Vesta's Jump Seat
Why not allow the NetLetter be your platform, and opportunity, to relive your history while working for either TCA, AC, CPAir, CAIL, PWA, AirBC etal. and share your experiences with us!A MALE PILOT IN UNKNOWN TERRITORY - THE STORY OF THE WOMEN'S WORLD FORMATION FREEFALL RECORD BY A HOPELESS MALE PILOT Jump For The Cause (JFTC) just set a record on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, for the largest female-only formation parachute jump of 181 women. The previous record was 150 women about three years ago for the same breast cancer research cause. This year's event raised just under a million dollars, almost twice the previous JFTC record-breaking formation total. Check out the story at: http://www.avweb.com/news/skywrite/JumpForTheCause_FreefallRecord_201260-1.html and their web site at: www.jumpforthecause.com |
Air Canada Current News
Air Canada becomes the first North American airline to release a free BlackBerry® application providing travellers with BlackBerry devices convenient and easy real-time access to a wide-range of flight information including; retrieving electronic boarding passes, tracking flight information in real-time, receiving notification of itinerary changes and obtaining other details about Air Canada flights. |
This n That.
57 years ago the jet age began when a B.O.A.C. Comet 1 was on the first scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. In command was Capt.Trevor Marsden. |
Alan's Space
(Thanks to Ken Bjorge and Bill Wood and Rob Hemmett for sending these photos and story to us)
AVRO Lancaster C-GVRA There's only two of them still flying in the world and one of them flew over Saskatoon to promote the Canada Remembers Air Show in August 2009. The Avro Lancaster, one of the most famous bombers of World War 2 entered Saskatoon air space, went around with a low fly past at the airport and then circled around and above the city before leaving for Ontario on 3 August 2009. Thousands of Canadian aircrew served with the RCAF and the Lancaster Squadrons. Over 400 Lancaster MK X's were built in Canada and shipped overseas for flying duty. Throughout the entire world, only two still fly today, one in England and one in Canada. The bomber is one hundred and two feet long and just under 70 feet wide. It can reach top speeds of 287 miles and hour and has four Rolls Royce Merlin Engines. The fly past is a tribute pass to our veterans and a farewell salute to the Cameco Canada Remembers Air show. Note: I've kept the images below (when you click on them) to full size as they are exceptional and could be used as wallpaper. Click on images for larger photos.
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Canadi>n/CPAir/PWA, Wardair, etc. Events & People
Over the past months we have been publishing various photographs from earlier in-house magazines, should any photos prompt a memory in seeing one of them, feel free to send us your comments and thoughts.Vern Swerdfeger has sent us this information. On September 16th CF-CPY, the largest weathervane in the world, was lowered from its pedestal at the airport in Whitehorse and moved to its new home in front of the Yukon Transportation Museum. It's still a weather vane but not directly on the airport. Here we have some photos of CF-CPY while it was on and also down off the pedestal this past July. The lady in the pictures is the curator of the Yukon Transportation Museum. The guys were applying silver tape to the raven-pecked holes in the fabric control surfaces. Perusing the "Info Canadi>n" magazine Issue dated November 14th 1990 Canadian's first B747-400 made its first test flight from Paine Field, Washington on November 7th. and scheduled for delivery Dec 14th. Why are these people smiling? Because this bin isn't full of garbage, it's full of aluminum cans recovered by flight attendants for recycling. J Dickson, left, Alcan Aluminum, Louise Audet,flight attendant, Roberto Solarino, In-flight Standards and Procedures, Malcom Metcalfe, Environmental Affairs, and Sarah Austin-Smith,flight attendant, were on hand when the first container in the flight attendant recycling project was filled in Vancouver. Other bases in the project are Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg. The program is organized and run by volunteers from the flight attendant group and management. 23 Canadian Airlines employees travelled to Fort Worth for the Ninth Annual World Airline Road Race (WARR) in October. Here is the group of 18 runners. (Sorry no identifications were supplied. Any offers? - eds) But they did come 5th out of the 40 teams entered. Issue dated November 28th, 1990 Canadian announces they will begin service Vancouver and Taipei - Hong Kong with DC-10-30 equipment commencing December 5th. as a result of a new code-sharing agreement with China Airlines. |
Terry's Trivia & Travel Tips
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