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| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37761 | 12 Jan 17 16:01 |
After the war, May opened up Canada's first airfield in Edmonton, Alberta, and became a pioneering bush pilot. This is his Avro Avion (reproduction) plane on wheels that he flew. In Dec 1928 there was a Diptheria Epidemic out break 550 miles north of Edmonton in Fort Vermillion. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37760 | 12 Jan 17 15:53 |
In WW1 April 21, 1918, his guns were jammed, after trying to attack the Red Baron's cousin, in the middle of a dogfight, and he quickly dived out, but was chased by the Red Baron, who was trying to make May become his 81st kill. Roy Brown, May's squadron leader, came to the rescue. Here is a brief 5 minute animated short fim of this evocative acount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y The Baron did not crash, but actually landed hi Tripe intact, while mortally shot, behind enemy lines, and then died. Today, it is mostly agreed that the trajectory of the bullet that killed the Baron came from the ground - the Aussie machine gunner in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37759 | 12 Jan 17 15:39 |
He got his nickname "Wop" at age 6 from his 2 yr old cousin Mary, who could not pronounce Wilfrid, and kept calling him "Woppie". The family thought it delightful and gave Wilfrid the nickname "Wop". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37758 | 12 Jan 17 15:33 |
This is Canadian Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, WW1 Ace (13 kills), and pioneering Bush Pilot in Norhtern Alberta and North West Territories of Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| poppy, Comment for image # 37604 | 09 Jan 17 11:38 |
| A very well done model!! |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 37735 | 08 Jan 17 23:34 |
| Aww shucks, jes' helping out a fellow modeler or should I say artiste with an "e." Its beautiful work Lastwood. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37735 | 08 Jan 17 19:10 |
| Thanks Skye - I appreciate the nice comment from a "next level" Master Detailer like you. It is great to have a super detailed well photographed model to refer to when trying to incorporate some of the details into one's own build. I referred to John Oshust's super detailed, extensively researched, 41" Aerodromerc kit Pfalz DIIIa build. He selflessly documents all of his techniques in pictures too, just like your SE5a build. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 37735 | 08 Jan 17 16:07 |
| Very nicely done. The detailing really makes it stand out. You've done a lot of work and it shows. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 37739 | 08 Jan 17 16:05 |
| Used to gaze upon them at night many times. Could only see them by looking sideways, not direct. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 37737 | 08 Jan 17 16:04 |
| That's a beautiful photograph with the sled dog team in the foreground. Should be enlarged and framed. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37739 | 07 Jan 17 21:10 |
| I'll bet he knows all of their names too. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37739 | 07 Jan 17 21:09 |
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| David Duckett, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 19:15 |
| Chesapeake Bay to Arctic Circle = 2,288 miles |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 18:37 |
| 1,676 miles |
| BriandKilby, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 17:12 |
| how close are you to the arctic circle lastwoodsman? |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 13:08 |
| This was late fall before "freeze-up". The Northern Lights were shooting and streaming and shimmering and wavering all across the starlit sky - (better then any temporary, noisy fireworks) - in the early morning silence, while I was setting out the duck decoys in the dark before shooting time. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 13:04 |
| My "Country Wife", "Teardrop", and I had paddled (there were no roads) the Black River downstream by canoe, "loaded for bear" with the canoe packed a foot above the gunnels, paddled 11 miles to the mouth, where we found an old dilapidated Trapper's Cabin to call home, and we ate duck, grouse, and Humpback salmon for a week. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 12:55 |
| I've seen many Northern Lights in my day, as I worked all across Northern Ontario. The most poignant and captivating were seen from an old duck hunting blind, beside the old log-pier posts from the old log-drive days, at the mouth of the Black River that empties into Black Bay on the North shore of Lake Superior. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 37736 | 07 Jan 17 10:02 |
| Wondrous display of nature's art! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37737 | 07 Jan 17 08:58 |
Northern Llights and Sled DogTeam |
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