Kip Powick

Serving a snack on Scandinavian airlines in 1969

Hi Jeff.....been a long time eh !! I still remember when Di and I were passengers on one of your flights and how you made it personal that we were well looked after by your crew when you were flying for Canada 3000. I started to laugh when I read your comment about the type of car I was treating myself to... Back in 2018, a few months after Di passed, my Buick LeSabre was on its last legs so I slipped back to my youth and bought a used 2016 Malibu, fully loaded, (I bought my first car, a 1965 Malibu Model SS,when I graduated from flight school.....cost was $ 2679.00, fully loaded ). Out here we, also had a 2014 Yaris hatchback that was basically Di's car...economical and easy to run around in the city and easy to park. I have been using that car for the same thing and the Malibu is basically only used for long trips to visit my kids and their families. Bought myself and early Birthday present on 01 May.....Found a 2020 Yaris 5 door hatchback in Montreal, so took a train to Montreal and picked it up..The 2020 was the last year Yaris was made, although the frame and other aspects are now incorporated in the Mazda 2.........This was a winner find as this particular 2020 Yaris had 4000 km on it, was part of an estate sale and was in show room condition as the previous owner just kept it in a garage .......so anyway, I thought I would play with it...put on outrageous front seatcovers, Weather Tech floor matts, slightly larger rally sport tires on gloss black spoked rims.Full window tint, and just got back from the garage as I wanted to ascertain whether a Thrush Turbo muffler would fit..it will and has been ordered. The "Yaris"chrome decal badge on the hatch has been moved up a bit and a chrome "Sports" badge has been offset and added below the "Yaris" badge.....across from that, on the other side of the hatch is a chrome "Turbo". Small racing stripes on both mirrors. Mounted a newer dash cam on the rearview mirror. and going to do the same thing I did on the 2014 Yaris, mount an internal gizmo that makes the third brake light sequence 5 times and then go steady when the brakes are applied. Get ready to laugh....... Engine....4 cylinder....1.5L......106HP.... (there is not, nor has there ever been, a Turbo Yaris....engine rated to about 200-250K km It is not a "hiway" car ...too small, but sure makes life easy when doing errands !!! PS....I had the chrome "Turbo" badge on the 2014 Yaris and was sitting at a stop light when another Yaris, same color as mine pulled up behind me.The guy turned to his wife, got her attention and smiled when he saw we were identical cars...then he noticed the chrome "Turbo" badge and started an animated conversation with his wife. Light turned green and he followed me to a grocery store and parked close to me....Came over and asked where I got my Yaris and said he didn't know Yaris made a Turbo model......I just smiled and told him it was a custom order I made through a friend who worked at Toyota, he looked kinda sad, said thanks, and slowly walked back to his car ..........so much fun so little time... Be kind and be safe

Just tricking out a new car and getting the boat ready for another summer on the water.....never an idle moment...Rather burn out than rust out

Duplicate post removed...... Question??......Flat tires or did the surface give way

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My excuse.....I'm really, really, really old.. .PS..My birhday was 03 May

If they lose a door this time, it could be really messy

Curious.......why post it now when the closing date was 03 May ????

I have wondered for a long time why releases about "we're going on strike" never indicate the reasons, in cold hard numbers, the salary dispute. What are the strikers getting now and what do they want? The sick /vacation days etc. are not really important to "ME"....I want to know the pay scale. All you hear/read is that the strikers want "industry standards" . What is that?? No numbers ever come out about the $$$$ and if it is settled the $$$$ is discussed as a percentage. Why do Unions operate in such secrecy/seclusion ???. The only thing I have read recently was the Boeing Firefighters make "on average" $98,000 a year and with overtime etc they can make $120,000.......so now at least I have a ball park figure of their present salary.........which leads me to the next question ..I wonder how many fires have ever been at Boeing facilities Tin hat and respirator donned....fire away...

a company spokesperson said in a statement Friday. “If a contract is not ratified by 12:01 a.m. (Saturday), we will lock out all members of the bargaining unit.” The company said Saturday that it locked out about 125 firefighters and a facility about 170 miles (275 kilometers) away in central Washington. The firefighters serve as first responders to fires and medical emergencies and can call in help from local fire departments.

Was aked by a passenger why I liked being an airline pilot.. Replied, "Because we always get there ahead of everyone else".

True, but I can see them welding a cradle with a bunch of tires on each side.....naturally no retraction and as long as they worked for the last flight....all is well. Tangent............sometimes going off the book works I was in the Arctic with a Cosmo,( Military CV580) when the right oleo collapsed during an overnight. No matter what maintenance and my F/E did they could not get the oleo to inflate for any long period of time and level the aircraft. Had about 12 super VIPs going back to Ottawa. My F/E was a rather ingenious guy and he asked me if I would allow them to inflate the oleo which would last inflated for about 15 minutes, enough time to taxi and get airborne. And he suggested as soon as it was inflated he would wrap the inner piston with two inch rope to about the height it should normally be on the ground. He would then wrap the rope with about two rolls of speed duct tape . He said as long as the landing was "ok" in Ottawa the weight of the aircraft would just " crush the sh!t" out of the rope but if the landing was "OK" there would be no metal to metal contact on touch down and roll out............I himmmed and hawwed and finally told him to go for it. If we had to wait for a MRP, (Mobile Repair Party), from OW we would probably be about 48-72 hours late if the repair went well. There was nothing unusual about the start, taxi and T/O and so far all was well. Worked my butt of trying for a 'greaser' in OW and "came close" and on roll out we had about 5-10 degrees right wing down. Taxied in and unloaded and then I rushed out to look at the oleo.....we had about 1/2 inch of crushed and mangled rope and tape before we would have been metal to metal .ARRGGGHHH

The Hawaii Martin Mars can land and take off only on water, so its last flight will be from Sproat Lake to the Saanich Inlet near the Victoria International Airport. The aircraft will be brought up on a ramp at Canadian Coast Guard Base Patricia Bay, a former seaplane port, mounted on a trailer in a swivelling cradle and transported across Victoria International Airport runways. Perhaps they will retrofit wheels for the trip south, or take the wings off, and transport by truck ..(I doubt the wings off).. I am sure there will be more news before the move.

Why ???

The terror began after crew heard a strange 'non-routine' noise.........

A big piece of Saskatoon airline history departing for Lethbridge By Brody Langager Global News Posted April 24, 2024 2:56 pm 2 min read A relic aircraft of Canada’s airline history will soon be taking a trip away from Saskatoon, but it won’t be by air. Rik Barry, chairman of the Time Air Historical Society based in Calgary and Lethbridge, Alta., said they’ll be in Saskatoon over the next three days disassembling an aircraft that they’ll be transporting back to Lethbridge. View image in full screen An old Canadian Regional aircraft is leaving Saskatoon and making its way to a museum in Alberta. Global News/ Slavo Kutas The C-FTAV, a 1976-built Fokker F-28-1000, will be used by the society to celebrate early airline history in Canada. The plane has been stored at the Saskatoon Airport since 2002. Barry explained there were roughly 25 aircraft retired at that time. “Air Canada retired them in 2002 and, because of the history of Norcan Air and their experience with the F-28, decided to mothball the whole fleet here where they have stayed for the last 22 years,” Barry said. Norcan Air was a Saskatoon-based airline back in the day, with Barry saying that Time Air had purchased the company back in 1987. “Later, Time Air was renamed Canadian Regional to better align with its parent company, which was Canadian Airlines.” He said this move was the start of an airline museum dedicated to the history of Canadian airlines. View image in full screen Canadian Regional planes being stored in Saskatoon. Global news/ Slavo Kutas Barry said there were close to 40 airlines throughout Canada’s history that eventually came to form Canadian Airlines before Air Canada took over. He said any similar remaining aircraft in Saskatoon will be scrapped over the coming years. Jesse Millington, operations coordinator with Time Air Historical Society, explained the process — including the removal of the wings — involved in moving an airplane by truck and trailer. “The wings are actually bolted. There’s about 300 plus really annoying bolts,” Millington said. The body of the plane sits on one trailer, while the wings get hauled on another. He said that this was not an easy process to get this aircraft, adding that this moment was four years in the making. “It means a lot just to everybody here, everybody who is involved, and hopefully it will mean something to future generations that see the plane.”

Seniors found themselves stranded on vacation after the budget airline abandoned the under-performing route. Waterloo residents Ziggy and Kathy Klaus are unhappy with Flair Airlines after having to cut short a trip to Las Vegas. Flair Airlines had high hopes last winter that sun-seeking passengers would fly to Las Vegas from the Waterloo Region airport. It was a bad bet. The airline cancelled the new route in March over what it calls “lower-than-expected demand and under-performance.” That’s when Ziggy Klaus found his vacation ruined. The Waterloo senior was left stranded in Las Vegas with his wife Kathy and another Kitchener couple after Flair flew them to the Nevada desert March 18 but cancelled their return flight home March 22. “I would never fly again with Flair,” Klaus said. Flair abandons destinations quickly if enough seats go empty. “Our network is designed to fly where our customers want to go,” airline vice-president Eric Tanner said, explaining why the airline yanked its Kitchener-to-Las Vegas route after just a few months. Tanner said “schedule changes are communicated early, often and clearly to minimize inconvenience” to passengers. That’s not how Klaus sees it. In January, he received an email from ticket seller FlightHub alerting him to a change for the March trip he booked to celebrate the 30th wedding anniversary of friends. The message did not say their return flight to Kitchener was cancelled. It said “the airline has made changes to the itinerary.” It directed him to an unfamiliar Flair Airlines website that he was unable to navigate to find details. From this communication, Klaus, 69, did not understand he no longer had a way home. “Why not just make it simple, instead of making you jump through hoops?” he said. It further frustrates him that two months later, Flair allowed four passengers to board in Kitchener and depart for Las Vegas without telling them they no longer had a return flight. “To let us on the plane, we automatically assume that ‘Yeah, we’re coming back at some point,’” he said. Alerted to the cancellation by other passengers after they reached Las Vegas, the group had to cut short their vacation, pay $1,400 for last-minute seats to Toronto, and hail a taxi back to Kitchener. Klaus has complained to Flair but has not heard back about compensation. Flair continues to draw more than twice the passenger complaints made against Air Canada or WestJet, per flight. But the airline is making progress in its bid to reduce complaints. It continues also to shuffle its destinations out of the Region of Waterloo International Airport. In May and June, Flair plans to return to a number of Canadian cities that were set aside last winter when the airline pivoted to sunspot destinations. “We are gearing up for our busiest summer season yet and the significant growth we’re seeing in (Waterloo Region) reaffirms both customer demand and our commitment to this market,” Tanner said.

That is just the way the mind works when one has been without, for many years

Good catch

Probably will be a endless crescendo of roars when the first pilotless "FLUBER" goes in.

Many decades ago I was in Tehran for some government mission and met a Canadian who was staying at the same hotel as me and my crew. He and his buddy were from British Columbia and they were flying a DC-3 seeding clouds for the Iranian Government. He said it was a very lucrative job and the only problem he could have had was "parts" His contract did not specify that the Iranian Government was responsible for any maintenace or aircraft parts . I mentioned that the DC 3 was pretty old and how could he get parts "over here". He told me that there was a governnent warehouse that had parts for most older aircraft. I then asked how much they cost "over here"? He said, " I never pay for any I just go in with a request form that I wrote out get parts and sign for them". "Well, who ends up paying for them?" " I dunno, I sign the receipt with any name I want, I've used George Washington, Maxwell Smart, Columbo, and a few others. I wonder if he made it "out".

Yes, because if it was a SeaKing and it landed, it would probably be unserviceable

Malcolm, that initial photo is pure FAKE.......I may be retired but not without some left-over aerodynamic knowledge...not a breath of wind evident .......courtesy helo or weather

The "Capture" above is very misleading. Choppers DO NOT hover while refueling tanks. Not a real big deal as the helos land, the tanks drive up and are fueled . It is actually called ADGF (Air Delivered Ground Refueling) The give away in the photo is that there doesn't appear to be any downwash....

https://kyivindependent.com/us-defense-secretary-austin-ukraines-attacks-on-russian-oil-refineries-could-impact-global-energy-situation/ U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that recent Ukrainian attacks targeting Russian oil refineries could have a "knock-on effect" on the global energy market, Bloomberg reported on April 9. Ukrainian forces have launched a series of drone strikes aimed at damaging Russia's oil industry. A total of 12 Russian oil refineries were reportedly successfully hit in multiple regions deep inside Russian territory as of March 17. Ukraine also attacked one of Russia's largest oil refineries on April 2 in the city of Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Ukraine's border. The U.S. has been attempting to restrict Russian petroleum exports that fuel the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine while keeping global energy markets supplied to cool inflation and ease a soft-landing for the worldwide economy, Bloomberg's article said. According to the media outlet, a price cap on Russian oil exports was a successful tool, but concerns have risen, as "global oil prices hit the highest in almost six months, mainly on Middle East tensions." "Ukraine is better served in going after tactical and operational targets that can directly influence the current fight," Austin said during the Senate Armed Services committee meeting.