Another Visit to VWoC

[mrhenniger]

I was in need of a day off, so I took Friday as a vacation day. I made another visit to Vintage Wings of Canada.

Ed Russell's Hurricane was in the hanger undergoing it's annual inspection. You can find picture of it in the VWoC Vistors album at...
http://community.webshots.com/album/550224472CQmEXS

The Spitfire was also up on jacks. It looked like it was set-up for gear swings...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549 ... 1775DELmmz
...click "Next" to go to the next picture.

You can also find links to the Vintage Wings of Canada photo albums from my features page...
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Feature.html

Regards,

Mike

[peter]

Where did this come from? I have never seen a comet at Ottawa and thought the only rcaf one was scrapped

[mrhenniger]

Where did this come from? I have never seen a comet at Ottawa and thought the only rcaf one was scrapped

Hi Peter,

I am guessing you found the Canada Aviaton Museum photo albums via the features page. If that is the case I am guessing you are referring to this piece of history...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/506 ... 2405CwCUOP

This is the fuselage section of RCAF s/n 5301, one of two deHavilland DH-106 Comets that saw service with the RCAF. Both were Mk 1s, and were the only two Mk 1s to be rebuilt when all of the Mk 1s were withdrawn from service due to the infamous design flaw. To see a picture of 5301 when it was in service go to...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/515 ... 1814qaZwnp
...and click next to see a few slightly different angles.

Thanks for the post. It helped to point out to me that I had a few broken links on my website.

Mike