City Hall in Welland, ON, Canada, tips its hat to Silver Dart replica core groups during televised May council meeting

Twenty-seven members of the two core groups who put the Welland Silver Dart replica together, and promoted it during a lengthy public and school educational program … after investing more than 6,000 volunteer hours, $50,000 + of donated funds over four year of their lives got an official “tip of the hat” from the City of Welland, Ontario, Canada, during a televised (Niagara Cocego Cable 10) city council meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2009.

The Welland Tribune daily newspaper carried the story, written by city hall reporter Allan Benner … The article appears on our NEWS page ….

 

AEA 2005 Inc. to receive percentage of profits from unique
aviation trilogy book-publishing project with Welland author

By Doug Jermyn, President, AEA 2005 Inc.

As reported in the previous update of our website, a new book about how we built the Welland Silver Dart Replica - C-IIGY - over these last five years is now being written and readied for publishing and sales by Welland author Ted Beaudoin and Windfall Associates.

Beaudoin has also been our volunteer media services manager since March 2008.

This new book will be published in a high-quality paperback format, titled C-IIGY Flies! It is one of three, 320-page dramatic aviation adventure and aviation history books in a new aviation book trilogy, titled Walking on Air … each book also contains new colour and black-and-white and previously-unpublished photographs.

The set will be sold through the auspices of the AEA 2005 Inc. Each book and / or the book set will be published and distributed from Welland, making it another Niagara Peninsula venture as is our own Silver Dart project.

The story continues on our NEWS page … please see Walking on Air aviation trilogy now in production

 

The developing history log of the AEA 2005 Inc.

For a backgrounder and a developing history log of the AEA 2005 Inc., please see the article written by Jim Griffith, Director, AEA 2005 Inc., on the NEWS page titled ...

A brief synopsis of what it took, and who it took,
to build a flyable, full-scale replica of The Silver Dart –
C-IIGY - to commemorate and celebrate in February 2009,
100 years of controlled powered flight in Canada and in the British Empire of Feb. 23rd, 1909

• Present a pictorial history of the construction of our Centennial Silver Dart replica.
• Provide some historical background on Canada’s first airplane - the Silver Dart, and the people who designed, built and flew it almost 100 years ago. HINT- if you know who invented the telephone then you now know who also was behind that aeronautical accomplishment.
• Publicly thank our sponsors and contributors who have so generously supported our project.
• Show some of the faces of the many Niagara region people who are intimately involved in our project. Most are retirees whose wives are very thankful that the project frequently gets them off their couches and out of the house!
• Provide periodic updates on our build and flight test progress.
• Provide information and the opportunity for, hopefully, many more people or corporations to contribute financially to the success of this very Canadian heritage project. The original Silver Dart was quite literally the “stake in the ground” from which all of Canadian aviation grew.

We hope you find this site interesting, informative and enjoyable. Please let us know by contacting us.

 

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