Engineers/Fabrication Team
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Cam WallacePRM |
| Cam is the son of 193 Sqn Typhoon pilot Emerson Wallace. Growing up listening to stories of his father’s Typhoon operations, and around his post war career as a pilot, Cam developed a strong interest in historic aviation with direct links to the dangerous operations flown by Typhoon pilots. Cam started his career in aviation as a teenager with B.C. Forest Products, and as a licensed AME M1/M2 he has experience on 20+ fixed and rotary wing types. The Wallace family truly has aviation in their blood with his mother, father, sister and brother all being pilots. | |
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Ian SlaterProject Lead |
| Ian apprenticed as a Millwright/Machinist/Industrial Mechanic prior to joining the Canadian Air Force in 1997 as an Aircraft Structures Technician. He is a licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer “S” (Structures) with experience in both civilian and military structures overhaul, repair and restoration. Ian has experience on 16 fixed and rotary wing aircraft types. During his service with the Canadian Air Force, Ian served with many units throughout Canada and the Middle East including 438 and 440 Squadrons, two of the three Canadian Wartime Typhoon units. Ian has been working towards the goal of an airworthy Typhoon since 1991. | |
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Graham AllenPropulsion/Systems Lead |
| Graham has been working in aerospace for 24 years. Initially Graham joined the RNZAF in 1991 as a helicopter mechanic, after completing 8 years of service he continued work as an Aircraft Maintenance engineer in the civilian sector with some of the largest rotary wing operators in the world. Graham left New Zealand when he was 29, and has worked in 42 different countries in his career. During this time he worked not only on rotary wing aircraft, but also spent 2 years with the Subritsky Collection in New Zealand, working on Spitfire Mk. XVIe TE330 and Gloster Meteor NF.11 WD767. | |
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Martin CherneffAircraft Maintenance Engineer “S” |
| Martin is an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer “S” (Structures) who has been in the aviation industry for 25 years. He has directly overseen 20 rebuilds of DH legacy products, and many conversions to turbine. Martin is also an avid modeller and restorer of vintage cars. | |
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Jonathan CookAircraft Structures Technician with the Department of National Defense (DND) |
| Jonathan has been an active member within the DND for 8 years with 3 of those being in the Airforce. While the military has assisted in refining Jonathan’s technical skills, he has long possessed a wide scope of abilities ranging from textiles to refinishing and composites. His family history in aviation combined with a keen interest in fabricating led to the birth of his company, Avro Fabrication, where Jonathan’s skills are constantly being challenged. | |
Design Team
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Bruce R.N. SlaterMechanical Designer |
| Bruce has 40 years Product Design & Development work history; primarily in the Marine and Tension Fabric Structure industries. Bruce received formal drafting training ‘on the board’, changing to computer drafting in the early 90s. The result is 20 years of 3D computer modeling experience with extensive materials and manufacturing process knowledge. | |
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Nicolas Walter3D CAD |
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Martin OldfieldRetired Aeronautical Engineer |
| Martin has spent nearly 50 years in the Aerospace Industry starting as an Engineering Apprentice at Armstrong Whitworth in Coventry, England. He immigrated to Canada in 1966 and worked on a variety of projects in many disciplines including manufacturing, engineering mock-ups, production support, value and design engineering. Projects included Douglas DC 10 Wing in Malton, Ontario; Saunders Aircraft ST-27 Regional Aircraft in Gimli, Manitoba; Canadair Challenger and Bombardier Regional Jet, Montreal, Quebec; Lavi Multirole Fighter, Israeli Aircraft Industries, Tel Aviv; IPTN N250 Regional Commuter Turboprop, Bandung, Indonesia; Boeing 747, 767, 777, 787 and SFAR88 Fuel Systems Safety Analysis, Everett, Washington. Was also briefly involved in the Comox Spitfire Project providing reverse engineering support until it was taken over by Vintage Wings and eventually moved to Ottawa. |
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Chris Humphris3D CAD |
| Retired RF Technician/Project Manager 20 years’ service with Royal Australian Air Force where I trained as a Radio Technician Ground. 30+ years with Australian RF Microwave Communications Industry as Project Manager. |
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Media and Development Team
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Graeme SutherlandProject Historian Mechanical Engineer |
| Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Canterbury University, Christchurch NZ. Graeme has worked for 33 years as a mechanical engineer, with experience in forestry transport, paper mill systems, and marine inspection. Throughout his career, Graeme has focussed his efforts on energy saving projects where he drafts his designs and alterations to existing systems using CAD. While his aviation interests began in high school, they have been rekindled through the return to flight of Mosquito KA114, and the study of the marvellous Napier Sabre H24. |
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Andy WallacePilot |
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Anne Gafiuk |
| Anne Gafiuk is a former elementary school teacher from Calgary, Alberta. During her research into WWII RCAF pilots for a fictional story, she became very interested in vintage aircraft, the people involved with them and their history, taking her on a new flight of discovery. She is the author of three books: Wings Over High River, December 2012, She Made Them Family, November 2015, and Quietus: Last Fight, November 2017, all published by the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Her novel continues to wait! For more information, please visit www.whatsinastory.ca, www.thetyphoonproject.org If you have questions and/stories, please write to Anne at: anne@whatsinastory.ca, anne@thetyphoonproject.org or anne@typhoonlegacy.com. |
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Ian McInerney |
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Jiří Strouhal |
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