NWT Air Canada L-188 Lockheed Electra DVD Preview

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On February 1, 1991, Yellowkife-based Air Canada Connector NWT Air operated Canada's last passenger Lockheed L188 Electra scheduled service. Combi Electra IJV operated the Yellowknife-Coppermine-Cambride-Coppermine-Yellowknife routing under the command of Captain John Sorenson and his crew.

In this program, we'll take you aboard the second to last final day of scheduled passenger Lockheed Electra services in Canada (January 30, 1991), also under the command of Captain John Sorenson. It was a typical arctic winter day. Mostly clear, with bitterly cold temperatures hovering at the minus 35 degrees C mark across the arctic.

This Electra DVD program presents the unique experience of what it was like to work on the Electra's flight deck as a crew member, with lots of interior flight deck footage, as well as a generous amount of exterior footage.

We'll ride the flight deck all the way from Yellowknife to Coppermine, we'll get our weather at the Coppermine weather office, and unload some freight. Then its back aboard IJV for the flight to Cambridge Bay. In Cambridge Bay we'll offload more cargo, and turn the aircraft around working the ramp in arctic conditions. Number 4 engine howls away providing power in Cambridge where it was close to -40 degrees! Lots of noise! This DVD is available for purchase from the www.airlinehobby.com website.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• NWT
• Air
• Canada
• Lockheed
• L-188
• L188
• Electra
• Yellowknife
• Henry
• Tenby
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• Pelly

[MrNorthernRed]

The Electra & the Vickers Vanguard were both magnificent aircraft: safe, dependable, speedy & efficient. Sadly, the mania for pure jets at the time meant they weren't properly appreciated by the public or the airlines.

[BleuatHeart]

Yes, Buffalo has since purchased this airplane

[Turksonbass]

Always taxi with the outboards

[yowpete]

Buffalo I heard, poor thing!

[kickZtailout]

That's because the P-3 is based of the L-188 platform.

They're both beautiful turboprops, and ahead of their time. I tend to like the nose of the P-3 a bit more though.

[pwnage0013]

Looks like the P-3 Orion.

[v5ele]

Pete...was that you?

[73CDN]

what happened to this one? heard buffalo joe has plans for an L-188 tanker.. could this be it?