Every Picture Tells A Story

[Kip Powick]

This is a link to Vintage Wings Canada. Great B &W photos of aircraft, (all during wartime), with a story attached. It is a long read/view but very interesting.

Bookmark if you have to and I'm sure you will find the stories and photos extremely interesting

Great photos and stories

[Moon The Loon]

Thanks Kip. Sent the link off to my Dad, a retired RN Seafire pilot at the end of the war and former resident of the City of London during the V-1 bombings.

[blues deville]

Great photos. A skipper I flew with during my short year at NX did too. 

Day one of a long overseas pairing on the DC8 a particular FE who had no use for civilian FO’s (have no idea why) and knowing full well I wasn’t ex-mil started talking about the planes he had crew’d as an FE in the RCAF/CAF. It was long list and not the first time I’d heard it. It was never done in a funny or nice way so I guess it was to put me in my place. He then asked me what I flew in the airforce and I had to remind him once again I hadn’t and he knew it. So that day I thought I was finally going to get him off my back.  

So I said “hey Capt. Ron, you were in the airforce. What was your last plane?” 

He very quietly said. “Seafire. I flew in the Battle of Britain”. 

The FE stopped the questioning. 

Same FE after adjusting every big card I produced for ten days by one knot missed his ride home after we landed back at YMX. Asked me for a ride home and drop off in Trenton. Said sure. Cranked up my radio all the way down the 401 to Glen Miller Drive.

I think Capt Ron passed away recently but was a very cool and humble guy. Probably like your father Moon.