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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
Alex,
Apparently this one is a tough one: yes, its a HAR-1 (I said that) ...... but what is its actual designation??
I did give a big hint: unique to the RAAF!! I'll go even further: unique to Airfield Construction Squadrons of the RAAF!
Mike C
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Mike ..IF you mean..what were they used for..(but what is its actual designation??) I lost something in the translation from OZ to Canuck..but we use them in the RCAF in canada with Duals on them and with single wheels as Runway snow blowers..
Pretty sure we were still using them in Chatham New Brunswick when was posted there as a lad in .'63,...
HA HA!!!!
I was right..
They did have the FWD HAR 1's as snow blowers..along with Sicards and others ..But this is a list of artifacts that are going into a museum dedicated to the BCATP..(British Commonwealth Air Training Plan..
Here is the list of vehicles..
Vehicles - R.C.A.F. - 1940s
Staff car, Six-wheel-drive Crash Tender, Half ton truck, Ford airfield tractor, Jeep, Aircraft refueling tanker, FWD Airport Snow-blower and two RCAF military trucks. This collection will eventually be housed in our new Motor Transport building.
Check this out..
http://www.airmuseum.ca/bcatp.html
And if you want a good read on history read about the Canadian BCATP..
But The Canadian air training plan started in WW1 ,because we were out of harms way ..and the RAF was loosing trained pilots faster than they could train them ,...
The first World War set a precedent for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( B.C.A.T.P. ) in Canada. Fully two thirds of the 21,000 Canadians who served in Britain's air forces in the First World War entered through the RFC/RAF Canada, a recruiting and training organization established in Canada but controlled from London and commanded by a British officer.
We even trained the Americans to fly and had our Canadian flying training bases set up in Texas for winter flying..we were flying in Texas two years before the USA even got into WW1.
WE had tons of Americans flying in the RAF as Canadians than anyone could believe ..Quite a story..
We were instrumental in helping their people set up their own flying schools using our training packages,...
So Yes the Canadians did train the Americans how to fly combat starting back in 1916...
Enough of the bragging..
Visit the center in Manitoba,,
'Quite the place.
