Calgary airport is a sort of place where an ‘aviation aficionado’ - like one that is usually called a ’spotter’ - can expect any kind of surprise. Yet something inside of me resists to accept the fact ‘you are just one of them’. On the other hand, - and I should sincerely confess - I can’t withstand a temptation to stop by, and make a quick shot of ‘that interesting something’ the Calgary airport environment may dish out on you the other day.
Just ‘two posts ago’ it was ‘Ruslan’, a giant Russian cargo plane, that had caused a bit of deviation from usual driving route to parking lot by our hangar.
In fact, I looked back into a list of posts made within the previous year, and found a few, based on materials acquired in ’such acts of spontaneous spotting’. One of them I simply tagged by the appropriate Watching Planes while going to work.
Yesterday my attention was trapped by an unfamiliar look of painting job on one of the 737-700s, the type which is otherwise familiar to me very well 
‘Tah-dah!’ Now, we have seen it, a first plane in the future fleet of EnerJet, a Calgary-based start-up aiming to fulfill demand for air charters, in a deal that may come from some ‘energy sector companies’ located in Alberta.
Although all ‘analytics’ say ‘it is quite bold move’, at least - given the current times.”We’ll see..”, what else we can say so far?
But the plane’s livery looked to me ‘bold enough’
.. and it was parked by the ‘Viking Air’ hangar,
a company, which has positioned itself into a rank of truly bold and innovative enterprises, when they announced their intentions to start a serial production of renewed ‘de Havilland’ line.
(As for their first built DHC-6 ‘Series 400′ Twin Otter’, I was lucky enough to spot it in Victoria airport in the middle of October
It’s funny, when I had finished my ‘quick and sporadic photo-session’ over the EnerJet’s 737, a door of a car parked nearby suddenly opened, and in a guy who emerged from it, I recognized a fellow-spotter! Of course, it was another pleasant surprise
As it turned, he was also ‘on a mission’, patiently waiting in his ‘ambush’ for much bigger ‘photo-pray’ You can see it HERE, on the Flickr.
Later, when I was rechecking Flickr to see his ‘catch’ on that day, I was astounded when I hit there onto a pic of ‘EnerJet-101′!
Dave, you owe me a comment, for I ’suffered an acute ‘pang of jealousity’
(to be continued..)
December 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Despite of wide-world crisis somebody decided to deploy own air-bussines. What to say, only awesome and so keep.
December 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I love the registration! GO Ener Jet.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Hey, folks,
yes, ‘EnerJet’ does ‘make the news’ nowadays. By the way, I saw their ad in the ‘National Post’ today. Among others specialists pilots are also invited to apply. Although, so far they review the ‘NG-qualified’ candidates only.
Colin, let me introduce my friend Magnat to you. A guy with a unique flying background. Now he flies in Siberia, but some Canada’s ’sparsely settled areas’ aren’t unfamiliar to him
Glad to see you here, guys.
S
December 16th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Awesome!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Today my friend Sergey and I have seen this airplane on a ramp adjacent to the ‘Kenn Borek’ territory. It was so close to the fence that it seemed it could be reached by a hand of any anxious spotter
Although it was parked in the closest proximity to the fence, it was hard to get over the deep snow to a handy spot of the ’straight view’. Eventually, all the efforts were awarded, and some good shots of the C-GOEJ will appear on Flikr soon. Looking forward to spotting it in the air…
P.S. Here we go.. to Flickr.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:36 am
“Dave, you owe me a comment, for I ’suffered an acute ‘pang of jealousity’” Your jealous! I am envious of your shots from everywhere while I sit at my desk : )
January 16th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Dave,
Sorry, I didn’t think about it
Did you indeed see a contrail of a plane that you thought was ours the other day?
PS. Here’s a Flickr image