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Our first 'Featured Video' has been posted on YouTube by SimpleFlying. A marvel of civil engineering, this is the story of how Gatwick Airport built a bridge that a Boeing 747 could taxi under. To increase the capacity of London Gatwick’s North Terminal, a new satellite building was constructed. To get passengers to and from the satellite, the airport constructed a huge passenger bridge. This bridge spans a live taxiway and is sufficiently wide and high enough to allow a Boeing 747-400 to pass underneath! So how was this achieved? Click the image to view the video. |
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"It brought back some memories. Especially the Haas-Turner L-1011’s we shared with Eastern Air Lines." Posted on the RCHeliJet YouTube channel, the video shows a model of an Eastern Air Lines L-1011 Tristar at the Albis Airport RC Model Air Show in Switzerland. |
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Brian Losito, Air Canada's 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 a few later photos, continued from NetLetter #1469. Some of the dates supplied may be incorrect, any comment would be appreciated. |
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 Flight attendant from 1953 to 1964. |
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 Inflight service in 1955. |
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 Champers anyone? Service during the 1960's. |
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 Lobster fest, possibly unloading a Viscount in 1960. |
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 Serving as a backdrop, a DC-9 - 1964-1968. |
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| 'Mix 'n Match' uniforms, date unknown. | |
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 Sitting pretty in a DC-8 engine. |
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 Serving in a B-767 Executive Class 1987. |
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Subscriber Vlodko Brechun noticed our error in the 'Odds & Ends' section on NetLetter #1469. In our article we refer to 'Russia's Antonov', however Antonov State Enterprise is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company with its head office located in Kyiv, Ukraine. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov for more information. |
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Subscriber Alan Evans, in South Africa, shares this information - Snow in South Africa? In the history of Hillcrest, South Africa, it has never snowed. However, in late August, the temperature dropped to -2 degrees Celsius (28 Fahrenheit) and we got about 30 centimetres, covering most of the up country and all the mountains. People drove for hours to travel up country to play in the snow some of which have never seen snow. It even snowed on Table Mountain. So by the sound of your hot weather in Canada, Europe, Australia and the U.S.A. we might come there for the sun and you here to ski! Alan Editors' Note: Click Here to view photos of the snowfall. |
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Stephen Helms sent us this information - (Editors' Note: We requested but did not receive permission to show the photograph, please click the link below to view.) I found a photo posted at Jetphotos.com of fin #264 (C-FZUH) arriving at Taiyuan Wusu International Airport (Shanxi Province, China) on September 11, 2021. Sadly, it appears to be destined for scrapping and salvage. I worked this aircraft on many a shift; don't believe I ever flew it, though! Built in Hamburg as MSN 711, an A319-114, it was delivered in August of 1997. it was withdrawn from service and stored since January 5 of this year, first at MCI (Kansas City), then moved to GWO (Greenwood–Leflore Airport, Mississippi), on St. Patrick's Day. Presumably bought from the leasing company (does anyone know which one?) by Mojave Jet, in July, and re-registered as N111CX. Believe its last AC flight was on January 4 as flight #222 (YVR - YYC). Now, awaiting its final fate! Only 24 years old! Wonder why it too wasn't transferred to Rouge? Editors' Note: A rather circuitous route to China (as per FlightAware.com) -
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For our past articles on Fin #264 please see: NetLetter #1341 - April 2016 NetLetter #1454 - January 2021 |