The Royal Canadian Air Force announced earlier this month that it will retire its fleet of pilot training jets and put the program on hiatus.
Canada’s aspiring pilots will now travel to Texas, Finland and Italy to earn their wings.
So ends a proud tradition of pilot training that during World War Two saw Canada train more than 130,000 Allied aircrew, earning it the epithet “the aerodrome of democracy” from then U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt.
