Monday, September 19, 2022

Training Planes

Today in 2013, Ottawa Daily Photo started up, and with the exception of a short break at the beginning of Covid, it has kept going ever since.

One more look at the area I've been showing you, with the big Lancaster in profile.


Across from that area are a number of trainer aircraft of the Second World War. Early on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) was enacted, with young pilots of the Commonwealth air forces using various trainer planes in the vastness of Canada to learn how to fly before graduating onto combat aircraft. Here we have one of them: the North American Harvard II.


Beside it is the Avro 652A Anson, another training plane.


Here we have a model of a Canadian aircraft carrier of the time, the H.M.C.S. Bonaventure.


This ungainly device is the Link Trainer, a flight simulator that was an absolutely essential element of the BCATP. 


Another trainer plane we'll look at more tomorrow: the Tiger Moth.

26 comments:

  1. Happy Blog anniversary! Love seeing the various airplanes, great exhibit. Take care, have a great new week!

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  2. The Lancaster was such a giant amongst the other aircraft.

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  3. Happy anniversary William. Here is to many more years of your fabulous tours.

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  4. the North American Harvard II has a look that resembles Bumblebee in transformer :)

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  5. Nine years just flew by just like that. Been fun seeing the city, the museums, and the odd flower on your blog William.

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  6. Happy Blog Birthday. I have enjoyed your blog from the beginning.

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  7. Congratulations on the blogging anniversary.

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  8. We lived close to an airport used for training. Many , many Harvards flew over every day sometimes in formation...many times in formation and many times just over the tree tops.

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  9. @Italiafinlandia: thank you.

    @Eileen: they are well presented.

    @David: very much so.

    @Fun60: it is big.

    @Gemel: thanks.

    @roentare: well it's quite yellow.

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  10. @Francisco: thank you.

    @Tom: definitely.

    @Stefan: thanks!

    @RedPat: I've enjoyed presenting it.

    @Sharon: for the most part I've been able to keep it daily.

    @Red: I seem to recall you mentioning Harvards at some point.

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  11. Great photos of the training plane and the aircraft carrier too ~

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  12. Beautiful Autumn header photo ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  13. Happy Blog Birthday.
    I like the Avro 652A Anson as a training plane.

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  14. Some training in Harvard was done in Summerside I believe!

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  15. I really like that plane and the colour of it, pretty cool what they had back then.

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