An iconic beagle famous throughout the cartoon skies as a First World War flying ace has landed at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.
“Snoopy and the Red Baron” is a travelling exhibit from the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Centre in California, bringing the Peanuts character’s most recognized alter ego to museums around the world.
“It features one of Snoopy’s most famous personas – the flying ace—where he’s trying to take down the infamous Red Baron during (the First World War),” said Vanessa Desorcy, a marketing and communications specialist with the museum.
Sporting a leather flying cap, goggles, and his signature scarf, Snoopy took to the skies atop his doghouse, his imagination transforming it into a Sopwith Camel biplane as he fought the elusive Red Baron – another flying ace based on German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
The temporary “Snoopy and the Red Baron” exhibit is …