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Post by rally on Aug 1, 2015 16:01:41 GMT -5
The National Film Board of Canada has recently begun uploading digitally-restored videos to YouTube. Among them is this great documentary: "Routine Flight", part of the NFB's "On the Spot" newsreel series. In it we get an extensive tour of TCA's Winnipeg maintenance shops, watch a Merlin teardown, and join a Viscount demonstration flight. Corny dialogue, but amazing visuals. |
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Post by chris_c on Aug 1, 2015 16:52:41 GMT -5
Very nice, thank you for posting it. Spent any number days on both sides of the Winterpeg airport as a passenger (civil on the east and military on the west as I recall) but of course that was in the 80's and 90's not in the 1950's. Winnipeg cold always seemed colder than elsewhere in the country and I remember once flying into CYWG on a Herc from very chilly Hay River, NWT one December night where it was still about 15*C warmer than Winnipeg when we boarded. Nice to see that TCA adopted Fraser McKay's Viscount panels! My first commercial flight was to JFK on an Air Canada Viscount in 1969. Two months later it was back to Malton in a brand new DC-9 that seemed much more modern and cool, at least to an almost 14-year old boy.
Chris
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