A Pittance of TimeOn November 11, 1999 Terry Kelly was in a Shoppers Drug Mart store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. At 10:55 AM an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would still be on the premises at 11:00 AM to give two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who have sacrificed so much for us. Terry was impressed with the store’s leadership role in adopting the Legion’s “two minutes of silence” initiative. He felt that the store’s contribution of educating the public to the importance of remembering was commendable. When eleven o’clock arrived on that day, an announcement was again made asking for the “two minutes of silence” to commence. All customers, with the exception of a man who was accompanied by his young child, showed their respect. Terry’s anger towards the father for trying to engage the store’s clerk in conversation and for setting a bad example for his child was later channeled into a beautiful piece of work called, “A Pittance of Time”. Terry later recorded “A Pittance of Time” and included it on his full-length music CD, “The Power of the Dream”. In the interest of creating a greater awareness of the sacrifices that have been made and are still being made on our behalf, “A Pittance of Time” has been adapted to the French language and titled “C’est si peu de temps”. Music videos for both audio tracks were also produced in support of the campaign. Click on image below to play the video. For more information, please click here.
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United Airlines announced that, in cooperation with Air New Zealand, it will begin operating flights between San Francisco and Auckland starting in July, 2016 with B-787-8 Dreamliner equipment
BAe -146
I have always liked the sleek design of the British Aerospace 146 (BAe 146) now known as Avro RJ. Air Nova and Air BC each operated five of these aircraft that became a part of the Air Canada Jazz fleet upon the merger of those two regional airlines and Air Ontario into Air Canada Regional.
Terry mentioned that they did not really catch on with commercial airlines although Wikipedia says that they are the most successful British civil jet airliner program with 387 produced. I only had the opportunity to fly on one once, from Whitehorse to Vancouver, and was quite impressed by how quiet it was in flight. However, it seems that they have had some success when converted for firefighting service. I have tracked two of them down that may still be operated in that capacity today.
C-FBAO (Pictured) was originally delivered to Air BC in January 1989 and then transferred to Jazz until withdrawn from service in March 2005 and stored in Halifax. Planespotters.net shows it delivered to Minden Air as N446MA in January 2009 and converted to a Water Bomber configuration. 
C-GRNT was originally delivered to Air Nova on December 7, 1989 and followed the same course as C-FBAO. However, Planespotters.net shows it delivered to Air Spray in May 2015 and used fighting forest fires in on the west coast of North America.
Anyone have more personal insight on this fleet? Looking forward to reading your feedback.
Recently, during the Wings Over Wine Country Air Show practice, three different pilots wandered into the TFR (Temporary Flight Restricted) zone, causing the rehearsals to be delayed. The fourth time it happened was when the Canadian Snowbirds had just started their routine.
The tower notified them they would have to stop until the offender left the zone...
One of the Snowbirds then asked the tower: "What's with all these pilots busting the TFR?" ...
The tower responded: "Welcome to Sonoma County". They drive like that, too
US Airways will no longer be operating flights following their merger with American Airlines The current US Airways ZED fare has therefor expired.
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