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Dunlop, C.R. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

524761

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980-06-24

Item number (ISN):

524761

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ROY, Reginald H.

Accession:

1982-0236

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1980-06-24

Production company:

W.S. Thackery (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview of Clarence Rupert "Larry" Dunlop (1908-2003), air marshall, Canada's Chief of the Air Staff 1962-1964, and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of NORAD 1964-1967.~In this interview C.R. Dunlop speaks about: World War I Flyers (Canadian) Association - meet annually, Toronto this year, 350 members left the youngest is 80 and the oldest is 93; convention of Aviation Museum Curators, Ottawa June 1980; first lgiths - early hitory; Canaidan Air Force; 1906 baloon flight by Santas Dumont in France; Wilber Wright in Europe; Baddeck, Nove Scotia - Aerial Experimental Association under auspices of Alexander Graham Bell and financed to some extent by Mrs. Bell; development of the Spitfire; June Bug credited to Glen Curtis; Silver Dart credited to Jack McCurdy; Aviaition in Canada was left for a few years; Henri Farman - getting into aviation in France; flight between England and France across the english Cahnnel; prize offered for the first non-stoip trans-Atlantic flight; military aviation (France); grand circuit flights; Royal Flying Corps born 1912; Eastchurch - most historic airfield in England; airfield maintained by sheep; 1914 war clouds forming over Europer; French by late summer of 1914 had 21 squadrons of 2 searers, 4 squadrons of single seaters; training was established to back them up; Germans still had derigible; by late 1914 they had manufactured 38 derigibles in operaiton and had manufacturered 200 aircraft available for flight and they had trained 1,000 pilots and 500 observers and had 60 airfields; UK 4 effective squadrons in Royal Flying Corps; by late 1914 the Royal Naval Air Serivce had same number of squadrons as RFC plus the odd derigible; Us had advantage in aircraft field; Canada in war in 1914; Sir Sam Hughes; historians refer to a Canadian Aviation Corps but there was no such thing; Canada did nothing to suet up a Canadian Air formation throughout all of the First World War; there were 20,000 Canadian Air Crew in the First World War who flew with the British Forces; some aircraft converted to commercial aircraft; flying boats; Royald Canadian NAval Service organized after the war; Lord Northcliff prize; 1919 five different aircraft companies in Newfoundland preparing planes for race - first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight; Alcott and Brown contendors; commercial flights; Lindberg gliths; 1938 Imperial Airwasy UK; Pan-Am Airways - US started flights across the Atlantic; Gander aiffield; Beaverbrook - aviation baron; Beatty - CPR: Trans-Atlantic Carry Operation established; Snyder races - trophy; Development of Spitfire - 26,000 constructed before the end of the Second World War.

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

802838

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0236/13

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

802839

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0236/14

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 20858

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2031.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Reginald H. Roy.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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