Wings over Gatineau, other rare sights.

A variety of what was flown this year. The event is a major fund raiser for Vintage Wings Of Canada, which is a non profit museum dedicated to the restoration / preservation / & the flying of military aircraft from yesterday.

Hawk 1 is an example of what eventually became Canada's Snowbirds but way back in 1959 the Golden Hawks thrilled many a crowd using the timeless F-86 Sabre Jet.

Eight .50s in the nose! I love it!

Nice series!... that B-25 looks like it tangled with a procupine... with those .50s poking out of the nose.. lol

. . . nice work Larry - yah got some good ones.
I still remember all the Golden Hawks performing on 'Air Force Day' at CFB Rockcliffe back in the day !!

Thanks Randy.

Re the Mitchel; I have a story about a squadron of RCAF Mitchels from my early teen years. Way back when we lived in Saskatchewan (61-63) one of the major newspapers ran a front page story about a joint exercise between Canada & the US to test the different radar warning systems in place at the time (DEW , NORAD or whatever else we both had). The exercise sent squadrons of bombers to do a fake bomb run to targets all over Canada & the US. The only squadron to successful reach their target was one of our B-25 squadrons and they not only made it to the target which was in Texas they also made it back to Canada without being detected. They did it by flying just above fence post height to just over the tree tops as necessary ROUND TRIP. They must have been great pilots & I'd hate to think how many dairy cows they scared along the way.