Great video... I remember 1987 at YYC well, a buddy was flying the L1011 at AC and today Nav Can can't handle any more traffic than they could back then!
Flew on my first L-1011 in the summer of '73. What a big beautiful bird! Seemed so exotic with an engine in the tail. Did not known it was only a year old at that point.
I miss getting done afternoon shift sitting at the end of a runway at 11pm watching old 727 freighters take off from hamilton in about 2003. Miss hearing the rumbling and crackling and feeling the floorboards of my car vibrate as they climbed out.
My Mom worked for PWA at YYC in the early 1980's as a clerical admin......When she first started, they would fly her to Edmonton to make photocopies as I don't think they had a Xerox machine at the Calgary office yet!!!!! Easier to have her take up an empty seat on a plane than buy an expensive machine. LoL!
Worldways had 4 DC-8-63s, all were ex-CP Airlines airframes. Registrations: C-FCPO, C-FCPP, C-FCPQ & C-FCPS. They also had 2 L-1011s with a 60s looking lounge in the belly of the aircraft. fun fact - Calgary Police helicopter now uses C-FCPS
One correction re the Air Canada L-1011. Air Canada had 18 L-1011's, not 12. They had 12 of the original full-size L-1011-1 model acquired in the early to mid-1970s, and 6 of the longer-range L-1011-500 model delivered in 1981. The one in the video is one of those, probably departing to London or Frankfurt. The L-1011-500 had a 14 ft. shorter fuselage and 9 ft. greater wingspan than the earlier models, more powerful engines and a few other changes to permit increased range. Unfortunately the L-1011-500 was too late for the market and the economics were uncompetitive with the long-range McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 which had already been in service for 7 years and had greater passenger and cargo capacity. Only 50 L-1011-500's were built. Air Canada sold all 6 of theirs to Delta Air Lines in 1991/92. The June 1987 date of that footage is interesting as that was only 3 months after Pacific Western Airlines acquired Canadian Pacific Air Lines (CP Air) to form Canadian Airlines International which was acquired by Air Canada in 2000 with the merger completed effective January 1, 2001. Lots of changes in the Canadian airline industry over the years. I worked for CP Air and Canadian Airlines for 25 years from 1969 to 1994, including 7 years in Calgary and the rest in Vancouver. As already mentioned by another viewer, CP Air sold 4 stretched DC-8-63's to Toronto-based charter carrier Worldways Canada in March 1983 when CP Air retired their remaining DC-8's. Worldways ceased operations in October 1990. You asked what engine the DC-8-63 used. It was the Pratt & Whitney JT3D-7 turbofan.
