cheers!!

Wieesso, great specs, thanks for the post – I’ll be looking up the AAF site soon… although I’m still confused – were those ‘Tokyos’ filled externally or by ‘overflow’ whilst filling the mains. If the latter was the case then someone really f*cked up since the feed lines and vent lines on those Tokyos had been severed (undocumented prior to delivery to the RCAF)… (I’ll scan and post the pic of the severed lines – and I’ll quote Leigh’s memoires regarding the feeds and vents at the same time)

Al, thanks even more… I think I’ve known at least two individuals who’ve been involved with “Canada’s Wings” – mostly through my long past IPMS Ottawa days… but Stittsville is barely a 2 hour drive for me, so hopefully someone may still be around.

As a side note.. RCAF.com posts a pic of 9202 in Italy on Dec 30/43.

Leigh (O/C 168(HT) Sqn.) had left Rockcliffe (in 9204) on Dec 15/43 with stops in Dorval and Gander and onward to Prestwick. (Bruce Middleton was captain, S/L B.G. Smith (co-pilot), F/O Jimmie Irvine (engineer), F/O La Brish (nav), F/O Dickinson (w/o). The original plan was to have mail directly (via England) from Canada to the troops in Italy in time for Christmas – almost but not quite – landing at Foggia on Dec 29 in ‘9203’, having left ’04’ in the UK for repairs to those fuel lines

I’ve been doing a ton of work for CANAV Books on the latest series commemorating the Centenary of power flight in Canada. Volume 2 (barn-storming/bush-flying/early airlines and charters) will be released soon. We’ll be launching into production of Volume 3 (1924 – birth of the RCAF and wartime) in the next few weeks.