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BLOG ARCHIVES - NOVEMBER 2007
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30 November 2007 The most looked at Beaver on the website in November was the USNTPS Beaver 164525 (492). 659 page views! 29 November 2007 I had a suggestion that I reverse the order of my thumb nail images on the main page, most recent at the top, great idea - I had been thinking about it for a while, but never got around to it. A new month is starting, so I will give it a whirl. Thanks Mike G, for prompting me into action. 25 November 2007 Started fiddling with my main page. This might take a little while - I want to try a few things, but I will tread cautiously! Let me know if any changes irk you . . don't want to do that! E-mail: adminnca "at" dhc-2.com 22 November 2007 Danie is on terra firma 17:09 EST. Thanks KLM! Here are four short sound clips, don't say I don't watch out for her! She called from the limo at 18:15 EST maybe three hours on the road, lots of snow and ice. I've just added a very interesting page from the Ottawa CAHS Chapter Newsletter "The Observair", this time a photo page and brief article on Laurentian Air Services. As I type this my wife Danie is en route to CYUL from Schiphol (EHAM) on KL671 an MD11 PH-KCH (4856/591) running on time. I awoke here to freezing rain, ice pellets and snow, the first of the year. Why today? Well Limo left Kingston around 10:00EST to meet her at 17:06EST the weather is now calm here. I will be relieved at about 22:00 plus or minus, when I see them arrive. Danie left Delhi at 01:47 her time yesterday! Plane was on time arriving in Amsterdam. She was planning a spell in the Centrum before the second leg. Now, I'd better get back to the dusting, crank the heat up etc. 21 November 2007 I just received the November issue of "The Observair" the house journal of the Ottawa Chapter of the CAHS. nice colour section of Beavers! Their Chairman Timothy Dubé generously granted me permission to reprint Stephen Fochuk's remarks on my lecture, for those that missed it. Thanks to Stephen for his kind words. PAST There was a belated birthday celebration at the As the Chairman Timothy Dubé noted when introducing Neil, the first flight of the de Havilland Canada Neil’s passion for documenting aircraft began at the age of 12, when he first started recording aircraft registrations in his native Today, 21 years later, keeping tabs on these Beavers takes up most of Neil’s time. If you have ever wondered what happened to the aeroplane that you used to fly or the history of the one that you own today, Neil’s website When not working away at the website, Neil is usually on the hunt – camera in hand – to capture the In all, Neil treated members and guests to some 317 images from his website that night. Included were many ‘Then’ and ‘Now’ images and stories. As Neil said, almost half of the entire For the last few years, Neil has prepared a Always on the hunt for new • Stephen M. Fochuk 20 November 2007 Good turn out last night and one of the guests was a chap who helped train Ghana Air Force pilots on Beavers. Unfortunately this gent left before I could get his name. If he is reading this, I'd love to get together for a chat someday. I'd like also to give you a large colour image of one of the colourful yellow and red Ghana Beavers. Photo: G-202 (1452) © DHC 19 November 2007 Delivering my lecture tonight to the Kingston Chapter of the CAHS - Canadian Aviation Historical Society, spreading the Beaver Gospel, so to speak. A wonderful selection of "older" images from the collection of Philippe Colin arrived on my computer today - many thanks Philippe. 16 November 2007 It is with great pleasure I note that Rusty Noble's Kenmore restored Beaver N4110S (593) took to the air at Renton on 14th November 2007. Well done, another beautiful Beaver! I will add some images of the construction process in the coming weeks. 14 November 2007 Added a second of John Kimberley's shots of C-FHGY (601) at Campbell River. I have two more I'm working on for tomorrow, including a lovely shot of a Beaver by a river bank in Saskatchewan. Today at 18:55EDT Boeing E-6B Mercury 163918 of VQ-4 said "hello" to my computer and it reminded me of the little discussion (October 2007 blog) that we had a while back about the filter funnel at the top of a Beaver tail. This mighty beast uses the same high technology to string out his long wire too ;-) 13 November 2007 A couple of new images of Harald Müller's magnificent 1 : 2.5 40% Scale Beaver in action. His website is only in German at the moment, but that will change. We can all enjoy the photographs. What a masterpiece. Floats next! Photos: via Harald Müller © November 2007 12 November 2007 Ian Beatty was at Montreal to capture the world's biggest bushplane arriving today. Photo: Ian Beatty © 12 Novenber 2007 (plus Neil Aird) Thanks Ian for allowing me to fiddle with your image! All kidding aside, thanks also to Normand Denis for sending along a couple of the land-plane version. A thing of beauty. Normand was impressed. Merci ! F-WWJB (007) A380-841 Photos: Normand Denis © 12 November 2007 Today I finally start applying paint to my canvas. Beaver output may slow to just one a day. This new project has been on the back burner for two years. It is the second part of a diptych. For those interested I plan on putting a running collection of images on my other web site as I paint - another "follow-the-brush" effort. Two months of work ahead, but with a little bit of luck I might set Christmas as a target. The biggest challenge of this project will be in painting day-glo, which has always fascinated me. An aviation painting? Not this time . . . just more rocks and a fisherman's glove. 11 November 2007 Got this nice shot from my pal Mike Pink of two Kenmore machines in Victoria Inner Harbour, a busy place! N1018U (1381) with company Otter. "Sisters". Photo: Mike Pink © 10 November 2007 I have added the work of a couple of new photographers today, Chris Coates caught C-FJBM (931) in great lighting conditions. Thierry Deutsch let me use some of his images also, including C-FOCU (73) at Baie-Comeau. Thanks gents. 08 November 2007 Quite an influx of Beaver images over the last few days, I have a lot of catching up to do. Was doing some work for Calcutta Rescue Canada (Danielle is travelling in India just now) and getting more Calendars off to Europe and finally to my many patient customers across Canada. As yet I have not had a chance to start my next painting. Maybe on the holiday weekend when the Post Office is closed! But first, a bunch of Beavers for everyone. Our faithful contributor Robin A. Walker noticed the recent additon of N470DB (917) and sent along this shot of her when operated by Alaska Coastal Airlines, shown here at Juneau. Robin had the pleasure of flying in her. Thanks Robin, and also thanks for the next installment of your collection of U.S. military L-20/U-6 images. Photo: Robin A. Walker © 15 May 1993 05 November 2007 Running a bit late with my Beaver additions today, been doing a large shipment of Calendars, two trips to the Post Office. Getting the foreign orders off first, Canada in the next few days. 04 November 2007 Just got a "Beaver Dozen" in from Rich Hulina. Let me explain . . you've all seen the banner "P & W tribute" - well Rich just popped out to the airport at Sioux Lookout (while awaiting his Turbine Otter to return from a trip) and shot the 12 Beavers parked there for the winter! Thanks Rich! Is this a record? Where else can you find 12 Beavers lined up at one time?? He just sent two more to complete the Beaver Census for Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Fourteen ! 01 November 2007 Off and running into November, starting with the ex Maine Forestry Beaver. October was a busy month with 59 Beavers added, I hope for a similar number this month. |