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Ufllildtlting CDInlTfillY anti 0v \i§z£\.ii.l.l,kll,l,zll,‘\ulk n“ H“ Fedldu (‘l,\l‘lg o l 0 Ce an nowlere i. . t."..i'. SlliOJlli \\til'lllll,_l or," v ‘ M“ imu,.,i,.e, ,.,.,,,-,_ of exlJorlvncli Ni-xt to the main office, the first z. *, iieailctl _ by .\li". pong.» m U“. Cun>i_,.,,,¢{,,,,, field h,“ W.“ siiucttire to be erected wasthe tem- ll a oriiis. President and eleiierai “fined mm .0 ‘In-Oct the h1g1, iioriiry" iowci", one of the highest on .\f.iii.igei", swung into aczion. A -vvlnd8rd of “v.1; without 1055 o; the grounds, which was used for }f'i\‘ hours later J. C. Pinch, of Elam taking panoramic views of the pro-

Tiiriinto, General Su; of the SLUHIIS Bldg. Di 'l ' 1' t‘

‘toxin by 1 ie and the necessary" preliminary wort; was begun.

lfi» iiici-viexveii .\la_vor Holman and J. Lester Douglas, M. P. ink i." for about 500 men who

\\'t‘l" to be employed on the job These were to be carpenters and labourers. The Mayor ordered an iinnietliate registration of unem- ployed men in the City and this was conditcted at the City Hall. In zhrte clays 1200 men registered for ytork.

.-\ few days Charlottetown men went to the airport and under the direction o.‘ Mr. Pinch started to erect some small office buildings and tool The actual work on the bi cling did not get under- wa, lit icr, illlfll about Auiiiist l. The pictures which appear on papi- nine were taken On July 20th, and 1t will be noticed that with the ex- ception of the office and tool hous- es, there were no other birzldinrzs in process of erection. Lame piles of ‘

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The story of Building Pro- gress or the R.C.A.F. Bomb- ing und Gunnery School here, was recorded photo- graphiccilly by our cameras

coch week the series of ; "Birdseye" views is com- : plete from "farmland to l air-school."

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, On Jiffy 20th. there were 80 rixen working rm the PFOJCCY. and rite rc- fllt“lf wo"k i‘ "i iiurnbcr of IOiKHCLl- 1101-8- was s..i.. ti. ‘Flicre carpenters and o5 men on the Job at that. time and the number was being lllfYrfiaefl daily as the work was getting into full swing. Plans were ilfadc iii start the men work- ,iiig on two shifts of eight hours , each. If necessary" the first shift ivas ito start at 5 a. m. and the second i to follow" after eight hours in order l to take advantage of every daylight I hour.

Small Town

Prom that time cm a small town lirradually" grew" on the site, a town which was complete to the smallest requirement of its future citizens. It contains among other thinizs a ‘ZS-bed hospital. a barber shop. a li-cbbler shop, a dental clinic, a scr- vw-o station, a water siipnlv", a post office and manv other things. 0n August 2 the airport was a bee-hive of activity with powerful machinery transforming the green pastures into a first class landing cround. The pavinz on the TIIHIVRVS s under ivay at this time and rlze concrete had been pained in four of the seven foundations of the building area which were reativ ‘There were about 150 men on the |biilldiriiz section of the work then I nird each dav more were being add- ed ‘o the list Fnhf days later fourteen bulld- werc in process of con- sJliCtltJn as the work was being rushed to completion with 350 men, half of whom were carpenters. working on day and night shifts Tat the job. Three hancar founda- tions were finished and in one

erection of the steel structure about to be commenced. Among the lbufltlings under wav at that time l

was the headquarters building which is 30 by 148 feet and the " Instruction School, almost

Or. inc riniivavs the vrork was . keeping pace with practically two ; thirds cf iiie paving done and three I quarters of the grave-fling completed. " Other p "ts of the ground were also

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lini; ciii",ilii_vctl on the project in farce numbers and shortly 400 men

j\vei"t> iiivri-zing on the airport It took rip roxuiiaicly" 100 automobiles to ir."in., p: the men from the city fo iiiv uirk. About 50 per cent 0f their illillllJtSf were CftlDUlliUs.

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CANADA TURNS OUT MORE PLANES

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OTTAWA, Oct. 25 --~C.iiiatlii's aircraft. industry", iiuiit up from the small nucleus wit-h existid before the war, has already fuade tre- mendous stritlcs in its task of sup- plying inost of the machines need- ed in the Coinmoiiivcalrli Air Train- in»; Plan

Originally", l‘. had been intended that Canada slioultl obtain a large percentage of the craft needed in the air training plifli from Great Britain. When the fortunes of war tirade it necesaijv for all serviceable aircraft to rc-niain in G t Britain. the Cllllfftllilfl llll'Cl'lill intluviv. aided by plants in the United Stat- es. jumped into the breach. Some idea of the rapid growth of

gross 0f buildings. Mr. C. Craswcll.

])ll0lCg‘l'lll)llt‘l‘ was e\cr_v F: l(.llV

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to the airport and took photo- graphs of the ivork. The photo- graphs were taken from this cen- and are called "pro- es." They" are sent to iiment The pictures arr- i till this page ivere taken by ..\.<\1rapliei".

this same tower the i k_ hoisted on a Dole iiz it, each morning

isc and lowered at sun- Si‘! '.\.il.i.‘ the work was in pro- f,,'l‘(:.'»

Rapid Progress

Ari interesting feature of these n"ei~"l_\" OiUGTflPhS and one which '~ ,..e rapid progress in the eziiatou of the buildiiics Ls that a photo l'll',\‘ll one (luv is out of date l\\'lllI_Y"If‘.il1‘ hours. The plioiogiuiplici" takes the picture and returns to the city where he de- VQIODS it and in the meantime the carpenters have started erecting an-

other bifllfllflg or two. When the nhofnurapliei" comes back with a couiii.i~‘e picture he finds that

there are one 0r several other buildings on a place which shows vacant on the picture.

Carpenters, labouxcrs and modern machinery, have been working Sif‘.i(l"\‘ day" rind night. Sundays didays, and residents of the have watchctl with amaze- mt-iii as a small town grew on the site in less than two months, Older residents who grew up ui the vic- lnify of the airport and witnessed the ioi‘. and hardship necessary’ for new ,~it:l<-rs to build homes there \\'Oll(lL“‘l at the amarlng rapidity witii w ‘i the 37 buildings and 6 hangars were being erected, These buildings and hangars cover about 25 acres of ground

The llllLf-ZILYS alone are about 240x160 "with the floor of each con- lfillllllp, an iii-re of concrete. At- faclicd to caeli of these are lean- to housing t). C Flights. ii0n-com- stoned officers and clerk's rooms, instructors’ rooms, pupils, crews rooms, oil and dope stores, confer- ence rooms. armament officers’ rooms

officer in cliarig-e of raiiccs, officers‘ toilt" ", llll‘ll1f'l\'.ilOll0i’ parc rooms, pilots‘ rooms. aircrei rocms, flight

lockup, ivorksliop. arfnoury officer's room, room for visiting air training school, parachute packing and stor- ing rooriis, bombing equipment workshop, gun cleaning room, gun restore ivorkshops, oil and cleaning barlici" shop, dark rooms, target packing rooms, repair sections, bar- rack store, cobbler and tailor shop, maintenance room and technical store.

Requirements of School

The n-qiiircmriifs called foi" in the

almost f'frllll)lClt‘(l include: six hang- ars 22-1 fr. bv 100 ft; 1 guard house; 1 hiispiinf '34 bed but latxr chang- ed to 23 bctlst; f supply depot; three qiiriiues M. T.; five nit-men's" nit-aw l Illlfil‘ canteen; 1 <-i\.. .. 1 civilians mess; 1 .i.iii's canteen; l recreation , 2 N. C. 0's quartz-rs; l : l Officers‘ quart- s mess; one 25-yard ‘ one 10-foot stop ; uafrli office; 1 G.I.S. l)il'l\ll!l‘!' l iicadt|ii."irt"i"s" building; 1 ti" l . _ l caiiicrn obscura; i A, M L. teachers: fl turret instruc-

the industry may be grained from the recent statement of Altinffions and Supply" Minister, C. D. Ilowe that 645 airplanes r.’ various types

had been made available for Can-

adian use durlng the ymst. three months. Of this number. 272 were built in Canadian plants, 1T6 were assembled in these plants, 138 were

tho humming wheels o! the Canadian aircraft. industry reach a higher tempo song of promise victory. In this photograph s workman is shown a5 he attaches a wing-tip light tn a Lyx-iiuiilcr army co-iiyiera tiim for both British and Canadian use.

airplane. A considerable

iissccnblcd by the R C. A. F 811d 59 were received from the United States.

‘ffiese figures exclude aircraft being produced by Canadian As- ,~(.'(lll.(’(l Aircraft for British use.

Air lilinistier C. G. Power has an- nounced that by next June Canada i~ have three planes in the air for every one available now. And yet, even now, the skies of Canada from coast to coast throb night and day with the drone of training air- ’ lanes.

LCIIIIJlOYIIIPIIt in the aircraft in- tlustry" has climbed iif proportion to increased production. About 11.000 persons are now employed in the production of aircraft and in as- sembly plants and overhaul depots. 'I'lifs represents an increase of roughly 40 per cent during the ilirce month period.

A $3,000,000 plant extension pro- gram is under way to provide for the growing production of aircraft used in tlie- Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and preparations are

men) 140 by 145; recreation hall (which contains moving picture equipment 90 by 30 The officers mess is built in the form of an each wing being about 75 by 30. The Headquarters building is 30 by 148 and the hospital is 175 by 170. The hangars which are capable

of holding many planes are enorm-

ous structures and are built. with steel trusses anti columns. The con- tract for the steel work on these hangars was avrarded to the Marl- tlme Steel and Foundry" Company of New Glasgow, N, S. and they arrived in the city shortly after 111': building work got started, Hugs derricks and other machinery was employed in hoisting the trusses into position. Rivetcrs were busy daily putfiric the various bolls into place and the ITOIH‘ of their nia- chincs were heard above fhc other machinery"

The sides of the hangars are of wood and the roofs finished with bonded asphalt. Each, when finish- ed, will have doors extending: all the way across the from and fhcsc miv be tliroivn open and rolled back a- gainst the s:<' s,

The floors will each cover ouc acre of ground anti consist of cou- crete slabs l'L‘llllOl'CCll with wire mesh and placed on top of eight inches oi crushed stone and gravel.

The planes, after landing nu lllf‘ runways nearby, will taxi illOllf a paved strip which leads up to aiiti into the hangars. This strip is 150 feet wide and ls coated with a special coafctl or stabilised asphalt.

Solid concrete walls from eight to twelve inches thick and well below the frost comprise the foundations for the hangars. The otlicr build- ings also have concrete founda- tions, the smaller" ones resting on piers

Sixty thousand bags of cement. were used in the foundations and when it is stated that. there is ti’) pounds ln each bug stinie idea of the quantity w"ill bc ulcanctl. Each bay: was mixed with 440 pounds of gravel and 180 pounds of sand.

Fourtcen tons of galvanlzcil iron was itscd during the construction and when this is spread out in sheets it covers a lm of territory The amount of shingle slain. when it is all applied. is about 2.000 gal- lons. Over 100.000 bundles of shingles were nailed on the differ- ent. bufldincs.

It is estimated that 250 freight carloads of mat-trial was liaiileil ‘o the airport by the Jenkins Trans- fer. The El.\'f‘l‘.’\‘lf‘ train in this: pro- vince carries about seven freight cars and each of these in turn is capable of holding Z0 tons of ma-

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iioii buililiiius; 4 spot. light. trainer biilltliiius; ont- 200-yard moving tar- scf riinuc; M. '1‘ gtts storage, 1000 » 20,000

gallons; urading sports fields; 1

sports pavilion; egiilosive storage, 1 i-tiiiiunss swinging base, power sup- ply. licaflniz equiiiriicnt. services. etc,

'l'lic biiiltliinz at the bombing raiiizr comprise l observation tower, l quarlraiit SliPl'l‘l', l raft. lYiI'"."l, 1 sPl. slopsii targets, f boat house, 1 b"."l sock. l garage M. T.

Til" above rrquirenients are for a tvpitial homhhiiz and gunnery school but. iii addition lo these the Storms Contracting Company on

Auzirt 27f". received a contract to erect a Turret Instruction biilld- lniz. a spot light training building

and a buildiiw for teaching bomb tlfliilltlli’. li\‘ well as a 25-yard rnfige llll" iiiiiititlizi- gun stop butt and .~,l' ll-ii

" it» ltlPll iif the elk» uf the non- i.ll| bi- tPllTltl by fiiklng into iiiiii<'t|"i"afi(rii the dimensions of I. few o‘ fiv- biilliflmzs. The sunply (lCllfll is nbou‘ 120 feet. bv 90 feet;

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'l'he result of this visit by the out- standing fiyas of the continent was the establishment of the Prince EWvard Island Aero Club which fostered aviation in this province. A number of local flycrs were pro- ducts of this school which trained them in the art. of flying. The Club

terial. Thus it will be seen that s total of 28.000 tons of material were landed at the airport.

The entire site including the run- wa and building area covers ap- f) .iriatcl_v 27.5 acres of ttroifnd. nvfany miles of streets run through the town and it would take a pedestrian the best. part of amorn- ifig to visit all fife different bulld- ‘ ings, hangars and runways. i Pay lllly, which came every two wrecks, was a busy one for the

Building section alone, which em- ployed over 700 men paid out in wanes $43000. every two weeks.

‘The group of building forming Lllf,‘ iowii is situated on the north- east corncr of the whole area tvhicli has been taken over for the coin- bined airport and bombing and 8111111011’ school. The parade grounds, located about the centre of ground is the drill hall, the living the building zone. is 300 feet. bv 400 feet. Sui"i'oiin:llng this parade Quarters. the mosses, hospital, recre- ation hall nncl other buildings.

A large sewerage disposal pram, has been installed at the site and manv miles of water mains and 3231'!‘ Dine has been laid at the air-

Mi". D. l-f._sforms, Manager of the contracting company, personal. ly supervised most o! tfie irfulding work.

Amour: the SUlJ-("WIFRCEOFS were: The Jenkins Transfer. who hauled all the material to the site: Rogers Hardware, suppliers of hardware material: Michael Conway. who hatiled sand and izravcl," McDonald 8! ROWE. who sirimlied lumber; L, M. Poole and Company, who also supplied lumber and other material; J V McPherson and Company, ,Plumblniz: Connolly "my Twizzcl, (o, Co.. of Halifax; Ft-iineli & Chand- ler hardware: Chanpefle dz Coin- imnv, installers of electrical equip- ment: Maritime Electric, who ran a

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being made for the construction of two new plains at a cost of $2,- 500,000. These plants will be used for the building and overhaul of air- planes. y

In addition to purchases made on behalf of the United Kingdom, New Ztraland and Australia, orders placed for Canadian account in the past three months have totalled more than $35,000,000.

'I‘he Department of Munitions and Supply is striving to develop Can- adian sources for the manufacture of all uircra’. components. Orders already have been placed iii this country for propellers and instru- inents not: previously made in the Dominion, and it is planned to man- ufacture aircraft enuglnes in Can- ada.

Negotiations have also been com- pleted for the production in Can- ada of many other items formerly unobtainable in the Dominion, such as airplane tines, electrical equip- ment. Dyrotechnfcs. bomb sights and general aircraft parts for stores.

had planes here for that purpose and Pilots H, S. Jones and Fowler were the instructors.

Magdalen Flights

The Upton Airport, which was es- tablislied in that year", ha.» been in continual use ever since. l-loyvcver this yea: it has been abandoned in favor of the new Charlottetown Air- port, consisting of 200 acres. The Upton Field is situated three miles Northwest of the city. Tue Canad- ian Airways Conipafiy which was a- warded a niinl contract shortly af- ter the establishment of the field have used it continuously up un- til t-he present ycai". Mail and pas- senger flights to the mainland and the Magdalen Islands were maide from the Upton field t.;us making ‘the promoters dream conic true

Airs, Jack Jenkins, wife of Dr. Jack Jenkins, while her husband was promoting aviation, was writing another chapter lii the romance of the skies in this province. She re- ceived lier pilots license in i931 and tiras at that time tlic only lady flier on the Island and as far as is known the first in the Mariiimcs to receive a flying permit. The fol- lowing year she made a record non- stop flight froin lilonircnl to Char- lottetown. Her fi".'. attempt. fail- cd as the lady f'l.i-_i" ran info bad weather after leaving Montreal and was forced to return to that cit-y. A few days later she made the fliaht in record time.