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North Bay Air field photos with small aircraft that reads "Bell Aircraft" on side with Trans Canada fuel truck and man fueling plane taken from alternate angles.
Hans Lundberg, a geophysicist with the Lundberg-Ryan Air Exploration Company in Toronto, Ont., had leased a Bell 47 pre-production prototype (flown by Bell experimental test pilot Gerald (Jay) Demming) direct from Bell Aircraft in June 1946 to test out an experimental magnetometer on mineral surveys. The magnetic survey took place in northern Ontario near Sudbury, at the Frood Mine owned by the International Nickel Company (a.k.a. INCO). Reported by Bob Petote, and air attack officer with the Alberta Forest Protection Division in the July 2009 Vertical Magazine.
Photo provided by John Hicks. Caption information provided by Pierre J. Verhelst.Creator
Lorne Hicks
