In the first year of operations for TCA in 1937 the head administration office was Montreal. The head operational office or base in 1937 was YWG. There have been pilots based in YWG since 1937. Another operational base or hub at the time was Lethbridge. Passenger and freight flights with Lockheed 10...

Operated by NW Seaplane, not Kenmore Air. Looks like a GE / Walter engine'd machine. Very high rate of decent before impact per FlightRadar24. Bummer. https://www.flyingmag.com/1-dead-9-missing-in-floatplane-crash-near-seattle/?spPodID=030&spMailingID=10025921&spJobID=206333902&spReportId=MjA2MzMzO...

Climate change is affecting us most immediately in electricity prices, and severe drought. The summer temperatures every day across a large chunk of the US, are 40 C every day. Drought is closely linked to electricity, and is also playing havoc with food prices. I am sorry for the young folks. The ...

beech 18 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:04 am August 01, 2022

Bellanca Aircraft.

https://youtu.be/f-1Fk8cfTJI

Thanks for the video. Very timely

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Still being assessed by the TSB for the class of investigation. It would be helpful to know what the weather was like at the time. Anybody have historical records for that day from public area weather. "C-GBGJ, a float-equipped Cessna U206G registered to Sandy Lake Seaplane Service, was conducting ...

Maybe if the big healthy looking football player hadn’t tried to use a wheelchair to haul his luggage the situation would never have happened. Wheelchairs are for handicapped people not cheapskate people to use as luggage carriers.

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Any surprise to see this......Arrest them and freeze their bank accounts to pay for the costs they incur, as should be done here. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/german-officials-condemn-climate-protests-at-roads-port/ar-AAU8fBF?ocid=msedgntp The left had better pray that they never face ano...

I am a volunteer at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC. I have been going through the photo files looking for buried treasure! Sure enough there are some Barkley-Grow photos that I have never seen online. One is of -BQM being lifted by a crane at a dock - obviously been submerged. This is...

4BF3670A-C986-48EF-94C6-66B8F52051B7.jpeg 19CB7A4F-7990-4383-BD26-F7961B7739CA.jpegHi guys, old subject I found while googling dehavilland beavers after watching six days and seven nights. I presently own N65046 you were talking about, N450HD today. Don’t know if you are still around but have a pic...

Hey Gang, I saw an advertisement for what looks to be a neat documentary on the 1951 disappearance of the C54 in BC that killer 44. 44? In a Skymaster? Yeah, I thought that too, but the old DC-6 was called a Skymaster, although that may only have been the military version. Come to think of it, and ...

Hey Gang, I saw an advertisement for what looks to be a neat documentary on the 1951 disappearance of the C54 in BC that killer 44. Its called "Blackhawk Down" does anybody know where I can stream this for free? It was supposed to be on last Sunday, but I don't have the documentary channel The craz...

Here is a photo that I took of the Republic F84 near Meister Lake in 1984. There are access trails for ATV’s and snow machines and it appears that the aircraft has been extensively vandalized.

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Came across reference to a sabre that crashed near Meister lake in Southern yukon but have not had any luck finding anything on the internet about it.. It is a Republic F84E Thunderjet, USAF # 49-2026. Crashed west of Watson Lake Jan 7, 1950 due engine failure. If I recall correctly the pilot baile...

Came across reference to a sabre that crashed near Meister lake in Southern yukon but have not had any luck finding anything on the internet about it.. I know about the aircraft but I don’t think it is a Sabre. Maybe a F84 or something like that. I am not very familiar with those military designati...

Looks like another lovely day on the Belcher Islands... RWY is 09/27 with LPV minimums of 250' and 1 sm. Was there ever another location for the runway at SK? I was there in a Twin Otter out of Churchill in March 1973. The runway was about 1200’ long at that time. I thought it might have been more ...

I was informed today that well known aviation enthusiast Al Nelson recently passed away. Al flew and maintained aircraft in northern Ontario and Manitoba in the 1950’s and onward. He is the only pilot I know that has flown commercially a Bellanca Aircruiser CF-BTW, a Junkers W34 CF-AQW, and Fox Moth...

Over 200 years ago the famous philosopher Thomas Paine said:

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to a dead person.”

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This a very unusual helicopter. The design goes back to Germany during WW2. There are 2 intermeshing rotors each on a separate rotor head. No tail rotor. I watched one for several days doing power line installations in Arizona a few years ago. AP 84F7AD01-4CFE-4DC0-B0F1-A7055AA143DB.jpeg 91948903-08...

Duchess wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:15 pm Jamie Biggs passed away September 4 2021

I was told that he passed away in hospital in Thunder Bay due to a lung infection.
RIP

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lastchance wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:37 pm Would those ladies have been the nursing staff??

Nope. Genuine original local ladies.

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This isn’t recent. About 50 years ago I landed with Cessna 180 CF-IRQ at Hartley Bay on the Inside Passage south of Prince Rupert BC. I picked up 3 nice local ladies and discovered that the battery was dead before casting off. Thankfully someone on the dock held onto the strut while I tried to start...

I am looking for 3 good tires for the late 1930’s homebuilt Froebe Helicopter that is with the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada. I have tried all the usual tire places. Tires are Goodyear 16x7x3. These tires may have been used on various 1930”s home built aircraft. Thanks, Antique Pilot (not ...

PM sent.

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I apologize for the thread drift but this is how I failed an interview at PWA in Edmonton in 1972: At the time of my interview I had been moving around a bit and had recently gone to Watson Lake from Prince Rupert. I was interviewed by Capt Kees Fransbergen, Capt Miles, and a Mr. Jarvis from HR. Cap...

According to the CCAR they have 3 turbine and 2 piston Otters.

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