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Canada has been a part of the story of powered flight since its earliest days. Numerous Canadians have applied their talents and vision to advance aviation and all of its related sciences. The following are just a few examples of Canadian innovation in this field.

An enemy aircraft (likely a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter) makes a low pass over Allied vessels.

Ed Branch helped rescue a fellow English serviceman whose plane had crashed in the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick, May 5, 1945.

David Allister MacDonald in the cockpit of the Halifax bomber Q for Queenie, sometimes between 1943 and 1945.

Halifax Bomber, 1944 - note bomb damage to the port inner of the aircraft. David Allister MacDonald is kneeling in the photo.

Gordon Wilson's squadron mates pose by a Spitfire while on alert in Tunisia, 1943.

Desert Air Force ground crew and pilots pose on a Spitfire in Tunisia, 1943.

View of a Curtiss SB2C1 "Helldiver" aircraft being fueled on a runway.

View of a Curtiss SB2C1 "Helldiver" aircraft being fueled on a runway.

Victory Salute by aircraft of No.84 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force. Aircraft in foreground is a Supermarine 'Spitfire' photo-reconnaissance aircraft.

Victory Salute by aircraft of No.84 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force. Aircraft in foreground is a Supermarine 'Spitfire' photo-reconnaissance aircraft.

Air crew standing in front of a Short Stirling bomber.

Air crew standing in front of a Short Stirling bomber.

Alex Campbell (right) and "Taffy" standing in front of the tail turret of their Avro Lancaster bomber.

Alex Campbell at the controls of an Airspeed Oxford training aircraft.