Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

• Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson, Victoria, B.C.
• Co-pilot - Terry Baker, Nanaimo, B.C.
• Flight Engineer - Alan Rust, Surrey, B.C.
• Ground Technician - Bill Rowsell, Londesboro, Ontario

Issue dated - January 1954
Musings from the "Between Ourselves" magazine

Issue dated - February 1954
The pre-inaugural flight to Mexico City was in October 1953, and, at that time, the CAB of the US required TCA to postponed its service to Mexico via Tampa. However the inaugural service was on January 16th and the once a week service is operated with North Star equipment.

Issue dated - July 1997
Extract from "Horizons" magazine

Some Great Low Level Aircraft Photos
As most of you may know, our readers and others regularly send me some great aircraft related videos and photos. Starting with this issue of the NetLetter, I will be sharing some of the selected PowerPoint or Video presentations that I receive. Some are better than others and the sources vary. I'd like to thank Stoney Jackson for the one below.

These PowerPoints and/or videos are too large to attach here, so I will be linking to them using www.slideshare.net and when possible, will also allow you to download them yourself for your own collection from the ACFamily Network server space that we have on Amazon (for large files).

There is also a Power Point Viewer available from Microsoft (free) which can be used for viewing Power Point files. (Download here)

The following selection is a compilation of excellent photos of low-flying aircraft. They even have an Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER in the mix.

  

Low Level PowerPoint Click on image to view on SideShare (go full screen) Download PowerPoint here  8.10 MB

News and articles from days gone by gleaned from various publications from C.A.I.L. and it's "ancestry" of contributing airlines.

Issue dated - July 1998
Extracts from the "Canadia>n flyer" magazine..

Ken Pickford has sent us this comment -
The photos in Issue 1122 supposedly showing damage to a Cessna Citation engine after flying through the volcanic ash cloud, have absolutely nothing to do with volcanic ash. The incident in question occurred on March 1, 2010, almost a month before the volcano in Iceland first erupted, and was caused by a totally unrelated engine fault. For some reason someone started circulating the photos with a completely false story that the damage was due to ash.
Two related links - www.flightglobal.com & www.snopes.com

Another good reason not to trust anything circulated in these types of Internet e-mails!

Regards,
Ken Pickford
 
Don Palmer also sent us a comment on the Ash cloud photos in NetLetter nr 1122 -
Hi Terry - just wanted to comment on the "flying through ash cloud" pictures.. These have been round and round the net. Here's the real story. www.snopes.com (same link as above)

Always check Snopes - there's so much rubbish out there now.
Cheers  Don Palmer
 
David Lamb also sends a clarification of the event -
On March 1, 2010, at 0710 coordinated universal time, a Cessna 525A, German  registered D-IEFA, owned by EFD - Eisele Flugdienst GmbH, was damaged when the left engine experienced an uncontained event near Stuttgart, Germany.

Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the event. The pilot was not injured. The flight originated from Stuttgart, Germany, and was en route to Bremen, Germany. The German investigators reported that the airplane was en route to Bremen for maintenance. During the climb, the left engine experienced an uncontained event. The flight returned to Stuttgart and landed without further incident.

The report makes no mention of ash, noting that "visual meteorological conditions" - that is, conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly an aircraft while maintaining visual separation from terrain and other aircraft - prevailed at the time of the event. An "uncontained event" is aviation terminology for an event in which engine components exit the engine at high speed as opposed to an incident in which broken engine components are contained within the engine casing or exit relatively harmlessly via the tailpipe. More detail is contained in the report.

Regards David Lamb Capt. AC Ret'd  

We received this comment about the item in  NetLetter nr 1121 under "Terry's Trivia and Travel tips"-
Thanks so much for the laugh! After reading Annette Malvar's "Life as a Con" I now know why at the age of 67 I can still run for and catch a bus or run down the stairs to catch the metro and not even be out of breath! What good training I've had!! LOL!

Dolores Huard.
 

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Recently, Wally Hasker who is part of the team involved with the refurbishing of the Vickers Viscount at the museum located on the grounds of Victoria airport (YYJ), contacted Terry Baker seeking help with locating information regarding the interior of the Viscount as delivered originally. Several contacts were suggested, and, it seems, the ball is rolling . Here is an email received -

Thanks to you Terry, significant progress has been made by locating the gent who has access to Company photo files going back to 1933.

Thanks also to John Roger and Fraser Muir for being so thoughtful in their responses that we now have the master restorer in touch with Brian (Losito).

We have Jim Strang an ex Capt in YOW who is willing to go to the museum and have a look for anything helpful.

Also the National Executive of Maple Wings are working on our request for the 40 seat Viscount interior.

Again thank you to the good folks who give of their time to keep the family together and do not stint when asked for help.

The Victoria TCA Viscount circa '59 will be better for your willing efforts.

Sincerely,
Wallace "Wally" Hasker
Victoria
 

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To complement the www.vickersviscount.net web site, there is now the www.vickersvanguard.net web site, dedicated to the Vickers Vanguard aircraft. The web master is Peter Upton, and he sends us this information -

"This website is maintained by one of the researchers at www.vickersviscount.net in an attempt to complete the pictorial histories of the Vickers turbo-prop airliners.  The basic principles are the same as the Viscount site - to compile a complete pictorial record of all the liveries worn by each individual aircraft, together with any incidents / accidents that happened to them. It is strictly non-commercial, and the interests of copyright holders (of supplied images) are protected as far as is possible."

Jack Stephens has sent us some information he received from Brian Breathnach for the webs site www.vickersviscount.net which may be of interest -

At the start of my career with AC I was assigned to the base in Montreal and to the Viscount as a First Officer.

One of the series of flights that we did out of Montreal was as follows:
Montreal to Val Dor, on to Rouyn, then to Earlton, then on to North Bay and finally to Toronto.

One other odd destination for the Viscount was Trois Rivieres (out of Montreal) then on to Quebec City etc. If I remember rightly there was a Federal Cabinet minister living in TR that might have had something to do with the station stop (we were a government airline in those days) as there sure wasn't many passengers.
Brian

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