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It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
A Tsartlip family shares their culture at the annual Yellow Wolf Powwow, page A3
Concerned citizens’ questions about a lowflying airplane answered, page A5
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Songs for the road to stardom Olivia, Masha and Ali, members of the One Week to Stardom summer camp at the Mary Winspear Theatre, practise singing for Friday’s production of Twinkle Light. All 21 campers showcased the skills they learned throughout the week through skits and plays. See the story, page A13. Brittany Lee/News staff
Yellow Peril
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The bright yellow jet sitting in the back of the garage at the B.C. Aviation Museum is similar to the
one Harry Addison first learned to fly in. The WWII Harvard trainer plane is an exact replica of the jet Addison remembers. Except that this plane is static.
The Harvard trainer, known as the Yellow Peril, is an aerobatic plane with the ability to travel at fast speeds – it has a horsepower of 550. “[It’s] a hell of a lot of power for someone who’s never flown,” Addison said. Addison, a Brentwood Bay resident in his 80s, was a member of
image courtesy of the Canadian Forces
the Royal Canadian Air Force for 25 years. He often sat in the back seat of the trainer jet throughout his 17 years in Penhold, Alta., where he learned to fly the plane and taught others. The plane was a principal training jet during the Second World War, said Henry Minto, a spokes-
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person for the museum. “In the old days, they had more simplified planes to train the guys on and then they gradually got into this one,” Minto said. PLEASE SEE: Volunteers worked, page A14
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