Brantford Charity Airshow

Hamilton Sport Parachute Club and the CWHM C-47

Three members of the club leave the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's C-47 at 2000 ft to initiate the annual Brantford Charity Airshow for 2019. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

That's a large flag.

The Canadian Flag is 1500 square feet in size and weights 50 lbs as it descends with a member of the Hamilton Sport Parachute Club. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Another view of the giant flag.

Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Fiinal view of Giant Canada Flags

Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Consolidated PBY Canso

Better known by its original American name, "PBY Catalina" this example was built in Montreal in 1944 and served with 162 Squadron RCAF. This plane is painted to resemble the Canso piloted by Flight Lt David Hornell of Toronto who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after he sank U-1225 and kept his crew alive for over 20 hours in the Atlantic Ocean. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

CWHM C-47 transport

Starting life as the Douglas DC-3 airliner, this became the iconic C-47 Dakota in WW2, the workhorse transport that did everything. This example was built in 1944 for 437 Squadron RCAF and saw action on D-Day. It carried 300 casualties and 460 POWs to safety and over 5100 passengers. Over its life it also lifted two hundred tons of freight. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Brent Handy Aerobatics with Pitts Special

Brent Handy is a 19 year veteran with the RCAF and was lead solo with the Snowbirds in 2012/13. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Brent Handy Aerobatics with Pitts Special

He's in "Barnstormer". Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

T-28 Trojans

Introduced as the replacement trainer aircraft to the T-6 Texan in 1950, the Trojan also saw combat action in the Vietnam War Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

T-28 Trojan US NAVY

With tailhook deployed for carrier landing. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

B-25 Mitchell Bomber (CHWM)

This J-series model is is equipped with eighteen 0.50 calibre machine guns making it the most lethal gunship of WW2 and served with No. 98 RAF Squadron. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

De Havilland Vampire MK 55

Like the De Havilland Mosquito, the Vampire fuselage was made from plywood and the metal twin tail boom design was required by its single engine design. Betraying more of its 1943 design, the body is covered with dope impregnated aviation fabric and then painted silver. The Vampire was the first jet fighter of the RCAF and flew with 10 squadrons across Canada. 442 Squadron stationed at Vancouver International Airport had several aircraft painted in the aboriginal inspired black and red vampire face. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Canadair T-33 "Mako Shark" jet trainer and Vampire Jet

The T-33 is based on the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star which was briefly operated at the end of WW2 by the US. She served with 414 Squadron based at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island and her paint scheme is based on livery that flew for one season in 1992 with VU32 Squadron at CFB Shearwater in Nova Scotia. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Superb closeup of Canadair T-33

Thumbs up by passenger to the airshow crowds below. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Mike Tryggvason and Giles 202

Mike is a Canadian aerobatic competition pilot as well as an A320 pilot for a major airline complany. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN

Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team

Flying the T-6 Texan or Harvard as known here, Canada trained over a hundred thousand flight crew for the British Commonwealth during WW2. The characteristic snarl of the aircraft on full throttle is a combination of aspects of the propellor going supersonic. Photo ny Jim Chung/PRN

Avro Lancaster Mk 10 (CHWM) "Last one home"

This Lancaster was built in July 1945 by Victory Aircraft (which went on to produce 430 Mark Tens) and wears the colors of 419 Squadron RCAF. Victory Aircraft was renamed the A.V. Roe Canada Ltd after the war and went on to produce home designed and built fighter aircraft for Canada like the CF-100 Canuck and the CF-102 Arrow. Only two Lancasters in the world remain airworthy. Photo by Jim Chung/PRN