Aviation documentary about as interesting as Prairie train ride
The magnitude of the achievement is underscored by footage of what happened when a group of aviation buffs tried to mark the Silver Dart's 50th anniversary by taking flight in a replica of the original wood-framed plane (it crashed), and by the perplexed expressions on the faces of a group of r...
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| Published in | Winnipeg free press |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Winnipeg, Man
FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership
08.10.2009
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The magnitude of the achievement is underscored by footage of what happened when a group of aviation buffs tried to mark the Silver Dart's 50th anniversary by taking flight in a replica of the original wood-framed plane (it crashed), and by the perplexed expressions on the faces of a group of retired engineers and aviators trying to re-create the Dart in time for the first flight's 100th anniversary earlier this year. Then the series' flight path gets redirected, first to Canada's "Top Gun" fighter-pilot school in Cold Lake, Alta., then to an airfield in the Arizona desert where civilians are invited to live out their dogfight dreams, and then back in time to the beginnings of Canada's commercial/passenger airline business. |
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| ISSN: | 0828-1785 |