Gathering of Harvard and Heroes

[Ollie]

I was invited by the CHAA to attend the 75th anniversary of the Harvard in Tillsonburg this past week-end.

After a 350NM flight in my Harvard, we arrived to an airfield full of Harvards and friendly people.

What a great week-end!

Here are the pictures from Friday and Saturday.

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20247 by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20432 by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20352 C-GBQB by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.II by comiquaze, on Flickr

Swarms of 'em! by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

North American SNJ-5 by comiquaze, on Flickr

Saturday:

Harvards by comiquaze, on Flickr

I met a gentleman named Carl, he flew almost 30 hours in my Harvard when they were both in the RCAF.

Olivier et le vétéran by comiquaze, on Flickr

He was happy to sit in his aircraft again!

Olivier et le vétéran by comiquaze, on Flickr

de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth by comiquaze, on Flickr

Missing man formation by comiquaze, on Flickr

A big airplane with a menacing smile came by...

Avro Lancaster C-GVRA by comiquaze, on Flickr

One Harvard was clearly handicapped.

North American NA-64 Yale C-GLJH by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20436 by comiquaze, on Flickr

Harvards by comiquaze, on Flickr

There was an aircraft with air conditioning.

Beechcraft T-6C Texan II N3000B by comiquaze, on Flickr

Beechcraft T-6C Texan II N3000B by comiquaze, on Flickr

Beechcraft T-6C Texan II N3000B by comiquaze, on Flickr

Beechcraft T-6C Texan II N3000B by comiquaze, on Flickr

The menacing airplane came back again in the afternoon...

Avro Lancaster C-GVRA by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAA Formation Team by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAA Formation Team by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAA Formation Team by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAA Formation Team by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20247 by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20247 by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.4 RCAF20247 by comiquaze, on Flickr

Swarms of 'em! by comiquaze, on Flickr

Harvards by comiquaze, on Flickr

Harvards by comiquaze, on Flickr

Harvards by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

Balbo by comiquaze, on Flickr

CCF Harvard Mk.II by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

CHAT by comiquaze, on Flickr

The rest is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/comiquaze ... 4864092397

[Nathan]

cool day-glo!

[JDK]

Great stuff, Ollie, thaks for sharing, and a great idea, Shane, and excellent execution all. Well done.

[Mike]

Very nice Ollie.

Love the Yale!

[DH82EH]

Nice shots Ollie. Sorry we didn't get to meet, That's me carrying my Tiger moth away.

The weather was perfect.

Tillsonburg is a really nice BCATP airfield that is well looked after and well used. Lovely.

We had a great flight down and were well received. Kudos to Shane for a great idea!

Thanks and a "well done" to all.

Andy Scott

[Dave Homewood]

Super photos Ollie. That looks to have been a really fantastic event.

[Jeff H]

Here is a shot of Ollie's bird at Tillsonburg and I agree with him, it was a fantastic event.



Cheers,

Jeff

[DC3R4DC47]

Fantastic !!!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Thanks Ollie for posting the photos! Looks like a great time!!!
Jerry

[Ken]

I vote for addition to photo threads - nice job & thanks for sharing!!

Ken

[Ollie]

Thanks guys!

Here's a video I made of the week-end, it's almost 25 minutes long.

If you are using an iPad, download the Jasmine app to see it, otherwise Youtube can be a pain and prevent you from looking at it. However, it works fine on a computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO5WbYQrw5g