~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\^/| _| TCA |_ _|\| AIR |/|_ N E T L E T T E R > CANADA < B E T W E E N O U R S E L V E S >_./|\._< for P I O N A I R S | Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm number 101 date November 24th 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . Welcome to - Al Ward who can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Jim Little, now in Vancouver and email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ~-=o0o=-~ . Dates to remember - 1997 CALENDAR OF SYSTEM EVENTS SKI BIG WHITE, B.C. FEB 16-21 HOCKEY CALGARY FEB 25-27 CURLING OTTAWA SQUASH BOCA RATON (FLA) MAY 1-4 PHOTOGRAPHY LONDON, ENG APR 26 ART VANCOUVER BOWLING LONDON MAY 30-JUN 01 SOFTBALL WINNIPEG JUNE 17-19 FLY-IN SOCCER GOLF CHARLOTTETOWN TENNIS DARTS BADMINTON ~-=o0o=-~ . Alan Rust sends us details of the following - Air Canada - ACRA Christmas Dinner Dance Friday, November 29, 1996 Cocktails at 6:30pm. Dinner at 7:30pm Dance at 9:00pm Price - $25.00 per person (bar not included) Place - Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard Street Parking available. Special room rate $95.00 Great Music "HOT WAX" is back again. Door prizes and much more.... All retirees welcome too, of course! Tickets available from all Support Coordinators Alan Rust operates the "ACRA Airline BBS" -(604)541-1878, http://www.mortimer.com/acra ~-=o0o=-~ . Found on the Internet ..NTSB BLAMES AA CREW FOR TREE-TRIMMING. The crew of an American Airlines MD-83 which clipped trees on approach to Bradley International Airport (BDL) in November, failed to monitor the aircraft's altitude the NTSB said last week. Equivocating, the Board also decided the crew's skill in landing the plane--with its engines freshly converted into wood chippers--helped avert disaster. CATERER CLIPS CLIENTS, CLANDESTINE CHARGES IN CHARLOTTE: Dobbs International Services Inc., the largest U.S. airline caterer, agreed to pay more than $6.9 million to settle allegations that it defrauded carriers flying through Charlotte. Prosecutors said Dobbs continued charging airlines for port fees that were eliminated in 1984. What did Dobbs do with all that money? Well, they certainly didn't invest it in the salad dressing! ATTENTION HIJACKERS...DON'T RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME: In 1984, Gholamreza Vahidjou hijacked a Iranian domestic Boeing 727, forcing it to land in Qatar. He later fled to Egypt and lived in Iraq, Turkey and France before sneaking back into Iran and adopting a female appearance. Iranian authorities were so amused they made sure he/she would not get a second chance and hanged him/her last week. ~-=o0o=-~ . Help gather the proud history of our airline - When clearing out cupboards and drawers, spare a thought for the Air Canada Archives and Museum. We appeal to all retiress and employees to send any T.C.A. or Air Canada memorabilia to the local co-ordinator in your area. For Pionairs, each District has a designated co-ordinator. Anything you can ferret out - and we mean anything. Items that appear to have little or no value to you could be very valuable to the museum. Old passenger tickets, first day airmail covers, photographs (with suitable identification), uniforms. Please help make the Air Canada, our museum, a great success. ~-=o0o=-~ . Interline stuff Check with the Winnipeg Travel Centre 1-800-413-1113 for sell-offs of Family Affaire destinations from YUL/YYZ to some Caribbean destinations and the Orient from YVR. The Canadian Government travel advisory will spell out the most recent conditions against travelling to a particular region of the world. Unlike the U.S. government, Canada does not threaten to take legal action against its citizens, but if you want to take a chance in travelling to those regions mentioned in a travel advisory, it is up to you. It is advisable to carry your ID card with you at all times when travelling abroad. You will not always be asked to show it for contingent travel on Air Canada or connector flights, but it could be required when on interline travel or in the unfortunate case of illness overseas. The new ID card now has a place for photo and can be obtained by sending a passport size shot of yourself to the Industry Travel Department at Dorval Base. ~-=o0o=-~ . Smilie supplied by Ray Valois A pilot died and went to pilot hell. Satan was there to greet him. Satan said: "You can choose your punishment for the rest of eternity. You see those three doors. You have to select one of the three doors and that will be your punishment for the rest of eternity. I have a ne customer. Take a few minutes to think about it. I'll be back son." Satan left and the pilot was alone in front of the three doors. The pilot thought he would take a sneak peek behind each of the doors. He opened the first door and there he saw a pilot in training, continually going over takeoff checklists, again and again and again. "I can't do this for the rest of eternity!". He opened the second door to find a pilot constantly facing emergency situations: lightning strikes, engines shutting down, wind shear, etc ... "This is worse than the first door. I can't do this for the rest of eternity". He opened the third door to find a pilot being tended to by three lovely flight attendants. "Would you like more cream in your coffee, sir? Is your chair comfortable, sir? Do you wish me to adjust the air conditioning, sir?" "Now that's more like it. This, I can take forever!" Satan came back and asked: "So, have you selected a door?" "I certainly have. I'll take door three". "Ooops, I forgot to tell you that door three is not a pilot option", Satan replied, "That door is flight attendant hell". ~-=o0o=-~ . That's it for this time, please we need your input, send comments and email addresses of any others who may be interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry. -!- Landing on an Island in the Pacific. _____(~)_____ ! ! ! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. <<<>>> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ................................................... . GREETINGS FROM . . Vancouver Island . . BEAUTIFUL B.C. CANADA . ...................................................
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Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson
Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm
number 100 date November 20th 1996
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Since Oct 95, Vesta Stevenson and Terry Baker, both
Vancouver Island Pionairs have been issuing a newsletter on the
Internet for those Pionairs and/or ex Air Canada types who have
supplied us with their Internet email addresses.
We now have a total of 60 subscribers to date.
The Newsletter was the brainchild of Vesta, who gave the name
'NETLETTER' and added 'Between Ourselves' - a periodical with
which you are probably familiar with from the 50's and 60's.
We believe that our NETLETTER, which originates from
Vancouver Island, is the FIRST to use this medium to disperse
information for Pionairs of Air Canada.
The Netletter contains airline related information
such as anecdotes or stories supplied by some of the recipients,
Internet, BBS's, travel news, cheap, excuse me, inexpensive,
accommodations, tours, interline travel, and, in some small way,
keep our Air Canada family together and in touch.
How many times are we referred to CIC *80 in the 'Horizons' or
while listening to the CIC Daily Info 1-800 number - and how are
we able to do that? Or even nip into the Industry Travel Office
to pick up the latest Interline offerings?
Our 'NETLETTER' is NOT sponsored by any Pionair group, nor are
we seeking any financial support, only the Internet email
addresses of those who would like to receive our 'NETLETTER'.
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. Regarding the articles on RESIII being available to Pionairs, see
Netletters nr 92 and 98
Bill Sim emailed us -
'This message from Jack is very informative. I will forward a
hard copy to Ken Riding The guy that started the whole thing.'
Dennis Brown responds with the following -
'Oh God. I though that I would never again have to respond to a
main frame computer person.
Access to RES III, don't tell us why not, tell us what is easy
and cheap.
We don't want to be res agents or travel agents. We want to
check data that the non res employees have access to ie CIS
messages and non sensitive flight data.
I realise that Air Canada's partnership with the DisAdvantis,
oops sorry Advantis is not an easy one and there are technical
issues. Air Canada employees do have telephone access to the
Air Canada network with password protection and access
limitations depending on their responsibilities such access
could and should be granted to retirees.
After my retirement I was contracted to do project work on ARTOS
and was granted remote network access. That access included RES
and CICS from home by modem, typically only 9600 baud was
available due to the lowest common denominator rule. It worked,
local printing was available and auto disconnect was in place.
Technical issues raised have been addressed and solved.
The bureaucratic issues will be much harder to solve.'
Dennis Brown
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. With reference to Netletter 98 re PC Timetable updates, Gissle
Fyfe-Burke, who is responsible for updating the PC Timetable sends
us the following information
'just read your e-mail newsletter 98 - Re PC Timetable updates
FYI - let me elaborate on this subject -
They are called Airport Update Stations
YUL - Gate 1 after security
YOW - Gate 18 after security
YYZ - Rapidair check-in counters before security next to the
arrival/departure monitors.
these stations are updated on a weekly basis
you need an MS-DOS disk high density (at this time of the year)
to download the latest version - insert in drive takes 1 minute
to download and eject when told on the screen. An instruction
guide is there for pick up. Do not use a MAC formatted disk
it is an MS-DOS version not windows either.
On the Internet http://www.aircanada.ca you will find 2 versions
1 that you can read directly but I suggest you use the download
version - dates, cities etc.. are much easier to manipulate.
and if you need assistance you may call in CDA 1-800-463-3726
or MTL 514-422-4800.'
regards
Gissle Fyfe-Burke
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. Bob Robbins District Director Ottawa Pionairs send us the
following email -
'A few minutes ago I tried to reach Cam Evans here in Ottawa --
line busy. So while waiting, I checked Email and found Jack
Dahlgren's Aviation Record in your Netletter No. 99.
Cam was also deeply involved in spare parts and equipment pooling.
He was AC's representative for Ground Handling Equipment Pooling,
and similarly travelled the world for their meetings.
He continues to maintain close contact with many of the Pool
members.
2. Most retirees have at least some interest in investing,
preserving and spending their savings for retirement days savings.
A friend recently put me onto an interesting and helpful WEB site.
He said he "visited the site and there are truly reams of
information, pointers to government pamphlets, etc." I've briefly
browsed the site and my friend is right!
http://www.retireweb.com
3. I was so sad to hear of Rube Hadfield's death. I first met him
when I was a Radio Operator for TCA in North Bay in '41.
On the air and at the Station he was always a helpful,
courteous gentleman.
Most of us were put on the air with little or no formal training,
so we did a lot of learning by making mistakes. The radio
reception varied a great deal, and neophytes like myself were
constantly asking our pilots to repeat. Rube's transmissions were
outstanding for their clarity and easy pacing. And no matter how
trying his situation was (and in those days the pilots' job was
very difficult), he was patient. He made us feel that if we had
to ask him to repeat twenty times, he'd be happy to do so. In
recent years he was active on the AC/TCA ham network.
He'll be missed.
Again, thanks Vesta and Terry for keeping us in touch.'
Bob Robbins
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. Found on the Internet
With the recent mid air collision over India which, presumably
could have been avoided if anti-collision devices had been fitted,
these devices are only mandatory in the U.S. and should be
mandatory in Europe by the year 2000.
Air France is considering an order with both Boeing and Airbus
Industries.
A British Airways jet and an Air UK jet came to within 250 yards
of each other over Scotland recently.
A 37 years old American was jailed for 2 years for being drunk
and disorderley on a recent trans-atlantic flight.
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. Interline stuff
When visiting Ecuador remember to take your own supply of
liquor and cigarettes. Ecuadoreans pay close to US$400 for a bottle
of imported liquor thanks to their President helping to save them
from self-distruction. The President decided to defend his
citizens by slapping a 1,000 per cent tax on both commodities.
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. John Dahlgren sends this small pictorial -
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Float plane landing on a lake
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. A smilie from Terry
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench
to pound in the correct screw.
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. That's it for this time, please we need your input, send
comments and email addresses of any others who may be
interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\^/| _| TCA |_ _|\| AIR |/|_ N E T L E T T E R > CANADA < B E T W E E N O U R S E L V E S >_./|\._< for P I O N A I R S | Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm number 99 date November 15th 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . John Dahlgren sends us his Aviation Record which we hope you will find interesting - SUMMARY 1936-1940 Winnipeg Winnipeg Flying Club 1940-1941 Winnipeg Trans Canada Airlines 1941 Jan. to May Moncton " 1941 May to Aug. Charlottetown " 1941 Aug .to Oct.1946 Moncton " 1946 Oct. to July 1948 Winnipeg " 1948 July to Nov 1949 Vancouver " 1949 Nov to Apr 1957 Winnipeg " 1957 Apr to Nov 1957 Dorval " 1957 Nov to Dec 1977 Pierrefonds Trans Canada/Air Canada 1977 Dec to July 1980 Pierrefonds Retired 1980 July to June 1984 Pte Claire " 1984 June to Sept 1988 Winnipeg W " 1988 Sept to Sept 1992 Winnipeg N " 1992 Sept to (Present) Waterloo " GENERAL INFORMATION 1936-1940 Apprentice/Air Engineer Winnipeg Flying Club. (Gypsy Moth, Avro Avian, Desouter, Luscombe, Taylorcraft, Piper Cub, Reid Rambler, Waco) First met Rube Hadfield, Don MacArthur, Cliff Kaake, Ken Main, Herb Seagram, Craig Stevenson, Del Woodard. 1940 Mechanic. Trans Canada Airlines in Winnipeg. (Lockheed 10A , 14H) 1941 January, Transferred to Moncton to handle Northeast Airlines' Lockheed 10A Acft. up from Bangor Main, daily and overnighting in our hangar. Ernie Antilla was the Chief Mechanic (Boss). He and I were requested to study for and write the America(A&E) Mechanics Licence Exam. Which we did. So we were able to carry out the morning, daily pre-flight airworthy certification on the NEA aircraft. They no longer had to bring their own man up from Bangor every day to do it. TCA had daily flights up from Montreal and return (Lockheed 14H, 14 08, 18 08) First time met Jack McDougall, new young crew chief up from Toronto. Also met and worked with Austie McMahon, Hec. McKenzie, Scotty Macleod, Claude Keating, Joe Leblanc, George Pytlik, Arvo Sestrap, Gordy Neil, Charlie Gillis, Tammy Johnson, Doug Ball, Murrey & Jessie Speedie, Joe Hymson, Bob Cowan, Keith Anderson, Phil Muncaster, Jack Geal, Harry Carlson, Stu Rogers, Albert Johnson, Frank Burgess, Bert Wilson, Jim Macallum, Walt Fowler, Al Brown, Jack Haldiman, Joe Sagal, Derrick Bone, Rod Grant. (Many others I just can't recall) 1941 May to August. Sent to Charlottetown, PEI to handle Lockheed 10A Aircraft ( #23 CF-TCA and #24 CF-TCB ) Flight turnarounds and overnights from Summerside & Moncton. These two aircraft were obtained from the RCAF for a temporary period, when Canadian Airways quit the Maritimes, and while the new Maritime Central Airlways was getting organized. The two pilots, Jack Holley and Jack Collett, helped me get the aircraft to and from the RCAF hanger across the airfield for overnight. (that's another story ). 1946 October. Transferred back to Winnipeg. Shift work in the hangar.Line Maintenance (DC 3 and North Star) 1948 July. Transferred to Vancouver as an Aircraft Inspector on North Star #4 Checks. When that program ended, was laid off 1949 November, Bumped back to Winnipeg as a Crew Chief on Viscount overhaul. Temporarily assigned to the RCAF Defence Contract. Approximately a five year period under supervisor Bill Baggley. We serviced and repaired a bunch of Beechcraft Expeditors, North American Harvard trainers, DC3 Dakotas and B25 Mitchells. First met J.R.Doney. 1957 April. transferred to Dorval Base. In the Planning department, as Chief Planner, Scheduling, under supervisor Jack McDougall. (DC8, Vickers Vanguard, Lockheed Constellation, Bristol Freighter, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 747) Was very involved in Spares Parts Pooling, with many other International Airlines. Attended business and technical meetings with them at their home bases. These were usually five working days, plus the travel time to places like, Paris, Nice, London, Hamburg, Madrid, Athens, Caracas, Rio De Janeiro, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong. 1978 January 1st. Took early retirement after 37 1/2 Years with TCA/AIRCANADA. And four years with the Winnipeg Flying Club. 1996 (Now) Assembling this information has sure stirred up lots of memories. I hope others will remember and send in their stories to Terry and Vesta for the 'NetLetter Between Ourselves'. (But hurry up, after all I'm now at the ripe old age of (77) Thank you for the story John, there are the names of about 45 fellow workers mentioned. Surely someone out there remembers at least a few of them? Let's be hearing from you, send your stories to Terry or Vesta. ~-=o0o=-~ . Found on the Internet Air France pilots have called a 48 hour strike Nov 15th & 16th to protest planned job cuts. USAir now renamed US Airways. McDonnell Douglas has decided not to proceed with the development of the MDXX generation of jet aircraft. Paradise Island Airlines, to celebrate the inauguration of new non-stop service between Fort Myers/Naples and Fort Lauderdale, and between Fort Myers/Naples and Miami ALL 700 seats during the month of November are FREE - first come first served. Lufthansa experiencing delays due to some lightening strikes by their ground and flight staff over wages. T.W.A. is the last of the major airlines to hire their first female captain. Balkan Airlines plane has been detained at Paris until a bill for technical checks has been paid. Air Liberte, the French commuter airline, is flying again after a rescue package by British Airways and a group og banks. British Airways profit for the 2nd quarter is US$453 million. Air Koryo is the national airline of North Korea. Unless a settlement is forthcoming by Dec 5th, Air Canada could experience delays due to strikes. British Airways is using Card Services Int'l to develop and supply smart-card-based electronic cash system. Employees will be given a card with electronic cash credits, which they will be able to exchange for currency at British Airways booths at airports around the world. With an electronic cash system, British Airways can give employees subsistance allowance a month in advance and the money is not spent until the employee takes the credit. Companies have been going though 'downsizing', so much so that analysts are saying companies are experiencing corporate anorexia. 'Downsizing' of course is an euphemism, used to be called 'layoffs'. The latest euphemism is "Business Process Re-engineering'! ~-=o0o=-~ . Interline stuff Planning on a trip around Europe by train? Here are some EURAIL 1st class adult US$ prices - 15 days 522, 21 days 678, 1 month 838, 2 months 1148 and for SAVERPASS 1st class adult US$ - 15 days 452 pp based on 2 persons travelling together. 21 days 578 pp based on 2 persons travelling together. 1 month 721. Prices valid until Mar 31st, however a price increase will be effective Jan 1, 1977 for purchases after that date. SINGAPORE - 6 days/4 nights from US$629 pp dbl. HONG KONG - 6 days/4 nights from US$599 pp dbl. BANGKOK - 6 days/4 nights from US$479 pp dbl. HONG KONG/BANGKOK 8 days/6 nights from US$729 pp dbl. BEIJING - 5 days/3 nights from US$799 pp dbl. All above include space available Northwest Airlines. Land tours of China - SHANGHAI - 3 days/2 nights from US$299 pp dbl. XIAN - 3 days/2 nights from US$379 pp dbl. GUILIN - 3 days/2 nights from US$399 pp dbl. Call 1-800-422-3727 for more details. 7 days cruise in either West, South or East Caribbean on Carnival from US$299 pp dbl (3/4th at US$49 pp) 7 & 10 day cruise in Caribbean on Holland America Line from US$490 inside pp dbl, US$595 outside pp dbl Call 1-800-690-3223 for more dtails. ~-=o0o=-~ . Bob Carson sends us this smilei - Late one night, a burglar broke into a house that he thought was empty. He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when he heard a loud voice say: "Jesus is watching you!" Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again. "Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again. The burglar stopped dead again. He was frightened. Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage and in the cage was a parrot. He asked the parrot: "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?" "Yes", said the parrot. The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, then he asked the parrot: "What's your name?" "Clarence," said the bird. "That's a dumb name for a parrot," sneered the burglar. "What idiot named you Clarence?" The parrot said, "The same idiot who named the Rottweiller Jesus." ~-=o0o=-~ . That's it for this time, please we need your input, send comments and email addresses of any others who may be interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry. -!- Landing on an Island in the Pacific. _____(~)_____ ! ! ! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. <<<>>> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ................................................... . 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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\^/| _| TCA |_ _|\| AIR |/|_ N E T L E T T E R > CANADA < B E T W E E N O U R S E L V E S >_./|\._< for P I O N A I R S | Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm number 97 date November 11th 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . Reminders - DATE DISTRICT EVENT WHERE Nov 28 96 ST. JOHNS Monthly LUNCH Dec 2 96 London UK ACRA XMAS DINNERDANCE see nr 91 Dec 4 96 Montreal District XMAS DINNER #93 * Dec 5 96 CSS DORVAL MONTHLY LUNCH 1ST THURS Dec 5 96 Van.Is XMAS LUNCH Latch Country Inn nr 92 Dec 10 96 London Dist. XMAS LUNCHEON Osterley Htl nr 91 Dec 12 96 Saint John CHRISTMAS PARTY nr 91 Dec 15 96 Toronto Dist XMAS LUNCH BristolPlace nr 91 *NEW Dec 26 96 SAINT JOHN NB MONTHLY LUNCH 4TH THU *NEW Jan 20 97 LONDON UK THEATRE TRIP 'SCROOGE' *NEW Feb 10 97 LONDON UK THEATRE TRIP 'MISS SAIGON Mar 1 97 EARHARDTS WORLD FLIGHT Apr 2 97 Van. Is SPRING LUNCHEON Princess Royal #92 May 23 97 23-26 PIONAIRS A.G.M. PHEASANT RUN RESORT, ST CHAR Aug 28 97 VAN IS. District Summer LUNCHEON Courtenay 92 * Gord Hykle advises us that the monthly C & SS retirees now meet on the first Thursday of each month - noon lunch at Chenoy's (smoked meat) restaurant. St. Johns Rd, Pointe-Claire QC. Out of towners paricularly welcome. ~-=o0o=-~ . Reminiscing A recent London, England Pionairs' Newsletter had an article by Alf Lake called 'Cargo Memories'. The following is from that article - 'During the early development years of our Cargo Service, all customs and freight documentation was handled by Canadian National Express on behalf of TCA. We had a small warehouse facility in a converted ex BOAC canteen formerly known as "The Green Dragon". It still remained to resemble a canteen for many years after we occupied the premises because the majority of our eastbound freight consisted of gift food parcels consigned to the lucky people who had friends or relatives living in Canada. This of course was shortly after WW II when many items were still on ration in the UK. It was sheer torture to see all the lovely big sides of bacon, huge hams, boxes of eggs etc which we could only dream about' In response to this part of the article, Robbie Robbins, Director of the Ottawa Pionairs wrote the following which appears in the November edition of the London England Newsletter - 'Alf spoke of the flood of food parcels arriving at Heathrow shortly after WW II. The feelings of our air freight and ramp staff at the Dorval Trans-Atlantic terminal were strong, as we received the mountains of parcels - most marked 'Perishable', documented them tried to find places to store and cool them, and tried to get them out to the UK - but our feelings were more like headaches. No problem in the depths of winter(except eggs!), as we loaded them on Gurney carts and tied tarps over them. Of course we usually had a weeks thaw in January and a great scramble to find cold places - like the walk-in fridge down the road at Aero Caterer's, until we wore out that welcome. You see, we had three gung-ho Sales Reps - Mike Scullion, Bob Manuge and Tod Laflamme daily and nightly encouraging more and more people to send parcels. I think this went on for a year or so - and we did get a walk-in refrigerator on the ramp. Then it quickly petered off' London Heathrow Pionairs have put together a list of 'Old Stagers' who joined TCA in the 'forties' at Heathrow - Dick Bradbear Jun 9/47 Bill Williamson Sep 29/47 Bill Cameron Apr 5/48 Phil Smythe May 17/48 Frank Wooley May 31/48 George Wallis Jun 1/48 Ken Page Oct 11/48 Jimmy Boyle Feb 1/49 Norman Ings Jun 27/49 Reg Stoakes Oct 1/49 Les Barrett Oct 1/49 Ben Benfold Oct 1/49 Alf Lake Oct 1/49 and Dave Mathias, still living in the UK - was one of the first from Canada to open TCA service. Maybe some of you remember the cartoons by Dave in the original 'Between Ourselves'. The London Heathrow Pionairs will be active in the early part of 1997. Jan 20th a theatre trip to see 'Scrooge' which stars Anthony Newly. Feb 10th another theatre trip to see 'Miss Saigon'. ~-=o0o=-~ . Found on the Internet - Airbus Industries on a roll - USAir reported to have ordered 120 jets from Airbus. A mix of A319 and A320 with options on a further 280 aircraft. Delivery due to start 1998 at a rate of 30-40 per year. Boeing lost out due to the B737 production line is already pushed, and a satisfactory delivery date could not be promised. Emirates have ordere (16) A330-200 with an option of a further 7. Asiana has ordered (18) A321 and negotiating for a further (20) A330 types. Air India has taken delivery of its first Boeing B747-400 with a second due later this month. London England is served by 5 airports - London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Stansted, London Luton and London City. Those paint schemes - All Nippon Airlines has a B747 looking like a great whale. Western Pacific has a B737 is Thrift Car Rental emblems with another decked out woth Fred Flintstone. Crossair has an MD88 sporting McDonalds livery. ~-o0o-~ . Interline stuff A new interline agreement for travel on Lufhansa flights started on Aug 1st. The following are eligible for unlimited ZED fares: Active employees with 12 months service. Spouses of active employees. Retired employees and their spouses. Common-law spouses and same sex spouses. Dependant children of the above, under 24 years of age. Parents of retired employees. Travelling around North America in the Fall, some hotel groups offer special deals - Holiday Inns 20% off room rates and 10% off meals for the over 50's. Howard Johnson 15% to 50% to the over 50's. Ramada 25% for the over 60's. ~-=o0o=-~ . More smilies from Vesta - IF OPERATING SYSTEMS WERE AIRLINES: MAC AIRWAYS The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feels the same and act the same. When asked questions about the flight they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie. OS/2 SKYWAYS The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. Airline personnel walk around, apologizing profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. FLY WINDOWS NT All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying. ~-=o0o=-~ . That's it for this time, please we need your input, send comments and email addresses of any others who may be interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry. -!- Landing on an Island in the Pacific. _____(~)_____ ! ! ! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. 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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\^/| _| TCA |_ _|\| AIR |/|_ N E T L E T T E R > CANADA < B E T W E E N O U R S E L V E S >_./|\._< for P I O N A I R S | Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm number 97 date November 11th 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . Reminders - DATE DISTRICT EVENT WHERE Nov 28 96 ST. JOHNS Monthly LUNCH Dec 2 96 London UK ACRA XMAS DINNERDANCE see nr 91 Dec 4 96 Montreal District XMAS DINNER #93 * Dec 5 96 CSS DORVAL MONTHLY LUNCH 1ST THURS Dec 5 96 Van.Is XMAS LUNCH Latch Country Inn nr 92 Dec 10 96 London Dist. XMAS LUNCHEON Osterley Htl nr 91 Dec 12 96 Saint John CHRISTMAS PARTY nr 91 Dec 15 96 Toronto Dist XMAS LUNCH BristolPlace nr 91 *NEW Dec 26 96 SAINT JOHN NB MONTHLY LUNCH 4TH THU *NEW Jan 20 97 LONDON UK THEATRE TRIP 'SCROOGE' *NEW Feb 10 97 LONDON UK THEATRE TRIP 'MISS SAIGON Mar 1 97 EARHARDTS WORLD FLIGHT Apr 2 97 Van. Is SPRING LUNCHEON Princess Royal #92 May 23 97 23-26 PIONAIRS A.G.M. PHEASANT RUN RESORT, ST CHAR Aug 28 97 VAN IS. District Summer LUNCHEON Courtenay 92 * Gord Hykle advises us that the monthly C & SS retirees now meet on the first Thursday of each month - noon lunch at Chenoy's (smoked meat) restaurant. St. Johns Rd, Pointe-Claire QC. Out of towners paricularly welcome. ~-=o0o=-~ . Reminiscing A recent London, England Pionairs' Newsletter had an article by Alf Lake called 'Cargo Memories'. The following is from that article - 'During the early development years of our Cargo Service, all customs and freight documentation was handled by Canadian National Express on behalf of TCA. We had a small warehouse facility in a converted ex BOAC canteen formerly known as "The Green Dragon". It still remained to resemble a canteen for many years after we occupied the premises because the majority of our eastbound freight consisted of gift food parcels consigned to the lucky people who had friends or relatives living in Canada. This of course was shortly after WW II when many items were still on ration in the UK. It was sheer torture to see all the lovely big sides of bacon, huge hams, boxes of eggs etc which we could only dream about' In response to this part of the article, Robbie Robbins, Director of the Ottawa Pionairs wrote the following which appears in the November edition of the London England Newsletter - 'Alf spoke of the flood of food parcels arriving at Heathrow shortly after WW II. The feelings of our air freight and ramp staff at the Dorval Trans-Atlantic terminal were strong, as we received the mountains of parcels - most marked 'Perishable', documented them tried to find places to store and cool them, and tried to get them out to the UK - but our feelings were more like headaches. No problem in the depths of winter(except eggs!), as we loaded them on Gurney carts and tied tarps over them. Of course we usually had a weeks thaw in January and a great scramble to find cold places - like the walk-in fridge down the road at Aero Caterer's, until we wore out that welcome. You see, we had three gung-ho Sales Reps - Mike Scullion, Bob Manuge and Tod Laflamme daily and nightly encouraging more and more people to send parcels. I think this went on for a year or so - and we did get a walk-in refrigerator on the ramp. Then it quickly petered off' London Heathrow Pionairs have put together a list of 'Old Stagers' who joined TCA in the 'forties' at Heathrow - Dick Bradbear Jun 9/47 Bill Williamson Sep 29/47 Bill Cameron Apr 5/48 Phil Smythe May 17/48 Frank Wooley May 31/48 George Wallis Jun 1/48 Ken Page Oct 11/48 Jimmy Boyle Feb 1/49 Norman Ings Jun 27/49 Reg Stoakes Oct 1/49 Les Barrett Oct 1/49 Ben Benfold Oct 1/49 Alf Lake Oct 1/49 and Dave Mathias, still living in the UK - was one of the first from Canada to open TCA service. Maybe some of you remember the cartoons by Dave in the original 'Between Ourselves'. The London Heathrow Pionairs will be active in the early part of 1997. Jan 20th a theatre trip to see 'Scrooge' which stars Anthony Newly. Feb 10th another theatre trip to see 'Miss Saigon'. ~-=o0o=-~ . Found on the Internet - Airbus Industries on a roll - USAir reported to have ordered 120 jets from Airbus. A mix of A319 and A320 with options on a further 280 aircraft. Delivery due to start 1998 at a rate of 30-40 per year. Boeing lost out due to the B737 production line is already pushed, and a satisfactory delivery date could not be promised. Emirates have ordere (16) A330-200 with an option of a further 7. Asiana has ordered (18) A321 and negotiating for a further (20) A330 types. Air India has taken delivery of its first Boeing B747-400 with a second due later this month. London England is served by 5 airports - London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Stansted, London Luton and London City. Those paint schemes - All Nippon Airlines has a B747 looking like a great whale. Western Pacific has a B737 is Thrift Car Rental emblems with another decked out woth Fred Flintstone. Crossair has an MD88 sporting McDonalds livery. ~-o0o-~ . Interline stuff A new interline agreement for travel on Lufhansa flights started on Aug 1st. The following are eligible for unlimited ZED fares: Active employees with 12 months service. Spouses of active employees. Retired employees and their spouses. Common-law spouses and same sex spouses. Dependant children of the above, under 24 years of age. Parents of retired employees. Travelling around North America in the Fall, some hotel groups offer special deals - Holiday Inns 20% off room rates and 10% off meals for the over 50's. Howard Johnson 15% to 50% to the over 50's. Ramada 25% for the over 60's. ~-=o0o=-~ . More smilies from Vesta - IF OPERATING SYSTEMS WERE AIRLINES: MAC AIRWAYS The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feels the same and act the same. When asked questions about the flight they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie. OS/2 SKYWAYS The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. Airline personnel walk around, apologizing profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. FLY WINDOWS NT All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying. ~-=o0o=-~ . That's it for this time, please we need your input, send comments and email addresses of any others who may be interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry. -!- Landing on an Island in the Pacific. _____(~)_____ ! ! ! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. 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