Canadian Air Wing In Afghanistan

[Elan Head]

Hi everyone,

 

FYI, the digital version of our special supplement on Canada's Joint Task Force-Afghanistan Air Wing is now online with the rest of our digital issues:

 

http://www.verticalmag.com/digital/

 

A print version of the supplement will be going out to all of our Canadian subscribers with the Dec-Jan issue, although the online version includes two stories (on the Herc and Heron) that had to be cut from the print version due to weight restrictions (yes, a few extra pages in each supplement really adds up!).

 

Contributing editor Graham Lavery and I happened to be in Kandahar when the Air Wing was stood up in 2008. We realized then that the Air Wing had huge challenges to overcome, so it was great to return to Afghanistan two years later and see what impressive progress the men and women of the Air Wing have made in addressing those challenges. Many thanks to everyone over there for an excellent visit.

 

Cheers,

 

Elan

[Gary Watson]

Just had a quick look at it, will wait for the hardcopy to read everything. Great job and Graham's pictures are super!

 

GW

[canukav8tor]

Elan, excellent writing and as noted, Graham's pictures were incredible. Well done!

 

Regards

AV8

[canukav8tor]

...and some recently posted vid that gives some motion to things:

 

JTF-A Air Wing choppers in action

 

Regards

AV8