New Technology In A Time Of Warfare

 We begin today with the Mcdowall, a one of a kind monoplane built by a Canadian air enthusiast at home, Robert McDowall. It never flew, but did a few "hops" in the field.

Projected onto the large wall beyond- a film looping about going back to the Moon. The Artemis program will send astronauts back to the Moon, and Canadians will be among them.

World War One changed the plane and set it forth on the path to what it was to become. Materials in building the plane would change over the course of the war, and young pilots on both sides would be literally inventing brand new tactics in the air during battle.

The Curtis JN-4 Canuck would see service during that war. It is on the ground at this spot, with another plane mounted above it. It was used largely as a training aircraft in Canada.

The higher plane is the Nieuport 12, a plane that saw a lot of service during the Great War.

This Curtiss bears the mark of No. 85 Canadian Training Squadron- the black cat.

The war at home saw the rise of military aircraft manufacturing, among other arms industries, in Canada to serve the war effort.

Here we see the S.11 Shorthorn, which started production in 1913 and saw war service. 

Nearby is a model by John Reid, dating to 2010. Some Say He Walked Away depicts a German training hangar that houses an Albatros D.V, with the wreckage of another plane beside it.

Military aviation in that war had a romantic association. The truth was vastly different, with most pilots dying quickly.