Yesterday we stayed overnight in Vancouver, and it was a chance to do another session of ‘fair spotting’ 
(See one recent report of this kind, from YYZ).
There’s a place on the South part of YVR known to many people as ‘Flying Beaver’. Or, some people call it ‘Flying Beavers’ - that’s for a reason - there’s a fair number of DHC-2 ‘Beaver’ aircraft flying in and out of the place.
It is hard to believe, but the summer is over..
And the country has just switched ‘back to normal’ from the day saving time.
However, it doesn’t matter what time is on your clock now, - it is just a perfect morning hour, - it’s time to get UP
By the way, it was -14 in Edmonton this morning.
Here’s two more images, from the other day, taken at another hour - a dash towards the sunrise.
Good morning!
November 3, 2007
(see also a post of October 8, 2007)
On the road again. It is one of the relatively rare five-day pairings, and not too many folks in our system like them. I’m not an exclusion. But it’s OK, work is work, and still - as I do my bid for the next month I never advise system I would prefer avoiding these pairings.
And a first stop is at Saskatoon again.
October 29, 2007
Today we sit in Toronto. The ‘Sheraton’ (that’s where we stay overnight) is located right at the airport. In some sense it is a convenient location, - especially when you checking out and go to work, or you are coming from somewhere, and checking in. All your ‘transfer hustle’ wouldn’t take a time any longer than just a few minutes to walk across the road on the ‘overpass’.
October 28, 2007
It was the first time I have ever endeavored to voyage down to Saskatoon city centre. Or, ‘Toontown downtown’, for the same purpose. A few times I saw the city from above, when I flew over either at high altitude going somewhere else across the country, or doing approach to ‘Toonport’
exactly like on this picture posted on Flickr in February this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Of course, it was a joke, but who knows.. Should check statistics.
Thanks to Alan Negrin (a remark about Glasair Aviation as ‘being a second largest aircraft manufacturer in the state of Washington’ was his ) we had a chance to tour the factory.
Having passed a boarding for a Horizon Air flight #2536 uneventfully, we were on our way back to Calgary after 5-day trip to Seattle and a few places around.
Yes, we ‘tracked them down’
(that’s how one of the Bill Shepherd’s friends worded it when we met in a hangar), and here we are, in a small community of aviation enthusiasts at Diamond Point Air Park, WA.
I first saw the plane at Oshkosh
and since then I wanted to know more about it, and it’s owner.
I would like to thank Bill for almost two hours he spent with us telling interesting stuff about the plane, which I was watching as if it suddenly materialized from my childhood dreams, and had appeared quite real, in metal and fabric, with Red Stars painted on fuselage and the wings.
See more on this in one of the future reports.
Splendid. Another ‘great accomplishment was tucked under the belt’ today after we payed a visit to Everett, WA, where the wide body Boeing planes are being produced on the huge factory adjacent to the aerodrome called ‘Paine Field’.
It’s 1 a.m. in Seattle.
23 hours ago we were at home yet, getting up early. Then we went to the airport to make another try for Horizon, which turned to be a success this time. And here we are, in Seattle.
Day number one was for the Museum of Flight. Absolutely amazing place.
However, I’m turning in to the night - 24th hour on feet… wait a minute.. what’s a smell? - oh, no: I must be ‘burning the midnight oil!’
See ya,
Clash
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