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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.
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 ...
The Canadian Vickers Varuna was a Canadian flying boat of the 1920s built by Canadian Vickers as a twin-engined, unequal-span biplane, with a wooden hull and steel tube structure. Design and development
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Video games that take place in Canada. The games listed may not take place entirely in Canada, but might feature a level, or sports arena that's in Canada. The games listed may not take place entirely in Canada, but might feature a level, or sports arena that's in Canada.
A vedette is a mounted sentry or picket, who has the function of bringing information, giving signals or warnings of danger, etc., to a main body of troops. [ 1 ] [ a ] In modern terms, the soldiers who man listening-posts are the equivalent of vedettes.
Vedette (cabaret), a French term equivalent to lead showgirl or pop icon; Vedette, a 2000 album by Argentine rock group Babasónicos; Vedette Shapewear, brand name for a manufacturer of shapewear, lingerie, and corsets; Vedette (horse) (foaled 1854), a British Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 2000 Guineas Stakes and two Doncaster Cups.