Notes:
In 2024 a roll of film with photos covering several angles of the
Lancaster Bomber used in WWW by the RCAF. This aircraft had been
flown to Toronto and was on display in 1989 near the grounds of the
Canadian National Exhibition (CNE).
It was then discovered that an article about this aircraft was written
for the Christmas 1989 edition of the AES employee magazine Zephyr which
linked weather forecasting during WW II to airmen who flew these
bombers. There were excerpts from the History of the Canadian
Forces Weather Service republished in the article titled Thencasting
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Read Thencasting article
Two
of the original prints of the CNE
Lancaster Bomber are shown below.
The Avro Lancaster was prominently displayed along Toronto's waterfront
from 1966 to 1999, when it was moved to a museum at Downsview Park.
When the museum closed in 2011, the plane was dismantled and put in
storage at the Edenvale Aerodrome in Stayner ON.
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