Where can you get a Norseman Ride? Either in Red Lake, Ontario, or in Calgary, downtown.

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Today I checked on this babe again. And I also love the place where she’s ‘usually hanging out’.

A real Norseman plane is ‘hanging out’ in the atrium of the Petro-Canada building on 5th Ave., Calgary Downtown. Very nice memories always come to me at this spot, and they are invariably accompained with ‘anticipation of something very good that is due to happen pretty soon:)’, - sounds funny, eh? But that’s true indeed!

Santa is delivering gifts from the Norseman When I first saw Norseman, we still were very new guys to Calgary, Canada, and I had little knowledge about such a thing as ‘bush flying’. On the other hand, by that time I’d already succeeded in getting an interview with WestJet. And they called me just a few days before 2004′ Christmas with a ‘mind-blowing’ news that we (WJ and myself) would be going (’if I don’t mind’:)) to proceed further with my application, subject to availability of class slots.

Exactly around this time I walked into the Petro-Canada building on 5th Avenue in Calgary downtown, and I saw Her.
Eternal ‘Low Pass’ above the heads of lunching people. On Ski, all the year around

Longing to fly out free

As a matter of fact, all these pictures but the Christmas’ one were taken today, on May, the 31st. And again, that feeling, ‘an anticipation of something good due to happen soon’ came to me as I was taking the habitual ‘Norseman Ride’ on the atrium’s escalator inside the Petro-Canada building.

Check it out, - I’ve incorporated a video of the ride.

OK, since that time I’ve learned quite a bit about Canadian aviation, its history. A knowledge about Red Lake came as a very interesting fact, a piece of trivia filling well into the general picture, but no more that that. Until I got a fancy to visit the place, which is also known as the ‘Norseman capital of the World’.

“Norseman Capital of the World” on the map display.

(To be continued..)

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