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- Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:55 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Why does AC not have a base in YYC?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7743
Re: Why does AC not have a base in YYC?
In the first year of operations for TCA in 1937 the head administration office was Montreal. The head operational office or base in 1937 was YWG. There have been pilots based in YWG since 1937. Another operational base or hub at the time was Lethbridge. Passenger and freight flights with Lockheed 10...
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:03 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: DHC-3T Lost in WA Puget Sound
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6138
Re: DHC-3T Lost in WA Puget Sound
Operated by NW Seaplane, not Kenmore Air. Looks like a GE / Walter engine'd machine. Very high rate of decent before impact per FlightRadar24. Bummer. https://www.flyingmag.com/1-dead-9-missing-in-floatplane-crash-near-seattle/?spPodID=030&spMailingID=10025921&spJobID=206333902&spReportId=MjA2MzMzO...
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: THE NEXT GIGANTIC ISSUE.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 33102
Re: THE NEXT GIGANTIC ISSUE.
Climate change is affecting us most immediately in electricity prices, and severe drought. The summer temperatures every day across a large chunk of the US, are 40 C every day. Drought is closely linked to electricity, and is also playing havoc with food prices. I am sorry for the young folks. The ...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:42 am
- Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
- Topic: Fogotten Aircraft
- Replies: 81
- Views: 35474
Re: Fogotten Aircraft
Thanks for the video. Very timelybeech 18 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:04 am August 01, 2022
Bellanca Aircraft.
https://youtu.be/f-1Fk8cfTJI
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- Tue May 31, 2022 2:01 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Sandy Lake Seaplane Service
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7624
Re: Sandy Lake Seaplane Service
Still being assessed by the TSB for the class of investigation. It would be helpful to know what the weather was like at the time. Anybody have historical records for that day from public area weather. "C-GBGJ, a float-equipped Cessna U206G registered to Sandy Lake Seaplane Service, was conducting ...
- Tue May 24, 2022 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: United picked on the wrong guy, this time.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3575
Re: United picked on the wrong guy, this time.
Maybe if the big healthy looking football player hadn’t tried to use a wheelchair to haul his luggage the situation would never have happened. Wheelchairs are for handicapped people not cheapskate people to use as luggage carriers.
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- Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:24 pm
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Truckers convoy
- Replies: 1591
- Views: 91192
Re: Truckers convoy
Any surprise to see this......Arrest them and freeze their bank accounts to pay for the costs they incur, as should be done here. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/german-officials-condemn-climate-protests-at-roads-port/ar-AAU8fBF?ocid=msedgntp The left had better pray that they never face ano...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 7:45 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Barkley-Grow
- Replies: 159
- Views: 130076
Re: Barkley-Grow
I am a volunteer at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC. I have been going through the photo files looking for buried treasure! Sure enough there are some Barkley-Grow photos that I have never seen online. One is of -BQM being lifted by a crane at a dock - obviously been submerged. This is...
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:12 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Howard DGA 15P
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9567
Re: Howard DGA 15P
4BF3670A-C986-48EF-94C6-66B8F52051B7.jpeg 19CB7A4F-7990-4383-BD26-F7961B7739CA.jpegHi guys, old subject I found while googling dehavilland beavers after watching six days and seven nights. I presently own N65046 you were talking about, N450HD today. Don’t know if you are still around but have a pic...
- Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Skymaster Down
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3393
Re: Skymaster Down
Hey Gang, I saw an advertisement for what looks to be a neat documentary on the 1951 disappearance of the C54 in BC that killer 44. 44? In a Skymaster? Yeah, I thought that too, but the old DC-6 was called a Skymaster, although that may only have been the military version. Come to think of it, and ...
- Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:38 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Skymaster Down
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3393
Re: Skymaster Down
Hey Gang, I saw an advertisement for what looks to be a neat documentary on the 1951 disappearance of the C54 in BC that killer 44. Its called "Blackhawk Down" does anybody know where I can stream this for free? It was supposed to be on last Sunday, but I don't have the documentary channel The craz...
- Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1847
Re: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
Here is a photo that I took of the Republic F84 near Meister Lake in 1984. There are access trails for ATV’s and snow machines and it appears that the aircraft has been extensively vandalized.
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- Sat Dec 25, 2021 3:18 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1847
Re: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
Came across reference to a sabre that crashed near Meister lake in Southern yukon but have not had any luck finding anything on the internet about it.. It is a Republic F84E Thunderjet, USAF # 49-2026. Crashed west of Watson Lake Jan 7, 1950 due engine failure. If I recall correctly the pilot baile...
- Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:08 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1847
Re: Info on 1950s crash in yukon
Came across reference to a sabre that crashed near Meister lake in Southern yukon but have not had any luck finding anything on the internet about it.. I know about the aircraft but I don’t think it is a Sabre. Maybe a F84 or something like that. I am not very familiar with those military designati...
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Keewatin overrun in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12771
Re: Keewatin overrun in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut
Looks like another lovely day on the Belcher Islands... RWY is 09/27 with LPV minimums of 250' and 1 sm. Was there ever another location for the runway at SK? I was there in a Twin Otter out of Churchill in March 1973. The runway was about 1200’ long at that time. I thought it might have been more ...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:32 pm
- Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
- Topic: Al Nelson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2920
Al Nelson
I was informed today that well known aviation enthusiast Al Nelson recently passed away. Al flew and maintained aircraft in northern Ontario and Manitoba in the 1950’s and onward. He is the only pilot I know that has flown commercially a Bellanca Aircruiser CF-BTW, a Junkers W34 CF-AQW, and Fox Moth...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:55 pm
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Vaccine hesitancy shows a strong correlation with stupid people.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4169
Re: Vaccine hesitancy shows a strong correlation with stupid people.
Over 200 years ago the famous philosopher Thomas Paine said:
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to a dead person.”
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“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to a dead person.”
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- Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:22 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: K Max down
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3062
Re: K Max down
This a very unusual helicopter. The design goes back to Germany during WW2. There are 2 intermeshing rotors each on a separate rotor head. No tail rotor. I watched one for several days doing power line installations in Arizona a few years ago. AP 84F7AD01-4CFE-4DC0-B0F1-A7055AA143DB.jpeg 91948903-08...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: AvCanada's Wall
- Topic: Jamie Biggs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4980
- Wed Sep 08, 2021 5:29 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Recent prop safety minor stories
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4135
Re: Recent prop safety minor stories
Nope. Genuine original local ladies.
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