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Mirko Bleur sends some additional info regarding the Golden Hawks story in NetLetter #1407 "Good day, Thank you very much again - I was curious and found NetLetter # 1407 already online. This was particularly interesting as I did not know the Golden Hawks only performed for a few years. The Sabre in this video is absolutely beautiful, really a nice bird. I favoured its shapes and especially the paint scheme after a visit to a museum in Germany back in 2011." Click Here for Mirko's photo of an RCAF Golden Hawk at the Technik Museum Speyer. Best regards, Mirko Bleuer |
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Terry adds some info regarding the Lufthansa B-747, registration D-ABYM, (pictured in this issue's header image) preserved at Technik Museum Speyer. "I have had the pleasure of visiting the Speyer Museum, it was a stop on the River Rhine cruise I took several years ago. I did not do the wing walking, due to heavy rains at the time of my visit, but the exhibition of vehicles and aircraft are just incredible." Click Here for the link to the Flight International magazine there is a spread about the B-747 50th anniversary. |
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David Varnes adds two comments - "The video that Wayne posted on the RCAF Golden Hawks aircraft is supposedly this stored aircraft's exit from Canada to an unknown destination. As a former member of the Vancouver 692 Air Cadet Golden Hawks Squadron, I have made inquiries through the Air Cadet network as to where this aircraft went and to whom. The Ken Pickford item on the change of the CP Air livery from 'goose' to 'orange' should have one footnote. The transition of the 'goose' livery was deliberately delayed on one (and possibly two) aircraft by the CPA sales force in South America. The 'goose' was so well known in Lima, Santiago and Buenos Aires that loss of sales was feared if the aircraft livery was changed." |
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Graham Morley asks: I have a question for Ken Pickford as I believe he is most likely to have the answer! In 1957/58 a 1049 Connie' overshot the runway in Malton airport (YYZ) and ended up in the grass by the fence to the road we used to the ramp. We spent a day or so getting it out and into the hanger where it sat for ages! It was finally fixed and sold but I don't know to whom. I recall that it crashed again I believe in California on its first flight! There appears to be no record of this incident in Connie' files. Could you find the aircraft registration . it;s probably a C- F TG some thing and the dates of both incidents? Graham. |
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Ken responded: That event occurred on February 10, 1960 and involved the last of the 13 Super Connies delivered to TCA, CF-TEZ, one of two 1049H passenger/cargo convertible models. Unlike CF-TGG, CF-TEZ survived that runway overrun at YYZ and was repaired and later operated for US cargo carrier Slick Airways until it crashed on landing at SFO three years later on February 3, 1963, killing 4 of the 8 persons aboard. |
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Bernie McCormack shares these two memories - "In the early '70s while deadheading home from Toronto to Winnipeg, a short time before we landed in Winnipeg, the couple in front of my seat were attempting to communicate with the F/A in our section. I realized they were passing her a note and by their actions I decided that they were probably deaf. When I inquired, the attendant told me that they had no plans for their stay in Winnipeg because they hadn't been able to contact their friends. We communicated to them that I was an Air Canada pilot and that my wife and I would help them out and take them to our home in St. Vital. Sheila prepared supper and we decided to put them up and try next morning to contact their friends. In the evening I set up some slides of Jamaica but without voice communication and with their travel fatigue they were soon asleep. We saw them to their room and after a night's sleep drove them to their friend's home in the morning." |
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"After landing in Vancouver at the completion of my flight from London in the late 80's, one of the flight attendants told me a young girl (about 10 or 12 years) traveling alone through from Bombay with us was going to phone her home in Port Coquitlam to arrange a ride. I was in uniform of course and told her that if she phoned and arranged it with her parents I would drop her and her bags off to them as I didn't live very far from there. Her folks were very appreciative when we arrived about an hour later although because of my uniform I suppose, looked a just little puzzled." Bernie McCormack |
