This was shot in 1947 with the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service. This service is the first civilian medevac operation in North America, and it is believed to only be preceded worldwide by the Australian Flying Doctor Service which originated in the 1920's to serve a low population density area with large distances between health care facilities.
Check out about 15 minute mark - it looks like he hit a rock starting his t/o -- lol
I flew the sister ship shown in the first video - CF-SAN which came from the sask gov and after I flew it the aircraft resurfaced in YK and is now owned by Buffalo Joe - damn such a small world sometimes.
Re: Stumbled on to this today -
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:56 pm
by JW Scud
I stumbled on this today:
Unfortunately, it starts part way in and I don't know how to make it automatically go to the beginning. Watch the whole video.
This was shot in 1947 with the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service. This service is the first civilian medevac operation in North America, and it is believed to only be preceded worldwide by the Australian Flying Doctor Service which originated in the 1920's to serve a low population density area with large distances between health care facilities.
Check out about 15 minute mark - it looks like he hit a rock starting his t/o -- lol
I flew the sister ship shown in the first video - CF-SAN which came from the sask gov and after I flew it the aircraft resurfaced in YK and is now owned by Buffalo Joe - damn such a small world sometimes.
Dam a Fairchild Husky !
Not sure if it’s the amazing acting or just the Saskatchewan accents but that was entertaining.
Re: Stumbled on to this today -
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:23 pm
by Liquid_Charlie
Dam a Fairchild Husky !
Indeed - I can remember when Barney Lamm started to get together with Anderson Airways from Vancouver (their CV44 days) to re-engine the husky. One was even delivered to Gimli but it was never followed through. Great design at the time it just needed not snot. It was almost as bad as a SeaBee -- LMFAOOooooo
Re: Stumbled on to this today -
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:54 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
Even though the Sea Bee was under powered it was still a really neat airplane.
When I was learning to fly I worked for a guy who owned one and got around four hundred hours on it over the years and I loved the thing.
