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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1634.PDF
11 November 1955 751 THE TRAIL OF '55 DENETRATION of the Far North by aircraft, both-*• military and civil, has become almost commonplace within the past few years. Seldom are they engaged onexploration; far more often on routine transport duties, though sometimes on rescue. The enterprise of Canada's"bush flyers" is a byword; and for several months past a major airlift has been conducted in the Canadian North-lands in connection with the building of the DEWline radar chain. Other large-scale operations, occurringperiodically, are mass ferry flights, and on this page are scenes during the recent move of the U.S.A.F.'s 21stFighter Wing from California to France via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and Scotland. The right-hand pictureshows F-86 Sabres, equipped with drop tanks, taxying over frozen snow at Goose Bay, Labrador; and, below, theaircraft of the wing are seen in Southern Greenland, with C-54s and SA-16A rescue amphibians in attendance. Thecurious-looking operation shown in the small picture above, taken in Greenland, is the preparatory warming-up of an F-86 by two sergeants with the aid of a trans- portable heater. •"*
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