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Front Cover

Initiating WW I Pilot Training

An Unknown Ally

Canso Aerial Surveys

Back Cover

Curtiss Aviation Schools in Canada 1915-1916
The Birth of Flying Training in Canada                                       G.A. Fuller     116

Mexican Spitfire Pilots in the RCAF
Unheralded Participants in the Allied War                                  S.A. Flores     126

Canso Surveys With Kenting Aviation
The Challenge of Contour Flying at 500 feet                                    J. Smith     134

CAHS Convention '95 
Hosted by the Toronto Chapter at CFB Trenton                      N.J. Harrison     150

From the Editor                                                                         W.J. Wheeler     115

Par Avion                                                                                                            152

Book Review                                                                                                      153

In Memoriam: Roy Staniland                                                             W.Henry     153

Corporate Sponsors                                                                                            153

Covers FRONT: CAHS patron, Robert (Bob) Bradford has meticulously recreated a moment in history from 1915, with a Curtiss Model F flying boat, the Maple Leaf, piloted by Guy Gilpatrick taxiing  in front of the Curtiss school hangars on Hanlan's Point - one of his series of paintings for the National Aviation Museum.  The full story of this pioneering Canadian Venture can be found on P116. BACK:  the Vickers Supermarine Walrus (affectionately called the Shagboat) was designed for use by the RAF to locate and rescue airmen forced down at sea.  CF-GKA the only example ever flown civilly in Canada was used by Kenting Aviation to ferry geoligists about Newfoundland and Labrador in the late '40's.  Our reproduction is from a slide shown by Smitty Smith  (story  on P 134) at the 1993 CAHS Regina Convention. Copyright 1995 CAHS Inc.  Library code ISSN 1207-1978