The Aerodrome Of Democracy

 A panel looks at the home front effort to send the machines of war to World War Two- in this case the Lancaster plane. It is the top photograph that impresses- the staff of an entire factory on and before a Lancaster, reinforcing how big these planes really are.

There is a section of a Lancaster here that you can get a look into. A platform is built beside and behind it.

This shows the positions and responsibilities of the forward crew of a Lancaster.

The Royal Canadian Air Force was involved in research as well as fighting during the war, working on centrifuge development, part of the process of making it possible for pilots to handle faster speeds, simply by testing g-forces in such devices.

This is one of them.

And a model of the facility in which the testing would actually take place.

Canadian doctor Wilbur Franks developed an anti-g flight suit to assist in reducing the effects of gravitational force on pilots. It was water-lined.

During the war, Canada served as a training ground for Allied pilots to learn the skills before going off to war. They would train in a series of aircraft found here. Franklin Roosevelt would refer to Canada as the Aerodrome of Democracy.

This is an Avro Anson, one of the planes of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program, which had multiple facilities in Canada for the war effort.

Another integral part of BCATP- the Link Trainer, a flight simulator that some pilots said was harder to operate than the actual planes.