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The Canadian Aviation Moments were submitted by Dennis Casper from the Roland Groome (Regina) Chapter of the CAHS. The questions and the answers are now being published together in the same e-newsletter, rather than questions one month and the answers the next. We are hoping this instant gratification might encourage more interest and research by our readers. Spoiler alert - if you read any further than each question, you will find the answer to the questions directly below. Good luck and have fun!

The Canadian Aviation Moments questions and answers for August are:

Question: Why did Rockcliffe in 1919 “become the focal point for aviation in the capital”? 

Answer: “The following year, after Parliament passed the Air Board Act to regulate flying, Rockcliffe “became the focal point for aviation in the capital. The reasons were obvious – flat land for wheeled aircraft, the river for seaplanes, and safe flying in the country side, away from dense population.”

Source: Airforce – The Magazine of Canada’s Air Force Heritage – Fall 2004 – Vol 28 No 3 – Page 9

Question: When and where the first Canadian experiments in aerial photography conducted?

Answer: “The first Canadian experiments in aerial photography were conducted at Rockcliffe in 1920.”  

Source: Airforce – The Magazine of Canada’s Air Force Heritage  – Fall 2004 – Page 9

Question: How many incendiary balloons were launched by the Japanese during WWII and for what reason?       

Answer: “Commencing Nov 3 1944, and continuing to mid-April 1945, Japan launched between 9,000 and 10,000 incendiary balloons from their home islands in an attempt to set North America’s forests alight from Alaska to California.”                              

Source: Legion Magazine – July-August 2009 –– Page 46