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The RCMP is investigating a report that former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilots are helping to train fighters within China’s air force. Canada’s federal police force confirmed to Global News Tuesday it has started an investigation after a report emerged last year that Beijing might be paying ex-RCAF top …
Read More »Search efforts end after deadly RCAF helicopter crash near Ottawa
The search for two missing crewmembers of a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter has ended and the two members are confirmed by the military to have died in a crash early Tuesday near Ottawa. The Department of National Defence confirmed the deaths in a statement Wednesday. “The two missing air crew …
Read More »RCAF helicopter crash leaves 2 crew injured, 2 missing near Ottawa
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two crewmembers of a Royal Canadian Air Force Chinook are injured and two others are missing after they were involved in a helicopter crash Tuesday morning near Ottawa. The four-member crew was on a training flight overnight when the Chinook helicopter they …
Read More »One of the last of his generation, Second World War vet in New Brunswick dies – New Brunswick
Angus Hamilton, who served as a radar technician in Southeast Asia during the Second World War and returned home to a successful career in the civil service and academia, has died in Fredericton at the age of 100. Born in Listowel, Ont., on April 18, 1922, Hamilton grew up on a farm, with the …
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