OCTOBER 2024 - Progress Report OCT. 26, 2024 Halifax Project - PROGRESS HI to all our Donors, Supporters and friends of the exciting “Halifax Project”, to restore and display a Halifax bomber for the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta. As we approach Remembrance Week, up to Nov.11th, with [...]
A great day on July 30 as the RCAF C-17 arrived at RCAF TRENTON base with our precious wings and wing tip for the Halifax restoration. 54 feet of Handley Page heaven courtesy of a 429 Squadron giant C-17 from Prestwick, Scotland! How appropriate, -- as 429 Squadron flew [...]
Big News - Our wings are on their way! Hi Everyone, Our Halifax bomber rebuild at BCMC and H57RC requires 2 OUTER wing panels. Total wing length - 53 feet. After ''shopping around'' at Canadian Tire in Canada and Tesco's in the UK with no success, we finally came [...]
Hi to all our donors-supporters-friends of the Halifax Project. I am away on vacation in Sauble Beach ONT. but had some great photos come in from Andrew Semon and wanted to share and show the latest. Here is the progress on our Halifax Project, recovering-rebuilding-restoring a Halifax heavy bomber for [...]
Editorial Think of a critical football game where one team is waiting, after 4 years, to annihilate another team, and the waiting team who is following the rules realizes the only thing they can do is an all out war to block, knockdown, and physically destroy that opposition which has [...]
Greetings to all our Halifax Project members, donors, and supporters. A hectic last few weeks with many “irons in the fire” -- as we recover and restore all we can for our Halifax bomber for our headquarters, the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC). We had some good fortune in [...]
Hi Everyone, to all you Halifax fans, members and supporters. I wanted to remind you of the BIG RCAF 100th Anniversary Event on May 3 and 4, this weekend, at our headquarters at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC). See below our main program for Friday and Sat. at [...]
Hi To all our Members and Supporters, Busy day today as we finish doing a post tune up engine-run test on our No. 2 Hercules engine for our Halifax bomber - at our headquarters the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC). Then OUR first "Halifax 57 Rescue" Hercules engine run [...]
As this is the most special year of the 100th Anniversary of the ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE we have done, so far, a couple of opening events on April 1 to celebrate this milestone. The big event will be on MAY 3 and 4 when we officially celebrate a [...]
Here are 2 special video reports (below) released today from the studios of James Blondeau on the Halifax restoration by Halifax 57 Rescue and Knox Tech for the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC). These video reports are timed to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the RCAF today!!!. And [...]
