Ontario Aerospace Innovator: Paul Dilworth
Orenda engine on display at Carlton UniversityImage Credit: Orenda Engines Wikipedia As Manager and Chief Engineer of the Gas Turbine …
Avro Canada CF-100 and the Orenda jet engine
CF-100 #100785Image Credit: Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum As the Second World war drew to a close, the Canadian government including …
Ontario Aerospace Innovator: Richard (Dick) Hiscocks
Mk V Anson RCAF Station Hamilton – Mount Hope, OntarioImage Credit: Ban Galbasi Richard (Dick) Hiscocks was born in Toronto …
DHC: The War Years
1940 Old De Havilland Canada hangar – Tiger Moth productionImage Credit: De Havilland Aircraft of Canada With the outbreak of …
Ontario Aerospace Innovator: Elsie MacGill
Elsie MacGill was the first Canadian woman to receive an electrical engineering degree, and was the first female aircraft designer.Image …
Wartime Aircraft Production – 1939-1945
Ground crew servicing a Fairchild Cornell I aircraft, No 19 Elementary Flying Training School, RCAF, Virden, Manitoba, 1944Image Credit: Library …
De Lesseps Field
Avro 621 TutorImage Credit: San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives Flying continued at De Lesseps Field when DHC moved …
The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited – 1928
1929 De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Downsview Head QuartersImage Credit: De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Major Geoffrey de Havilland was …
Canadian Flying Clubs Established – 1928
Fliers at Toronto Flying Club ca. 1930Image Credit: City of Toronto Archives In 1927, the Department of National Defence announced …
Ontario Provincial Air Service – 1924
De Havilland DH.60 Moth in flight over Leaside AerodromeImage Credit: City of Toronto Archives In 1923, the Ontario Department of …