2010
Air Shows |
WINGS & WHEELS
HERITAGE FESTIVAL May 29-30, 2010
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Location: Downsview Park,Toronto, at the Canadian Air and Space Museum |
Admission: Adult $15, Weekend pass $25 |
Parking: Free |
| Value: Excellent |
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This is our second visit to the Wings & Wheels
Heritage Festival in Downsview (Toronto). The event is held jointly
on the grounds of the Downsview Park and Toronto Aero Space Museum
aka The Canadian Air & Space
Museum. What we stated last year pretty well applies for this year
too. Although there were less interesting fly-ins this year than
in 2009.
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The
Museum is the home of the Avro Arrow full scale replica. For this
year it was pushed out from the museum's hangar, thus giving the
Arrow exposure to the attendees, and better photo taking opportunities.
However, the Arrow should have been pushed out on Saturday before
the event started and not during. It was almost impossible to take
a good photo of it, due to "rivet counters" who stood
under it for no apparent reason than being in someone else's photograph!
This was corrected for the Sunday's event. |
The event
is quite small in scale, but all the museum staff and volunteers
are friendly and helpful. This year however it was not as well organized
as last year especially from the "media" point of view. The media
day was on Thursday at 9:00 am, this I only found out on Friday.
A bit too late. |
As
usual, the Canadian Forces sent in one of their CF-18 Hornet,
on the way home from Maple Flag, exercise from CFB Cold Lake, Alberta
to CFB Bagotville, Quebec. This is the only place in Greater Toronto
Area, (GTA) to see the CF-18 up close. During the CNE air show,
the visiting C-18 is parked at the Pearson International Airport,
and due to security reasons are not on display to the public. There
was also a Harvard II advanced trainer on display inside one of
the Hangers that flew in on Friday morning. Viper North with their
MiG 15UTi, 2 seat trainer, and an Aero L-29 Delphin, 2 seat trainer
also flew in for the event. |
There
were several older cars from 1950's to 1970's on display, both
inside the hanger as well outside the parking lot. One of the highlights
of the inside display was the Silver Dart replica that flew during
the last year's celebration of 100th years of Flight in Canada. |
Over
all Wings & Wheels is a good value and a must see for any
aviation enthusiast in the Greater Toronto Area. |
.Some of the participants
were:
- CF-18 Hornet
- MiG 15 UTi
- L-19 Delphin
- Harvard trainer
- Harvard II advanced trainer
- with several small civilian fly-ins.
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Rating:
8.0 out of 10 |
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