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Submitted by Bob Hanna - Hi NetLetter folks, Attached are a couple of pictures you might find useful. These were taken on July 22, 1956; I came across them when scanning some old slides I had. Picture #1 is a view of Malton airport with a DC-3, a North Star, and the tail of a Super Connie in the background. Picture #2 is a picture of the hole burnt into the cowling of the North Star that occurred with a cracked cylinder head. This happened enroute from YYZ to YWG. According to my trip diary we landed routinely on 3 engines in YWG, transferred to another North Star in YWG and carried on to YVR without any further delay. Note in the diary also showed leaving SNN on Super Connie at 23:50/21 July - arriving YUL at 07:10/22 July - leaving YUL at 11:10, one hour late, on North Star arriving YYZ at 12:10 and then a three hour delay in YYZ due to engine trouble. Departed YYZ at 15:00 and arrived YWG at 19:10 - departed YWG at 20:00 - stopped YQR at 21:30 - stopped YYC at 23:30 and finally arrived YVR at 01:15/23 July. Regards, |
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Eileen Vollick is the first Canadian woman to earn her pilot's license.
Vollick applied for government permission to learn to fly commercially and was granted permission to take flying lessons when she turned 19. While waiting for her 19th birthday, Eileen became the first Canadian woman to parachute into water. She walked the wings of a Curtiss JN-4 (often called a "Jenny") and parachuted 2,800 feet into Hamilton Bay, which has since been renamed Burlington Bay. When her 19th birthday arrived, Vollick officially became a student at Jack V. Elliot's Flying School at Ghents Crossing overlooking Hamilton Bay. Despite doubts, she was determined to earn her license. She took 6 a.m. lessons before going to work at 8:30 a.m. Pilot Leonard Tripp served as her instructor and also taught her aviation mechanics. Since Vollick weighed a mere 89 pounds and was only 5 feet 1 inch tall, she used pillows to prop herself up to see out of the cockpit of the Curtiss JN-4. On March 13, 1928, Vollick received time off from her job at the Hamilton Cotton Co. in order to take her federal aviation test. She demonstrated her knowledge of take-offs and landings on the frozen bay. In order to pass the test, the applicant had to make four landings from 1,500 feet and land within 150 feet of a designated point on the ground. An additional landing had to be executed with the motor off and the pilot had to land within 5,000 feet of a designated point. Other requirements of the test included performing five figure-eight turns between two designated points and completing a 175-mile cross-country trip. Vollick successfully passed the test along with 10 other male cadets of the Elliot Flying School. Eileen Vollick was issued Private Pilot Certificate No. 77 on March 22, 1928. |
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Darrell Wood shared this cartoon on the CP Air Employees Facebook page with the caption - "The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! ...Wait, wait. ...Oh my mistake - that's the intercom light." |
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Answer for the mystery airline in Odds and Ends. Hong Kong Express, or just HK Express is a LCC owned by Cathay Pacific Airways and based in Hong Kong. The airline became a founding member of the U-FLY Alliance in 2016. The full story on the airline's origin can be found here: |
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