Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Billy Bishop Airport

Andy | Tuesday, June 21, 2016 | Best Blogger Tips
The airport is named after Billy Bishop a Canadian flying ace and Victoria Cross recipient of WWI. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace of the war. A replica of Billy Bishop's Nieuport 17 is suspended over the escalators.

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  1. TomTuesday, June 21, 2016 7:27:00 AM

    looks stuck!

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  2. GayleTuesday, June 21, 2016 7:36:00 AM

    Nice lines. How fun to ride the escalator up approaching the plane overhead.

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  3. KateTuesday, June 21, 2016 8:51:00 AM

    It has a bit of a museum effect! Beautiful, clean and sleek looking airport.

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  4. MarleenTuesday, June 21, 2016 9:33:00 AM

    This is a great way to be honoured.

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  5. Taken For GrantedTuesday, June 21, 2016 10:08:00 AM

    Love seeing these historic aircraft at airports, and equally glad not to be flying in them.

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  6. Billy Blue EyesTuesday, June 21, 2016 10:09:00 AM

    Nice memorial to him

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  7. WayneTuesday, June 21, 2016 10:50:00 AM

    It's hard to imagine shooting at each other in these planes. It must have been terrifying.

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  8. SharonTuesday, June 21, 2016 10:52:00 AM

    I'm glad to see the inside of this airport since I have a good friend who works from here. He actually makes his home in Chicago but spends his week days in Toronto for work. One of these days I'm going to visit him and maybe fly up to Toronto with him on Monday and spend the day before heading back home.

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  9. RedPatTuesday, June 21, 2016 2:55:00 PM

    I've never been over there yet. Everyone seems to enjoy flying from there!

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  10. Bill Tuesday, June 21, 2016 4:05:00 PM

    Good job of composing the shot to show plane and the space around it.

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  11. William KendallTuesday, June 21, 2016 4:23:00 PM

    They've really done a lot of work on the terminal. I flew into the island airport a few times, but not in some years.

    There's a section on him in the War Museum, including a windshield from one of his planes, taken by him as a souvenir after a very close call- you can see a bullet hole in the glass, and had it been a bit over towards the center, he would have been killed. This was a few weeks before his Victoria Cross day.

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  12. MichelleTuesday, June 21, 2016 8:35:00 PM

    I can't imagine flying around in this!

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  13. CountryMumFriday, July 01, 2016 5:50:00 PM

    What a wonderful tribute to a war veteran. Great photo Andy.

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