OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND!

AVRO ARROW PT2: The NASA Legacy

In this episode, we go over some of the Avro Arrow employees' post-cancellation legacy and touch on some of the many contributions by Canadians to NASA and the space program!! #AVRO #AVROARROW #JETAIRCRAFT #NASA #AERONAUTICALENGINEERING #AVROCANADA #CANADIANHISTORY #CANADA

Avro Arrow PT1: Did one get away???

The mighty, amazing Avro Arrow!!!! The enduring story that won't die!! Think you've heard it all??? Well, wait till you hear the story of the possibility that one that got away!!!!?!?!!? Well, you've never heard some of these details in a thorough and exciting story that takes you back to the glory days when the Arrow was soaring the skies over Person Airport. You'll hear about the back-room political pressures, the specs from the factory floor, the testing, and much, much more!!! You'll hear the entire story, with many details taken directly from Avro employees who helped with the research. The greatest achievement in Canadian Aerospace engineering in all its stunning details!!! #SUPERSONIC #JETFIGHTERS #FIGHTERJETS #AERONAUTICALDESIGN #BOMBER #SOUNDBARRIER #AVROCANADA #AVROARROW

Dr John Hopps and the Pacemaker

Dr. John Hopps of Winnipeg, Mb invents the first electronic pacemaker at the University of Toronto in 1950. His invention goes on to save literally tens of millions of lives around the world... including his own life!!

Sir F. Banting: insulin and the Zero-G Suit

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr Charles Best are well known for inventing insulin, but we are going to take you inside the actual U of T building where history happened!! Then we take you on an amazing journey thru Banting's later career, where he helped save fighter jet pilots and helped NASA astronauts survive high G-forces and invented the human centrifuge!!!

Camp X!! Top Secret Spy Training School

Have we got any James Bond fans in the audience?? This is the Top Secret story of the first Spy Training school: Camp X!!! It was started by Sir William Stephenson "A Man Called Intrepid!" one of the most important and pivotal Canadians of the 20th Century! You will hear the amazing tale of where Ian Fleming actually got inspiration for the James Bond character in Canada and how Canadian spys had to learn covert communications, explosives, and deadly hand to hand combat to become assassins!! In this our most epic story yet you will be on the edge of your seat as we take you behind enemy lines and learn the story of the first spy training school!!! CAMP X!