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As 2017 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 Association News a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
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Government of Canada
If mythology is what we want to believe and history is what we should know, the two may blend or wage war with one another. "Facts" are not always reliably documented, and memories are frequently coloured by the passage of time and personal beliefs. This writer is not immune from the phenomena. The story of No. 242 Squadron is wrapped up in that of Sir Douglas Bader, himself a legend. Yet the accepted myths have been challenged.
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Government of Canada
The Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) astronaut flying badge, known as astronaut "wings," was created in 2000. Colonel (retired) Chris Hadfield was the first to wear them, following his second flight into space in 2001. Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada has now become only the second person to wear these wings.
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Government of Canada
Seventeen candidates will go through the final rounds of assessments in the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. By the summer, the CSA will select two qualified astronauts among this pool of finalists.
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Government of Canada
Seventy-one personnel from 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario, including members of 436 Transport Squadron, recently travelled to Little Rock, Arkansas, and Alexandria, Louisiana, to take part in Exercise Green Flag Little Rock (GFLR) 17-04.
Hosted by the United States Air Force's 34th Combat Training Squadron, the exercise involved approximately 4,300 personnel from six USAF bases, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marine Corps, the British Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force in a scenario-based, highly dynamic coalition event.
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Government of Canada
Some had slept. Probably the veterans — those fighter pilots and bomber crews who knew what it was like the night before a "big show."
Others, new to the idea of going into combat, likely tossed and turned, thinking of the thousand and one details that had been briefed the day before — or trying not to think at all, lest their thoughts stray to the unthinkable.
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Ottawa Citizen
The Royal Canadian Air Force has released details about the planned design for the 2017 CF-18 Demonstration Hornet.
Next year's Demonstration Hornet will be painted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the confederation of Canada, and will honour the history of the RCAF and Canadian Armed Forces, the RCAF noted.
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Government of Canada
In the years since the night of May 16-17, 1943 — the night of Operation Chastise — the events that transpired on that moonlit spring night have been made into feature films, documentaries, novels, non-fiction books, magazine articles, dramatic paintings, computer games, marches and comic books. It was a stunning attack deep inside Germany on targets long thought to be unassailable.
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Government of Canada
The Department of National Defence's Airworthiness Investigative Authority has issued the final report in relation to the aborted takeoff and runway excursion of a CP-140 Aurora that occurred at 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia, on Aug. 27, 2015.
This document presents the findings pertaining to the cause of the incident, as well as recommendations and measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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Skies
More than 63 years ago, eight airmen from 426 Squadron — seven from the Royal Canadian Air Force and one from the Royal Air Force — set off on a bombing raid against the railyards in Louvain, Belgium. They, and the Halifax bomber in which they were flying, never returned.
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Government of Canada
It is my privilege to present this new defence policy on behalf of the Government
of Canada.
Strong, Secure, Engaged
is a long-term, fully funded plan built around
people.
The women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces and the families that
support them are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing them the training,
equipment and care they deserve is the most important objective of this policy.
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