Comox

[Tom Clark]

Hi Robert. Welcome to the Island. I live in Victoria and am the local President of the MVPA. We have a active club here and would love to get in contact with you. Please feel free to contact me at tdclark@shaw.ca

1942 CDLV Slat Grill MB
1952 CDN M38
1953 CDN M100 MCI TRAILER.

Tom Clark
MVPA 10088

[Robert Bergeron]

Hi Tom,

I will try to call you this week . Had a hectic schedule last week sorry I did not call sooner.

To all radar aficionado's here are a few shots of one of our surveillance radar installations here in Comox.

You see the radome from the outside .

Then from the inside .

The projector and the antennae proper.

In the last shot , behind the antenna you see the ladder that goes on top for the maintenance of UHF/ VHF radio aerials and position lights.

This was my first time inside a functioning radar . It is due to be decommissioned in the next few days .

[Jes Andersen]

Great pictures. You sure are getting a chance to get around and see the sights. If I recall, that location was an original Pine Tree Line site started up around 1954. Some of the other concrete structures were there at the north end of the runway a few years ago. There used to be an excellent web site with history and pictures from the sites across Canada, but unfortunately, the site owner passed away and the site went with him. Comox was well represented in photos there.

[Robert Bergeron]

The Air Force has a tradition of following Santa on Christmas Eve all the way from the North Pole to little kid's homes on their radar screens.

This year is no exception.

So, I wish you all on MLU a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

May all of your big boy dreams come through and your significant other not mind at all.

Cheers from Comox BC Canada.

[Robert Bergeron]

Hello my new friends from Vancouver Island , i am back with some goodies ( HMV related of course ) from back East. Will contact you in the next few days . I haven't found room for that M152/M37 hot water cabin heater but next time promise . Weather looks like solid VFR for the next few days so i should be out flying . I will be available for delivery when the clouds and the icing come back at the end of the week. Cheers.

[Robert Bergeron]

This is what I come in for work for every day.

Took this recently.

A C-177 , the most expensive aircraft development project in the history of aviation to date.

Now we will break new development cost records with the fighter replacement project.

Serial number 177705.

The 705 th made ?

[Bruce MacMillan]

Hi Robert,

Speaking of Comox I was going through some photos my father had taken during WW2. He served with the RCN and was stationed at Comox in 1942. I wonder if any of these buildings survived. I believe they were on Goose Spit. Google Earth just shows rooftops.

At the time he was there this was known as HMCS Naden III. It was a training facility for Combined Operations. Could explain where his Fairbairn Sykes knife came from.

Seems to be a lot of Braid about that day.

cheers,
Bruce

[maple_leaf_eh]

[QUOTE=Jes Andersen;231667]Great pictures. You sure are getting a chance to get around and see the sights. If I recall, that location was an original Pine Tree Line site started up around 1954. Some of the other concrete structures were there at the north end of the runway a few years ago. There used to be an excellent web site with history and pictures from the sites across Canada, but unfortunately, the site owner passed away and the site went with him. Comox was well represented in photos there.[/QUOTE]

The page might not necessarily be gone.
1) If you have the URL, go to the Internet Wayback Machine Archives site. They are a massive webpage archiving movement (more than a project by now). Their robots scan millions of pages a day and take a snapshot. The results are searchable on a calendar type interface. But you need the URL to start.
2)Sometimes Google and others will have previously searched and scanned pages, and that can be a start if you don't have the URL.

[Jes Andersen]

Thanks Terry, I do have the URL on another desktop at home. When I get back up there. I'll look for it. The site in question had lots of great pictures and information about the Pine Tree Line across Canada. Lots of stuff to take you away for hours. I'll see what I end up with...