Airfest 2022

The day after the excitement of Skyfest 50 in Hamilton, my dad and I headed down to St. Thomas for the biannual Airfest show!

It was my first time attending the show and it was a fantastic day of getting up close and personal with some vintage and unusual aircraft. Sunday was overcast and a bit quieter than the Saturday show apparently was, which made for some great front row seats for takeoff, landing, and startup. Among the planes in attendance was a whole range of Harvards, Beechcrafts, the CWHM’s PBY, and a flight of WWI replica airplanes!

After the hustle of other airshows in the area, St. Thomas Airfest is a great way to see awesome aircraft in a more low-key setting. Really looking forward to going back the next time it runs!

Skyfest 50

To kick off summer I put on a wide brimmed hat, loaded up on sunscreen, and headed over to Hamilton to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Skyfest 50 event!

The CWHM is one of my favourite museums and I make a point to visit a couple times each year. This time around the museum’s roster of historic, working aircraft were joined by a number of others from other museums and private collections. I saw my first ever P-40 Warhawk and got to see the museum’s Fairey Firefly start up and do a few circuits over the museum after years of restoration.

Spending the day with vintage airplanes and the people who love them has got me excited for this year’s Thunder Over Michigan show where I’ll be front and centre after two years away!

St. Jacobs and Lancaster Street

Popped up to St. Jacobs to see the Waterloo Central Railway’s tourist train, then made my way back to Kitchener.

Along the way I saw a hawk and, having had enough of them fly away over the years, parked about 200 metres away from the tree.

1/640, f/8, ISO 250, 50mm

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Lancaster Passenger Debut

This past weekend was the first time the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Lancaster went up for passenger flights. Of course, I popped over to get some photos after almost a year without air shows or many other airplane opportunities.

The flight schedule was pushed forward due to a thunderstorm rolling in, and the overcast skies gave me an opportunity to get creative with some different editing styles.