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Condolences on the loss of these fine people and a speedy recovery to the injured.

http://www.admtl.com/uploadedFiles/enterprise_services/Mirabel%20-T-120%20Leasing%20Profile.pdf. Try this. The location isn't practical and there are limited facilities apart from the hangar so it would never make the first cut. In Mulroney's era it would already have been leased to the military...

"Thinking outside the box" You bet you are.

I'm doubtful if any change will come. They follow each new thing that pops up and pay little attention to past events which means that what happened three days ago is history rather than news. From my experience there are lots of errors in reporting any event. I've been involved in a number of...

No doubt the US models have some rather sensitive equipment that is specific to their operations but we would not be buying that sort of equipment so the issue is dead in the water. We have no accommodation for them but I understand that there is a plan that covers that aspect. The story in...

I did a 6 month tour in the Middle East living in a whole lot better conditions than anyone in Afghanistan could even dream of and if anyone would have heard my words in the last few calls that I made home they would have had the impression that when I got back to Canada I never wanted to even...

Yikes!

Hopefully the location of the new aircraft will be determined using wisdom rather than the winner of a contest over who's toy box they go to. Between federal politics and military politics there's more than enough potential to locate them where they're wanted rather than where they should be and...

Duey:That photo of the inside of the hooker brought it all back. All I had to do was break open my old jar of rags that are soaked with jet fuel, oil and hydraulic fluid to add the wonderful smell and I was reborn.

A deployment is a long way down the road at this time. 16 Aircraft  require about 40 crews depending on manning levels and they have to be trained to an operational status which means a lot more than simply being able to fly the aircraft. I would suggest that the whole process will take years...

I know one guy who spent a year in Iraq on contract maintaining US Chinooks and many who worked on contract maintaining Saudi Hercs. I was there for a while as well but not on the maintenance side. They have lots of contractors flying their aircraft. The military actually go out of their way...

Something like that was done when we bought our first Chinooks and not much of value resulted. A crew and a group of technicians from Edmonton spent some time in Alaska with a Chinook unit and came back having learned little of any value. From what I recall their operation is considerably...

Other factors. Support equipment such as work stands,hydraulic test equipment , ground power units,  electronic test equipment ,engine test & run up facilities, and all of the other support equipment are expensive and require trained and qualified personnel to operate and maintain them. It's all...

If they spread them out all over the country they won't provide much service to anyone. If there are 16 to begin with any less than 8 per location would be ineffective. Unless there was one Sqn. with  maybe 11 and it also served as the OTU and maintenance facility and the Sqn. with 5 was...

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/video/Ground_Resonance_Rear_View.mpg Now this hooker is being a real pig.

Aviators often refer to their aircraft in less than endearing terms to show fondness for them. It's just one of those little quirks practised by people who have learned that their aircraft can sometimes become through no great fault of their own a bit stubborn and hesitant to take to the air...

What's the latest on this? I was away for the month of June and haven't  heard anything other than the announcement that there had been a plan to get 17 aircraft within the next few years. I saw press coverage in three newspapers but they were all similar and lacking in detail.

One old Herc was purchased within the past 10 years and it's fuselage was converted to a training aid for air movements personnel at 8 Wing. The Hercs that are retiring are doing so because of some rather serious structural problems and are  E models with slightly less engine power than the...

They moved a lot of stores from Provider to shore in Somalia and provided an essential service. I don't recall seeing them in Belet Huen but there were distinct phases of the operation where they were doing a lot of ops on shore and others where they weren't as involved. I have no direct...

My understanding of the "new role" is that it's not really new. Sea Kings have been used to shuttle troops & cargo since forever. With all of the ASW gear removed and more seating it will no doubt serve quite well as a utility transport until something else comes along which could be a decade or...