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by Antique Pilot
Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:55 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Why does AC not have a base in YYC?
Replies: 33
Views: 7740

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...
by Antique Pilot
Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:03 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: DHC-3T Lost in WA Puget Sound
Replies: 21
Views: 6133

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...
by Antique Pilot
Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:39 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: THE NEXT GIGANTIC ISSUE.
Replies: 251
Views: 33098

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 ...
by Antique Pilot
Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:42 am
Forum: Aviation Videos & Photos
Topic: Fogotten Aircraft
Replies: 81
Views: 35431

Re: Fogotten Aircraft

beech 18 wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:04 am August 01, 2022

Bellanca Aircraft.

https://youtu.be/f-1Fk8cfTJI
Thanks for the video. Very timely

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by Antique Pilot
Tue May 31, 2022 2:01 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Sandy Lake Seaplane Service
Replies: 20
Views: 7623

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 ...
by Antique Pilot
Tue May 24, 2022 10:49 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: United picked on the wrong guy, this time.
Replies: 39
Views: 3574

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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by Antique Pilot
Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:24 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: Truckers convoy
Replies: 1591
Views: 91140

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...
by Antique Pilot
Tue Jan 25, 2022 7:45 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 129960

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...
by Antique Pilot
Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:12 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Howard DGA 15P
Replies: 15
Views: 9566

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...
by Antique Pilot
Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:57 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Skymaster Down
Replies: 17
Views: 3391

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 ...
by Antique Pilot
Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:38 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Skymaster Down
Replies: 17
Views: 3391

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...
by Antique Pilot
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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by Antique Pilot
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...
by Antique Pilot
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...
by Antique Pilot
Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Keewatin overrun in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut
Replies: 53
Views: 12770

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 ...
by Antique Pilot
Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:32 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Al Nelson
Replies: 1
Views: 2917

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...
by Antique Pilot
Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:55 pm
Forum: Covid
Topic: Vaccine hesitancy shows a strong correlation with stupid people.
Replies: 28
Views: 4168

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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by Antique Pilot
Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:22 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: K Max down
Replies: 8
Views: 3061

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...
by Antique Pilot
Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:12 pm
Forum: AvCanada's Wall
Topic: Jamie Biggs
Replies: 1
Views: 4971

Re: Jamie Biggs

Duchess wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:15 pm Jamie Biggs passed away September 4 2021
I was told that he passed away in hospital in Thunder Bay due to a lung infection.
RIP

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by Antique Pilot
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

lastchance wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:37 pm Would those ladies have been the nursing staff?? :)
Nope. Genuine original local ladies.

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