The Channel

Welcome back, my sceptical friend. Let us pick up where we left off. Once upon a time, in 1918 to be more precise, an aeronautical engineer at Zeppelin-Werke Staaken Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, designed a giant five-engined bomber made almost entirely with aluminum alloy for the German air service, the Luftstreitkräfte. (A few moments, please, so I can catch my breath. That was a long sentence and I’m not ge

Greetings, my reading friend. We are gathered here to day to dwell into the unforeseen second part of this article. We remain with the Trefethen family but focus upon another of its members, Thomas R. “Tom” Trefethen. What we see in the photo above is the single seat flying boat that this teenager put together in the very late 1960s or very early 1970s on the patio of the family home. The main element of this seemingly unnamed machine was one of the two floats his father had used to create the T

Again, hello, my reading friend. Are you ready? Let’s go. Despite the successive failure of the LZ-5 production projects in the United States and Canada, Doman Helicopters, Incorporated did not give up hope of commercialising this helicopter – or a more modern machine. One only needs to think about the Doman D-12, a small two seat helicopter proposed in 1958. It should be noted that the LZ-5 made in Canada may have carried out at least one demonstration flight at Le Bourget airport in Paris duri

For the honeybee colony at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, life hasn’t exactly been sweet this fall. In mid-September, the colony suffered from acute poisoning – which typically happens when the bees visit flowers that have been recently sprayed with an insecticide. Sadly, the results were deadly. “When our interpreter came in to the exhibition, three quarters of the bees were piled up at the bottom of the hive,” explains Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, an education, interpretation and exhibit