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CF-TIV at Glasgow - Prestwick - April 1976
Photo courtesy of Bob Woolnough
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N819EV at Shannon Ireland - July 2, 1989
Photo courtesy of Fergal Goodman |
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YA-VIC at Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates - November 16, 2011
Photo courtesy of Tamas Vekony
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From Passenger to Cargo: The Transformation of Evergreen's DC-8-63F (N819EV)
Histories of Airliners posted the video below of the history of a DC-8-63 originally delivered to Air Canada as CF-TIV and its conversion and extended career as a freighter.
See Wayne's Wings for more on this aircraft.
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From 'CP Air News' January 1980. Cartoon by Dan Fallwell, passenger agent Terrace, British Columbia.
Caption reads:
"Howdy folks! Nobody but nobody over-discounts John's! Just check out our air-conditioned special for only $9.99 daily."
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Submitted by Peter Pihach,
I would like to add to Steve Aubury’s story from NetLetter #1530:
I was employed at Air Canada at that time and my position was Flight Crew Routing and Day of Operation in Vancouver.
Hearing the chatter on the Dispatch Radio Frequency I started to think about a possibility of crew replacement. After the second departure failed I, with my assistant started to find another replacement crew, both Pilots and Flight Attendants.
Aircraft and the desired amount of crew was ferried to Calgary. This was all done in 2 hours from call out to departure.
My wife Audrey as a Flight Attendant was working in First Class and was hearing all the commentary. Thanks,
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Gentlemen, you do a great service to the entire Air Canada and other Canadian airlines/employees.
My name is Robert Fuhrmann and I worked for Air Canada from 1967 until retirement in 1999.
I started in Chicago working on the ramp. I took time off when I was drafted into the US Army in September 1967.
I served in the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969, then returning to Chicago and then transferring to Los Angeles in 1969 where I spent the rest of my career; 32 plus years total.
My grandfather, A. C. Gardiner, served as the Chief Auditor for CN Rail for 50 years in YWG and YVR. (CN then the overseer of Trans-Canada Air Lines).
One of my uncles, Bruce Gardiner, also spent 50 years with CN Rail. Another uncle, Harley Reed served in the transportation department for the city of Vancouver for 50 years, leaving as the Director of Transportation.
Adding my 32 years, that totals 182 years in service to Canadian transportation. Don't know if that is a record, but that is a lot of years of service.
Respectfully,
Bobby Fuhrmann Menifee, California |
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Jack Morath sent in this comment on Terry's UK passport item from NetLetter #1529 -
Good afternoon Terry,
I read with interest your item about your Passport, so I got into my family History and a bit of research and came up with the following:
Here attached is a picture (below) of my grandfather's passport issued in September 1926 when he was a Chauffeur driving for a millionaire. He drove a Rolls-Royce for nearly twenty years for him and his family.
The passport was issued during the reign of George V. My passport next to it was issued in 1952 and issued in the reign of George VI.
For a history of the UK passport see homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk
All the best
Jack
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Maureen Otway contributed the following mementos of her career in aviation -
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BOAC Constellation at Bahrein in 1957. My brothers and I were coming back from Doha, Qatar where my Dad was Chief on the UK Police force there.
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Matsapa, Swaziland - me (left, ground staff) with the captain and hostess, doing an advertisement for Swazi beer.
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| Sydney at the Qantas simulator. I was down there on a sales conference and we all got to sit on the plane. |
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In front of the famous 'Rock Wall' in the ticket office for Qantas in the Hotel Vancouver. When we left the office I had tried to save it but it was demolished for the jewelry store coming in!
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Most of the Qantas Airways staff at YVR to meet the new B-747 plane to arrive on the new route from Sydney. Previously the flight used a B-707 via Tahiti. The new one was via Honolulu and Fiji.
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