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Robert W. Arnold. Canadian Viscount Researcher based in Winnipeg shares this information - I received a pair of Viscount Control wheels, Keith Olson had given to me last fall, in a rather tattered shape. I now include a picture that shows the First Officer's control wheel after repairs, cleaned up and repainted to look like new. This includes the Vickers Armstrongs logo that's at the centre of the wheel, this too had to be redone. The pilot's wheel is in rougher shape and will take much more work to bring back to good condition. |
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I also included a before and after of the rather damaged instrument panel from TCA Viscount, Fin # 649 Registration CF-TIE. |
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Captain Beverly Lynn Burns is the first woman to captain the Boeing 747 jumbo jet. On the afternoon of July 18, 1984, Burns made her maiden voyage as captain when she commanded People Express aircraft 604 from Newark International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport.
By the time she retired, in February 2008, she had been a captain with the airlines for twenty-seven years and amassed over twenty-five thousand hours of flight time.
While with People Express she captained the Boeing 727, Boeing 737 and Boeing 747. Between 1987, when the company merged with Continental Airlines, and 2000, she added the DC-9, DC-10, Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 to the list of jetliners she had captained.
Then, in May 2001, Burns became captain on one of the most technologically sophisticated airliners of its time, the Boeing 777.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
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Hello, Having started with Nordair in YOW in 1972 as their first, full time agent, then surviving all the mergers that followed, with my ever growing seniority intact, I finished my airline career after 32.5 years, in YVR, with Air Canada. I welcome the chance to join the happy throng . In this regard, from my Nordair days I feel a set of videos created for YouTube by a former Nordair dispatcher, should be come part of your database of video records, or at least provide links to them. Best wishes! John Green Click the image below to view Part 1 of the videos posted by John Desramaux. Click Here for Part 2 |
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Air Georgian, sub-contractor that flew 1.5 million Air Canada passengers a year, is heading toward bankruptcy protection. Air Georgian last week filed what’s called a notice of intent to make a proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, its chief source of income cut off by Air Canada in late January. Many of Georgian’s employees have begun receiving layoff notices, says one of their unions, despite being earlier promised jobs at other carriers. (Source: business.financialpost.com) Air Georgian began as an airport developer in 1985. It began commercial operations in 1994 and subsequently developed its commercial air carrier business, which as of 2011 represented 87 percent of its total business. In 1997 It became a code share partner of Canadian Airlines, operating under the banner of Ontario Regional. In 2000 Air Georgian became a Tier III partner of Air Canada and operated as Air Alliance. It had a long-time cargo operation known as Georgian Express which was sold to Cargojet in 2007. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Georgian) |
Steve Charlton sends us this -
Here are the top 15 "techie" jobs emerging for next year. I never heard of any of them!
- Artificial Intelligence Specialists
- Robotics Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Full Stack Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Customer Success Specialists
- Sales Development Representatives
- Data Engineers
- Behavioral Health Technicians
- Cyber-security Specialists
- Back-end Developers
- Chief Revenue Officers
- Cloud Engineers
- JavaScript Developers
- Product Owners
Whatever happened to "programmer"?
I'm sure #16 must be "Job Title Creator" (see above), although maybe they've actually been around for decades now - I remember "garbage collectors" being called "sanitary engineers" and a few others - egads!