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ROAR of the Harvard Canada’s grassroots organization devoted to keeping ‘em flying
www.harvards.com September 2013
NOTICE BOARD Bingo Volunteers!
We need your help!
Bingos are a major source of revenue for CHAA and can only continue with your assistance.
Upcoming London dates;
Sept 18,2013
Please contact
Torben Haarbye
(519) 679-1733
Inside This Issue
President’s Message
Yale Test Flight
CHAA Mobile Base 2013 Open House Dates Sept 14, 2013
ROAR Would you like to receive the ROAR via email? This is a full colour version in PDF format, with high resolution photos. Distribution via email will reduce postage expenses. Contact, Stacey or Vic
Volunteers Require Please contact: Sandra Sparkes; [email protected] Phone: (519) 272-1908
President's Report - Pat Hanna By the time you read this report the summer of 2013 will be almost over! It has been an interesting summer indeed with weather playing its role in air shows and fly day open houses. The Waterloo and St. Thomas air shows were successful despite the "interesting" weather and the Formation Demonstration Team did us all proud with some excellent flying displays. We often hear comments from folks about the Harvards being their favourite act of the air show and this gives motivation to keep those Harvards flying! The Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team also represented CHAA at shows in Ontario and Quebec and we are so proud of the way they fly their aerobatic routines as ambassadors of CHAA! Our hats need to be raised to CTechO Bill Ritchie and Service Crew Chief Shawn Wylie and their dedicated volunteers who kept all six Harvards operational throughout the summer! This is an amazing feat when you consider most of our volunteers live out of town and make a huge effort to maintain and service the fleet. We have a better operational dispatch record than most airlines and we are flying 60-70 year old airplanes! Great job volunteers! Welcome to all the new CHAA pilots this year and special "Thanks" to Dave Martin and Tony Donnelly who have been kept very busy checking them out in the Harvard and Tiger Moth. This has also been a good summer for merchandise sales and we attended Waterloo, Hamilton and St. Thomas air shows in June with excellent results. Kincardine and Edenvale were other highlights of the summer. There are lots of new designs and products available and with the cooler fall weather coming, we are offering new full zipper hoodies in fashionable grey, sure to keep you warm and looking good! We are working towards offering merchandise sales through our website in the future. This will bring a worldwide market to our product line (yes, we anticipate some challenges, but we are volunteers and can do anything!). If you enjoy meeting people, the stores table at any air show or fly day open house is the place to be! Your help is most appreciated and the funds raised through stores sales really help CHAA's cash flow. The three following important administrative positions are available and we appeal to the membership at this time! BOOKKEEPER; CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER (COpsO); SAFETY AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON.
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Position Incumbent Phone Email Director- President , Chairman & Stores Chief
Pat Hanna 519 212-6021 [email protected]
Director- Vice-President Shane Clayton 519 462-2316 [email protected]
Director- Secretary Robert Trowell 519 425-1510 [email protected]
Director- Treasurer Ray Whittemore
519 745-2661 [email protected]
Director, Air Display & C Ops O Edward Soye 647 998-3578 [email protected]
Director & C Tech O Bill Ritchie 905 509-2776 [email protected]
Director, Building/Property Chair & Marshalling Chief
Shawn Newman 519 983-7994 [email protected]
Director & Service Crew Chief Shawn Wylie 519 702-9055 [email protected]
Director & Roar Publisher Vic Whitcroft 519 863-3601 [email protected]
Director
Accounts Executive
Archives, Museum & Scrap Book Chairman
Shane Clayton 519 462-2316 [email protected]
Harvard Happenings Sandra Sparkes 519 272-1908 [email protected]
Crew Ride Coordinator & Public Relations
Robert Trowell 519 425-1510 [email protected]
Chief Pilot Greg Burnard
Dive Recovery Team Walther Irie 519 425-4449 [email protected]
Finance Committee Torben Haarbye 519 679-1733 [email protected]
Fund Raising Group Vacant Urgently Needed
Harvard Hawks Vacant
Membership Gift Certificates Stacey McQue 519 208-4017 [email protected]
Restorations Ron Jay 519 582-2103 [email protected] CHAA contact information: Phone 519 842-9922 or by mail at PO Box # 175 Tillsonburg, On. N4G 4H5
Upcoming Events & Meetings 2013 -- Sat. September 14, 2013 – Wings & Wheels --
-- Tues. September 17, 2013 – Member’s monthly meeting -- -- Sat. October 19, 2013 – Member’s monthly meeting --
-- Sat. November 16, 2013 – Member’s monthly meeting -- --Sat December TBA 2013—Member’s monthly meeting--
-- Sat January 18, 2014—Member’s monthly meeting -- -- Sat February 15, 2014—Member’s monthly meeting--
--Sat March 15, 2014—Member’s monthly meeting -- -- Contact Bob Trowell [email protected] for more details--
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From page 1 Ila Fallowfield has done CHAA's bookkeping for nearly three decades (or nearly thirty years if that sounds better, Ila!) and she desires to retire at the end of the year. We need to "hire" a new volunteer to take on this key role in CHAA. Treasurer Ray Whittemore promises that training will be provided! If you have any interest in filling this important position, please contact Ray or myself. Edward Soye stepped in last year (June 2012) as an "interim" COpsO, but his "interim" term has extended even to this day. Edward will be stepping down (he is too young to retire!) at the end of the year. The position of COpsO needs to be filled as soon as is practical, so that when December 31st arrives, the transition may be seamless. If you are interested in this very important position or wish to know more of the responsibilities involved, please contact myself or Edward Soye. A third key position in CHAA is available...Safety and Standards Committee Chairperson. This very important committee in CHAA has been missing for a few years and we very much need to re-activate this committee that oversees all aspects of safety within CHAA and also maintains the Flight Operations Manual (FOM). Many members have commented about the CHAA website which has been out of commission for several weeks. Efforts are being made to bring our website back better than ever. The time frame we are hoping for is by the end of September. Please be patient! 2014 is the 75th Anniversary of the Harvard in Canada. We feel it important, that, as the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association, we need to host a celebration of the type here at Tillsonburg. So, the weekend of June 20-22, 2014 will be set aside to invite as many Harvard / T-6/ SNJ aircraft and RCAF veterans who flew or worked on Harvards to a fly-in reunion! We want it to be the best ever, so we are calling on you, our loyal volunteers to partner in this great event. We need a wide variety of members to step forward and join the planning committee, which at this point consists of Shane Clayton, Bob Trowell and myself. Many of you may have noticed a big new hangar being constructed just behind Hangar One. We welcome Danny Richer who will fly his BAC Strikemaster jet and T-28 Trojan from this location! Tillsonburg Regional Airport is becoming a local warbird hub and we appreciate the support and we have with the airport manager, Annette Murray. Another exciting addition to the airport is the SkyWay Restaurant, now operating seven days a week out of the main terminal building. Please support the fine folks that operate the restaurant to insure it will stay here for a long time. The food is reasonably priced and very good too! Even as I type this report, I received word that our Yale has taken to the skies again! Thanks to all involved in preparing the aircraft for this day and to Dave Hewitt and Greg Burnard, who have commenced a flight test program. Several pilots have indicated a desire to fly the Yale and we look forward to this great addition to our flight program! As fall approaches and our flying season starts to wind down, we have our BIG event of the year coming on September 14th...Wings and Wheels 2013. We always have a great time and this presents a great opportunity to meet other members and volunteers in a fun day filled with activities involving aircraft and cars. It is our day to showcase the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association to the general public. So let the Harvards ROAR and our spirits will SOAR!>
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Looking for Email Addresses
In order to compile an up to date database complete with names, phone numbers, addresses
and email addresses we need your help. First let me re-assure everyone the database is for
internal use only. None of the information complied will be use outside of CHAA. Mailing and
emailing, on a rare occasion perhaps a phone call would be made to a member. Beyond these
examples the database is to streamline the task of getting Harvard Happenings, The Roar of the
Harvard to the membership and keeping track of the membership list from year to year and as
renewals come in or as members sign up for the first time.
Here’s how you can help. Email your information to Vic at [email protected] I really need your
email address as I have everything else. Please indicate if you would prefer receiving the “Roar”
by email or Canada Post. >
Vintage Cars and Vintage Airplane Together
Submitted by Robert Trowell
CHAA hosted The Horseless Carriage Society on Friday, July 26 at our Tillsonburg Airport hangars. Over 45 beautifully restored pre-1915 vehicles with more than 120 drivers and passengers came to visit us as part of a regional tour. Thankfully, the weather co-operated, making it an enjoyable morning. The group toured our hangars and many of the young people enjoyed sitting in a Harvard. We're very grateful for their generous donation to CHAA. My sincere thanks to George Wilson and Jack McKenzie for helping me look after our visitors.>
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JAM Needs CHAA’s Help
The Jet Aircraft Museum is excited to announce that we have been awarded the opportunity to save,
transport and restore a CF-101 Voodoo, one of the Royal Canadian Air Force & Canadian Forces most
important Cold War fighters! Let us say we need your support so please donate today but continue below
for more info!
During the Cold War Canadian CF-101 Voodoos fighter jets were piloted, crewed and maintained by dedicated members of our Canadian Forces, protecting Canada from the threat of invasion for more than 26 years. The Jet Aircraft Museum based in London Ontario now has the opportunity to repay those who dedicated their lives to our freedom by saving the last Voodoo to fly with the Canadian Armed Forces, Voodoo #006 by transporting it back to London Ontario from its current location in Cornwallis Nova Scotia. It is the museum's mission to bring back the boom to the Voodoo and restore this endangered airframe to its past glory, educating visitors about the history of the Voodoo and the Cold War, along with other jets like the T-33 Silver Star, MiG-15 and De Havilland Vampire already operated by the museum. We plan on sending a team of members to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia this summer or fall to dismantle, load and transport the Voodoo, along with a T-33 that the Cornwallis Military Museum has donated to JAM, back to the their new homes in London. We can't do it without your help though!
CF-101 VOODOO SERIAL # 101006
Voodoo #006 was one of two of the last in service CF-101 Voodoos in 1987. On April 19, 1987, Voodoo #101006, made the world’s last Voodoo flight, going to CFB Chatham, NB. The aircraft was then moved to its current resting and display place in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia at the Cornwallis Military Museum. However, the aircraft has been sitting outside since that time and the Cornwallis Military Museum has made the difficult decision to award the aircraft to another museum. That museum is the Jet Aircraft Museum (JAM) at London International Airport in London, ON, Canada. JAM hopes to save Voodoo 006 by moving her to London and begin restoration. To save Voodoo 006 from the scrap yard and bring this important piece of jet heritage to it’s new home in London to begin restoration we need your help!
T-33 SILVER STAR SERIAL #133411
The Jet Aircraft Museum has also been awarded a T-33 Silver Star currently sitting on a plinth, near Voodoo 006. The Jet Aircraft Museum plans to lift T-33 SilverStar #411 from it’s plinth and
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also transport it to London, ON as well. The fundraising will not only allow us to save and restore the Voodoo it will also allow us to bring the T-33 to it’s new home for restoration. To not only bring this aircraft out of the weather but to refurnish, repaint and polish what will become a beautiful static display.
Check out the Jet Aircraft Museum website for details.>
CHAA’s Yale Takes to the Skies
Photos by Shane Clayton
On Saturday August 17 Yale 3399 flew for the first time since 2010. Grounded for maintenance work, the Yale has been slowly brought back to an airworthy status. The .9 of an hour test flight allowed pilots Dave and Greg to check out completed work and make a list of yet to be done tasks. It was a great sight to see! At one point on Saturday, CHAA had the Tiger Moth, a Harvard and the Yale up at the same time. When was the last time CHAA could make that claim? Well done Pilots, ground crew and maintenance crew for making this happen. >
Dave telling Bill & Kerry the details of the test flight
An interesting fact; The .9 flight was the longest flight this airplane has flown in sixty years!
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CF-UFZ better known as “Bessy” now sports several signatures with plenty of room for yours. Next time you are at the hangar or if you see “Bessy” at an event, stop by and sign your name or that of a loved one. It will take many signatures to get her painted.
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CHAA On The Road
Have you ever wondered how CHAA gets supplies and merchandise to air shows? Hats, T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, and other trendy items for sale as well as the tables, tent and other much needed supplies must be delivered to each venue where CHAA has a ground presence.
Until now, these items have been taken either by anyone who had room and happened to be heading to the event, or towed by one of the aforementioned people in CHAA’s stores trailer. The size of the trailer meant that one had to be good at the arcade game ‘Tetris’ to pack it efficiently, as it is quite a tight fit! That changed this year when Shane’s dad acquired the “Yellow Peril”, a former fire rescue truck, which serves as his work truck through the week and a CHAA vehicle on weekends. An even bigger and much more visible change took place this past week when Shane unveiled the new and improved “Yellow Peril” at CHAA’s August open house. The truck now proudly displays “Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association” on three sides with great graphics showing the Harvards and advertising CHAA.
By: Shane Clayton, Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association
Here is a photo of the 'Yellow Peril' with the finished graphics applied. The work was done by R. A. Watters Graphics in Woodstock (who also made the vinyl graphics for AJ583/HWX this past spring) During the week she is used as Carl Clayton’s work vehicle (hence his business name, Specialty Designs, on the doors), and on air show weekends it becomes CHAA's mobile base of operations. This year it hauled stores and supplies to air shows in Waterloo, Hamilton, St.Thomas and Brantford >
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Through the Lens of Gus Corujo
Whenever CHAA has an event like an open house you are very likely to find Gus there. You will
know it’s Gus because he has two or three cameras with various lenses hanging from his neck,
shoulders or waist. The Gus I’m referring to is Gustavo Corujo, an aviation photographer who
drives two hours from his home to Tillsonburg in order to enjoy the aviation experience. In Gus’
words “The Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association (CHAA) brings a unique quality to the
Tillsonburg Regional Airport”. Thanks Gus for allowing CHAA to use your images in “The Roar
of the Harvard”. To see more of Gus’ work check out www.gusair.com
Pictured above is Gus from www.gusair.com Ken Mist from www.kenmist.com and Shawn Wylie CHAA’s Service
Crew Chief. Each of these men have been seen on the field at Tillsonburg Airport, camera in hand, capturing the
action in the air and around the grounds.
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Images of Interest from the Summer of 2013
Shane Clayton photo Pat Hanna photo Dave & Greg have a pre-flight briefing as the Yale is about to fly Cold and wet at Kitchener Air Show
Pat Hanna photo Pat Hanna photo Super sales team of Gordie Hanna, Shawn Wylie & Shane Clayton "Buffalo Joe" of Buffalo Airways and "Ice Pilots" fame at the CHAA’s booth!
Pat Hanna photo Pat Hanna photo ..."Ready! Aim"....turn the camera "On"..."Fire!" with Shawn Wylie! My Grandson James Hanna, son of Gordie and Tammany
If you have article or photographs for the next issue of “The Roar of the Harvard” please send them to Vic by November 5th at