"G. Norman Irwin films, reels 55 & 56: #14, Service Flying Training School, Aylmer, Ontario"
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives9667
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Audio-Visual Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- moving images
- Date Range
- 1941
- Storage Location
- W6 B8
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- AV 78
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- W6 B8
- GMD
- moving images
- Date Range
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette : col.
- 1 dvd disk
- Scope and Content
- Intertitles read: June 1941, No. 14, S.F.T.S.; Opening Day, Aug. 2, 1941 [maneuvers from air, close-ups and slow motion of Harvard Tariners, shots of crowd, grounds, etc.]; Our first forced landing by LAC Wollcatt, magician from New York [close-ups and slow-mo of planes]; LAC Forcey the first to join the caterpillar club [crash in an orchard]; Just a ground loop [accident - prop shortened, being towed in, slow motion of landing, Spitfire aircraft]; Lots of Harvards - all brand new; F/L Hank Langford, our original adjutant, leaves for Ottawa [in back of Harvard]; LAC Reynolds walked out of this night crash [very messy]; First Winds parade, Oct. 24, 1941; P/O Wigston visits Whitby on embarkation leave; Aussie's forced landing [crash]; F/L Lloyd Scott, C.T.O. and F/L Jimmie Wright, A.O.; Airmen's Christmas Dinner, 1941; New Years dance, Officer's Mess; Aussies take up skating [lots of falling down] and sculptering [snow sculpture of armless but not bosomless Venus]; A ride with Bitsy Grant [aerial maneuvers from inside aircraft]; I.G.'s inspection, May 29, 1942; One of Mr. White's beaver [in pond]; Purple Martens [at Stonehaven, Airman holding owl, field oif aircraft, base shots]; The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice visit the school, June 13, 1942; New Zealand graduates do a War Dance [in R.C.A.F. uniforms]; [Mosquito bomber?]; C/O and Adjutant, S/L Lee; Administrative Officer, F/L W.F. Hendershot; Chief Instructor, W/C Overbury; O/C #1 Squadron, S/L Weaver, O/C S/L Southam, O/C A Flight, F/L Cain, O/C B Flight, F/L A.H. Sims, F/O Clark; O/C C Flight, F/L Reid; O/C D Fligh, F/L McLeod; O/C E flight, F/L James; O/C F Flight, F/L Quint; Chief Technical Officer, F/L Lloyd Scott and his assistant, F/L Moody; Results of a pick-a-back landing [accident]; Work Shop; Cpl. Lock, I/C Workshop; Link Trainer Flight; O/C Link Trainer, F/L Charles Lawie [scenes inside trainer, control panel, Trainers]; R.C.A.F. Works, Engineering Dept. [Earth - moving men and equipment]; S/L Tom Moreton, Equipment Officer; F/L Freddie Green, O/C R1 [aircraft maneuvers in slow motion, close-up of crew, from other aircraft]; The Hen house [& staff, inside large aircraft & Harvard, base from overhead]; Some views of Aylmer, Airmen's kitchen and Wings Party Dinner; Aylmer snow [clearing with blower]; Flood on No. 1 runway [Buick plowing through with spray of water]; Air Marshall William Avery Bishop, V.C., C.B., D.S.O. and Bar, M.C., D.F.C., LL.D, Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, presents Pilots wings, May 14, 1943; F/O George Beurling, D.F.C., D.F.M.visits Aylmer, March 12, 1943.
- Name Access
- Aylmer (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Military
- Repro Restriction
- This film is more than 50 years old and is in the public domain. Please credit the Archives of Ontario as the source of these films using the citation information provided.
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