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Tuesday April
13, 2004
- We have a two-part presentation again for April.
- The first presentation will be by Keith Wade, who is
putting together an interesting selection of slides from Sea-Tac Airport in
the 1980s.
- Following that, time permitting, Jerry Vernon will show
another instalment of slides from his visit last May to the U. K. This time it
will be the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop and/or the deHavilland
Aircraft Heritage Centre (aka Mosquito Museum) at London Colney. If everyone
would come to the meeting at 7 PM, rather than straggling in at 7:30, we might
get to see one or both of these presentations.
- For those of you who are still not making it out to the
Chapter Meetings, I have again attached a map (see
here) showing the location of the
Richmond Library and Cultural Centre, adjacent to the two-level parkade.
- See you there!!


Photo from the the 2004 Vancouver Aviation Collectibles Show. Left to right are
Jerry Vernon, Vancouver Chapter President and Colin Webster, CAHS National
Director, sitting at the Vancouver Chapter table - April 10, 2004.

Tuesday March 9, 2004
- We have another two-part presentation again for March.
- The main presentation will be by Jim Jorgenson, who has
a slide and video show covering the 2003 B. C. Aviation Council Air Show at
Harrison Hot Springs, B. C. plus recent views and aircraft at Vancouver
International Airport.
- Following that....and I think this time we will have
time for it.....we will pay a brief slide visit to the City of Norwich Air
Museum, in Norfolk, from my U. K. trip last May. There are also some slides of
Heathrow activities and the over-the-North flight home to YVR. For a change,
there was clear weather over Iceland, Greenland and Northern Canada.

Tuesday February 10, 2004
- Note: PLEASE endeavour to be
in the Multi-Purpose Studio by 7:00pm so that the meeting can start at 7:30pm
or earlier if possible. We must finish up by 9:15pm so that the room is empty
by 9:30pm.
- Malcolm Fitz-Earle has arranged for his friend George
Doutre to speak to us about his involvement with the Short flying boats at
BOAC.
- George Doutre was born in India to British parents. In
1945, at the age of 16, he joined the
Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman, in Signals. While in Karachi in 1946, he
became caught up in
the Indian Mutiny and was decorated for bravery. He left the Royal Navy in
1947 and joined British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as an Air Traffic
Controller for their flying boats. George was based mostly in Bahrain in the
Persian Gulf, where he worked for three years for BOAC, who were operating
civilianized Sunderlands (Hythes), Sandringhams and Empire ("C" Class) flying
boats. In 1949, he then joined the RAF at Calshot as Coxswain on Air-Sea
Rescue boats of RAF Coastal Command, attached to their Sunderland flying
boats. During his last year with the RAF(1953) he witnessed the testing and
destruction of the Saunders-Roe Princess flying boats.
- George will present stories of his experiences in India
and of flying in and working on a variety of flying boats, illustrated with
pictures he took at that time. He will then show a video entitled "The Last
Sunderland", recently produced in the UK.
- My cousin's husband in the UK, Ken Emmott, flew flying
boats for BOAC, and later Comets, 707s and 747s for British Airways. From 1981
to 1993, he was the Captain of G-BJHS, "the last Sunderland", and in 1993 he
assisted the new owner,
Kermit Weeks, in ferrying the aircraft back across the Atlantic to its new
home in Florida. G-BJHS was RAF ML814, and had served during the war with 422
Sqn., RCAF, and later with the
RNZAF,
Ansett Airways
and Antilles Air Boats in the U. S. Virgin Islands. When I visited Ken last
year, I was treated to a showing of "The
Last Sunderland", along with 2 or 3 hours of other video and TV footage of
the aircraft.
- If time permits, we will also pay a brief slide visit
to the City of Norwich Air Museum, in
Norfolk.

Tuesday January 13, 2004
- The main event will be the "What the Heck Is THAT?"
quiz, compiled by Mark Munzel from the slide collections of several Chapter
Members. Multiple choice test sheets will be handed out, so bring a pen or
pencil if you wish to participate. There will be a prize for the most correct
answers and Mark assures me that he is not looking to nitpick to the nth
degree on the difference between a C-47A-25-DK (built in Oklahoma City) vs. a
C-47A-40-DL (built in Long Beach) or on subtle variations of the Phantom. We
will only expect you to be able to pick out (or guess at!!) the basic aircraft
type!!
- This will be our Chapter AGM, where a minimum amount of
time will be spent on obligatory business and Chapter Executive elections.
Please note that Chapter Treasurer Norm Penny has indicated that he must step
down, in order to devote more time to family matters, so that a VOLUNTEER is
required for the position of Treasurer. There is a minimum amount of work
involved, mainly collecting and depositing the monthly Landing Fees, Chapter
Memberships, etc, and paying expenses for the door prizes, refreshments and
meeting room, keeping the Ledger and providing a Balance Sheet at the end of
the year.

Tuesday December 9, 2003
- This will be our Christmas meeting, with a few extra
goodies and cheer available, and some of the higher quality door prize books
will be available for the lucky "Landing Fee" draw winner to choose from.
- The main presentation will be by Mark Munzel, with his
slide coverage of the 2003 Comox
and Trenton Air Shows.
- If time permits, we may also wrap up the evening with a
brief visit to the City of
Norwich Aviation Museum in Norfolk, another of the lesser-known small UK
air museums that your Chapter President visited this past May.
- I think most of you enjoyed our October speaker,
Chapter Member Wayne Ralph, who presented the made-for-TV documentary video
"The Hero's Hero - Forgotten Life of William Barker". As many of you know,
Wayne is the author of the best-selling book "Barker VC", and has acted as
historical consultant on this and other documentaries on the life of Colonel
William Barker, VC. Since the meeting, there have been a couple of newspaper
articles on Barker, as noted below....
- A front page news story on 11 Nov 03 in the Toronto
Globe and Mail featured "The
Crash of a Canadian Hero - Lest we forget", by Roy MacGregor, in his Our
Canada column......
- On 19 Nov 03, The Canadian Press put out a
1,200 word essay about William Barker and the opportunities for a movie or
TV special beyond the two historical videos already produced.....
- For January (Tuesday the 13th), Keith and Mark have
decided to try another "What the Heck is THAT?" night..... bring your
"mystery aircraft" slides to the December meeting to loan to Mark.

Tuesday November 11, 2003
REMEMBRANCE DAY - NO CHAPTER MEETING

Tuesday October 14, 2003
- Please excuse the late meeting notice, but the speaker
and program for October was "up in the air" until last night, Friday evening.
We had planned to make another attempt at having Mark Munzel's presentation on
2003 Comox and Trenton Air Shows, but Mark is in the process of moving, and
was unsure where his slides were packed. Any uncertainty was totally removed
on Friday by Mark's employer, who is sending him to San Jose on Tuesday!!
- We are therefore bringing forward the proposed speaker
from the December meeting, Chapter Member Wayne Ralph, who will present the
made-for-TV documentary video "The Hero's Hero - Forgotten Life of William
Barker". As many of you know, Wayne is the author of the best-selling book
"Barker VC", and has acted as historical consultant on this and other
documentaries on the life of Colonel William Barker, VC.
Click here for details
on the documentary.
- Wayne will bring along some copies of his book, if any
of you wish to purchase an autographed copy. He will also bring along some
slides on the Barker story and there will be time for a Question and Answer
session. For further information on William Barker, refer
to the Roy MacGregor, Our Canada column "The
Crash of a Canadian Hero" featured as a front page news story on November
11th 2003 in the Globe and Mail, as well as
a
1,200 word essay about Barker put out by The Canadian Press on
November 19th.
- Keith Wade will follow up, if time allows, showing
aircraft he managed to photograph this Spring in Hawaii and Costa Rica, while
there on "non-aviation" personal and/or business visits.
- Future Meetings:
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 09 Dec 03, but there will be no meeting at the
Arts Centre on Tuesday 11 Nov 03, for obvious reasons. Then, we meet on 13 Jan
04, 10 Feb 04, 09 Mar 04 and so on.
- In December, we will try again to present Mark Munzel
and the 2003 Comox and Trenton Air Shows, and perhaps a short presentation on
one of the other smaller UK air museums that your Chapter President visited
this Spring.

Tuesday November 14, 2003
- There will be no meeting at the Arts Centre on Tuesday
11 Nov 03, for
obvious reasons.

Tuesday October 14, 2003
- In May, I shot about 30 rolls of slides at eight air
museums in the UK, and it may be easier for me to spread these out over
several meeting over the next 10 months, possibly some of it as fill-in
material at other meetings. I visited the
Museum of Army Flying
(Middle Wallop),
RAF Museum (Cosford),
Midlands Air Museum (Coventry), City of
Norwich Aviation Museum,
Shuttleworth Collection, Duxford,
Imperial War Museum (Duxford),
deHavilland Aircraft Museum
(formerly known as the Mosquito Aircraft Museum) and the
RAF Museum (Hendon).
I had a good visit with former local John Kimberley and quaffed a few pints with him, at a
pub overlooking RAF Mildenhall.
Our intent had been to sit off the end of the active runway with our cameras
and an order of fish & chips, but the weather was too dreary for anything to
fly. Unfortunately, the Mildenhall Air Fete was cancelled this year, due to
the latest Iraq War. - Jerry Vernon

Tuesday September 9, 2003
- Mark Munzel has been called out of town on business
next week, and will be unable to present slides from the
Comox and Trenton Air Shows as the main event.
- The substitute speaker will be your Chapter President,
Jerry Vernon, who will show slides from his visit this past May to the
Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford
and the Midland Air Museum at
Coventry.
The collection at RAF Cosford, formerly known as the Aerospace Museum, is
considered to be one of the top three museums in the U. K. Their collection
consists of over 80 aircraft, including many large transport and bomber
aircraft on outside display, the British Airways jet transport collection, a
number of captured Japanese and German aircraft, and one hangar filled with
most of the surviving British experimental aircraft and prototypes. The RAF
Museum's restoration workshop is also at Cosford....although not open to the
general public, the Restoration Manager is fortunately an old acquaintance, so
a roll of film was shot off in there as well.
The Midland Air Museum is at the
Coventry Airport( Baginton). They have over 30 aircraft on display.
Besides the "obligatory"
Avro Vulcan,
the collection include a selection of jet fighters from France, Denmark, USA,
USSR, and even the rear fuselage of an RCAF Sabre in their "back lot". All but
about 10 of their aircraft are on outside display, including the one-of-a-kind
Boulton
Paul P.111A delta wing research aircraft (somehow Cosford didn't get this
one!). This museum also displays a number of nose and cockpit sections, and is
the home of the Sir
Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre and the Wings over Coventry gallery.
- Keith Wade will follow up, as time allows, showing
aircraft he managed to photograph this spring in Hawaii and Costa Rica, while
there on "non-aviation" personal trips.
- We will also have to sort out what we are going to do
about the Landing Fee money and door prize draws from the May and June
meetings, as none of the Chapter Executive were there to collect money or draw
for prizes. I have a good selection of door prize books, if the members wish
to make an additional contribution and have an additional draw, or we can just
let it ride. We are okay for money for now.

Tuesday June 10, 2003 - Last meeting
until September
- Jerry will be away in Winnipeg next week, attending the
Air
Force Historical Conference, and Keith will be
away in Hawaii, enjoying Hawaii. As in May, the meeting will go on without us.
This will be the last Vancouver Chapter meeting until we meet again in
September.
- Jim Jorgenson will show a selection of slides from the
Vancouver Airport and other local venues,
that he has shot over the years and up to the current time. As you may know,
Jim worked at YVR for many years as a Civil
Engineer for Transport Canada, and since
his retirement does contract photography on airport construction projects, as
well as photography for the
YVR Skytalk
newspaper, various aviation magazines and for his own stocklist.
- Any of you who have slides that we have not seen are
invited to bring them along to fill in the balance of the evening with a
potpourri, following Jim's presentation.
- Norm will also be away, so you will have to conduct
yourselves on your own and there may be nobody there to collect the Landing
Fees or run the door prize draw, since nobody else volunteered to look after
those things in my absence. That sounds fair enough....no money collected = no
door prizes!!
- We don't need the money that badly right now, so we can
figure out in September what to do about it....either let it ride, or collect
some money for May and June and run a couple of extra draws.
- We should have some good slides
for the Fall, as I plan to visit the
Museum of Army Flying
(Middle Wallop), RAF
Museum (Cosford), Midlands
Air Museum (Coventry),
Shuttleworth Collection, Duxford
and perhaps the
RAF Museum (Hendon),
plus maybe a few minor places that I run across in between. I expect to see
John Kimberley when I am there. Keith and Cory are going to Costa Rica and
then Keith is going to Hawaii in June....don't forget to take aircraft slides
in both places, Keith!!

Tuesday May 13, 2003
- Steve Wilcox has travelled to Ontario
and Quebec over the past two Summers (why??), and will be showing us slides
from that area from his extensive aviation slide collection, covering the
airports and air museums in Canada's own "Middle East".
- I saw
Pat Martin this morning, and
he has just run off a 2nd printing of his new book on RCAF markings, 1947 -
1967. Pat will be at the meeting with some copies of the book. Bring money!!
- I will be away overseas for the May
meeting, and will miss the June meeting as well due to the
Air
Force Historical Conference in the Near East (Winnipeg), so you will have
to conduct yourselves on your own. Also, with Keith and Cory and probably Norm
also away travelling, there may be nobody there to collect the Landing Fees or
run the door prize draw, since nobody else volunteered to look after those
things in my absence. That sounds fair enough....no money collected = no door
prizes!!
We don't need the money that badly right now, so we can figure out in
September what to do about it....either let it ride, or collect some money for
May and June and run a couple of extra draws.
- Both Keith and myself will be back in
town in late May/early June, and we will organize a speaker for the June
meeting, but both of us are travelling again on the 10th of June.

Tuesday April 8, 2003
- Our speaker this month will be Chapter
Member Martin Riehl, who will show a selection of slides of models, aircraft
models that is!! Martin has been active with IPMS for many years and, as most
of you know, operates a large hobby shop in North Vancouver (Finescale
Models, at 163 East 1st, just East of Lonsdale Avenue). As "something
different", he will be showing part of his collection of slides of historical
aircraft models, IPMS
prize winners,
etc. over the years. I would imagine a lot of these are "scratch-builts", not
simply your run-of-the-mill plastic kits out of a box.
- We may have a bit of time left over at
the end of the evening, if any of you have a few current or unique slides you
would like to bring along as a potential fill-in item.
- I HOPE WE WILL HAVE SOME COOKIES AND
REFRESHMENTS THIS MONTH!!
(So far, I have heard nothing to the contrary)
- NOTE the new starting time....15
minutes earlier at 1915 hrs(7:15 PM). The starting time has been advanced, as
discussed at the last meeting, because the staff at the Richmond Arts Centre
has to go home at 10 PM and wants users out of there by 9:30 to 9:45 at the
very latest. Our usual 9:59 PM departures are not acceptable to them and, if
we cannot wind up and finish earlier, they will take more drastic steps to
reduce our time allotment.
Let's gather at 7:15, have our set-up and chit-chat time, do a little bit of
CAHS National and Chapter business, and get the speakers going no later than
7:45....sooner if we can.

Tuesday March 11, 2003
- Another two-part meeting.....
Norm Penny will give the main presentation, on the 2002
EAA Arlington Fly-In,
with some additional material from the 2001 event and perhaps a little bit of
local material as well.
- Keith Wade with have a shorter
presentation titled "CPAir - A Nostalgic Look at the Orange Years". The
subject is self-explanatory, and this may be most interesting to some of our
younger members.

Tuesday February 11, 2003
- Chapter Member Jim Jorgenson has just
returned from his trip to New Zealand and Australia, and will treat us to a
full evening of slides from that area and other points visited on his trip,
such as Los Angeles International Airport.
The presentation will cover aviation activities in the Sydney area, including
a tour of the Qantas facilities and views from an airside transfer bus.
In New Zealand, Jim has coverage of the airport and
RNZAF Museum at
Christchurch and the excellent
MOTAT Museum at Auckland, as well as other NZ
aviation activities that he managed to find in his travels.
- Future Meetings: Our next meeting is on
Tuesday 11 Mar 03. Keith is still working on a program for that evening.
- This year's CAHS Convention will be
held in Halifax on 5/6/7/8 Jun 03, co-ordinated with the 2003 Induction Dinner
for Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday the 7th. Also, the 2003 Air
Force Historical Conference will be held at 17 Wing Winnipeg on the week
immediately following the CAHS Convention, ie: from 09 - 13 Jun 03, using the
Officers' Mess and on-base accommodation in their excellent "motel-style"
facility.
- NOTE the new starting time....15
minutes earlier at 1915 hrs(7:15 PM). The starting time has been advanced, as
discussed at the last meeting, because the staff at the Richmond Arts Centre
has to go home at 10 PM and wants users out of there by 9:30 to 9:45 at the
very latest. Our usual 9:59 PM departures are not acceptable to them and, if
we cannot wind up and finish earlier, they will take more drastic steps to
reduce our time allotment.
Let's gather at 7:15, have our set-up and chit-chat time, do a little bit of
CAHS National and Chapter business, and get the speakers going no later than
7:45....sooner if we can.

Tuesday January 14, 2003
- Our feature presentation for January
will be a selection of slides on Canadian military helicopters, from Pat
Martin's vast slide collection. If time permits, Pat will also have a
"surprise" presentation for us, of some of his more exotic or unusual military
aircraft slides.
- Don't forget that January is also our
Chapter Annual General Meeting, so there will be a few minutes devoted to some
obligatory business and Chapter Elections for the position of Chapter
President, Treasurer and Program Co-ordinator. Note that I have been Chapter
President now for the past 11 years, plus 3 years back in the early 70s/early
80s....and it sometimes gets more that a little bit tiresome getting shot at
and shat upon from Eastern Canada, when you are only trying to help the
Society!! If anyone else would like to take over the job, give it some thought
before Tuesday evening!!
- Our next meeting is on Tuesday 11 Feb
03. At the moment, I don't have any information on what our topic or speaker
will be, apart from the reliable standby, "TBA".
- Don't forget....we have an edict from
the Richmond Arts Centre that we must vacate the meeting room earlier than in
the past, so they can close up the premises and go home by 10 PM. We must aim
to be clear of the room by 9:45, not 9:55 or 9:59. We will be opening the
doors at 7:15 in the future. I'll keep reminding you all of this until it
becomes engrained in everybody's brain!!
- This year's CAHS Convention will be
held in Halifax on 5/6/7/8 Jun 03, co-ordinated with the 2003 Induction Dinner
for Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday the 7th.
- Also, the 2003 Air Force Historical
Conference will be held at 17 Wing Winnipeg on the week immediately following
the CAHS Convention, ie: from 09 - 13 Jun 03, using the Officers' Mess and
on-base accommodation in their excellent "motel-style" facility.

Tuesday December 10, 2002
- This month we will have a joint
presentation by Mark Munzel and Keith Wade, in the form of a slide
presentation on the Planes of Fame Airshow 2002, held at Chino, CA last May.
Expect lots of WW II aircraft in action, including the gamut of U. S. WW II
fighters, three(3) Spitfires, a Hurricane and the Northrop N9MB flying wing
(scale prototype for the later huge Northrop XB-35 and YB-49 flying wing
bombers) If time permits, Mark and Keith will also show a few slides of fire
bombers and airliners from the same California trip. This being CHRISTMAS
(Canadian Mint and other political weasels notwithstanding!!), we will have
our usual Christmas "extras".....a few nibbles, some Christmas cheer (aged a
further year in the bottle since last year!!) and I will bring out of hiding
the usual higher class of Landing Fee draw prize books.
- Our next meeting is on Tuesday 14 Jan
03. This will be the Chapter Annual Meeting....a fairly brief
affair....followed by our entertainment, which at the moment is once again "TBA".
- Don't forget....we have an edict from
the Richmond Arts Centre that we must vacate the meeting room earlier than in
the past, so they can close up the premises and go home by 10 PM. We must aim
to be clear of the room by 9:45, not 9:55 or 9:59. We will be opening the
doors at 7:15 in the future. I'll keep reminding you all of this until it
becomes engrained in everybody's brain!!
- Next year's CAHS Convention will be
held in Halifax on 5/6/7/8 Jun 03, in conjunction with the 2003 Induction
Dinner for Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday the 7th.
- The 2003 Air Force Historical
Conference will be held at 17 Wing Winnipeg on the week immediately following
the CAHS Convention, ie: from 09 - 13 Jun 03, using the Officers' Mess and
on-base accommodation in their excellent "motel-style" facility.

Tuesday November 12, 2002
- Once again we have two presentations
for the evening. The main event will be a presentation by Thea Phillips, who
many of you met when she attended our October meeting as a guest. The
information she gave Keith is a bit sketchy, but basically she says that she
was the youngest female pilot in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, having
obtained her Private Pilot's Licence at the age of 17. She will tell us about
some of her flying experiences as a woman pilot in that era. I understand she
flew corporate jets, certainly near the end of her commercial flying career.
Come and hear the rest of the story yourself. Following the refreshment break,
Mark Munzel will show some slides from the USAF Red Flag Exercise at Nellis
Air Force Base.
- Our next meeting is on Tuesday 10 Dec,
and Keith will have another interesting program for us (another way of saying "TBA").

Tuesday October 8, 2002
- NOTE the new starting time....15
minutes earlier at 1915 hrs(7:15 PM). The starting time has been advanced, as
discussed at the last meeting, because the staff at the Richmond Arts Centre
has to go home at 10 PM and wants users out of there by 9:30 to 9:45 at the
very latest. Our usual 9:59 PM departures are not acceptable to them and, if
we cannot wind up and finish earlier, they will take more drastic steps to
reduce our time allotment.
- Let's gather at 7:15, have our set-up
and chit-chat time, do a little bit of CAHS National and Chapter business, and
get the speakers going no later than 7:45....sooner if we can.
- Once again we have two presentations
for the evening, time permitting.
- Our main speaker is Dr. Ted Hill, a former long-time Chapter member, who we
have rarely seen in recent years due to his advancing age.
- The topic of Ted's paper will be "Aviation's Clouded Crystal Ball", a
tongue-in-cheek and mildly comic compilation of various predictions about
aviation, made by famous figures from 1901 onwards....when one of the Wright
Brothers wrote to his brother to the effect this flying thing was not likely
to ever work!!!
- For those of you not familiar with Dr. Ted Hill, he logged his first flight in
1928, and during his university days was an active member of the Montreal
Light Aircraft Club and the McGill University Gliding Club. During wartime, he
served as an RCAF Medical Officer with 162 Sqn.(David Hornell's Canso squadron
in Iceland) and postwar was an Air Cadet Officer. As a Specialist in tropical
diseases for DVA, he travelled extensively, wintered in Costa Rica for many
years, and has logged flights in 116 aircraft types!!
- We will give Ted as much time as he wants for his paper, followed by questions
and answers, and if time permits we will run the 2nd half of the video that we
have held in abeyance for the past couple of meetings, covering the Grumman
Avenger torpedo bomber.
- I must apologize for the lateness of
this notice, but it has been delayed while Keith and I sorted out
transportation arrangements for the speaker. Keith may not be available
Tuesday night to drive Ted to the meeting, alternate driver Ernie Harrison
just got home today from shootin' ducks in Saskatchewan and speaker Ted Hill
just got home today from yet another vacation trip to Hawaii!!
- Future Meetings:
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12 Nov, and Keith has a pioneering female pilot
lined up to speak to us. More details next time:
Keith Wade will have a slide show on
the 2002 Abbotsford Air Show, and in particular slides shot on Arrivals
Day (Thursday) from his favourite spot on the South side of the arrivals runway,
before he was busted and chased away so the Thunderbirds could perform their
pre-air show practice.

Tuesday September 10, 2002
- We have two presentations to start off
the 2002 - 2003 season:
Keith Wade will have a slide show on
the 2002 Abbotsford Air Show, and in particular slides shot on Arrivals
Day (Thursday) from his favourite spot on the South side of the arrivals runway,
before he was busted and chased away so the Thunderbirds could perform their
pre-air show practice.
- The second presentation will be by
myself, with slides from the recent
Chilliwack Air
Show. This is a casual
"small town" air show, but several of the regular performers at Abbotsford are
there....the Bud Granley Air Force, Eric Beard's Russian Thunder, Gene Soucy
and his current wingwalker/wife, and local acts such as John Mrazek (Harvard
aeros), Don Richardson (Christen Eagle),
Canadian Museum of Flight, and the
mighty Aurora and Buffalo from Comox. The best part about the
Chilliwack Air
Show is that it is FREE, sponsored by the City and local businesses!!
- Mark your calendars now.....next year's
CAHS Convention will be held in Halifax on 7/8/9 Jun 03, in conjunction with
next year's Induction Dinner for Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.

Future Meetings
- Starting next with Tuesday 08 Oct,
Keith has several more presentations lined up, including a talk by a pioneer
woman pilot, a presentation on early aviation in Canada by Dr. Ted Hill (one of
our long-time Chapter stalwarts, who we have not seen for a long time), Keith
and Mark's trip to Chino, and perhaps a visit to the Canada Aviation Museum,
something exotic from Pat Martin, and so on.

Another 10 minute flight with the Air
Cadets - Saturday, 11 May 02
- The B. C. Committee of the Air Cadet
League of Canada are partly supported by the Air Force Officers' Association,
with proceeds from their annual November 11th Dawn Patrol - Photos by Jerry
Vernon, Director and Secretary, Air Force Officers' Association, Member,
801(Vancouver) Wing, Air Force Assn. of Canada

July & August, 2002
- Don't forget.....NO MEETINGS!! See you
at Abbotsford, Arlington, Chilliwack, etc.
- Next meeting - September 10th

Tuesday June 11, 2002
- I am pleased to announce that our
speaker for the June meeting will be local author and Vancouver Sun writer
Sean Rossiter, who will speak on the subject of his latest book, "The Chosen
Ones", the story of Canada's test pilots. Not all of these brave gentlemen are
covered in the book, due to limitations of space and the unavailability of
many of those who have passed away, and who could not relate their stories to
the writer...however, most of the outstanding test pilots are covered,
including Jan Zurakowski, Don Rogers, Jimmy Orrell (Avro Jetliner), Mike
Cooper-Slipper, Bill Waterton and Peter Cope at Avro Canada, plus Russ
Bannock, George Neal and Bob Fowler at deHavilland Canada. This is Sean
Rossiter's 17th book, the other aviation titles being "Otter & Twin Otter",
"The Immortal Beaver", "Flying Cold" and "Legends of the Air". We hope to have
some copies of Sean's latest book, and possibly also the previous two titles,
there for sale and for him to autograph, if it can be organized. Sean Rossiter
has recently "seen the light" and has become a CAHS member. The balance of the
meeting will feature another video, time permitting, this time on the Grumman
Avenger torpedo bomber.
- This will be our last meeting until
September 10th

Tuesday May 14, 2002
- The May meeting will be divided into at
least two presentations. In late March, the Quarter Century in Aviation Club
embarked on a two-day charter bus tour to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field
and the Evergreen Aviation Museum at McMinnville, Oregon. The main feature at
Evergreen, of course, is the Hughes HK-1 flying boat....the famous "Spruce
Goose", which is actually built of birch plywood using the Fairchild Duramold
process. Chapter President Jerry Vernon and Jim Jorgenson participated in the
tour, and there will be slides....and possibly some of Jim's video....on the
visits. The balance of the meeting will feature another handful of World War
II colour aircraft slides from the collection of Chapter member Martin Riehl.

Tuesday April 9, 2002
- The April meeting will be divided into
two presentations
- The lead-off presentation will be by
Keith Wade, who will speak to us on the state of aviation in Australia and
Papua New Guinea in the period that he lived down there, from late 1965
through 1968. Keith says that he has some interesting aircraft slides, but the
main thrust of his presentation with be his observations of the aviation scene
at that time.
- The remainder of the evening will
feature Norm Penny, with some slides on one of the past Arlington EAA Fly-Ins,
which had been scheduled for the March meeting, but were bumped when the
African presentation ran long.

Tuesday March 12, 2002
- The main speaker will be Andre
DeRuijfer of the local Aviation World shop, who will be giving us a
presentation on aviation in the Southern part of Africa. You may recall that
Andre was our speaker a year or so ago, when he showed us some very
interesting slides of mostly commercial aircraft in that part of the world.
This month, he is back again, but his theme will stress the military rather
than commercial side of the picture, although some commercial types will
appear. There are many obscure aircraft in many obscure countries on the dark
continent!! Norm Penny will complete the evening with slides from the fly-ins
at Concrete and Arlington, Washington.

Tuesday February 12, 2002
- The February meeting will be divided
into two presentations, hopefully with coffee, soft drinks and cookies
available in between. The first presentation will be by Mark Munzel, who will
show us some superb slides (Keith has already previewed them) from the Red
Flag Exercises at Nellis AFB last year. After the break, Mike Head and Steve
Wilcox will do their Mutt and Jeff act, and will present slides on their visit
to several Arizona airports last year. Since they have to come to do their
presentation, presumably we will also get coffee and cookies this month!!
- No definite March meeting program (for
Tuesday March 12, 2002) has been firmed up at the
moment, but it may be the African aircraft slide show we discussed in January.

Tuesday January 8, 2002
- This will be the date for our obligatory
brief Chapter AGM, which we have moved from December to conform to the CAHS
National year-end. We will spend minimal time on business and the
election of new(?) Chapter officers. Our speaker for the bulk of the
evening will be aviation artist Dan Ryan, who has a slide presentation on the
aviation art show in Ottawa last(?) year, the theme of which was "History of
the RCAF Through Paintings". This show drew many of Canada's well-known
aviation artists, and we look forward to seeing the results on screen.
Dan Ryan was a long-time CAHS and Vancouver Chapter member, who is coming back
into the fold again. He owns and flies a vintage Ercoupe(aren't they
all??), and was one of the organizers of the big Northwest Ercoupe Fly-In
several years ago....but that is another story.

Tuesday December 11, 2001
- This is our pre-Christmas Chapter
meeting, and we will have the usual Christmas cheer and treats at the
intermission. Also, as usual I have saved a couple of the higher quality door
prize books for the Landing Fee draw at this meeting. The program will begin
with a 50 minute video called "The Last of the Gunfighters", covering the
service life of the U. S. Navy's Vought F-8 Crusader. The 2nd half of the
meeting will feature Keith Wade's slides on his trip to Arizona in 2000. We
have been to Arizona with Keith before, but this is an update, covering new
shots from the Pima Air Museum and the Planes of Fame Arizona location.

Tuesday November 13, 2001
- The program will begin with Jim
Jorgenson's slides of the "visiting aircraft" at YVR in the wake of the World
Trade Centre disaster. For those interested in more of the same, there is a
website that shows views at several of the East Coast airports as well. Have a
look at
http://www.canairradio.com/photos.html for the photos and at
http://www.canairradio.com/diversion.html for the list of aircraft and
flight numbers.
- The other half of the evening will
feature Abbotsford Air Show slides by Keith Wade and Mark Munzel. This will
include Keith's "arrivals day" slides from Thursday, 09 Aug 01, which we did
not get to see at the October meeting, due to the amount of interest there was
in our speaker last month.

Tuesday October 9, 2001
- The speaker will be Flying Officer (Ret'd)
Dennis Hackett, who will speak on flying the Sabres with the RCAF in Europe
and Canada. Dennis has a 40 minute slide presentation and talk, followed by a
20 minute video on production of the Sabre in Canada.
Dennis is an old friend
of mine from our 442(Aux) Sqn. days, who I have not seen in over 40 years, as
well as a neighbour and friend of Chapter Treasurer Norm Penny. Dennis flew
the Sabre with the short-lived 431(F) Sqn. from Jan - Oct 54, after which 431
was disbanded until the number was reassigned to the Snowbirds in 1978.
He
also flew with other Sabre squadrons in NATO and came to 442/443(Aux) Sqns in
Sea Island as a Regular Force Support Pilot when we had the Sabres from
1956-58. After leaving the RCAF, he had a long career as a bus driver on the
Lower Mainland (NOT quite the same as driving a Sabre!!).
- The balance of the evening will be
covered by Keith Wade with some slides of the Abbotsford Air Show arrivals on
Thursday, 09 Aug 01, shot from the "forbidden zone" on approach to Runway 06

Tuesday September 11, 2001
- Pat Martin and Mark Munzel will give
presentations and their best slides from their visits to Maple Flag 2001 at
Cold Lake. At least 5 of our Chapter regulars made it up to Maple Flag
this year.... some more than once .... and some were much more fortunate than
others in being able to get closer to the aircraft, taxiways and runways.
Those of us who were there for the one-day DND Public Affairs trip were most
impressed by the sight of about 100 jet fighters taking off in less than half
an hour....and only three of them were ours (a trio of electronics warfare
T-Birds from 414 Sqn.). In my own case, it was my first visit back to
Cold Lake since I spent a week there on course in 1956! Participating aircraft
were there from the USAF, US Navy, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland,
Australia, Singapore and Germany(with both Phantoms and MiGs!!). There
were also several "observer" countries with an interest in future
participation.

Tuesday June 12, 2001
- Keith Wade has just returned from his
field trip to show from Madagascar and has aircraft slides to show from
Madagascar, London Heathrow, Charles de Gaule(Paris), and other airports,
etc. in between.
- For the 2nd half of the evening, Jim
Jorgenson will show some more aircraft shots from his recent trip to Italy,
Switzerland, etc., as well as material from a recent tour of the local
"Canadian Airlines" maintenance hangar....I don't know what else
to call it now that the "Canadian" name and logo have been removed
from the side!!
- If they both run out of material, I may
bring along some shots from my recent visit to the Toronto Aerospace Museum,
etc., as a backup.
- This is the last meeting before the
Summer break, so our next meeting after June 12 will be on Tuesday, September
11, 2001

Tuesday May 8, 2001
- Jim Jorgenson has recently returned
from a trip to Italy and Switzerland, and has some interesting slides of
aircraft at Zurich Airport and other places he visited.
While we are waiting for Jim to arrive from his B. C. Aviation Council
Meeting, the Chapter President will dip into his bag of tricks and show some
slides from the 2000 EAA Arlingtington, WA Fly-In. At an earlier
meeting, Keith Wade did show his Arlington slides, but hopefully there will
be something new here from the point of view of a different photographer.

Tuesday April 10, 2001
- The speaker will be John Spronk, who
many of you know as a long-time Director of the Abbotsford Air Show and
(years ago!) an Abbotsford airshow performer with his Chipmunk, etc.
John has flown for many years, (starting with Tiger Moths, Spitfires and
Meteors) in the Dutch Air Force and later in Canada with Pacific
Western Airlines on their Hercs and 737s. He will be giving an illustrated
talk, mainly on his worldwide charter experiences flying the PWA Hercs.
- If time permits, following the speaker,
we have some old slides from the Chapter President's collection covering the
1963/64/65 Abbotsford Air Shows, at least one of which shows speaker John
Spronk performing. The early Abbotsford Air Shows were very low-key,
featuring homebuilts, antiques, etc., with a sprinkling of RCAF aircraft
from Comox and USAF/USN aircraft from the Pacific Northwest appearing by the
middle of the decade.

Tuesday March 13, 2001
- Mark Munzel will present Chapter II of
aircraft photographed on his travels last year in the Eastern United States.
- Jerry Vernon will fill out the evening
with a selection of slides from his visit last June to the Canada Aviation
Museum in Ottawa, the 2000 Chilliwack Air Show and the 2000 Pitt Meadows
Fly-In(or whatever they called it....not "air show"!)

Tuesday February 13, 2001
- Keith Wade will show slides on 30 years
of Abbotsford Air Shows.
- Ben Graumann will show a tray of slides
on current items from Vancouver Airport
- Jerry Vernon has a small group of
aircraft and airport slides from his recent visit to the Cook Islands.

For more information about the monthly meetings or
about the Vancouver Chapter of the CAHS please contact: Jerry Vernon, Vancouver
Chapter President, (604) 420-6065 jevernon@telus.net

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