The next meeting of the Manitoba Chapter, Canadian Aviation Historical Society, will take place at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom on Thursday 30 May at 7 pm CDT. Our speaker this month is T.B.D.
The meeting poster is here. Registration for this meeting is required at CAHS-MB. Our meetings are free and open to CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history. We provide the coffee and doughnuts. The meeting Zoom link will be provided around two hours before the meeting. Please register early enough to receive the link.
Our June National Convention will take place from 19 June thru 22 June, 2024 in Saskatoon, SK.
Registration for the CAHS National Convention is now open via our convention web page. Our convention is in Saskatoon this year, from 19 to 22 June. We are also accepting applications for speakers. As this is the RCAF centennial year, there will be some preference given to RCAF topics. The conventions are always a lot of fun. We hope you’re able to attend.
We encourage all of our attendees to become CAHS National members. You can join for as little as $25 here. CAHS National members receive our quarterly CAHS Journal, full access to past Journals through our website, our monthly newsletter by email, and access to our annual convention, held in different cities across Canada.
We hope to see you at our events soon. If you prefer not to receive emails from us any more, please reply to this email, with the word “Remove” in the text body.
Jim Bell
CAHS Manitoba
National Secretary / Manitoba Chapter President
Canadian Aviation Historical Society
(cell) 204 293-5402
CAHS National website
CAHS Manitoba Chapter webpage
Coming Aviation Events
CAHS events and chapter meetings calendar: CAHS Calendar
North American 2024 airshows
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 30 May, 7 pm CDT
In person at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom
CAHS National Convention
19 – 22 June
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 27 June, 7 pm CDT
In person at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 25 July, time to be confirmed – Oshkosh special
By Zoom
Manitoba Air Show
Saturday and Sunday, 3 & 4 August
Southport
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 29 August, 7 pm CDT
By Zoom
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 26 September, 7 pm CDT
In person at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 31 October, 7 pm CDT
In person at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom
CAHS Manitoba Chapter meeting
Thursday 28 November, 7 pm CST
In person at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada and by Zoom
CAHS Manitoba Chapter Christmas Gathering
Date and location to be confirmed
Aviation Links for your interest
An RCAF CT-155 aircraft at Victoria International Airport. The fleet is being retired and 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron has been put on pause. Photo by @burtonader
https://skiesmag.com/photo-of-the-week/?utm_source=skies-daily-news-photo-of-the-week
Day in the Life of the RCAF: Cold Lake – Flying the CF-18 Hornet – Episode 6 – 3 minute 42 second video
https://youtu.be/CmIHV72n9Ic?si=nYeHh7hqLg0L5NZo
Where Dragons Fly, video by John Crook – 5 minute 33 second video
https://vimeo.com/97013675
The Pratt & Whitney J58 – The Engine of the SR-71 Blackbird – 24 minute 48 second video
https://youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZjw?si=Oe40MtL18EkMG9ZH
Samuel Franklin Cody demonstrates one of his kite designs to the Royal Navy
https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/1bdonn3/samuel_franklin_cody_demonstrates_one_of_his_kite/
In a corner of the NWT, a vast World War Two collection
https://cabinradio.ca/172968/news/south-slave/hay-river/in-a-corner-of-the-nwt-a-vast-world-war-two-collection/
Mat Joost biography
Major Mathias Joost, RCAF, retired, served more than 31 years in the Canadian Forces. For the past 18 years he has served at the Directorate of History and Heritage where he was in charge of the war diaries and operational records.
Mat joined the Canadian Forces in 1986, serving in the Navy and as a military police officer. Taking the Force Reduction Plan in 1995, he went to South Korea where he taught English and met his future wife. Returning to Canada in 1998, he joined the Air Reserve, working in Winnipeg until joining the DHH in 2003. As a sideline to his military duties, Mat’s interests are in researching the Air Reserve and in visible minorities in military service, especially Black soldiers. He has written and given presentations with articles published in Canadian Military History, Canadian Military Journal and the Canadian Aviation Historical Society Journal among other publications. He is currently completing two books on Black soldiers in the Canadian military from the New France period up to the First World War. He is also currently working on a history of the Air Reserve. Mat also has an interest in lesser known but significant figures in the history of the RCAF, researching officers and senior non-commissioned officers about whom there is little written but whose service was nonetheless significant.
Mat is enjoying retirement in Ottawa, doing research and writing for the RCAF’s 100th Anniversary in 2024. He travels regularly to South Korea and to Scotland to visit family.