On this page, we want to showcase good
aviation pictures......whether photos, paintings or drawings. If you have some
wartime pictures you'd like to see here...send them too. We're starting off
with some of ours, but we invite anyone to e-mail us their favorite images and,
if it's good...we'll post it. Be sure to include the name of the author and a
few details, so we
can give proper credit.
AIRCRAFT (Various
types)
These are photos featuring
individual aircraft, taken at various locations
B1-B (Bomber, USAF)
B1B in flight/afterburners lit - Lance Russwurm
Doing a touch and go at Trenton, Ontario
Boeing B-52 (Heavy Bomber, USAF)
BOEING B-52 -Barry Bruyea
Photo taken as a squadron of these aircraft beat up a private
barbeque!
Taken at Hamilton, Ontario.....aircraft owned by Kermit Weeks
F-117 Nighthawk (Stealth Fighter, USAF)
F-117 STEALTH FIGHTER - Lance Russwurm
Taken at Trenton, Ontario
F-117 STEALTH FIGHTER - taxiing - Lance
Russwurm
Fairey Swordfish (Torpedo bomber, RN/RCN)
Fairey Swordfish in flight - Lance Russwurm
Rare aircraft owned by Bob Spence
Grumman Avenger (Torpedo bomber, USAF,
RAF)
Avenger at Hamilton - Roger
Poirier
This is the machine that was tragically lost in a
hangar fire
HE 111 Heinkel (Bomber, Luftwaffe)
HE 111 Heinkel - Ray Whittemore
Taken at London, Ontario
Hawker Hurricane (Fighter, RAF)
YO-A - HURRICANE Mk IIb - Ray Whittemore
This is the aircraft that was tragically lost in a fire at the
Canadian Warplane Heritage
YO-A, Taxiing- Roger Poirier
Hawker Sea Fury (Fighter, RAF)
HAWKER SEA FURY (Royal Navy) - Ray Whittemore
Taken at North Weald, England, 1994
North American B-25 Mitchell
"B-25 - Geneseo" photo
by Martin Keenan
"B-25 - Air to
air" photo by Martin Keenan
North American P-51 Mustang (Fighter, USAF,
RCAF)
"Mustang P-51D"
photo by Martin Keenan
"P-51C" photo by
Martin Keenan
"P51C " - Mustang
(2) - photo by Martin Keenan
"CuttersCapers" -Mustang - Ray
Whittemore
Taken at Hamilton, Ontario
"NERVOUS ENERGY" - MUSTANG - Lance
Russwurm
Flown by the late Jeff Ethel at Muirkirk
"OLD BOY" -MUSTANG -Roger
Pourier
Taken when this aircraft was a part of the Canadian
Warplane Heritage
"RASCAL"- P-51D MUSTANG - Ray
Whittemore
Taken at Hamilton, Ontario
North American T-28 (Trainer, USAF)
NORTH AMERICAN T-28b -
Andrew Wells
Over Pensacola, Florida, in 1970. Andrew
Wells, as a U.S. Marines pilot put over 700 happy hours on this
aircraft in '70-'71. This machine is apparently now on a pedestal in
Milton, Florida, near Pensacola.
North American Harvard/At-6/Texan/SNJ
(advanced trainer, USAF, RAF, RCAF)
HARVARD -air to air - Ray Whittemore
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (Fighter,
USAF)
P-47 THUNDERBOLT - Ray Whittemore
Taken at Duxford, England, 1994
Supermarine Spitfire (Fighter, RAF, RCAF)
Z5-J
The four photos immediately to the left were sent to
us by Mitchell Billing. He thought that we could use some more Spitfire
pictures, so he sent us these pictures of his grandfather,
Gerald
Billing, flying Spitfire Z5-J at various locations during the eighties.
We couldn't agree more...you can always use more Spitfire pictures!
Spitfire Over New Zealand - Darryl Tong
Matamata,
1991?
Spitfire-Coming atcha! -Roger Poirier
Spitfire -Roger Poirier
Spitfire - Low and Over -Bob Swaddling
Spitfire - Unusual Formation - Bob Swaddling
SPITFIRE Z5-J - Ray Whittemore
Taken at Wiarton, Ontario This aircraft was owned at the time by
Cliff Robertson and flown by Jerry Billing.
SPITFIRE Z5-J - Ray Whittemore
AIR SHOW PICTURES
TRENTON AIR SHOW
Held every two years or so at Trenton Ontario, Canada....on a working
military airbase. Needless to say.....current military aircraft are always
well represented
SNOWBIRD - Lance Russwurm
CF-18 - Lance Russwurm
T-33 - Lance Russwurm
C-17 GLOBEMASTER - Lance Russwurm
MUIRKIRK AIR SHOW
This was a wonderful little grass roots air show, complete with
dirt strip, held annually on the Spence Family farm near Chatham,
Ontario. An eclectic assortment of warbirds and others would always
be there. Unfortunately, it became too expensive to maintain and was
discontinued a few years ago.
FAIREY SWORDFISH - Lance Russwurm
This example is the only Swordfish in airworthy condition in
North America. It was lovingly restored by Bob Spence, the host of
the airshow.
DC-4, coming in over a cornfield - Lance
Russwurm
You don't see this every day!
HARVARDS IN THE MORNING SUN - Lance Russwurm
HARVARDS TAXIING - Lance Russwurm
This pic shows the beautiful pastoral surroundings of this air
show
NERVOUS ENERGY - MUSTANG - Lance Russwurm
Flown by the late Jeff Ethell, noted pilot and author, later
killed in a crash of a P-38 Lightning
NERVOUS ENERGY - MUSTANG - Lance Russwurm
NERVOUS ENERGY - MORNING ARRIVAL - Lance
Russwurm
DC-3 OVER THE CORN - Lance Russwurm
TRAVEL AIR 4000- Lance Russwurm
AEROBATICS - NORM AND KENT BECKHAM -
Lance Russwurm
The well known father and son team perform for the crowd at
Muirkirk
OTHER AIR SHOWS
HARVARD SQUADRON - Lance Russwurm
A group of Harvards taxi at the Grand Bend Air Show
TOY MOTH - Lance Russwurm
Cute pic taken at Kitchener Airport during an open house
VRA & YO-A -Pierre
Lapprand
Hamilton's famous aircraft....B&W picture
taken June 28, 1992 at the Ottawa Air Show
"PT-23 -
Geneseo" photo by Martin Keenan
"SNJ - Geneseo"
photo by Martin Keenan
HAMILTON
INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW
Held at Hamilton International Airport, Mount Hope, Ontario,
Canada....home of the Hamilton Warplane Heritage Museum
UNIQUE FORMATION - Ray Whittemore
Mosquito, Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster at the Hamilton
Airshow in 1990, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the battle of
Britain. The Hurricane and Spitfire were both later lost in a fire.
ITALIAN AEROBATIC TEAM - Lance Russwurm
STRANGE EXPLOSIONS - Lance Russwurm
Pyrotechnics at the Hamilton Air Show
HAWKER SEA FURY / in flight - Lance Russwurm
Flown by Carey Moore of Kitchener, Ontario, who,tragically, died
in a crash of this aircraft, shortly after the photo was taken, in
July, 2001
The next several pictures were taken during a
formation flypast over Ottawa and Toronto in November, 2000, to
commorate the 60th anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air
Training Plan. All pictures are courtesy of the Canadian Harvard
Aircraft Association. Some stunning views!.....
PAST THE CN TOWER - TORONTO
SMOKING OVER THE PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS!
OVER OTTAWA
OVER THE OTTAWA RIVER
OVER THE RIVER 2
The next few shots were mostly taken
in,
around and above Tillsonburg, Ontario....where C.H.A.A. is based
