More Canadian Warplane Museum Images
More Canadian Warplane Museum images, this time featuring some of the many jet fighters in the collection. Visitors to the museum in Hamilton are greeted by this model of one of the shortest-lived planes in Canadian history -- the Avro Arrow. The Arrow is famous for having been streets ahead of its competitors but cancelled and scrapped by the government who went on to buy a number of foreign and less capable products. The Arrow design team headed south and joined NASA, where they helped put a man on the moon. Sadly, this Arrow is a only a model -- all the real ones were destroyed by their 'friends' and not by their foes.
This is the museum's B52 Mitchell bomber from World War 2. B52's were made famous in the Doolittle raid on Japan. This one is painted in D-Day colors of white stripes across the wings and arround the fuselage.
Another famous WW2 veteran, the Douglas DC3 or Dakota, was used for dropping paratroops and supplies behind enemy lines. This is probably the only aircraft from that era to be still in regular use today, ferrying freight in many parts of the world.
I promised some images of jet fighters and here's one of the classiest, the McDonnell Voodoo.
Another attractive jet fighter is this Canadair-built Northrop CF5 Freedom Fighter. Designed as a simple, relatively cheap but effective fighter, it served with the Canadian Armed Forces in the 70's and 80's.
A colorful 'Tiger Squadron' Lockheed Starfighter rounds out this page. Starfighters saw service with many NATO airforces during the Sixties as an interceptor -- designed to counter the Soviet bomber threat.
You may recognize this as the same type that's pointing dramatically skyward at the entrance to the museum.
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