The statistics on the Archives’ Flickr account show that the most popular image that we’ve put on the site is this picture of an aircraft crash, c.1917:
December 17, 2008
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January 14, 2009 at 6:43 pm
The Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary has several photos like this in the scrapbook of a student, B. Traver Hulse, from the department of aeronautics that was here in the 1930s. The scrapbook makes it appear that they simply flipped the planes right side up and flew again. Did you find any evidence of this? We are not adding photos to the department’s Flickr account (it is mostly artifacts and events), so I can’t share the images. Sorry!
January 15, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Hello Amy
We have very little information about the activities of the pilots and crew of the two Royal Flying Corps training camps that were situated near Deseronto (Camps Mohawk and Rathbun). Given the simplicity of the aircraft and the expense of building a new one, though, I would imagine that getting them back into service as quickly as possible was probably a priority, so I suspect they would do exactly what you describe!
There is a book coming out in the Spring called Dancing in the Sky by local author, Bill Hunt, which I’m sure will shed some more light on this early period of flight in Canada.
Amanda
April 19, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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