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Originally Posted by DazDaMan
Anyone on the forums from there??

(Genuine reason for asking!!)

There was a forum member who worked at Halifax airport and he was posting earlier in the year but nothing from him recently. I tried to locate his name but was unsuccesfull. I was in N.S. last year and this year and may be able to help with your problem. 🙂

No!!!! but I would relocate for a peaceful life Anna

No you wouldn’t, :p ,it has two months of summer and the rest is winter, but Canadians are great people and Halifax has a great aviation bookshop and the best French Onion soup I have ever had!!
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Good photos Evzen 🙂 makes you wonder how it was made on the production line! Guess this is a part time restoration as this time frame is almost five years.

More credit to our sponsor! 🙂 This is the Dornier Do.335 Pfeil (Arrow) which is of great historical value.

Ice on wings.

Ice on wings determined as cause behind Colombian plane crash

http://www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-28 12:45:07

BOGOTA, Nov. 27 (Xinhuanet) — Ice on the wings of a Colombian plane that crashed on Aug. 16, killing the 160 people on board, has been determined as a cause behind the tragedy, according to the El Colombiano newspaper.

The passenger plane’s black box had recorded the cabin crew discussing bad weather conditions and the possibility of ice on the wings, the newspaper reported on Sunday, citing the US National Transport Security Board (NTSB).

The results were released after investigations made by the NTSBusing data supplied by Venezuela’s Air Accident Investigation Committee.

The twin-engine McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft of Colombia’s carrier, the West Caribbean Airways (WCA), was flying from Panama City to Martinique, the French-owned island in the Caribbean, whenit crashed over Venezuela, killing the 152 passengers and its eight crew members on board.

The NTSB report said that “both engines show evidence that the rotors were turning at high speed at the moment of impact.”

The crew had said it was not an emergency, but had requested a new flight altitude from Venezuelan controllers on the ground.

“The report shows that what happened was an accident: not problem with the plane, as the media have said,” WCA director general Captain Jorge Perez told El Colombiano. Enditem

LEC Refrigeration Ltd operated Avro 19 series 1 G-AHIB from June 1957 until March 1959. It was sold on and eventually scrapped at Wymeswold in 1961.

Knew the answer would come sooner or later!
Oh, the Crane may fly much faster,
Inside she may be neat,
But to me the draughty Anson
Is very hard to beat.

Her plywood may be warping,
Her window glass may crack,
But when you start out in an Anson
You know that you’ll come back.

She may be a flying greenhouse,
With her windows all around,
But in that draughty Anson
You’re as safe as on the ground.

She may creak and she may shudder,
As she comes out of a dive,
But if her pilot knows his stuff
She’ll bring him back alive.

Her landing gear is sturdy,
It will stand for quite a drop,
If you doubt it, watch your students
Bring her in, and let her flop.

Fifteen, twenty, twenty-five,
She doesn’t care a jot,
All in all, our Anson
Will stand for quite a lot.

Engines:
Wingspan:
Length:
Maximum speed:
Cruising speed:
Service ceiling:
Rate of climb:
Maximum weight:
Empty weight: 330 hp Jacobs L-6MB
56 feet 6 inches
42 feet 3 inches
188 miles per hour
155 miles per hour
16,200 feet
870 feet per minute
7650 pounds
5880 pounds

The wind may make her weather-****-
That’s nothing to these craft,
For when you fly an Anson
You never mind a draft.

You can keep your Moth and Battle,
Your Harvard and your Crane,
Give me the good old Anson
In which our pilots train.

When she comes in with a panel,
All split from front to rear,
And the rigger starts to fix it-
They don’t need a lot of gear.

A chisel and some plywood,
Some brads and a pot of glue,
Quite a bit of elbow grease
And very soon they’re through.

They wheel her back out to the line,
Her Cheetahs start to cough-
Our Anson knows they’re lads to train
And she’s eager to be off.

ODE TO AN ANSON
-by Andy (#7 SFTS; Fort Macleod)

In the 50’s Lec Refrigeration was operating an Anson. I cannot read the registration on my photograph. Can someone help?

Thks in advance.

Willy

Of no particular use to you, they used to have a Gemini, ‘LMU and later a Comanche or was it a Dove………. :confused:

My guess would be ‘HKX (and probably wrong :p ) so I will leave you with this gem! 🙂 but not before mentioning that there might still be five flying, out of 11,000 built! 😀