Tuesday, February 20, 2007

 

Manitoba Aviation History: "Snapshots in Time"!

I "Posted" February 9 regarding a famous Manitoba aviation company and family, Lambair. The "Post" was entitled Manitoba History: "Lambair"! Friend and fellow "aviation enthusiast" Jim Gulay had sent me some fine photos of some of the Lambair fleet. Well, he has sent me some more. They are great "snapshots in time", and give a "glimpse" of what "winter flying" is about. The engineers and pilots of "days gone past" were "hearty souls"!

 
1961; Beaver Fall float operations at Eskimo Point. Today, "Eskimo Point" is called "Aqviat", and is located in Nunavut, north of Churchill, Manitoba, on the west coast of Hudson Bay. The name translates as “the place of the bowhead whale”.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1962; Lambair Otter, Beaver, and two Norsemans at the Churchill base.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1962; Routine maintenance being conducted at the Churchill, Manitoba Base, on one of Robert Noorduyn's fantastic "creations" the "Norseman"! Outside, with no gloves! Old "bush engineers" were "tough"!

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1962; Dennie Lamb near Cape Tatnum, Manitoba, with the Bell G2, CF-MWA, on a Computing Devices contract. Cape Tatnum is near York Factory, the site of a 171-year old Hudson's Bay Company Depot. The structure is the largest wooden building in Canada standing on permanently frozen ground known as permafrost.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1962; Yathkyed Lake and some starving Eskimos. Keith Olson moving them to Baker Lake, today also called Qamani’tuaq, located in "Nunavut"...no GPS in those days.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1965; Con Lamb landing a Beaver at Eskimo Point. Notice the front bungee shock-cord on the "tail-ski" is broken, and the ski is "pitched" forward and down.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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1965; Keith Olson with an Otter tied to a dock near the RCMP's "Peterhead" boat, at Eskimo Point.

-photo by Keith D. Olson
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Norseman CF-INN in the foreground, sister Norseman behind her, and in the background, an Avro "York", registration CF-MAM. These photos taken at the Churchill ramp. Doug Lamb & Gordon Murray were just in from an X-ray tour of Rankin Inlet, Chesterfield Inlet, Repulse Bay and Baker Lake. X-ray tours were done to check for TB in the local populations.
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-photo by Keith D. Olson
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Talk about pictures "telling a story". Notice the Avro "York" was owned by Transair, another famous Manitoba company, and at one time the fourth largest airline in Canada, and hired the first female airline pilot in Canada, Rosella Bjornson. You have to love a "4-engined tail-dragger". An Avro "York" was also Prime Minister Winston Churchill's private airplane.

Thanks again, "Jimmy G."!

"Adios"!

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