By Peter Pigott
From the eccentric Fairey conflict to the lethal-looking CF-18, from smooth airliners that experience no defects (and no personality) to the vintage North big name (which had both), here's the last word line-up of the airplane that experience served Canadians within the final century. With over 100 pictures of 50 historical planes, Wings throughout Canada is a retrospective of Canada's aeronautical expertise. This booklet doesn't examine the planes, nor declare that each one are "classics" within the conventional experience of the notice. in its place, it's a get together of a love affair with plane that each one served a objective of their personal time.
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2006a: 794. DISTRIBUTION: NT (Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 794, 845). Genus Parocalea Bernhauer 1902b (Fig. 21) Parocalea Bernhauer 1902b: 255; Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz 1926: 726; Blackwelder 1952: 295; Moore and Legner 1975: 469; Lohse et al. 1990: 143; Ashe 2001: 362; Klimaszewski and Pelletier 2004: 487. Type-species: Parocalea baicalica (Eppelsheim) originally as Ilyobates. Fixed by Bernhauer 1902b: 255, by monotypy. Species included: Parocalea nearctica Lohse in Lohse et al. 1990: 144; Campbell and Davies 1991: 105; Klimaszewski and Pelletier 2004: 490.
2006a: 745). 38 CATALOGUE OF ALEOCHARINE ROVE BEETLES OF CANADA AND ALASKA Oxypoda frigida Bernhauer 1907: 404; Moore and Legner 1975: 464; Campbell and Davies 1991: 99; Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 813. DISTRIBUTION: AK, YT, NT, BC, AB, ON, QC, NB, NS (Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 816) Oxypoda gatosensis Bernhauer 1905b: 256; Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz 1926: 752; Moore and Legner 1975: 464; Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 803. Oxypoda fusiformis Casey 1906: 317; Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz, 1026: 752; Moore and Legner 1975: 464 [synonymy not confirmed, type not studied].
TRIBE OXYPODINI 41 Oxypoda volkeri Klimaszewski in Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 794. DISTRIBUTION: NT (Klimaszewski et al. 2006a: 794, 845). Genus Parocalea Bernhauer 1902b (Fig. 21) Parocalea Bernhauer 1902b: 255; Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz 1926: 726; Blackwelder 1952: 295; Moore and Legner 1975: 469; Lohse et al. 1990: 143; Ashe 2001: 362; Klimaszewski and Pelletier 2004: 487. Type-species: Parocalea baicalica (Eppelsheim) originally as Ilyobates. Fixed by Bernhauer 1902b: 255, by monotypy. Species included: Parocalea nearctica Lohse in Lohse et al.