Saw a Big Milsurp Today
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Took my Son there a while back on our way back from Montana. Gotta love the little low-key museums that dot this country. Glad to here they got all the Merlin's going now. Nanton Air Museum is worth the drive if you're ever in southern Alberta.
There's nothing quite like a 'quartet of Merlins'....Was fortunate to get inside the Lancaster when it came to Abbotsford a couple of years ago. For a big aircraft it was very tight inside, especially trying to get over the main spar to the back....Unreal to think how those brave men operated for hours on end in all sorts of conditions..
The Air Musum in Nanton is worth the drive if you live in Southern MANITOBA, for that matter.
I have done it.
OTOH, we have a fine museum just 50 miles from here, in Brandon. Operational Tiger Moth, Chipmunk, Cornell, Mark 1 Link (only operational one in the world), Harvard and, last I heard, they were trying to get the Lizzie ready.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum at Brandon Airport, 3 miles North of the city, just West off Highway 10 North.
I have done it.
OTOH, we have a fine museum just 50 miles from here, in Brandon. Operational Tiger Moth, Chipmunk, Cornell, Mark 1 Link (only operational one in the world), Harvard and, last I heard, they were trying to get the Lizzie ready.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum at Brandon Airport, 3 miles North of the city, just West off Highway 10 North.
- Location
- West Quebec
It's a very cool place to visit most Canadians should try to visit it at least once
My dad is one of the last surviving founders of that museum. We still store their parts planes, and the fleet fort there is a direct result of dad. Big reason for the Cessna crane is him and a groups friends that worked on it in our shop. Really good place to visit.
I hope you took pictures of the Lanc when I was there about 5 years ago they had one engine running and the other three in various states of repair.
I really want to see them get the Halifax air worthy as my great uncle was a navigator on it and his name is also on the memorial.
also family connection to the commonwealth air training plan another great uncle on the other side of the family was a flight instructor.
I really want to see them get the Halifax air worthy as my great uncle was a navigator on it and his name is also on the memorial.
also family connection to the commonwealth air training plan another great uncle on the other side of the family was a flight instructor.
There are many excellent museums in Canada. We went to the War Museum in Ottawa as kids, and growing up in Virden we saw the Brandon Museum as well as Shilo.
Incidently, the announcer yesterday said that Nanton is getting a Halifax and a bf109!
If I heard him correctly, imagine, four Merlins followed by four Bristol Hercules.
Incidently, the announcer yesterday said that Nanton is getting a Halifax and a bf109!
If I heard him correctly, imagine, four Merlins followed by four Bristol Hercules.
ballsofice, I got a few pics and a mediocre iphone video shot while lifting a 7 year old. Does not do it justice. I admit, I got chills when the first one started to turn over.
My great uncle was a mid upper gunner on a Halifax. He finished one tour and was killed over Berlin during his second. March 24, 1944.
I really want to see that Halifax!
My great uncle was a mid upper gunner on a Halifax. He finished one tour and was killed over Berlin during his second. March 24, 1944.
I really want to see that Halifax!
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Anyone passing thru Calgary should head south to Nanton to see the museum. It is great. Come back to Calgary and see the Military Museums (formerly the museum of the regiments, and the naval museum, merged) and the aviation museum. A lot of big milsurps in both.
glad you got some pics and even a video. I keep scrolling through the photos I took of the Mynarski Lanc its a beauty of a aircraft for a big lumbering bomber.
I know the feeling my great-uncle's only flight was to Nuremberg on the 30/31st of March 1944.
when I saw the Halifax in Trenton even as a young kid I got shivers knowing my great-uncle would have flown in it and ultimately died in it.
Not the best photo or video, but it gives you an idea.
Yes that's my thumb, but hey, it was bright out and hard to see the display. At least the first part of the video, where all I did was film the tops of everyone's head, hit the cutting room floor.
The iphone video camera obviously can't keep up with the prop speed. Oh well.
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Yes that's my thumb, but hey, it was bright out and hard to see the display. At least the first part of the video, where all I did was film the tops of everyone's head, hit the cutting room floor.
The iphone video camera obviously can't keep up with the prop speed. Oh well.
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Yeah, they have a great static collection.
Now if they can only get that ol' girl flying again......
I was planning on going to hear those Merlins fire up, but never got the chance. I did see the Lanc a few years ago when I went to the museum. Nice looking plane, but to this day I still can't believe that there was no co-pilot, just the single man piloting her.
I was planning on going to hear those Merlins fire up, but never got the chance. I did see the Lanc a few years ago when I went to the museum. Nice looking plane, but to this day I still can't believe that there was no co-pilot, just the single man piloting her.
