Recherche dans la collection - The Fleet 50-K Freighter

IRWIN, G.N.

1973-0160

Film

1 of 1

1938

Fleet Freighter, CF-BDX, of the United Air Transport, Edmonton, moored to pier at Fort Erie. Man with camera on pier; Norman Irwin's Waco ZQ6 custom, CF-BDP, moored in background. Air to air of sunrise over Memesagamesing. Fleet Freighter is shown being refuelled at Oba lake, CF-DAT and CF-DAA are moored to shore in lower foreground. Several Fairchild seaplanes are Lac du Bonnet. Roy Brown lands and takes off in a Fleet Freighter. 3-shot of Grant McConachie, president of Ginger Coote Airways, Dick Young, designer of the Fleet Freighter and another man studying papers on a pier. CF-BDX isshown taxiing slowly to pier, flying past. Aerial of Port Perry and Wagner Lake. View of A/M Bishop's Grunman Amphibian, piloted by S/L Dave Harding and F/O Hank Colpitts, refuelling at Sunnyside Isle, August 20, 1938. Long shot of Don Wallace's Taylor Cub taxiing lake. Sequence on large bullfrog among the lily pads and final of young boy showing off his sweater.

Silent

Libre

V1 8202-0076

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bill Irwin~G.N. Irwin is no longer living. His son, Bill Irwin, as executor of G.N. Irwin's estate, is to be contacted for permission to use this material.