were part of a radar system developed during the Cold War when there was a fear of Russian bombers invading the West; the radar system could detect such a situation.
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Ottawa Citizen
From June 5, 2015: General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, recently announced a series of senior appointments, promotions and retirements that will occur in 2015. Major-General S.J. Bowes was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General and will be appointed Commander Canadian Joint Operations Command, in Ottawa, replacing Lieutenant-General J.H. Vance.
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Gander Beacon
From Aug. 21, 2015:
The sky over Gander, NL, was black one night in 1941. No moon, not a star in sight. The guards on night duty struggled to keep themselves awake. The huge Gander Airport was quiet. The first aircraft scheduled to land would be just after daybreak.
The sound of a telephone at the American guardhouse that had been quiet for hours jolted everyone to an upright position.
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CBC News
From July 17, 2015: Another multi-million dollar military purchase has gone off the rails. The Harper government is terminating its contract with Thales Canada, which was to supply new radar units to support Canada's CF-18 fighter jet squadrons in Cold Lake, AB, and Bagotville, QC. The deal signed in 2010 was initially worth $55 million for two tactical-control radar systems, with delivery to begin in 2013. Thales won the tender over one other bidder.
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