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The Canadian Vickers Vedette was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada to meet a specification for Canadian conditions. It was a single-engine biplane flying boat purchased to meet a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) demand for a smaller aircraft than the Vickers Viking with a much greater rate of climb, to be suitable for forestry survey and fire protection work.
Français : Une plaque installée au bord de l'eau à Lac du Bonnet, au Manitoba, détaillant une partie de l'histoire de l'aviation de la communauté. Juin 2022. Juin 2022. Date
Canadian Vickers ordered the construction of a large floating drydock, which was opened in 1912. [1] [3] Due to the establishment of Canadian Vickers, Montreal became one of Canada's leading shipbuilding centres. [1] The shipyard's first full year of operation was 1914, a year marked by the beginning of World War I. [2]
In the mid-1980s, the museum moved to a former Trans Canada Air Lines and Transair hangar, T-2, at Winnipeg International Airport. [4] [6] The museum developed a master plan for a new facility in 2013 with the design firm Reich&Petch. [7] The museum received the Royal designation on December 19, 2014, to become the Royal Aviation Museum of ...
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The Canadian Vickers Vedette was developed for forestry patrol in remote areas; a job that previously was done by canoe and took weeks could be accomplished in hours, revolutionizing forestry conservation. Although successful, flying-boat amphibians like the Vedette ultimately proved less versatile than floatplane amphibians and are no longer ...
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1926 – The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) began operations with Canadian Vickers Vedette flying boats, with a base at Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. 1921 – Lieutenant John A. Macready of the U. S. Army Air Corps finds a new use for airplanes when he sprays a patch of ground infested with caterpillars. This practice becomes known as crop dusting.