Somebody forgot to close the baggage compartment door properly!

First flight!

Wow. Interesting.
M4A2Sherman

Our airplane as a model.

Travel Air!
The name is an instant trip into a past of wires and cabanes,of leather and bravado.The name conjures up images of those long gone pastures,green and rimmed with trees,the early dew on the blue grass ,and a biplane gracefully flaring to touchdown.The plane rolls to an unhurried stop,and the pilot blasts the tail around to taxi back,the wings rocking over the grass in a hint of a swagger.There maybe faster ways to travel,but few airplanes possess the character and class of a Travel Air.
Even though progress threatens to wipe out pasture flying,it will never catch up with such charmers as the Travel Air.The past several years has seen many doomed,and nearly extinct,birds take to the air again but Wendell Reid of Montreal has just completed the machine that may well reign as king of the antiques for some time to come-Naturally it is a Travel Air. to be cont....
(above courtesy of Budd Davisson,,Air Progress.Oct 1969)
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"Once upon a time......." Storyboard dioramas by JohnReid.
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In Toronto after repairs to the prop and fin.

The quality of the pics are not very good but this is JLW under construction at the old Timmins hangar at Dorval(now Trudeau International)

Another pic

Sixty-five years ago today you were helping protect the skies over Normandy.
Thanks Dad.

Thanks John for sharing a part of Canadian Aviation history with us !

Byron Reynolds of the Reynolds Museum has sent me a package of information on this aircraft dating back to when it was built and after it left Montreal.I will put up the info as I find time as I am still working pretty much full time on my diorama donations to the Canada Aviation Museum.Cheers! John.

This thread is intended for Aircraft lovers in general,including builders,owners,aircraft history buffs and scale modelers etc..
I will start with the aircraft's history of ownership dating back to 1929.This info is already on the public record at dates back at least 50 years.

Another pic