note! a new blog site has been set up solely for Saunders Aircraft at Saunders Aircraft Canada
Thank-you all for replying to my emails, my questions and phone calls on Saunders Aircraft, I hope I’m not a bother to you, I like to think of you as part of my Saunders research team.
My goal is to tell the Saunders Aircraft story, why?
We have a rc model airplane airfield adjacent to the airport at Gimli, it’s mecca for us that fly rc airplanes. We excitedly bring our RV’s, full of rc airplanes out to this model field and we stay for a weekend or longer. Playing and flying our toy airplanes and telling airplane stories around the campfire at night, it’s a magical time, I’m a kid again!
Being a native Manitoban and with a passion for aviation how could I not know about Saunders Aircraft.
I confess that I was at the Gimli airport in the summer 1975 as a Red River College summer student working the Manitoba Dept. of Public Works doing survey work on parking lots, and I’ll admit I was more interested in the Harvard aircraft parked on the north side of Hangar 1 than learning about Saunders. I continued in the civil - geotechnical field and did not work in the aviation industry.
I’m now retired, I do occasional part time work for a geotechnical engineering company here in Winnipeg and thus I have time to do aviation research when not building rc airplanes.
In 2012 a rc model airplane club mate, Wilf, who worked at Saunders Aircraft decided to build a rc model of the ST-28, and I volunteered to do some Saunders research and roughly sketch up a draft set of plans for a ~93” wingspan model and the seed was planted for me on the Saunders story.
From 2012 to 2018, whenever I found Saunders information on the internet I would save it. When it was too windy to fly our rc airplanes at Gimli field, we would tour the Gimli airport and visit the ST-28 airframe and static test airframe. It’s sad to say that the ST-28 airframe was scrapped by the WCAM museum a couple of years ago.
Where are we now:
A blog site newly set up for only for Saunders Aircraft - https://saundersaircraft.blogspot.com/ the posts are not in chronological order, we share the information as it comes in.
A Saunders Aircraft Facebook Group page at ` https://www.facebook.com/groups/2763480640542919/?ref=bookmarks
Thank-you again for sharing your information, if you see I have used your information in-correctly, let me know and I’ll fix it and I repeat that my intention is tell a Saunders Aircraft story with no bias, no criticism, no axe to grind, just to get a good Saunders Aircraft story out on the web for future generations.
Sincerely,
Ken Kalynuk
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
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