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Shirlee Schacter sends us this report and photos of a recent Pionair picnic - Central Ontario Pionairs hosted two picnics for their members as a “kick-off” social social event after this long hiatus. The first picnic was at Centennial Park in Etobicoke on August 5, 2021 and attendees were Pionairs from the Burloak, Brampton and T2 Coffee Groups. The next picnic, on August 11, 2021 was held at Sunnybrook Park in East/Central Toronto and was enjoyed by Pionair members from the Toronto East End Coffee Group. District Director, Lesley Huether, awarded an iPad to Earnie Sweet as the lucky prize winner for enrolling new members to the Central Ontario District. It was a fun day for all and hopefully the start of many more to come!!! |
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| Welcome poster | District Director, Lesley Huether |
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| Prize table | iPad winner, Earnie Sweet |
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| Centennial Park - Etobicoke, Ontario | |
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| Centennial Park picnic | |
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| Sunnybrook Park - Toronto, Ontario | |
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| Relaxing and enjoying the sunshine | |
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Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford takes off on youngest round-world solo flight attempt. As part of her circumnavigation, Zara departed her home town of Kortrijk in Belgium on Wednesday August 18, 2021 in the first stage of an epic three-month journey during which she will travel to 52 countries over the next 12 weeks. The teenage pilot is hoping to carve a name for herself in the history books as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the planet flying solo. Flying a tiny Shark Aero, the world’s lightest sports plane, Rutherford’s first flight was a short hop across the English Channel to the UK. She'd originally planned to leave Belgium last week, but delayed the launch to install an improved camera system inside her plane to help her capture better quality footage as she flies around the globe. Source: thenationalnews.com/travel Also see www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal for the story and video of Zara's visit to Montreal. |
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Trans-Canada Air Lines uniforms over the years. Brian Losito, Air Canada corporate photographer, sent us these photos several years ago. They are uniforms from 1938 through 1968 and we thought you may like to reminisce over them. Here are the earlier photos, more in the next NetLetter. Editors' Note: Some of the dates supplied may be incorrect, any comment would be appreciated. The term 'stewardess' is used as it is applicable to the time period. |
 First stewardess uniform circa 1940. |
 Four stewardesses, with Lockheed 14H-2 show off the uniforms issued between 1938-1941. |
 Service with a smile in the North Star; uniform issued 1941-1949. |
 A bevy of 11 stewardesses with a Lockheed 14H-2 at Winnipeg 1942. |
 North Star crew in 1947. |
 DC-8 8 First Class service in the 'salon section', uniform from the early 1960's. |
 Six stewardesses in 1949 Uniform on North Star 'Frobisher' fin #205 CF-TFE. |
 Seven stewardesses framed by a North Star, date unknown. |
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Jack Morath, Pionair Social Director, LHR, sent this information; friends of his were passengers on the aircraft. Incident on Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 at Newark on August 7, 2021, on ATC instruction; rejected takeoff from taxiway. A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300, registration TC-JNI (photo below), performing flight TK-30 (scheduled departure August 6, 2021, actual departure August 7, 2021) from Newark, New Jersey to Istanbul, Turkey, was cleared for takeoff from runway 22R, but lined up taxiway P and commenced the takeoff. Tower cancelled the takeoff clearance, advising the crew they were on taxiway P. The crew rejected takeoff, and was instructed to taxi to the holding point runway where the aircraft held for about 45 minutes to have the brakes cool down. The captain subsequently announced they had rejected takeoff for a mechanical problem. The aircraft finally departed from runway 22R one hour after the rejected takeoff from taxiway P. The aircraft landed safely in Istanbul with about 1:40 hour delay about 9:20 hours after the takeoff from runway 22R. |
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| Photo by Björn Strey at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File |
A couple more announcements attributed to flight attendants on Southwest Airlines -
“No smoking is allowed, not even in the toilets. Don’t be naughty in our potty. If you do there is a $2,000 fine, and if you had that kind of money you’d be flying United instead of Southwest.”
After a plane landed, arrived at the gate and the seatbelt sign went off the Southwest attendant said “All rise.”
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Boeing 707 now a restaurant. Few Palestinians in the occupied West Bank get to board an airplane these days. The territory has no civilian airport and those who can afford a plane ticket must catch their flights in neighboring Jordan. But just outside the northern city of Nablus, a pair of twins is offering people the next best thing. Khamis al-Sairafi and brother Ata have converted an old Boeing 707 into a café and restaurant for customers to board. For years, the jetliner sat along the side of a major highway in the northern West Bank, providing endless fodder for conversation for passersby baffled by its hulking presence. The 60-year-old identically dressed twins' dream of transforming the airplane into a café and restaurant was born in the late 1990s when Khamis saw the derelict Boeing aircraft near the northern Israeli city of Safed. Source: msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle |
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