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Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame

Contents of this Issue:

Volume 36, No. 2Spring Issue

April/May 2018

“Also in this issue” -John Bogie’s Induction (Page 10)

Speaking of Members, Part 2 (Page 6, 7, 8)

Norseman Festival (Page 5)Astronaut Turns to Writing

(Page 6)

Honouring Members Inducted in 1974(Page 8)

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame

Panthéon de l’Aviation du Canada

to these Members:

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Canada’s Aviation Hall of FameP.O. Box 6090Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 2E8 Canada

Phone: 780.312.2065 / Fax: 780.361.1239Website: www.cahf.caEmail: see listings below:

STAFF:Executive Director: Robert Porter 780.312.2073(cahf4@telus.net)Collections Manager: Aja Cooper 780.312.2084(cahf3@telus.net)

OFFICE HOURS:Tuesday - Friday: 9 am - 4:30 pmClosed Mondays

CAHF DISPLAYS (HANGAR) HOURS:Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am - 5 pmClosed MondaysWinter Hours: 1 pm - 4 pm(Please call to confirm opening times.)

To change your address, contact The Hall at 780.312.2073

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:(Volunteers)

Rod Sheridan, ON ChairmanChris Cooper-Slipper, ON Vice ChairmanMiriam Kavanagh, ON SecretaryMichael Bannock, ON TreasurerBruce Aubin, ONGordon Berturelli, ABDenis Chagnon, QCLynn Hamilton, ABJim McBride, AB Anna Pangrazzi, ON Craig Richmond, BCDavid Wright, AB

Tyler Gandam, Mayor of Wetaskiwin, AB (ex-officio)

OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: (Wetaskiwin)(Volunteers)

David Wright, ChairmanBlain Fowler, Past ChairmanJohn ChalmersDenny MayMargaret MayMary OswaldRobert PorterAja CooperNoel Ratch (non-voting, representing Reynolds-Alberta Museum)

THE FLYER COMMITTEE:Mary Oswald, Editor (oswaldm@shaw.ca) 780.469.3547John Chalmers, CAHF HistorianJanice Oppen, Design and Layout

PORTRAITS:Robert Bailey

MayLaurent BeaudoinLes Kerr

Dave WilliamsClive BedoeFred Carmichael

JuneJames ‘Stocky’ EdwardsBarry Marsden

JulyFern VilleneuveJohn SandfordRosella BjornsonRex Terpening

AugustChris Hadfield

2 Information about The Hall 3 Chairman’s Message 3 Artifacts from Members 4 Medical Air Transport 5 Norseman Remembered 6-8 Speaking of Members 9 Dave Williams to Speak 10 John Bogie’s Induction 10 Tribute to John Bogie 11 Musings 11-12 AOA Visits Wetaskiwin

Chairman’s MessageRod Sheridan

June 7th, our 2018 Induction Dinner Gala, is not far away now. Everyone is working hard to make this another successful and memorable evening.

Our Keynote Speaker and Presenter for this year is Dr. Dave Williams, a CAHF member, one of Canada’s Astronauts, a Medical Doctor, Pilot and recently retired CEO of Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario. With that resume I know his remarks will remind everyone why Dave was honoured in the 2012 Induction ceremony.

This year’s Induction will be a little different from past dinners and I think a story worth telling.

By now you may know that John Bogie is one of our inductees. When I called John to let him know he would be honoured during the 2018

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ceremony we talked for a couple of hours about all his accomplishments. I was looking forward to meeting him.

Prior to this past Christmas, Kathy Fox called John to wish him a Merry Christmas and congratulate him on his up-coming Induction. Subsequent to her call it became clear that John’s health was not good, and in fact, was deteriorating. After several emails over the holidays we decided that we should try to hold a small ceremony for John at his home in Ottawa. After speaking with his son Iain, it was clear that this was a good decision.

On Saturday February 10th, at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Ottawa, in the presence of CAHF Member Kathy Fox, Retired General and 2018 Inductee Paul Manson, CAHF Executive Director Robert Porter, CAHF Photographer Rick Radell, many of John’s relatives and

friends and myself, we held the first private Induction to Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame.

Thank you to Kathy for coming up with the idea and to Iain Bogie for all his effort in organizing the memorable event. Sadly, John passed away at the beginning of April, but at the dinner in Calgary we will be able to celebrate his life and his accomplishments by viewing the video of his life story plus the video of his induction in Ottawa.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the Sunwest Hangar in Calgary.

Rod Sheridan

Annual General Meetingof CAHF

A reminder to everyone that the Annual Meetingof CAHF is always on the day following the Induction Gala

in the hosting hotel.So this year, the annual meeting of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame

will be atat 11:00 am on Friday, June 8, 2018

in a board room at the Courtyard Marriott Airport in Calgary(See the sign in the lobby for further information).

Members, new inductees, and Friends of The Hall are all welcome.

Artifacts from MembersThese are examples of artifacts or mementos donated by Members of The Hall. They are on display for the public to view and appreciate for their value. There is no doubt about the whole-hearted appreciation in having these in CAHF’s collection.

The inscriptions on the back of these watches is clear to read:

I worked in the Manning Hospital as a General Practitioner for 22 years, 1976 - 1998. I was constantly aware that if any of our patients were critically ill, moving that patient would pose a problem for us and the patient.

I am reading with great interest that Dr. Gregory Powell will be inducted this year as a Member of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame. I feel very proud of his accomplishments and only wish I had had access to helicopter evacuation services while I worked in the rather isolated town of Manning. Through the years I was there, I know that the ease of transferring a critically ill patient to a higher level of care improved, but it was very slow in coming.

Manning is a small town (1,200) with a catchment area of 4,000. It lies north of the 55th parallel, nestled in northern Alberta’s Peace River Country. It is 75 km north of the town of Peace River, on the Notikewin River on the Mackenzie Highway. There is agriculture, forestry, hunting, and oil and gas activity in the area. Therefore we had our share of trauma patients to deal with. Some of the trauma was extreme and needed immediate specialty care.

Also, though the hospital was small (30 beds) we delivered babies of women said to be low risk, though that can change quickly. There were transfers of babies born prematurely who were deemed safer delivered in our facility rather than in a crowded ambulance. Also we transferred women whose pregnancies had suddenly become high risk. While we kept many individuals who had had heart attacks, the ones which were considered unstable were also transferred. We did have an OR but did only minor surgery and depended on a GP anaesthetist from Grimshaw or Peace River. Therefore anyone who needed surgical attention needed to be transferred.

There were 2-3 physicians working in Manning through the years. There was a large turnover of physicians. Typically a doctor usually stayed 1 1/2 years and then would be gone. Because Canadian physicians did not want to work in the isolation of Manning, the College of Physicians allowed foreign doctors, mainly South Africans, to come and work there. Once the foreign physicians

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Medical Air Transport Out of Manning, AlbertaLea Halinen, MD

Dr. Lea Halinen

passed their LLMC (the licensing exam) they were gone. I stayed there because I was married to a local man!

Manning is 75 km from Peace River and about 300 km from Grande Prairie by road. When I came to work there in 1976, Peace River hospital had six GPs working there, and Grande Prairie had four surgeons and one internal medicine specialist. These were the hospitals to which we transferred patients by land ambulance if there was time and an appropriate physician to look after the patient. However if there was not time or the level of care was not available, the patient would have to be transferred by air to Edmonton, a 1 1/2 hour trip. We also transferred people by air to Grand Prairie if the case was deemed more urgent instead of sending the patient by road ambulance.

Once the decision to transfer a patient was made, time became the urgent factor. It usually took about 2 hours or more before the patient would be loaded on the plane and be off. The plane would come out of Peace River. We would stabilize the patient at the hospital, load the patient into a ground ambulance with our equipment and then drive to the small runway about 10 minutes from the hospital.

The plane was very small, of a low-wing type. We usually loaded over a wing of the airplane. There was barely room for the stretcher, a nurse and myself with our equipment. I remember an unforgettable incident when the patient arrested and we had to start CPR. There was very little space. We elected to head to the nearest airport: Peace River.

When I first started working in Manning, we had a very short gravel landing strip. To transfer a patient at night, flares had to be set to indicate the sides of the strip and pick-up trucks with their lights on indicated the end of the strip for the pilot. I would imagine that it took a lot of skill for the pilot to land and take off under these conditions! There never was a problem and I was thankful to have the patient transferred safely. In the mid 1980’s the Alberta Government decided to develop the Manning airstrip to a point where it could be used by water bombers so we were fortunate to get a long paved strip with lights. We were very thankful for this.

Needless to say that the flying conditions were not always ideal. I remember a time taking a patient to Edmonton in the spring. There was freezing rain on the way back and I could hear ice chunks coming off of the wings on the way back. On arriving at the Manning air strip there was considerable fog. The pilot circled twice without luck. On the third circle he saw a little break in the fog and landed, heavily, because the runway was also covered with ice. There again we were very dependent on the skill of the pilot.

As years went by, air transfers out of Manning became less stressful for us because the province organized transfer teams which came from Edmonton, manned by an experienced nurse and physician in their specialty, as well as sometimes a respiratory technician. Occasionally we called for the newborn intensive transfer team or the cardiac transfer team. They came to the hospital, having travelled by small plane from Edmonton, assessed and further stabilized the patient, and then took the patient with them back to Edmonton.

As well, the air ambulance system was improving. We no longer had to accompany the patient to Edmonton. A team consisting of a nurse and paramedic would accompany the patient after they had accessed the patient at our hospital.

I congratulate Dr. Powell on his foresight and great effort to establish STARS, the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service that has helped save the lives of so many people.

Photo supplied

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Norseman Remembered at Red Lake FestivalLarry Milberry

Canada’s aviation industry has produced many landmark designs over the decades since the “Silver Dart” first flew at Baddeck in 1909. Since then, there’s been a stream of symbolic types from the 1924 Canadian Vickers Vedette to the spectacular Avro Arrow of the 1950s to today’s Q400 and Global Express. These have carried our aviation and aerospace fame around the globe. Well up on Canada’s list is a plane that first flew more than 80 years ago – the Noorduyn Norseman, a few of which are still at work. The Norseman was the brainchild of Robert Noorduyn, whose background included designing warplanes for the Allies during WWI. After the war, he made his mark designing commercial planes, especially the 1925 Fokker Universal, which opened the way to modern air transport in Canada.

Coming to Montreal in 1934, Noorduyn decided to produce his most advanced commercial plane. He consulted with northern operators to determine what they wanted in a bush plane. The final result was his impressive new “Norseman”, which made its first flight on November 14, 1935.

Although it had a slow start, the Norseman caught on with WWII, when the US Army ordered more than 700. These served the army around the world, then were sold off postwar as affordable general purpose planes, enabling small operators to re-equip affordably, or just get a start.

Postwar production brought the final count to just over 900. Norsemans continued for decades from South America to Alaska, everywhere in Canada, around Europe and all the way to Australia. The Norseman only started to fade a bit in the 1960s with the influx of Beavers and Otters. Each summer the iconic Norseman is honoured in Northwest Ontario bush plane country -- the historic gold mining town of Red Lake. That’s where you’ll really enjoy yourself at the “do not miss” Norseman Festival. I first attended at

All photos courtesy Larry Milberry

the 1992 inaugural festival, when there were 10 Norsemans tied up at the head of Howey Bay.

As the decades have ticked along, there may not be quite so many Norsemans attending, but there’s always great festival fun with plenty of bush planes at the docks, air displays, Norseman rides and fun galore in Centennial Park, at Canadian Legion Br.102, etc. This year’s dates are July 20 – 22. You can google “Norseman Festival” to get the details and see some great photos and videos. So … be sure to mark this on your summer calendar this year!

(Larry Milberry was inducted Member of CAHF in 2004. He is interested in all things Canadian aviation and has written many books on this topic.)

The first Norseman Festival in 1992 drew a good crowd of Norsemans. This is an overhead view of the docks at the head of Red Lake’s Howey Bay on July 23 showing nine of them, plus a Beaver. The monument of CF-DRD is at the the top left, in Norseman Park.

Chimo Airways’ Norseman ready to board some festival fans who were not going home without a flight in this great Canadian bushplane.

“CF-DRD” shortly after being set up on its pylon as a permanent exhibit in Norseman Park, 1992.

There’s always lots of fun at Centennial Park, with the kids having their “Norseman Rides”. Each of these little kiddie carts is done up in the registration and paint job of an actual Norseman.

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Speaking of Members (Part 2)Mary Oswald

Dave Williams, CM, MD Anna Pangrazzi

Most say it’s important to stay busy in retirement and former Canadian astronaut Dave Williams seems to have adopted that philosophy. After retiring from the Canadian Space Agency in 2008, Dave returned to healthcare as a senior executive and ultimately President and CEO of Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. He retired from that role last October, to focus on sharing his passion for aviation, science and spaceflight, writing children’s books with Annick Press.

The first two books To Burp or Not To Burp and Go for Liftoff have captured the imagination of young readers interested in learning how the body reacts to space and how to train like an astronaut.

The third book in the Dr. Dave space series, Mighty Mission Machines, about the machines astronauts work with, will be out

(Karen Hanlon photo)

General (Ret’d) Paul Manson Inductee, 2018John Chalmers

General (Ret’d) Paul D. Manson, former Chief of the Defence Staff, is shown on December 12, 2017 when the “General Paul Manson Meeting Room” was dedicated at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The sign beside him reads: General Paul Manson Meeting Room, In recognition of his leadership and steadfast support of the Canadian War Museum / Salle de réunion Géneral-Paul-Manson, En reconnaissance de son leadership et de son soutien indéfectible au Musée canadien de la guerre.

Paul Manson is shown with his Air Force cap on display, which he wore as Chief of the Defence Staff. Upon his retirement from the military he donated his uniforms to the museum. He will be inducted as a Member of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame on June 7, 2018.

this month. The fourth, Destination Space, about living on other planets, will be out later this year. He is also working another book, Defying Limits, that will be published by Simon and Schuster this fall.

In addition to writing, he has returned to flying as a pilot at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton and is a member of the Museum Board. He also continues public speaking with the National Speaker’s Bureau and is developing a course in space physiology and medicine for the University of Western Ontario.

(Dave Williams was inducted Member of CAHF in 2012, the fourth astronaut to be inducted. He completed two space missions with NASA to the International Space Station: in 1998 on board Space Shuttle Columbia and 2007 aboard Shuttle Endeavour.Anna Pangrazzi serves as Director of the Board.)

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Award For Kathleen FoxPioneer Hall of Fame Inductee

Kathy Fox

Kathy Fox was honoured by induction into the Women in Aviation Pioneer Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Reno, Nevada, Convention Centre on March 24, 2018. The Women in Aviation Pioneer Hall of Fame was established in 1992 “to honour women who have made remarkable contributions to aviation as well as opened doors for future generations of women who choose aviation as a career.”

Kathy feels she is in very good company. Other Canadians who have been inducted into the Pioneer Hall of Fame are Elsie MacGill, Rosella Bjornson and Lorna deBlicquy, all Members of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame. Another easily recognized name of such a pioneer is Amelia Earhart.

Kathy began her career as an air traffic controller in 1974 at Transport Canada control towers in Baie-Comeau, Sept-Isles, Saint-Hubert, and at the Montreal-Dorval Area Control Centre. She assumed more senior positions with Nav Canada where she served as the Director of Air Traffic Control Services and Vice President of Operations. In 2014 she was appointed to a four-year term as chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

Kathy was inducted Member of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2016.

Photos courtesy Kathy Fox

Kathy Fox and Anna Pangrazzi, second and third from left. Anna served as Kathy’s escort for the ceremonies. She is a Director on the CAHF Board.

“One Strange Rock”Chris Hadfield and other astronauts

Chris Hadfield

A few months ago Chris Hadfield told us to watch for a TV series about our Earth. It has arrived in one-hour episodes on National Geographic Channel.

Chris is one of six astronauts who put this series together. Each has spent months aboard the International Space Station and are devoting their lives to studying the earth. They are looking for answers to such questions as “How did life get started on earth?”, “How does our earth maintain or produce the oxygen its rapidly expanding population needs?”, “Why are the Amazon forests and river delta so important to our survival?”, “What are diatoms and what role do they play in our survival?”, “How does Earth keep safe from the Sun?”.

These and much more. The TV documentary is full of questions and surprising answers. Highly recommended watching!

Chris Hadfield was inducted as Member of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2005.

Photo courtesy NASA

Photo courtesy Chris Hadfield

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Up-Date from ‘Bud’ WhiteRobert ‘Bud’ White, who was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974, tells us that he still enjoys flying his Navion around the Vancouver area. He maintains a current Commercial Pilot Licence into his 90th year!

Photo courtesy Bud White

Russ Bannock Tells Us:

He is fine, in his 99th year, curling three days a week all winter. He spends the rest of his time volunteering at Cummer Lodge Nursing Home where his late wife, Nora, spent four years. And he is planning to attend the Induction Dinner in Calgary!

Russ Bannock, D.S.O., D.F.C.*, was inducted Member of

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 1983. He lives in Toronto.

Rick Radell photo 2017

Brown & May vs RichthofenDenny May copy supplied

April 21, 1918 marks 100 years since the “Red Baron”, Manfred Von Richthofen, was shot down in what is probably the best-known aerial battle of the First World War. The Red Baron was brought down while he was pursuing “Wop” May, and was in turn being pursued and fired upon by May’s squadron leader, Roy Brown. Discussion still goes on as to who was ultimately responsible for his demise, but it is generally agreed that Captain Brown chased him across the war zone into French territory.

To celebrate the occasion, the Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton held a special event on the anniversary. Denny May spoke about his father’s involvement in that famous aerial combat.

Brown and May have both been inducted as Members of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame, May in 1974 and Brown in 2015.

The ‘dog-fight’. In the distance is Wop May, pursued by the Red Baron who is pursued by Roy Brown

Max Ward and ‘Bud’ White to Be HonouredTwo Members of CAHF who were inducted in the first ceremony of The Hall in 1974 will be honoured at this year’s ceremonies. They are the only two living members from that group of 79 inductees.

Please join us in celebrating their lives full of achievements that make Canada proud!

Max Ward is best known for the excellent service his international air charter business, Wardair Canada, gave to his clients. But for years his small company served northern communities and the Arctic out of his base in Yellowknife,

Northwest Territories, using Beaver and Otter aircraft.

Robert ‘Bud’ White was most interested in a career as a military pilot. He flew F-86 Sabres, T-33 Silver Stars, test flew aircraft for RCAF acceptance trials, and served with NASA. As Wing Commander he set a Canadian altitude record of 100,100 feet (30,500 m) at RCAF Uplands in 1967, flying a modified CF-104 Starfighter aircraft.

Max Ward receives the Order of Icarus medal from C.H. ‘Punch’ Dickins, 1973

Bud White official portrait, RCAF

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Additional funds will be critical to ensure the preservation of artifacts in our possession, to refine, modernize and upgrade the personal exhibits of our members and increase the profile and visibility of CAHF throughout Canada to enable CAHF to better fulfill its mission.

In the coming months, CAHF will provide details as to how our donors and supporters can help us achieve our goals. We plan to enhance our website to include an Online Donations Form, information on how to make a Charitable Bequest and the expansion of our current “Friends of the Hall” program.

Donations, be they personal or corporate are very much appreciated and essential to the successful future of CAHF.

Chris Cooper-Slipper serves as Director and Vice Chairman of the Board. His father, Mike Cooper-Slipper is a Member of The Hall of Fame, inducted in 2003.

Our Mission Statement is very clear, the objective of CAHF is:“To honour those individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to aviation and aerospace in Canada; and to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret artifacts and documents, thereby inspiring and educating Canadians”.

CAHF does not receive funding by way of any Provincial or Federal Government programs and the funds we raise are primarily self generated through activities such as our casino nights every 18 months and our Annual Induction Dinner. Over the course of the coming years, one of our principal objectives will be to upgrade our entire display area in keeping with the expansion of the Reynolds Alberta Museum.

Fundraising and Canada’s Aviation Hall of FameChris Cooper-Slipper

Rick Radell photo

Dave Williams to Speak at Induction Ceremony

We are so pleased to announce that one of our own Members, Dave Williams, MD, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s CAHF induction dinner and ceremonies. His other duties on stage will include the presentation of medals and certificates to the new inductees. His own induction took place in 2012.

An accomplished and inspirational public speaker, Dave can draw from the unique experiences and insights he has gained throughout his distinguished and remarkable career as a physician, business executive, scientist, author, pilot, aquanaut and astronaut.

Selected by the Canadian Space Agency as one of only four astronaut trainees from 5,300 applicants in 1992, he has ventured into space twice, aboard space shuttles Columbia and Endeavor, accumulating some 687 hours in space, including three space walks, setting the record for the most space walks performed by a Canadian astronaut.

Dave is the recipient of many international honours, awards and recognition. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the Order of Ontario, and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

He is an award-winning author of children’s books and his memoir, Defying Limits, will be published by Simon and Schuster this fall. He remains active in aviation as a pilot and member of the board of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ont.

You will not want to miss this year’s ceremonies! This year marks the 45th annual induction and it will be held in Calgary on June 7, 2018, at the Sunwest Aviation Hangar at the Calgary International Airport.

This year’s ceremony will see four distinguished Canadians inducted to CAHF.

• The late John Bogie, aviation builder and co-founder of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA)• Retired General Paul Manson, military and industry leader• Dr. John Maris, entrepreneur and inventor• Dr. Greg Powell, co-founder of STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service).For more information and / or to order tickets, contact: inductionceremonycahf@gmail.com or call 1-780-312-2073Dave Williams’ formal portrait as an astronaut. A NASA photo

Dave Williams at his induction, 2012

Rick Radell photo

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John Bogie’s Induction CeremonyKathy Fox

In an informal ceremony held on a snowy Saturday Feb. 10, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel in Ottawa, John Bogie was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame. About 60 family, friends and former colleagues - from as far away as BC, Newfoundland and Labrador and the U.S. - gathered to celebrate John’s long and remarkable aviation career.

Due to health issues, it was uncertain whether John would be able to travel to Calgary to attend the formal ceremony in June. When I heard of this before Christmas, I asked The Hall if it might be possible to hold a special ceremony in advance so that John might participate personally. The Hall agreed and collaborated with his family who organized and hosted the event. CAHF Board Chairman Rod Sheridan, Executive Director Robert Porter

and I attended the event and presented John’s CAHF membership medals and certificate.

Among John’s many achievements as a pilot and operator, he was a co-founder of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) and helped form the Experimental Aircraft Association of Canada as well as the Canadian Business Aircraft (now Aviation) Association. John was instrumental in buying a large consignment of ex-US Army Beavers (DHC-2) which were then rebuilt and put onto the Canadian market. This constituted the largest single aircraft purchase of its kind in Canada and made his company, Laurentian Air Services, the Canadian centre for Beaver activity.

During the evening, emcee Tim Cole, former COPA Director from BC, invited various

Newly inducted Member John Bogie holds his Membership Certificate, with Kathy Fox. February 10, 2018

Rick Radell photo

John Bogie in his bush pilot days, beside one of his Laurentian Air

Services Beavers, YKL.

An avid sportsman, John Bogie set up fishing camps in northern Ontario.

John Bogie photo collection

speakers to come up and say a few words about John and his achievements. Then Chairman Rod conducted the official induction ceremony following which John was offered the opportunity to speak. It’s very clear that John’s memory and grasp of details had not dimmed with age as he regaled the audience with many anecdotes from his life and career.

All in all, it was a warm, emotional and memorable evening and a fitting tribute to an outstanding aviator, entrepreneur and agent of change!

(Kathy Fox was inducted Member of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2016.)

Tribute to John Bogie, 1926 - 2018Mary Oswald

It is sad indeed to report about CAHF’s newly inducted Member John Bogie’s passing. On this page above, Kathy Fox reports on his induction that was held in Ottawa on February 10th of this year. Now, just a short time later, we are reporting that his health could no longer sustain him, and he passed away on April 5, 2018 at the age of 91.

John Munroe Bogie was born September 6, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY. He began his long career in Canadian aviation shortly after WW II, flying extensively for Laurentian Air Service and various mining exploration companies in Northern Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. He became owner of Laurentian

in 1968 and continued to operate the company for the next forty years. He was also an avid hunter and fisherman and set up outfitting camps, such as the Delay River Outfitters.

He, together with the late Marg Carson, established the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) which represented the interests and concerns of private aircraft owners across Canada.

John was predeceased by his wife Penelope and brother Robert. He is survived by his sons Iain and Craig (Alyson), and step-daughter Martha, and five grandchildren. The memorial service for John was held in Ottawa on April 21st.

The video of his life and the event of his private induction ceremony will be shown during this year’s Induction Dinner Gala in Calgary on June 7th.

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“Musings”Dave Wright, Chairman of the Operations Committee

CAHF photoDave Wright

The Operating Committee and the Dinner Committee of the Board of Directors is well on the way to putting on our annual Induction Gala to be held in the Sunwest Aviation Hangar in Calgary on Thursday June 7, 2018. It takes a big team effort to get everything together to put on a flawless event that all attendees enjoy. Each team tries to outdo the previous year’s team in presenting an excellent event. This year we will also be honouring two Members from the first Induction Ceremony 45 years ago (1974) who are still with us: Bud White and Max Ward. They are the last of the original Members. As indicated elsewhere in this publication, John Bogie, who was to be present to be inducted into the Hall in June, passed away on April 5th. The Board had been warned previously that his health was declining and that he might not make the June 7 event. A first of its kind special

event was held in his home town of Ottawa in February to officially induct him into The Hall. Almost every year, we induct a member posthumously. And several members who were inducted passed away within a very short time following their induction. A few names come to mind: Don Hamilton, Victor Bennett, Bob Engle, Walter McLeish. Each member of The Hall has spent his or her entire career in the pursuit of aviation and aerospace. The achievements which identify them as potential Hall Members happen long before they have retired or passed away. Yet, their friends, associates and family seem to wait until much later in their lives to take the time to fill in a nomination form. Note to potential nominators: “Why wait? Do it now”. Allow the future Member time to enjoy his or her position as a Member! To those attending the Gala, take some time to

talk to the Members in attendance. There are always a few there. Bud White will be there and he is still actively flying his airplane. Kathy Fox will be there and she attended the Bogie presentation in Ottawa and would be happy to talk about it. Max Ward will also be attending with his wife Marjorie. Those are just three that I am already aware of who have ordered tickets to attend. More musings next issue!

AOA Visits WetaskiwinNotes from Roddy MacKenzie, April 28, 2018

Sixteen of our Air Force Officers Association (AOA) retired RCAF pilots had a marvelous excursion this week from Vancouver to Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Under the leadership of retired Wing Commander Mike Matthews, we visited Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame and the Reynolds-Alberta Museum.

We drove south from Edmonton International Airport through Alberta farmland to the City of Wetaskiwin. The name means “Hills of

Peace”. This is where two of Canada’s greatest indigenous peoples made peace with one another: the mighty Blackfoot Confederacy of the Canadian and American Prairies and the Cree, Canada’s largest group of indigenous people. Note: Most in this photo are AOA members, others are associate members.Back Row: Jack McGee, then two CAHF hosts: Blain Fowler, Dave WrightThird Row: Charles Flavelle, Jamie McTavish, Dave Larrigan, Dr. John Higenbottam, Dick Dunn, George Miller, Doug MacKenzieSecond Row: Roddy MacKenzie, Byron Reynolds (tour guide), Marcel Poulin, Bob Reid, Hank Starek, Mike Matthews, Dr. Sam LambertFront Row: John Williams, Donn Richardson, Mary Oswald (host, CAHF)

Our trip began with our non-stop flight across several mountain ranges, including the breathtakingly massive and magnificent Canadian Rocky Mountains of Banff/Jasper National Park.

Wetaskiwin is also famous as the home of Stan Reynolds. The Reynolds-Alberta Museum, opened in 1992, is named to honour him. After the war, Stan started selling cars which he would repair and paint himself. From 1946 to 1958, he was Alberta’s top car dealer, operating 13 lots.

Stan recognized the importance of aviation, so he built and operated the Wetaskiwin Airport at which he landed his growing collection of aircraft. Stan donated an enormous number of cars, farm equipment and other machinery to the Province of Alberta for this Museum, including sixty airplanes.

The Reynolds-Alberta Museum is built on 156 acres beside the Wetaskiwin Airport.

I am standing in front of the main buildng of the Reynolds-Alberta Museum.

In addition, the Alberta Government built a large hangar which houses a fraction of Stan’s total collection of aircraft. The hangar is also the display area of panels showing the stories of the lives of members of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF).

Founded in 1973, CAHF honours more than 200 Canadians who made remarkable contributions to Canadian Aviation. Each has a large panel telling his or her story, complete with photos and citations. Our hosts, Dave Wright, Blain Fowler, Aja Cooper and other members of the Operations Committee toured us through the displays in the hangar, which we found most interesting.

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This shows the panel displays of Members of The Hall of Fame in the hangar.

We feel proud that among our group is former RCAF Pilot, Col (ret’d) George Miller. He was team leader of the world renowned Snowbirds. He was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2015.

George was flying supersonic aircraft (CF-104 Starfighter) at Allied air bases in West Germany and was recognized as a top fighter pilot by the time Canada’s RCAF Avro Arrow CF-105 was being developed. It was the world’s most advanced supersonic fighter jet. It was first rolled out for the public to see on 04 Oct 1957. That was the same day Russia (USSR) launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1. Sputnik shocked the western world. Our Avro Arrow dazzled Canadians and our Allies.

Sadly, in deference to America, on 20 Feb 1959 Canada cancelled the Avro Arrow program and destroyed every aircraft and all plans and drawings. That great Canadian tragedy still evokes powerful emotions today, almost sixty years later. I remember as a ten-year-old boy in Calgary in 1959 hearing the dreadful news that the Avro Arrow was cancelled. It had been the most advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement in the history of Canadian Aviation.

Byron Reynolds, nephew of Stan Reynolds, toured us through the massive Reynolds-Alberta Museum with its theme of “Celebrating the Spirit of the Machine”. The size of this Museum is overwhelming, and so is the beauty of its expertly restored cars, aircraft, farm vehicles and other machinery. It must be seen to be believed. It’s come a long way from the random collection Stan Reynolds had, in which my cousin and I used to wander about when we were boys and I was visiting him each summer in Wetaskiwin.

Byron allowed us into his own private hangar where he is in the process of restoring a Hurricane fighter aircraft. All of this information makes my story too long, so I’ll continue it in the September Flyer, along with my photos.

Our luncheon speaker was Denny May, the son of famous Canadian aviator and WW I fighter pilot hero “Wop” May, who was inducted Member of CAHF in 1974. Born in Carberry, Manitoba in 1896, Wop May, DFC, is credited with 13 enemy planes brought down and seven probables in WW I. He fought Germany’s Red Baron and helped bring him down over France.

During and after the war, he did remarkable aerial photography. In January 1929, in horrendous conditions of freezing cold, Wop won the hearts of Canadians when he flew from Edmonton north to Fort Vermilion in the “Race Against Death” with serum to stop a diphtheria outbreak. He saved many lives with that heroic flight.

And on that heartwarming note I’ll end my story. Suffice to say, everything was so good. THANKS again to our AOA President Mike Matthews for making this excursion happen.

Yours faithfully, Roddy

P.S. Watch for part 2 of my story of our AOA visit to CAHF in the September issue of The Flyer.

George with the Avro Arrow replica in RAM’s Collections Storage Facility building. This Avro Arrow was made for the 1997 movie “The Arrow” starring Ottawa-born Dan Ackroyd.