John Oram's photos with the keyword: Mount Hope

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Lancaster KB726 VR-A On an unexpectedly sunny day, I was able to return to the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum nearly seven years after my first visit. The Lancaster, which has toured the UK with our own PA474, was flying on pilot training sorties and, after each departure, making modestly exuberant flypasts of the museum area. One could not help but be moved. To see either of the two surviving, airworthy Lancasters flying is a great privilege. At the end of the sortie I saw, the crew taxied the aircraft with great care to a spot in front of the museum and went through a quite long shut-down procedure. 200_3_P1100889

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Lancaster KB726 VR-A On an unexpectedly sunny day, I was able to return to the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum nearly seven years after my first visit. The Lancaster, which has toured the UK with our own PA474, was flying on pilot training sorties and, after each departure, making modestly exuberant flypasts of the museum area. One could not help but be moved. To see either of the two surviving, airworthy Lancasters flying is a great privilege. This shot shows clearly the Victoria Cross tribute to P/O Andrew Mynarski who died as the result of injuries sustained in the crash of the original KB726 but saved the life of his tail gunner. 200_3_P1100881

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Lancaster KB726 VR-A On an unexpectedly sunny day, I was able to return to the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum nearly seven years after my first visit. The Lancaster, which has toured the UK with our own PA474, was flying on pilot training sorties and, after each departure, making modestly exuberant flypasts of the museum area. One could not help but be moved. To see either of the two surviving, airworthy Lancasters flying is a great privilege. Although I am quite pleased with the composition and lighting of this picture, it is technically disappointing as the bright sun drove up the shutter speed and 'froze' the props; in the shot, the aircraft is taxiing in from the first sortie. 200_3_P1100874CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Tiger Moth CF-ANN (RCAF 4947). 200_3_P1100869CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Consolidated Vultee (Canadian Vickers) PBY-5A Canso (Catalina) C-FPQL (RCAF 9754) 200_3_P1100864R

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Lancaster KB726 VR-A On an unexpectedly sunny day, I was able to return to the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum nearly seven years after my first visit. The Lancaster, which has toured the UK with our own PA474, was flying on pilot training sorties and, after each departure, making modestly exuberant flypasts of the museum area. One could not help but be moved. To see either of the two surviving, airworthy Lancasters flying is a great privilege. 200_3_P1100868CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Beech 35 Bonanza C-FGAT This aircraft is actually registered to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. The registration was previously carried by a privately owned Sea Fury. 200_3_P1100856CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Beech 35 Bonanza C-FGAT This aircraft is actually registered to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. The registration was previously carried by a privately owned Sea Fury. 200_3_P1100855

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Grumman Tracker CS2F-2 This aircraft served with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1959, operating at sea and ashore before becoming an instructional airframe for 23 years 1970-1993. 200_3_P1100848CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Beech 35 Bonanza C-FGAT This aircraft is actually registered to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. The registration was previously carried by a privately owned Sea Fury. 200_3_P1100854CE

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Noorduyn Norseman CF-GSR This 1950 aircraft operated in British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario in a long career with floats. On its way to the museum in 2015, the floats were replaced by landing gear in Orillia, ON. 200_3_P1100851E

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Grumman Avenger TBM-3E C-GCWG This aircraft flew with the US Navy before bring converted to a spray plane, flying in California 1963-1972 and, later, in Canada 1976-1992. 200_3_P1100846C

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON Lancaster KB726 VR-A On an unexpectedly sunny day, I was able to return to the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum nearly seven years after my first visit. The Lancaster, which has toured the UK with our own PA474, was flying on pilot training sorties and, after each departure, making modestly exuberant flypasts of the museum area. One could not help but be moved. To see either of the two surviving, airworthy Lancasters flying is a great privilege. 200_3_P1100845CE