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Mary Ellen Harrison has sent us this photo from her collection - The solution was obvious. One Winnipegger has proved, literally, that you've got to be up in the air to beat the city's traffic problem. Like other city motorists. Trans-Canada Air Lines Captain C. R. Robinson, of East Kildonan beat the city's street traffic every time he had to go out to the airport. It took him 23 minutes to travel by car from his home to Stevenson Field. However, the morning trip took him only 5 minutes in his seaplane he kept moored on the Red River behind his home. In the old days when he travelled to work by car, the distance was 13 miles; by plane, the distance is just five miles. A veteran flier, Captain Robinson was president of the Canadian Airline Pilots Association. Our photo (undated) shows Captain Robinson at the controls of his traffic beating Seabee. |
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