Air Force Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/airforce/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:55:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Air Force Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/airforce/ 32 32 Canada’s connections to the F-35 https://legionmagazine.com/canadas-connections-to-the-f-35/ https://legionmagazine.com/canadas-connections-to-the-f-35/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:07:34 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98285 “We are full steam ahead…focused on making sure we’ve got the infrastructure, the pilots, the training in place for the arrival of those F-35s,” Deputy Defence Minister Stefanie Beck told a House of Commons committee in early October 2025. Despite more recent media speculation that Canada may abandon its $27.7 billion purchase of 88 of …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/canadas-connections-to-the-f-35/feed/ 1 The amazing aerial feats of ace Raymond Collishaw https://legionmagazine.com/the-amazing-aerial-feats-of-ace-raymond-collishaw/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-amazing-aerial-feats-of-ace-raymond-collishaw/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:21:05 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=97953 Brave, wily and lucky. Canadian pilot Raymond Collishaw served brilliantly in both the First and Second World wars.  As a first officer in the Canadian Fisheries Protection Service with years of sea experience, Collishaw of Nanaimo, B.C., expected to be welcomed into ranks of the Royal Canadian Navy during the First World War.   But that service didn’t snap him up, so he joined the Royal Naval Air Service instead. He went on …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-amazing-aerial-feats-of-ace-raymond-collishaw/feed/ 0 “Those damn women” https://legionmagazine.com/those-damn-women/ https://legionmagazine.com/those-damn-women/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:39:50 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=91810 Canadian female fighter jet pilots first took to the skies 30-plus years ago—but few have followed in their vapour trails

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/those-damn-women/feed/ 0 Sentimental Journey https://legionmagazine.com/sentimental-journey-2/ https://legionmagazine.com/sentimental-journey-2/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 15:01:13 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=90965 Recalling a little-known Second World War service band that brought its music to Canadian and Allied troops wherever they were, including the front lines.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/sentimental-journey-2/feed/ 0 The ghosts of Kenley https://legionmagazine.com/the-ghosts-of-kenley/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-ghosts-of-kenley/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:20:45 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=90002 Reliving the Canadian connections to a critical Royal Air Force base

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-ghosts-of-kenley/feed/ 0 The golden jet https://legionmagazine.com/the-golden-jet/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-golden-jet/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:22:12 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=89806 Remembering the CL-13 Sabre, star aircraft of Canada’s first official national aerobatics team

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-golden-jet/feed/ 1 Icons of the Air https://legionmagazine.com/icons-of-the-air/ https://legionmagazine.com/icons-of-the-air/#respond Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:52:59 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=89810 A collection of warbirds that SYMBOLIZES 100 years of the Royal Canadian Air Force

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/icons-of-the-air/feed/ 0 The happy pilot https://legionmagazine.com/the-happy-pilot/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-happy-pilot/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:59:23 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=88476 A granddaughter learns the wartime secret(s) of the gruff former Royal Air Force flyer she knew growing up

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-happy-pilot/feed/ 0 We have the watch https://legionmagazine.com/we-have-the-watch/ https://legionmagazine.com/we-have-the-watch/#respond Wed, 10 May 2023 19:54:50 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=86154 Norad has seen many changes during its 65-year existence, but what does the future hold?

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/we-have-the-watch/feed/ 0 The Night Fighter : How Gordon Learmouth (Raffy) Raphael became a decorated after-dark pilot https://legionmagazine.com/the-night-fighter-how-gordon-learmouth-raffy-raphael-became-a-decorated-after-dark-pilot/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-night-fighter-how-gordon-learmouth-raffy-raphael-became-a-decorated-after-dark-pilot/#respond Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:32:54 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=83931 They called him “Raffy.” He was one of some 1,800 Canadians and about 100 Newfoundlanders who enlisted directly in the Royal Air Force before the Second World War or in the first year of the conflict. At least 1,100 were aircrew, outnumbering their Royal Canadian Air Force counterparts at the beginning of the war. Many …

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