The Canadian Warplane Heritage Musuem will be celebrating 40 years next year, and they plan on having a big airshow. To test out the idea, they held a small, 3 hour airshow over the Fathers Day Weekend.
There were definately some problems in running the show, the most glaring being the transportation from the parking area.
Once arriving at the parking area, you ended up in a long line of people waiting for a bus. The problem was that the buses were in the same road that the cars coming into the lot were in, so they got bogged down.
Once on the bus, they drove right to the gate of the Museum, only to drop you off again. Another line up to pay, then another line up to get into another bus, to be driven to the field! That was stupid, and I believe part of the way through they decided to allow people to walk the distance, as eventually the line thinned out, which was good since it was nearly 2, the start of the show.
Once the show began, the airshow was generally good. But as with every event I've attended at CWH, there were problems with the show. Many of the promised formation flights never happened. The ones that they did were simply just passes, not real formations. I would have loved to see both B17's flying with the Lanc, but only the b17's went up at the same time, band simply did once pass each before landing!
Some of the planes included Chuckie,
Memphis Belle (movie version)
Nine harvards,
B25,
WW1 planes
and a formation of fighters including the mustang, corsair, warhawk, spitfire and hurricaine.
Some of the static aircarft included a C-130 hercules,
a CAF rescue Griffon,
A Sea King,
as well as CWH aircraft
Here are some of the other aircraft flying saturday.
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