Despite inclement flying weather, a good sized gang still turned up to enjoy a friendly lunch and some good conversation:

The Nanaimo Flying Club’s kitchen is open and volunteer chef’s will be hard at work ensuring that all visitors are well fed.  $5 won’t buy you a better meal anywhere else in the country!  Y’all come down now…

Everyone seems to have a pet theory about the fate of the missing Malaysian triple seven airliner.  This article examines ten of the most popular.  Whatever its fate, the family and loved ones of the missing passengers and crew members must be going through some form of living hell.

This is just one example of some of the wild and wacky flying inventions that have crept out of people’s imaginations and attempted to fly.

Check out this list of the 10 Strangest Aircraft ever built:

We get all sorts of visitors at our montly fly-ins!  Don’t miss our next one, April 5th.  Hopefully we’ll have some real SPRING weather for this one!?

Brent Sylvester, who usually flies a Genesis advanced ultralight aircraft out of Duncan, moved a new project into CYCD this weekend.  Brent picked up a forlorn-looking 150 that sat at the Somenos airstrip for 13 years, and is now bringing it back to life.  The Genesis will soon be on its way to southern Alberta:

As the world wonders what has become of the Malaysian Airlines B777, this graphic item from the CBC news site describes many other large airliners in history that have disappeared without a trace:

Ever thought about ditching?  Living on an island as we do, we never have to fly far in any direction before we’re faced with “trans oceanic” operations.  This article discusses ditching and presents some facts about what we might expect – should the need arise:

(it’s a pdf document from the web)

EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE ™ – Ditching Myths Torpedoed!

This looks so cool.  The original canopy has been swapped out for an open cockpit with windscreen, then the aircraft is mounted on floats.  This is the first time I’ve seen an Aircoupe decked out this way.  Looks like a lot of fun on a hot summer’s day –