Holedigger wrote:
Just asking about the history behind the relay and the handing off of the bag. How far back does it go, who started it, that sort of thing.
It's all there in the link I posted, but it started in March out in Nova Scotia. The 'baton' is visiting all the CAPA (Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association) museums as well as all the privincial/territorial capitals and Ottawa on it's way around the country.
The first legs were flown by CAF CP-140's (that's Canadian Armed Forces, not the other CAF) up to Iqualuit, Nunavut, and made it's way out to the West Coast. It has flown in such aircraft as a Buffalo Airlines DC-3, Fleet 80 Canuck, Stampe biplane, two Tiger Moths, CF-18 Hornet, Lockheed 10A Electra, Lancaster, Cornell, as well as three Harvards!
Inside the bag, there's the special logbook to document each leg, as well as an assortment of mementoes (ie patches, pins, coins, books, newspapers, etc).
If all goes well, it should be 'Back to Baddeck" around September 9th.