“On the wings of history go the leaders of tomorrow”
UNIQUE YELLOW WINGS YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE TAKES OFF FOR ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS IN GATINEAU THIS WEEKEND
Program Promotes Canada’s Aviation History, Highlights a Career in Science Technology, Engineering and Math

WHAT:  The first in a series of nine cross-Canada events for Royal Canadian Air Cadets to take place throughout the summer. It’s called the Raytheon Canada Yellow Wings Youth Leadership Initiative. For two hours this Saturday, media are invited to drop into the event as experienced pilots provide motivational presentations to 50 air cadets, as well as “hands-on” tours of beautifully-restored, historically-significant …

Reprinted from the County Weekly News By JOANNE COURNEYA-FITZROY, 1 Sept

An appreciative and excited crowd welcomed a piece of Prince Edward County history back when Vintage Wings of Canada’s Yellow Wings tour touched down at Loch Sloy Holdings, the former Camp Picton.

Vintage Wings of Canada is a privately owned company based in Gatineau, Quebec {Note: Edotorial correction, VWoC is a public charitable organization}. They launched the Yellow Wings tour to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Commonwealth’s Air Training Plan, under which thousands of aircrew earned their wings at places such as Eight Wing Trenton and in Picton. They are …

Reprinted from the Trentonian, by Ernest Kuglin

Belleville resident Cy Yarnell quickly said yes when asked if he wanted to go for a ride on the Fleet Finch parked in the air park at the National Air Force Museum.

The Royal Canadian Air Force veteran trained on the aircraft as a student pilot and later was instructor in western Ontario during the Second World War. He would later complete two operational tours during the war flying the famous Spitfire. His first tour was in North Africa and Italy and the second over the deadly skies of Holland and Belgium.

The nimble …

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Reprinted from The Kingston Whig Standard, By TORI STAFFORD, 27 Aug

On the shores on Onagaway Bay, Japan, stands a monument just metres away from where a foreign airman crashed in 1945. It’s a tribute to the courage displayed on the final mission of the only foreign serviceman to have a memorial on Japanese soil. Such is the admiration abroad for Robert Hampton Gray.

“Even though he attacked Japan, Japanese schoolchildren learn of Robert Hampton Gray due to the Japanese respect for his bravery,” explained Robert Fleck, president of Vintage Wings of Canada. “The problem we have is nobody in Canada has heard …

No sooner did we blog that we allots had our first under 10 passenger when along came Aiden Thompson, 4, for a sponsored flight in the Cornell.

Aiden took his first ever flight with Todd Lemeiux. His only comment,  “Awesome!”

Well, Aiden is one awesome little dude and pretty proud of that Yellow Wings certificate.