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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 544 Dec 19th, 2000, We first Published in October 1995
Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker
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. Need to know.
Final blackout for employee travel in 2000 has begun.
The final blackout period and booking restriction for employee positive space,
business travel, and personal
(for example: ID80, ID50 service anniversary, Award of Excellence, Merit,
and Bravery tickets, and any positive space personal travel)
is in effect from December 16, 2000Janaury 9, 2001.
This embargo includes the entire system: Canada, United States, Florida, Caribbean, Europe, Tel-Aviv, and Asia.
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. 'REQUEST PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD,'
ENDEAVOUR ASKS ALPHA
The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, with Canadian astronaut
Mark Garneau, boarded space station Alpha Friday with all the splendid
protocol of the high seas.
(now that's CLASS)
I wonder if they got 'piped' aboard?
I remember seeing one of the station attendants handling BOAC flight
departures at Transat, saluting the Captain and Crew on departure of the flight.
Does that still happen, I wonder? Vesta.
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. Found on the internet.
A Step Up From the Cattle Car
British Airways has just introduced "World Traveller Plus," a new
premium economy class with service levels and prices set between
regular economy and business class. Initially, it's available to
London from San Francisco and New York; BA will add other
U.S. cities next year as it refits its planes. Full-fare World Traveller
Plus is expensive, but BA is selling reduced- price excursions that target
leisure travelers who are willing to pay a premium to escape the cattle
car crunch of regular economy. Other airlines will obviously take a close
look and copy BA if the new service attracts a good-sized following.
BASE TO FINAL, 344 TIMES:
The impressive feat of young Cranleigh Middlecoat and Anthony Sturgess
of the Redcliffe Aero Club. The two broke the world record of 344
consecutive landings and takeoffs in 16.5 hours, raising $5,000 for
charity along the way.
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. Yet another saga of the Vanguard -
From the eMailNews issued by Duane Frerichs -
Glen Cawker <
As you are very likely aware, I was one of the original ground school
instructors on the old bird having taken the first course at Vickers in
Weybridge, Surrey. (I think in 1960/61) The plant was at the old
Woodlands Race track oval, with the runway situ'd lengthwise where
they cut a large 'hole' thru the track embankment in order to fly the
completed A/C out and over to Wisley, their main field; where they did
flight training, testing etc. Famous guys like Jock Bryce, Brian Trubshaw,
and Jeffery Quill (who did the prototype flying on the original spitfire),
were Vickers instructors. Capt. John Wild, our boss at the time, was on
the course also.(As was Quinn, Spear, Giffen, Paul Woodruff,
and? Neroutsos). We stayed in the Oatlands Park Hotel, (OPH), an old
stately home, where Henry VIII had kept his mistresses, having built a
several mile long tunnel (We saw one end of it), from Hampton Court in
London to Weybridge, through which he secretly drove his carriage so
that he could be with them. The OPH was home to a bunch of elderly
dowagers and remittance men, who dressed up in old velvet dresses
and tux's for Sat nite dinner and tea dances. So we nicknamed it as the
Old People's Home(OPH). The hotel also served porridge for bkfst daily
so we also called it the Oatmeal Palace Hotel(OPH). Some fun!
The Vickers plant was quite messy, aluminium A/C side panels lying
against the walls here and there. At lunch we ate in the plant cafeteria
where the workers sat, 6 to a table, with a bottle of beer set in front of
each of them, for lunch! It's a wonder the planes became finished.
Remember that 'box-wing'? with top and bottom surfaces milled out
of 2 to 3 inch thick alum. billets to form integral ribbing. It seemed like
a hundred little men, each with a 'dremel-like' grinder taking the burrs
off the machining, a tedious hands-on process, incredible! Vickers
'luck' was such that they designed the forward cabin with a length
which was just right for the pulses of air from those huge props to set
up a 'standing sound wave', talk about noise!!
They also placed the horizontal stabilizer just right so that those
same pulses/thrusts struck the stab to cause an 'harmonic/sypathetic'
vibration which shook the whole A/C and threatened structural failure of
the tail. Vickers remedy? what else, put huge weights on the underside
of each stab to change their harmonic! Imagine carrying that 400 lbs of
excess on every flight, at what cost over the life of the A/C fleets?
I don't remember whether Murray Wallace's great article on the A/C in
our Newsletter covered some of this, but it was excellent reading. I have
a million stories, having been involved at its inception and having given
20 of the 22 courses to the more than 400 TCA / Air Canada pilots who
were fortunate enough to have flown the bird.( And unfortunate enough to
have to put up with my 'nuts and bolts' instruction). Maybe more later?
don't want to bore anyone..Incidentally, our 'graduation' gift from Vickers
was a beautiful Spitfire photograph (90 degrees of bank, full aileron
deflection, "so close, it almost hit the photographing A/C"- unquote), signed
personally by Jeffery Quill.
One of my real 'treasures', (Thanks to John Wild)....Glen.
(The Brooklands race trace oval mentioned above now encompases a
huge shopping centre, but some of the track remains. - eds)
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. This n that!.
The January 2001 edition of the Airways magazine has a 7 page spread story of
Canadi>n International Airlines.
'Those Magnificent Planes" calender for 2001 includes a photo of an
Air Canada A340 airbus.
'Classic Airliners" calender for 2001 includes a photo of an
Trans-Canada Air Lines Viscount.
''Airways 2001 Commercial Aircraft' calender for 2001 includes a photo of
an Air Canada A320 &A319 airbus.
All calenders approx us12.95 each www.airways.com
TWA B747-156 c/n 19957 registration N133TW originally EC-BRO and
B747-156 c/n 19676 have been broken up at MHV to become
sushi bars in Japan.
Aerposta B747 c/n 19639 registration N747PA and N747QC has been
broken up at SBD, the fuselage shipped to S.Korea as a restaurant.
Air France B747 c/n 20541 registration F-BPVJ is on static display at the
Musee de L'Air at LBG Paris.
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. Terry's travel tips.
Can't remember that telephone number of your friends in the U.K.?
Try either www.bt.com/phonetuk or www.192.com
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Vancouver return Inside $629, Outside $1029
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Seward/Alaska to Vancouver Inside $549, Outside $949
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Vancouver return Inside $629, Outside $1029
All Rates are quoted in U.S. dollars per person, based on
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. Smilie.
More from our "The easiest solutions are often the best" file...
A light twin had just landed on Runway 29. Missing the last turnoff
onto Taxiway Delta, its pilot started to turn left onto Golf when the
controller spoke up:
Tower: "N1234, that taxiway is approved for single-engine use only."
N1234: "That's okay, I'll just shut down one engine."
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