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Lockheed Electra L-188 Air Tanker Battles Forest Fire in Northern British Columbia Posted by Paul Bach on YouTube See 'Wayne's Wings' below for more. |
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Found in 'Horizons' magazine |
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Issue dated November 1984 |
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Cowed into submission.
It was definitely a case where 'push had come to shove' during a loading operation. The 'passengers' were 245 purebred Holstein dairy calves being boarded on a cargo flight bound for Nicaragua. Although the service was first class, the normal cushioned seats were replaced by wooden crates with air holes. |
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Yarmouth is hard to match. Employees in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (YQI) continue to pledge full support of the Annual Campaign for Funds. For the past three years the station has received a plaque in recognition of 100 per cent employee participation. Shown admiring the 1981, 1982 and 1983 awards are, from the left: Jim Greig, Acting Manager and coordinator of the campaign; Rick Atkinson, Station Agent; Jim Kirby, Manager, Yarmouth; Station Agents Ev Kenney and Bob Moulton and Station Attendants Wayne d'Entremount and Bill Pothier, another coordinator. |
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Western Region Sales Conference. During a three-day period early in November 1984, Air Canada's Western Canada management teams got together to share ideas and experiences at a Western Region Sales conference held in Vancouver. Group task exercises run during the conference were designed to analyze the Passenger Sales Effectiveness (PSE) program being used by sales, reservations and airport personnel, and to then develop strategies for future improvement and expansion. The conference was chaired by John Jeffrey, General Manager Northern Alberta and Jack Wallis, Passenger Sales Manager, Edmonton. |
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Senior cyclists on the move. Those who know John MacLean, former Regional Passenger Sales Product Manager, Vancouver, be surprised to learn how he is spending his retirement. He has joined the Cross-Canada Cycle Tour Society which is planning a four-month bicycle tour of Australia and New Zealand. Some 94 cyclists, all over 50 years of age, from across Canada, will participate in the excursion beginning on August 26, 1985. Before they return on December 22, they will have cycled close to 4,000 miles. In all, 55 men, 39 women and 16 couples will make the trip. The oldest man is 73 while the oldest woman is 70. In the photo below, John, left, is shown with members of the Cross-Canada Cycle Tour Society: Miep Dennison, Richard Lebeck and Ken Brothers. |
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Andre Lizotte, former President of Nordair was appointed Chairman of the Board for Nationair, a new Canadian international charter carrier. Andre St. Denis, formerly Air Canada's treasurer and a Nordair director, was appointed to Nationair's Board. Source: Air Canada Horizons issue November 1984 |
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One might say this story is long over and done, but Pacific Western Airlines Tail #732 did leave a mark in history. As Boeing advanced the B-737 Project and the aircraft certification program, an airplane with PWA was setting milestones ahead of all other B-737's. In the early 1970's Tail #732 - CF-PWE would fly to from Edmonton to Inuvik loaded with cargo (3 pallets / 63 seats) at 22:00 each weekday and have a conversion done upon its return that would send it out the next morning across Western Canada only to be repeated again. When re-certification was required Boeing took Tail #732 back to see what we were doing right. The aircraft returned to service and the work continued. Fin #732 was eventually sold and after wandering the world, she returned at the inception of WestJet. Additional info from S. Gray - Tail #732 carried Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne in July 1970 on a tour of the Arctic. The interior was configured with Boeing's Executive Suite. Front end crew were Captains Robin Mackie and Jimmy Lightbown; Flight Attendants S. Gray, H. McLeod, G. Moore, B. Snyder and L. Duffy. Pursers J. Bisaillon and R. Hatch along with Flight Engineer V. Robertson. |
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PlaneSpotters.net shows the aircraft as being withdrawn from service in 2005 and stored at Laredo International Airport in Texas. It was broken up in 2013 Original source: pwareunion.net |
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NWT Air livery Photo by Aero Icarus @ www.flickr.com Taken at Yellowknife, June 1993 |
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PWA DC-3 - CF-ONH. Skytrain C-47A-20-DK c/n 12857 built as 42-92995 and delivered to the US Army Air Force on March 27, 1944, being assigned to the North African Wing of the US Air Transport Command on April 24, 1944. It was returned to the USA on August 20, 1945, going to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation on June 5, 1946. As a DC-3 c/n 12857 registered as NC44587 it went to West Coast Airlines, Fleet No. 101, on November 6, 1946. A lease to Canada with Pacific Western Airlines as CF-ONH took place on April 17, 1962. It was back with West Coast Airlines on August 6, 1963, registered N44587, and sold back to Pacific Western Airlines again as CF-ONH on March 15, 1964. Air West next bought this DC-3 and it became N44587. The Aerodyne Corporation of Renton, Washington, purchased the transport on January 28, 1969, and it was registered to them on April, 9 1969. Aerodyne went out of business and 12857 stood derelict at Renton from May 1974 until purchased by Salair (now defunct), which operated a fleet of DC-3 transports out of Seattle and Sacramento airports on cargo services. Editors' Note: We looked up the current status and the aircraft is still registered N44587 and in service with a small Alaska-based cargo operator called 'DesertAir Alaska' (founded in Utah in the 1990's, thus the name). Legal name Desert Air Transport Inc. |
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DesertAir livery , May 2011 Photo by Frank Kovalchek @ commons.wikimedia.org |
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Posted on Nordair Facebook site by Wayne Hamidy.
These boards were strategic tools which help ensure maximum utilization of the airplanes. |
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"Old age comes at a bad time." – San Banducci “ |
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This cartoon appeared in the 'Horizons' magazine issue June 1988 by Passingham. |
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Honoring Bessie Coleman, American Crews A Flight With All Black Women Recently American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas crewed entirely by Black women, including pilots, flight attendants, cargo handlers and maintenance technicians. The flight was in honor of the 100th anniversary (plus one year due to COVID) of aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman receiving her pilot’s certificate, the first, ever, for a Black woman. Coleman’s great niece Gigi Coleman was on board the flight, hosted by the airline. According to American, Black women currently represent less than 1 percent of personnel at all levels of the commercial airline industry, a disparity the airline hopes to alleviate. |
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She used her influence in the following years to encourage other Black Americans to fly — boycotting airshows at locations that would not admit African Americans. Gigi Coleman told the airline, “I am grateful for American Airlines to give us this opportunity to highlight my great aunt’s accomplishments in the field of aviation.” Source: AVWeb.com Additional info: |
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Father-Daughter Military Pilots Celebrate 'First' Flight. Parent and child pilots on airliners are relatively common but the Indian air force may have scored a first with a father-daughter formation flight. Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma and his 24-year-old daughter Ananya achieved the distinction on May 30, 2022. "The father-daughter duo created history on May 30, 2022, when they flew in the same formation of Hawk-132 aircraft at Air Force Station Bidar, where Flying Officer Ananya Sharma is undergoing her training before she graduates onto faster and more superior fighter aircraft of the IAF," an air force news release said. The air force is claiming a first for the flight but the Air Commodore called it years ago according to his daughter. "As a child, I would often ask my father why there were no women fighter pilots. He would tell me in his characteristic style - Don't worry, you will be one," she told the Times of India. The Indian air force now has 15 female fighter pilots flying MiG-21s, Sukhoi-30MKIs and Rafales. Source: AVWeb.com |
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