During our, long, cold winter it's hard to not get "shack-whacky" after a while and the urge to do something or go somewhere gets to you.
Such was the case yesterday when four of us jumped in a car and drove two hours to the Greenwood Aviation Museum which is near RCAF Greenwood Air Base. Greenwood was part of the Commonwealth pilot training program during WWII and is still a very active full-service air base in coastal patrol and air and sea rescue.
We've been to the museum before, but were pleased to see new displays.
It's a shame that the planes have to sit outside and endure our harsh weather, but the modest museum can't afford to construct a building that would be large enough to house these huge planes. It would take millions and it's quite amazing that they do as well as they do on a small budget.
The static display Lanc has been painted in WWII colours since we were there last. It was in air sea rescue and patrol colours before.
This plane has been added to the display since we were there last and you can see the WWII observation tower on the hill. There were many of these in different areas during the war to observe bombing practice by the Lanc's. I only know of two that still exist and I think this one is a re-construction.
The local kids were having fun sliding on the hill.
I didn't know that Canada used these drones in the Afghanistan conflict. It's powered by a Rotax engine that's smaller than a motorcycle engine.
Speaking of Afghanistan, this sobering display is of all the Canadian men and women who gave their lives in that conflict. It really broke your heart to see the pictures.
This is a 303 cal. machinegun that was used in the Hurricane's and Spitfire's at the beginning of the war. Such small bullets, but the Hurricane's had eight of them. The Spits were fitted with 20mm cannons later on that really got the job done!
This is the mighty Merlin that powered the fighters.
This is a scaled down model of a spitfire.
This massive scale model Hercules was suspended from the ceiling and we had never seen it before.
Hats off to all those brave souls of all nations who risk their lives to save those in distress at sea.
The flight engineer of the Argus anti-sub plane certainly had his hands full.
The Argus was filed with massive amounts of electronics for detecting subs.
All in all, a nice boys day out.
Such was the case yesterday when four of us jumped in a car and drove two hours to the Greenwood Aviation Museum which is near RCAF Greenwood Air Base. Greenwood was part of the Commonwealth pilot training program during WWII and is still a very active full-service air base in coastal patrol and air and sea rescue.
We've been to the museum before, but were pleased to see new displays.
It's a shame that the planes have to sit outside and endure our harsh weather, but the modest museum can't afford to construct a building that would be large enough to house these huge planes. It would take millions and it's quite amazing that they do as well as they do on a small budget.
The static display Lanc has been painted in WWII colours since we were there last. It was in air sea rescue and patrol colours before.
This plane has been added to the display since we were there last and you can see the WWII observation tower on the hill. There were many of these in different areas during the war to observe bombing practice by the Lanc's. I only know of two that still exist and I think this one is a re-construction.
The local kids were having fun sliding on the hill.
I didn't know that Canada used these drones in the Afghanistan conflict. It's powered by a Rotax engine that's smaller than a motorcycle engine.
Speaking of Afghanistan, this sobering display is of all the Canadian men and women who gave their lives in that conflict. It really broke your heart to see the pictures.
This is a 303 cal. machinegun that was used in the Hurricane's and Spitfire's at the beginning of the war. Such small bullets, but the Hurricane's had eight of them. The Spits were fitted with 20mm cannons later on that really got the job done!
This is the mighty Merlin that powered the fighters.
This is a scaled down model of a spitfire.
This massive scale model Hercules was suspended from the ceiling and we had never seen it before.
Hats off to all those brave souls of all nations who risk their lives to save those in distress at sea.
The flight engineer of the Argus anti-sub plane certainly had his hands full.
The Argus was filed with massive amounts of electronics for detecting subs.
All in all, a nice boys day out.
Attachments
Last edited:
