FTW Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) CE&PE Motto - Experto Credo – Believe the Expert The recent Hunter at Namao posting by James Craik caused me to contact an old friend in Canada and to cut a long story short he kindly provided me with info and a number of pictures and some digging has found the following which I hope is of some interest. Canadian Air Force, test and development work was carried on at Ottawa Air Station (at Rockcliffe and Shirley's Bay) where, eventually, a special flight was formed for this purpose. The outbreak of war greatly increased the demands for test flying for research and experiment, and, as a result, the flight was expanded into the Test and Development Establishment in November 1940. Six years later its name was changed to Experimental and Proving Establishment. On 1 September 1951 the Central Experimental and Proving Establishment was formed by the amalgamation of the E. & P.E. at Rockcliffe, the Winter Experimental Establishment at Edmonton, and the R.C.A.F. (National Research Council) Unit at Arnprior. Headquarters of C.E. & P.E. were at Rockcliffe, with detachments at several sites across Canada. In 1957 CEPE was moved to RCAF Station Uplands, a move necessitated by the longer runways required for testing new jet aircraft. The Metadata associated with each file provides some info such as location Any further info on these photos and Winterization Trials would be very welcome. Some "Canadian" Meteors and deck landing trials on HMCS Bonaventure will follow soon - all from the same source All photographs are courtesy Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre, Ottawa via Steve. Regards Frank [/url] Avro Lincoln B Mark II, RF523 "Thor II", of the Empire Air Armament School, Manby, on the ground with bomb perhaps during a tour of Canada and the USA in November-December 1946. Canberra WH699. B.2, used by R.A.F. Flying College, Manby, from 1953 as Aries IV, for navigational research. Numerous trans-Polar flights including, 14th October 1954, the first flight by a British jet aircraft over the North Geographic Pole.WH699 was replaced by P.R.7 Aries V (WT528) on 14th June 1956. Canberra WH 699, also established new records between London and Cape Town, and between Ottawa and London. Sea Hornet F20 TT193 was sent to Canada for winterisation trials in Edmonton, starting in December 1948. On completion the airframe was sold off, to save the cost of transporting it back To Spartan Air Services as CF-GUO in July 1950, crashing after an engine fire at Terrace, British Columbia, 11/7/52. Nimrod XV229 was initially used for clearance of all the comms systems, but later became Boscombe Down's 'hack' for such things as SARBE personal locator beacon trials and the communications refit for the Mk2. It entered service as an MR.2 in 1979. Wfu 31 Mar 2010. Can anyone explain the Roadrunner on the fin? Meteor F8 at CE&PE Namao Close up of CE&PE badge on nose of Meteor Gannet AS1 WH344 at Namao Fairey Firefly at Namao A&AEE Britannia 312-F over Cold Lake Edited January 13, 2014 by FTW 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Sorry but I cannot see the photo's. All I get is boxes saying that the pic has been deleted or moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hope the pics appear now! f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hope the pics appear now! f They are visible to me and they are beautiful ! Thanks a lot for sharing ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Thanks........................ great pics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Lovely old shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Fantastic pictures. Anything on the harrier that went to Cold Lake around 1968/69ish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Fantastic pictures. Anything on the harrier that went to Cold Lake around 1968/69ish? Hi Nothing on the Harrier So far but there are a quarter of a million images on file which are being gone through systematically so here 's hoping! F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackem01 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Fantastic shots, hope you'll find time to post some more, Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby57 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) Beautiful; those F Mk.20 shots are just what I was after. Thanks Frank and I'm with mackem01...hope you have some more. Any of a Hastings at Ft. Churchill circa 1967 would be fantastic...but I know I'm pushing my luck there! Cheers, Nobs57 Edited February 22, 2014 by Nobby57 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radleigh Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Wow, great photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANovaScotian Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I'm planning on doing a model of that particular Sea Hornet. Does anyone know what color the prop spinners would have been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 The Firefly with late paint scheme and wartime C1 type roundels is interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev67 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Great photo of the Britannia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radleigh Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Just seen this thread again since my last reply... just as amazed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew March Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 FTW, info on the Roadrunner for you: http://www.na3t.org/air/photo/MIL22890 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 FTW, info on the Roadrunner for you: http://www.na3t.org/air/photo/MIL22890 Cheers for that Andrew - seems to suggest that the Ac was based on Malta. Heading out now to East Fortune for the day some hunting when i get back Regards Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Beautiful pics,..thanks for sharing them, Cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitok1983 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) Nice! The photos from "That" time have always been interesting! Edited September 4, 2014 by Snitok1983 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barneydhc82 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I was working in the Control Tower at RCAF Namao from 1956-1959 and saw many of the interesting British aircraft in transit through or based there. Any photos that I have were colour slides which have discoloured badly over the years. Nearly got a ride in the Javelin but it went U/S due to the extreme cold..-40*C. Barney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 So very interesting - thanks for posting these. That Britannia shot is almost like artwork, suitable for framing. Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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