 Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.
Project North Star is the Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s volunteer program to assist in the restoration of the only surviving example of the military Canadair C54-GM (North Star).
This North Star (Registration # 17515) was built in 1948 for the Royal Canadian Air Force. North Stars constituted the backbone of the RCAF military long range transport capability for almost twenty years until the mid 1960's.
Every workday you will find a dedicated team of enthusiastic and friendly volunteers who, working with Museum conservation experts, are making great progress restoring this aircraft.
Visit www.projectnorthstar.ca for more info.
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From the NetLetter archives –
This is what we did on March 30, 1946.
The first all-express Trans-Atlantic load in Canadian commercial aviation history ever to leave Canada for the United Kingdom, indeed, for any portion of the Old World. The aircraft was an Avro Lancaster, registration, CF-CMT with the crew of Radio Officer Bill Tritter, Navigation Officer Pat Ray, First Officer Henry Tilson and Captain Roger Smith.
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In 2002, Bill Norberg sent us this DC-9 story –
Another experience with DC-9's came to mind. As you may remember when we first operated the DC-9's, the JT8D engines were infamous for the dirty black streak of exhaust they left behind on take-off. This led to an anti-smoke modification that considerably reduced the exhaust problem,...at least the colour. When I was Director of the Winnipeg Maintenance Base in the late 60's, Bill Ramage was on a visit to the base. We were heading out to lunch when I saw a DC-9 taking off on the south east runway that headed right over the River Heights residential area. I noticed only one black streak behind the aircraft and while it was at the usual rotation angle, it was not gaining altitude as one would expect and appeared to be sinking. I immediately thought we could be facing a serious incident and we headed for the terminal immediately and Flight Ops.
I assumed that it was experiencing an inflight engine failure but was somewhat relieved to find out that it was a training flight simulating a one engine out condition. I didn't think it should be doing that over built up residential areas however; Flight Ops agreed. Regards Bill Norberg
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