Harvards

Yesterday, my father and I attended the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association.  The Tillsonburg airport is the home base for the CHAA.  Within seconds of arriving, two Harvards were powered up and taxiing out to the runway.  Shortly after that four more were prep'd with passengers and pilots.  While they were getting ready, I was thinking what a great thing it would be to be one of those passengers.  I shot various angles of these four planes.  As I was finishing up I heard one of the ground crew ask another, "Do we have any air sickness bags?"  Kind of made me a little happier to be staying on the ground.  After they took off, there were other planes, to look at in a "static" display.  During lunch, a ground crew member was seated next to us.  From his walkie talkie we heard that the four planes were about 12 minutes out.  They arrived on schedule performed some maneouvres before landing.

It was great getting so close to these planes before and during take off and then again during landing and afterwards.  All in all, it was a fun few hours watching and learning about these WWII training planes.