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Posted by Donald McArthur The BA Concorde on tour at Toronto International (now Pearson, YYZ) in 1979. Because the Concorde was operating far away from its base, the Readcoat Air Cargo plane on the left was its support plane. I think everyone who had a tarmac pass was out there that day. Photo taken from the top level of parking lot of the then Terminal 1. Too bad they don't design airports that way anymore. |
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Doug Keller sent the following in response to our request for more info regarding Air Caravane: From the excellent reference work by John Blatherwick, “A History of Airlines in Canada”; this book never lets you down and there was some information on this airline. Below is an excerpt from the book: Air Caravane / Air Cardinal: This Montreal based operator flew a fleet of DC-3's and two former Air Canada Viscounts in the 1970's and early 1980's. The fleet list shows two DC-3's operated by Air Caravane, CF-TAS (pictured in header) and CF-WIC, and two Viscounts operated by Air Cardinal, CF-TGZ and CF-THZ. Doug also did an internet search (reference airlinehistory.co.uk) of Air Cardinal and found that “Air Cardinal was renamed from Air Caravane (founded in 1973) in June 1981”. |
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Narrowing down the complete fleet list could become quite a task! One of most frequent photograph contributors, Caz Caswell, sent in the photo below that shows a registration, CF-EEX, not listed above. As per www.airport-data.com, this C-47 was built in 1942. |
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May 1 - Inaugural service between Montreal, Toronto and Bermuda with North Star equipment. |
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Extracted from 'Between Ourselves' magazine |
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Issue dated April 1948 |
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For they seldom see, far below them, the floating weather observation Stations throwing turbulent ocean swells off their windswept decks. Yet the comfort of their journey is due in no small way to the presence of these special weather ships maintaining lonely vigils in mid-Atlantic. When post-war trans-Atlantic air service reached an unprecedented high frequency, member nations of the International Civil Aviation Organization recognized a need for more adequate weather observations, air navigation and rescue facilities for the northern trans-ocean air routes. The result: many a weatherman has donned a sou'wester, turned sailor and joined ICAO's Weather Patrol. Pictured: Not a man from Mars, but a member of the crew of the 'St. Stephen', Canada's link in the chain of North Atlantic ocean weather stations. Special clothing must be worn to protect the personnel from icy spray and freezing temperatures encountered when the ship is at sea.
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The history - The idea of a stationary weather ship was proposed as early as 1921 by Météo-France to help support shipping and the coming of transatlantic aviation. They were used during World War II but had no means of defense, which led to the loss of several ships and many lives. On the whole, the establishment of weather ships proved to be so useful during World War II for Europe and North America that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) established a global network of weather ships in 1948, with 13 to be supplied by Canada, the United States and some European countries. This number was eventually cut to nine. The agreement of the use of weather ships by the international community ended in 1985. |
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Here we have the issue for the spring of 2019. |
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From left to right: Annette Ryan, Concierge; Luis Noriega Benet, GM Mexico & Central America; Alfredo Babun Sabat, Regional Manager Andean Countries; Jean-Philippe Briére, Service Director; Fei Revel, Sales Planning Manager; Sophia Chen, General Manager, Taiwan; Gleyson De Araujo Falcao, Sales Manager Brazil; Stefania Giordano, Flight Attendant; Andrew Edmonds, Manager Business Travel Sales and Keiichi Suzuki, Sales Account Manager. Editors' note: This appears to have been the final issue! |
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The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Pionairs District BBQ/Picnic - Almost 80 Pionairs members attended our July 21, 2022 BBQ/Picnic at Kildonan Park. It was a sunny and warm day and we feasted on hamburgers, hotdogs, soft drinks, chips, and freezies. Thank you to all who attended this wonderful event. A big thank you to our Manitoba/Saskatchewan executive who helped with the planning and the execution of the picnic. Thank you to our chefs - Mike and Bill, our traffic director - Larry, our 50/50 and mask sellers, Diane and Joanne, our food handlers, Cathy and Renee, and our activity directors, Brenda and Rosemary. To view the full photo gallery go to: |
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