A blast from the past
This is a picture of a picture taken in the Saint John, NB airport of a Flying Boxcar. No, not the Shorts 360 I used to fly...ha ha. This was a military airplane used back in the day. Romy used to be a crew member on the flying boxcars when he was in the Airforce. I do know that it is not him standing there because this picture was taken a few years earlier than his boxcar days.
Mont Tremblant from 25,000 feet. Where are the mountains??
A day of thunderstorms and I have to figure out a way to dodge them. Looking at the radar picture below this one, it paints a colourful view of what we are surrounded with. Red = Dead. Green = Go. Black = Clear Blue Sky. How hard is that?
I can also super-impose the radar image onto a navigation screen to plot my escape route. See the little airplane drawing at the bottom? That's me!! The trick is to get to the other side with all the parts still attached to the plane.
Without getting too technical, an aircrafts vortices have carved a path through the top of these clouds.
This is the windshield wiper hinge. The post sticking up is called the ice post. Hence, the ice attached to it. We use this post as a gauge to determine how much ice has accumulated on the wings. It even has a special light that we use at night, to illuminate it, so we can see it in all conditions. I have seen a golf ball sized ice accumulation on here before.
Apparently, it can also be used as a place to hang out if you are a grasshopper.
Once we have determined how fast the ice is accumulating and/or how much ice is already on the aircraft then we can turn on our de-ice system consisting of inflatable rubber boots, on the forward edge of the wings, tail and engine air intake, which inflate to shed the ice. In this picture an inflation cycle has been done and as you see not all of the ice is gone but most of it. The best de-ice system is to get out of the icing conditions...period!
Those 2 little specks in the distance are a KC-135 refueling a C-5 Galaxy. How about one big military plane, mid-air refueling an even bigger military airplane. The KC-135's call sign is "Esso."
Irving is a huge oil company in the Maritimes. It's home base is in Saint John, NB. They are constructing new above ground oil storage tanks on the outskirts of Saint John. You know the ones...they paint white...you see them on the way from WL into Kamloops on the right hand side?
Here they are a few months later. One is finished, the second is just about done and they have started on a third. They have made quite a bit of progress, haven't they.
Watch in these next three pictures how the clouds change in the span of about 10 minutes. I thought they looked neat in the first one but they kept on changing shape and getting better.
Mont Tremblant from 25,000 feet. Where are the mountains??
A day of thunderstorms and I have to figure out a way to dodge them. Looking at the radar picture below this one, it paints a colourful view of what we are surrounded with. Red = Dead. Green = Go. Black = Clear Blue Sky. How hard is that?
My friendly radar.
I can also super-impose the radar image onto a navigation screen to plot my escape route. See the little airplane drawing at the bottom? That's me!! The trick is to get to the other side with all the parts still attached to the plane.
Without getting too technical, an aircrafts vortices have carved a path through the top of these clouds.
This is the windshield wiper hinge. The post sticking up is called the ice post. Hence, the ice attached to it. We use this post as a gauge to determine how much ice has accumulated on the wings. It even has a special light that we use at night, to illuminate it, so we can see it in all conditions. I have seen a golf ball sized ice accumulation on here before.
Apparently, it can also be used as a place to hang out if you are a grasshopper.
Once we have determined how fast the ice is accumulating and/or how much ice is already on the aircraft then we can turn on our de-ice system consisting of inflatable rubber boots, on the forward edge of the wings, tail and engine air intake, which inflate to shed the ice. In this picture an inflation cycle has been done and as you see not all of the ice is gone but most of it. The best de-ice system is to get out of the icing conditions...period!
Those 2 little specks in the distance are a KC-135 refueling a C-5 Galaxy. How about one big military plane, mid-air refueling an even bigger military airplane. The KC-135's call sign is "Esso."
Irving is a huge oil company in the Maritimes. It's home base is in Saint John, NB. They are constructing new above ground oil storage tanks on the outskirts of Saint John. You know the ones...they paint white...you see them on the way from WL into Kamloops on the right hand side?
Here they are a few months later. One is finished, the second is just about done and they have started on a third. They have made quite a bit of progress, haven't they.
Watch in these next three pictures how the clouds change in the span of about 10 minutes. I thought they looked neat in the first one but they kept on changing shape and getting better.
Saint John, NB airport.
2 Comments:
Great to see the pictures AD. I always like the airports from the air. And I'm always taken with the cloud pictures. I liked the one with the groove in the top of the cloud.
BJR
Romy flew many hours with the Boxcar, when it rained, water would drip onto the radio equipment etc, he said it was scary at times, being electrocuted was always a worry!
Like MJ love the path through the clouds,an airplane or angels on x country skis?
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