Hey thanks for those pics John.. I spent a quite a bit of time Helping a neighbour building/restoring a Yale which is a trainer version of the Harvard..I appreciate these great Pictures..Thanks to our friend Darwin..Stunning pictures

-- Edited by fatchuk on Tuesday 24th of June 2014 08:57:30 AM

'way back when, I was in Air Cadets at Mt. Hope. On Sundays we could go for a ride in a Harvard.
Some B-17's had engines built by Studebaker, under contract from Wright.
They have a Studebaker tag on them.

Now those there are real hotrods =)

 

  Randy

The series '12 O clock High' was my favorite as a kid. Wanted to be a fighter pilot. Airplanes are cool.

Hemi

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Warren

I learned to fly at the Woodstock Flying Club in 1969, where the owner of the land the club was located was Norm Beckham, a farm equipment dealer and the owner of a Harvard. Norm took me up in the Harvard and I could not believe the power and sound of that engine, especially when he changed the pitch of the propeller. That thing would almost do a vertical climb. I can still hear the sound. Sasquatch should remember that place eh Ray?
Within a couple more years there was another Harvard at the club also, I believe owned by Joe Matika?

Dick Kirkpatrick wrote:

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I learned to fly at the Woodstock Flying Club in 1969, 

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 A lot of people were flying in Woodstock in 69, but they weren't in planes.

Sasquatch, we had Tommy Williams at our annual flying club banquet where Joe Matika's son was being given his pilots license as the youngest pilot in Canada (16)
Tommy got up and congratulated young Joe and told him "today you are Canada's youngest pilot and I am Canada's oldest pilot, but tomorrow I will still be the oldest and you will no longer be the youngest"

-- Edited by Dick Kirkpatrick on Wednesday 25th of June 2014 08:29:42 PM