Manitoba Meeting Schedule Archives

The Manitoba Chapter meets on the last Thursday of each month, January through May, and September through November. We usually meet at 1900 hrs at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, Hangar T-2, 958 Ferry Road, Winnipeg. Admission to meetings is free, though we do take a silver collection. We provide the coffee and doughnuts. Meetings are open to CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history, so please bring your friends.

We do not charge a chapter membership fee.


Contact Information
Chapter President - Jim Bell 204 786-4809 jbell@gatewest.net	Vice President - Roger Beebe 204 467-2510	Treasurer - Bill Norberg 204 885-9996	Programmes - Mike Rozak 204 889-0875

Thursday February 24, 2005

Speaker: Dr. Bill Blight - Topographic Mapping using aircraft in the 1950's

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Thursday September 30, 2004, 7:00 pm

Speaker: Jim Shilliday

Jim flew Canadair Sabres with 1 Canadian Air Division in Europe in the 1950's.

Thursday May 27, 2004

Speaker: Vic Gerden of the Transportation Safety Board.

Vic was the lead investigator of the Swissair 111 crash.

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April 2004
Dr. Tony Valentine - Roland Winfield, Physician, Flier, Physiologist
Bill Zuk - Jan Zurakowski, Legend in the Skies

March 2004
Dr. Carl Christie - Canada Commits to NATO - No. 1 Fighter Wing, RCAF Station North Luffenham, Rutland, England

February 2004
Peter Banman - Aviation Slide Show - Peter's collection of photos from the years he worked at Winnipeg International Airport

January 2004
Dr. Bob Tait - The Manitoba Follow Up Medical Study of Second World War Aircrew
Dr. Jim Popplow - The Franks Flying Suit

This month, in recognition of the one hundredth anniversary of powered flight, we feature Chapter President Jim Bell speaking on early aviation in Manitoba. As always, there will be coffee and doughnuts. It will be an evening that any aviation buff will find interesting, so come on out, to the Western Canada Aviation Museum, Thursday at 7 p.m. Admission is free, so bring some friends, too.

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Unfortunately, our intended speaker, a Mosquito pilot, withdrew a week ago, and so it has been a bit of a scramble to find someone else. Bill Cameron, a WCAM volunteer and ex-Air Force ATC type, has jumped into the breach with his slides of aviation museums in the US, Europe, and Canada.

Our November meeting will be Thursday, 27 November. In honour of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight, we will present a history of aviation in Manitoba before 1927

Hope you all had a good summer. Mine was about two weeks long (seemed that way, anyway).

We're off to a good start this autumn with Don Fonger. Don, as many of you know, flew his Twin Comanche around the world, and wrote the book, Challenging the Skies, describing his experiences. Don has a great presentation and lots of good flying stories to tell. I'm sure it will be a most interesting evening.

The meeting is on Thursday 25 September, starting at 7 p.m. at the aviation museum. As usual, admission is free, and we provide coffee and doughnuts. Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends, relatives, and hangers-on.

Speaker: Bill Norberg, former Vice-President of the Maintenance and Engineering Branch of TCA/Air Canada

I hope to see you all out at the meeting this Thursday. This month we have CAHS Manitoba Chapter treasurer Bill Norberg as speaker. Bill spent many years working in the TCA / Air Canada maintenance department, starting in 1940, and eventually rising to Vice President in charge of maintenance. Bill will bring along some slides as well.

As always, we will offer free coffee and doughnuts, lots of airplane talk, and a pleasant evening with friends at the Western Canada Aviation Museum.

And it's always nice to be a little ahead. I'm pleased to contradict my previous announcement about the May meeting being the last until September. Major Rob Parker has kindly agreed to speak to us on Thursday, 26 June, about his experiences flying CF-18's over Kosovo. We will take July and August off, and start up again on Thursday, 25 September, with Don Fonger. Don flew around the world in a Piper twin, and wrote a book about his experiences.

Please invite anyone you think may be interested in these meetings. We are always trying to boost our attendance. As usual, I have attached a poster that you can print out and post, or pass on to others.

This month we have Peter Banman speaking for us. Peter worked for many years at the Winnipeg International Airport, and took photos of many of the different aircraft that flew from, or passed through, YWG. I'm sure this will be very interesting for those of us who have worked at or visited the airport.

This month's meeting will take place (as usual) at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, 958 Ferry Road, on Thursday, 27 March. It starts at 7 p.m. As usual, we offer free admission, coffee, and doughnuts. Please come out, and invite a friend or two.

Also, this weekend (22nd and 23rd), the Aviation Museum is holding its annual Planes, Trains, and Sails exhibit. This is a display of radio controlled models in the museum's hangar. There are also displays by various groups, including CAHS. Come out and say hello. The event runs from 10 - 4 on Saturday and Sunday.

Our April meeting will take place on Thursday 24 April at WCAM. Hope to see you there.

By the way, the Aviation Museum has acquired a replica of the Avrocar (Bill Zuk spoke about the Avrocar at our November meeting). Stop in to the museum and check it out.

As usual, we will meet at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, 958 Ferry Road, on the last Thursday of the month, 30 January, at 7 p.m. We hope to have a pair of pilots from 435 (Transport and Rescue) Squadron at 17 Wing. One of the pilots is a search and rescue pilot, the other has just returned from a stint on Op Apollo, Canada's current effort against Al Qaeda in the Middle East.

We will also have to elect a new Chapter President (any volunteers?), VP, and Secretary. Bill Norberg has agreed to stay on as Treasurer. The election should only take a couple of minutes, as, remarkably, there is less competition for CAHS President than there is for leadership of the federal Liberal party.

We offer the usual incentives to attend, free doughnuts and coffee, and free admission, in exchange for a silver donation.

I hope to see you all there, to hear what should be a very interesting talk about Herc flying (if confirmed), or to watch me juggle chainsaws (if the planned speakers can't make it). Either way, we will have something worth coming out for.

Thursday January 31, 2002, 7:00 pm
Western Canada Aviation Museum, Hanger T-2, 958 Ferry Road

Hello, everyone.
Sorry I'm a little slow, but here's what's coming up in the Manitoba
Chapter:

On Thursday, 31 Jan, we will have speakers Ted Jensen and Colin Craddock. Ted Jensen flew the Viscount with TCA/AC. Colin Craddock is a first officer with AC, flying the Airbus A320. It should be interesting to compare how things have changed over the last forty years or so. Also, if time permits, I may throw my two cents in, as I'm an AME on A320's with AC in Winnipeg.
I've attached the poster for the January meeting.

Two weeks later (date still to be finalised) we will have a tour of the Air Canada maintenance hangar in Winnipeg. Winnipeg is the main AC maintenance base for the A320. We usually have a couple of AC A320's in the hangar. As well, we do a lot of contract work for America West Airlines (Phoenix), Jet Blue (New York), and Air Jamaica.

In February, we will feature a former loadmaster on the C-119 Flying Boxcar and the C-130B Hercules, John Bonner. We also hope to have a loadie or a traffic tech from the Winnipeg air force base to speak about current activities.

I'm hoping that we will be able to get a regular newsletter off the ground sometime soon.

For more information about the monthly meetings or about the Manitoba Chapter of the CAHS please contact: Jim Bell, Manitoba Acting Area Representative, (204) 786-4809 jbell@gatewest.net