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 [...]
Here is a full report on the Halifax Parts expedition in FEB. to the Netherlands to gather all we have located – traded-purchased over the last 2 years -- Significant parts that we must have to keep the Halifax project and restoration rolling ahead. It must be stated here [...]
People - FOR the Halifax Today SAT. Feb 3 was a VERY good day for the Halifax Project, we have new and the very best of Dutch friends for the quest and pilgrimage to restore a Halifax heavy bomber for the Bomber Command Museum of Canada -- BY Halifax [...]
Today Feb. 1, I leave for Holland to trade our Halifax 3D printed propeller in a crate - 13 feet in diameter when assembled, created by member Andy Ward, to the good people of Schiermonnikoog, Holland for their 15 feet of Halifax horizontal stabilizer tail section. Hotels - airlines [...]
Greetings to all of you who have been or should have been following our H57RC journey all around the world to bring a Halifax bomber to Canada and the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. 71% of all bomber combat done by the RCAF in RAF Bomber Command in WW2 [...]
Top of the New Year to all our supporters and members at H57RC and BCMC and to those following the Halifax bomber rebuild and restoration. One battle may not win a war, but when you string together the battles won, you will have Victory in the end. So, while [...]
Check here for latest reports on the Sweden Halifax recovery! Sweden Update #1 Sweden Update #2 Sweden Update #3 Sweden Update #4 Sweden Update #5 Sweden Update #6 Sweden Update #7 Sweden Update #8 Sweden Update #9 Sweden Update #10 Sweden Update #11 Sweden Update [...]
Flight Missions and Crew Capt. Russell Earl with crew and LW170 - Summer 1944. He flew 11 of the 24 war time missions shown below. The QB on the plane indicates this is 424 Squadron. RCAF HALIFAX LW170 - 424 SQUADRON Date: May 27/28, 1944 [...]
