My only visit to Newfoundland was a fuel stop in Gander way back in 1952. I was aboard a TWA Connie from Paris to New York via Shannon and Gander. 17 hours in transit. Far cry from today's 6-7 hts. 😊 Super video. Thanks.
I grew up on cold lake Air Force base in Alberta. You see tons of cool military planes/jets there's been lucky enough to sit in an f-18 a couple times when I was younger. I'll never forget the first time I seen a galaxy with its us army paint job there it was HUGE. Definitely a cool place to check out if you're an aviation buff if you're in the area, they have a bunch of decommissioned jets mounted for display all over the base and a cool museum. It's a smaller town though so don't expect a ton haha. You'll see jets flying nearly every day though so that's cool.
All very interesting, thanks! 👍 Always lots of info on the tail of aircraft. For example, if you look closely at the first Herc you'll see ANG which stands for Air National Guard. The number 85908, which is really 18-5908, follows the pattern of aircraft tail numbers in Air Mobility Command (AMC). Plus the name of the base. So, ANG is self explanatory. The number 18 is the fiscal year it was appropriated. They drop the decade which is the first digit "1". The last four numbers is the sequence number. Notice the base is "Charlie West" which is Charleston, West Virginia. And, look closely, you'll see a map of West Virginia on the left of "Charlie West". This tells you that the Herc is from the 130th Airlift Wing. Which happens to have eight Hercs. Bonus fact, pause the video and count the number of blades for each propeller. There's six which means it's a C-130J. Older models have four blades. If you see eight then it's either an experimental C-130H. Or a special mission Herc that goes to Antarctica, etc. Extra bonus fact, look at the style of blades as well. Notice they're not straight but curved. These are known as "scimitar" blades. So much info, lol. 😊
That’s actually the subject of the Broadway musical “Come From Away”: I was lucky enough to see it in Gander before it ever hit Broadway. As a sidenote: CYQX shares its property and runways with CFB Gander, so the airport is both civilian and military… hence why the USAF is always there. Even cooler is the fact that NASA had it as an abort location for the shuttle!
aaaaaaa ...that stuff is nothing compared to what we would see on a regular basis in the 70's landing/taking off in Gander: F104 and F105 Voodoo's (breaking the sound barrier right above our heads...until it was banned ...only allowed to happen now when out over the oceans), Hugh Hefners Playboy Bunny plane....all black with the white bunny logo on the tail, the all silver Super -Guppy, the Nimrod (anti-submarine) were there all the time,...I/we even saw the SR71 Blackbird one summer evening (we were teenagers buzzed on the weed...f---ing cool or wha). The Concorde made its very first North American landing/takeoff at Gander..(we were lined up along the runway watching it); Areoflot, Cubana, TWA, etc had ticket counters inside the airport where you could purchase flights...;
@@maineman11 fair enough, it would be good to have a better quality video, and add in that bit about 9/11 which someone said. I hope I didn’t come across as rude at all.
