Operation Leapfrog and Nimblebat: The RCAF Ferry flights of the Cold War

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This will go over the RCAF's Cold War ferry flights to Europe. It starts with a brief history of North Atlantic ferry flights, and focuses on mainly Operation Leapfrog and Nimblebat, closing with a brief look at a number of other ferry operations.

Video chapters:
0:00 - intro
2:10 - History of Trans-Atlantic ferry flights
6:50 - Operation LeapFrog
15:05 - Operation Random
16:13 - Operation NimbleBat
18:16 - Operation JumpMoat
18:32 - Other Ferry operations
19:35 - Conclusion

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Thank you. My Dad, a native Canadian flew To Scotland the UK, Africa, Egypt, India. It is good to see someone tell about this kind of thing. Brave men who took planes where they had to.

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In my Dad's logbook he called it "CreepFrog III" 413 departure from Bagotville delayed a day by weather- held 2 weeks at Bluie West, a week in Keflavik - a month to get to Zweibrucken.

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