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As 2016 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 Assocation News a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 6, 2017.
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Belleville Intelligencer
From Nov. 18, 2016: Two historic aircraft that flew missions over Europe during the closing months of the Second World War, will be united and displayed at the same museum.
Little wonder staff at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton feel as if they've been walking on air.
"There's a huge wow factor to all of this," said museum executive director Chris Colton. Turns out the museum will have some pretty hefty bragging rights to go along with that "wow" factor.
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Defense News
From July 29, 2016: The Canadian government has issued a request for information from aerospace firms about the types of fighter aircraft they could provide, a signal that an earlier proposal to acquire Boeing Super Hornet jets on an interim basis is likely dead.
When the Super Hornet proposal first surfaced in early June, Lockheed Martin launched an aggressive lobbying and media campaign to warn that F-35 work being done by Canadian firms would be put in jeopardy if the Canadian government proceeded with such a move.
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Windsor Star
From Nov. 11, 2016: For several hours a day over most of Remembrance Week, 98-year-old air force veteran Art Anderson continues his service to Canada, selling poppies at the entrance to Windsor's Superstore on Dougall Avenue.
Perched on a chair between a mountain of Purex liquid detergent and a stack of Quaker instant oatmeal boxes, Anderson draws attention, as do his war stories.
A Second World War Royal Canadian Air Force navigator on a dangerous resupply mission for paratroopers stuck in the disastrous Battle of Arnhem, his C-47 Dakota was shot down in September 1944, crashing behind enemy lines. But the crew survived.
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Nanton News
From April 22, 2016: The Bomber Command Museum of Canada is gearing up for the spring and summer with this year's first start-up of its restored Lancaster bomber.
The museum will also use this opportunity to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Lancaster bomber during the Second World War. The Bomber Command Museum is now opening its doors during the week, and not just during the weekend as it is during the winter.
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CBC News
From June 3, 2016: As a Royal Air Force pilot flying almost daily missions against Nazi targets in Europe, Dr. Peter Roper never really expected to live past his early 20s.
It didn't help that he flew Typhoons, the RAF's lethal ground attack fighter-bomber with a grim habit of trapping pilots as they tried to bail out.
Roper said the life expectancy for young pilots in some Typhoon squadrons was about three weeks. "We knew it was going to happen to all of us, at least we expected it to," he recalled recently.
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National Post
From Aug. 5, 2016: If there ever were a combat pilot cat-like in survival, it would be John Alwyn (Pee Wee) Phillips. But what made his successful wartime record of walking away from crashes so amazing? In each case he ensured his crew walked away safely with him.
His first "prang," as he called it, occurred at the RAF No. 22 Operational Training Unit in England, in 1943, while training in Wellington bombers with a Canadian crew of five on board. On the approach to land, Phillips couldn't get the undercarriage down, so he got permission from the control tower to land wheels up on the aerodrome grass.
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Havasu News
From Jan. 29, 2016: The Royal Canadian Air Force began intermediate test flights in Havasu, CO, recently, and the city will host its pilots until the end of the month.
Lake Havasu City Municipal Airport manager Steve Johnston received a phone call in the fall, when RCAF officers announced that Havasu would be one of five airports to be considered for test flights in the U.S. Pilots met secretly with members of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and CVB representatives gave them a tour of the city.
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CBC News
From July 22, 2016: The Department of National Defence has purchased five new unmanned aircraft designed to take off, surveil an airspace and land without needing a runway.
It's an easy task for a helicopter, but tougher for a fixed-wing plane. For overhead surveillance, fixed-wing planes can usually fly higher, farther and remain airborne longer than their helicopter cousins. But most planes need long, straight, flat spaces for both takeoff and landing, and runways are not always located where military officials need them. In the ocean, for example.
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Ottawa Citizen
From June 17, 2016: New information tabled in the House of Commons gives some insight into the number of hours on the airframes of the RCAF's CF-18s.
The document lists 77 CF-18s in service at Cold Lake, Alberta and Bagotville, Que.
The "to be determined" columns are for "hours at retirement" and the date of retirement.
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660 News
From April 8, 2016: Just in time for airshow season, the Royal Canadian Air Force has unveiled their CF-18 Demonstration Jet for 2016.
The unveiling ceremony took place recently at the air force base in Cold Lake.
The design commemorates this year's theme, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which ran from 1939 to 1945, and the 75th anniversary of the RCAF's 400-series squadrons which makes up the basis of the modern RCAF.
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