Just wondering if it could be the same crew that did the run up of the ex Ward Air, Airbus A310, and then hit the hanger in Vancouver.

(Written on 2020年 12月 22日)(Permalink)

The article does not say if the entire vehicle is electric or just the drive system. Are the heaters for the de-ice fluid electric or heated by another source.

(Written on 2020年 12月 20日)(Permalink)

I guess Boeing forgot about what they did to Canadians and the C Series. We do not need Boeing, or US jets.

(Written on 2020年 11月 07日)(Permalink)

The contra-rotating propellers do not need to be driven by a turbine engine, it could be a piston engine. One example is the Rolls Royce Griffon engine as used on the Avro Shackleton that used contra-rotating propellers.

(Written on 2020年 09月 25日)(Permalink)

No, they are not contra-rotating by definition, as each power plant has only one propeller. They are actually counter-rotating by definition, which is the propeller/power plant output shaft turns different direction on each engine on each wing.

(Written on 2020年 09月 25日)(Permalink)

I am unable to get the article due to a pay wall. I will still not fly on one again. My only flight was the day of the last crash, watching the news on the tv at the crash scene while I waited to board.

(Written on 2020年 07月 22日)(Permalink)

Flight Aware has tracking for other balloons from Loon in North America. I have been following them, there six at one point from Nevada to Canada now back to Kentucky. Here is the page that I used: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/HBAL227/history/20200708/1758Z

(Written on 2020年 07月 09日)(Permalink)

Thank you for the location. That will rely screw up the traffic on Derry Road at shift change. I had to go into Downsveiw once at shift change, and they were driving away from the plant three wide on the two lane street, and I was going the other way and I had to pull out of the way for them.

(Written on 2019年 12月 05日)(Permalink)

At 1:42 in the video the person is doing something very dangerous, has a wrench on a nose wheel bolt that looks like it is inflated, that is asking for serious injury if the wheel fails when a bolt is removed.

(Written on 2019年 12月 05日)(Permalink)

I can not find exactly where on Pearson Airport they are going to build this new facility. My speculation is it will be on the original AVRO property at the North East corner of the property. From Wiki: After the cancellation of the Avro Arrow program in 1959, the plant was operated by de Havilland Canada (1962), Douglas Aircraft (1965) McDonnell Douglas Canada (1981), and Boeing Canada (1997) before being demolished in 2005.

(Written on 2019年 12月 05日)(Permalink)