Canadian Aviation History

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  1. 3. Invented by Rupert Turnbull in 1902.
  2. 6. The longest ambulance flight done by a bush pilot was from Winnipeg to _______ in 1939.
  3. 7. Bush pilot who formed United Air Transport in 1933.
  4. 8. The first commercial ______ flight in Canada took place in 1913, carrying newspapers from Montreal to Ottawa.
  5. 11. William Boeing and Eddie Hubbard carried 60 ______ from Vancouver to Seattle in 1919.
  6. 12. The first commercial passenger flight in Canada was in 1920 between _______ and The Pas, Manitoba.
  7. 13. Bush aircraft were equipped with _____ or floats so they could land in water or snow.
  8. 14. It became possible by the 1930s to _______ an aircraft to fly almost anywhere in Canada.
  9. 16. Aircraft built in 1908 that made 2 successful flights before crashing.
  10. 17. Famous Canadian WW1 fighter pilot who became a bush pilot after the war.
  11. 18. First aircraft to make a powered, heavier-than-air flight in Canada in 1909.
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  1. 1. Term that refers to aviation in sparsely populated northern areas.
  2. 2. William Wallace Gibson designed and built the first successful Canadian aircraft _______.
  3. 4. John McCurdy flew from Key West to _______ in 1911, which was the longest overwater flight to that date.
  4. 5. Victims of _______ or illness could be transported for medical attention quickly thanks to bush pilots.
  5. 9. First aircraft to remain airborne for a full 1000m.
  6. 10. Air Sevice company servicing Quebec and Ontario in the 1920s.
  7. 15. These flying machines were introduced after WW2 in Canada.