Consolidated Commodore Flying boat

Henry R Palmer, The Seaplanes, Leonard Morgan Publishing, 1965

In the early 1930s Consolidated built fourteen Commodores for Pan Am to use on its 9000 mile Miami/Buenos Aires route.

V7 project

1995

Progress is being made, engine is assembled, fenders painted, tank being painted, fork bought and being rebuilt, but still a long ways to go!

Makeshift military church

Lt Col D J Goodspeed, The Armed Forces of Canada 1867-1967 Queens Printer Ottawa 1967

Sunday service in the RAF in WW1. The front cockpit of a FE 2 b night bomber serves as the pulpit.

Looks the same event, from Flight, A Pictorial History from the Wright Brothers to Supersonic by John W D Taylor.

Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Cemetery

Honda Dream 150

Single carb small twin, is it a Dream 150?

Consolidated Husky Junior

The aircraft above is Consolidated Model 14 Husky Jr. the first model with the short-lived bathtub type cockpit design and Warner Scarab engine, built in November 1928. Major Reuben Fleet designed and built this aircraft under the auspices of the Consolidated aircraft company. When Consolidated got cold feet, Fleet started his own company and had Consolidated build them for him. The plane was a success and Consolidated bought Fleet out.  The plane below is variation number 3, featuring a Wright J-6 5 cylinder engine.

Ron Page and William Cumming, Fleet, The Flying Years. Boston Mills Press, 1990

Steamboat Clermont replica

D.W. Fostle, Speedboat, Mystic Seaport Museum 1988

Built in 1909 for the centenary of Hudson River steamboat service, this replica of the Clermont was in service for 5 years. Here it is shown in 1915 at West Point NY. The boat fell into disrepair and was scrapped in 1936.

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Bultaco model 23 Metralla

A mid-production example of about 5500 built from 1967- 74.

The hard sell

E J Hart, The Selling of Canada, Altitude Publishing, 1986

"Take a train ride with us before you're dead..." 

Heavyhanded cover of a CPR travel brochure.

Princess Auto angle grinder

Some years ago I bought a small cheapo angle grinder from Princess Auto, (similar to Harbour Freight in the US) that optimistically came with a set of extra brushes. I expected it to last just long enough to get one job done, maybe....
Well. Several years go by and it finally quit a couple of weeks ago. Today I found a set of those brushes lying in a corner... You guessed it, replaced the brushes and away it went!