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Dash 8 - MSN 129
Status : Active
Registration : C-FDND
Airline PAL Airlines
Country : Canada
Date : 1972 -
Codes PB SPR
Callsign : Speedair
Web site : www.provincialairlines.com
Serial number129
TypeDHC-8 102
First flight dateUnknown
Test registration
Plane age29.3 years
Seat configuration
Engines2 x PWC PW120A
30/12/1988Air AtlanticC-FDND
01/11/1990Time AirC-FDND
01/04/1993Canadian Regional AirlinesC-FDND
26/04/1995Air AtlanticC-FDND
15/05/1995Canadian Regional AirlinesC-FDND
05/11/2001Air Canada RegionalC-FDND
01/04/2002Jazz AirC-FDND
19/08/2004Air InuitC-FDND
01/03/2012Regional 1 AirlinesC-FDND
01/04/2015PAL AirlinesC-FDND
this is another UFO i finished. it's about having to memorize codes for everything nowadays... we are prisoners of the technology.
EFE's rendition of the Greater Manchester 'Standard' in First Manchester 'Tomato Soup' livery. This started life as the standard issue version which carried the fleetnumber 4603, a Wigan allocated vehicle. I wanted to represent later Atlantean 4758 as it was in the late nineties when I drove it at Bolton depot.
One problem encountered was the windows. 4603 had shorter opening hopper windows, whereas 4758 had the longer full length ones fitted. A donor Standard was obtained in the form of a Pennine example and a glazing swap took place.
A photograph I took at Stockport in August 1999 showed the bus carrying advertising for Budweiser beer [I say beer, its more like watered down cat piss!] and a Google image search found that very advert which was saved for further use. Only the girls face was used to create the advert, the bottle came from another search and the text was copied the best I could with what fonts I had available on my coal powered computer and with a bit of trial and error the advert you see was created.
The fleetnumbers are a tad oversize and will be remedied in due course and new destinations will be produced, but those niggles aside I'm happy with the results.
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” Magdalena Abakanowicz
Arnolfini - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bristol
The temp in my vehicle read +1F but the wind out on the Interstate pier made it feel well below zero. The Algoma Montrealais moves into position to unload at Holcim.
I acquired these lighters in Bosnia; the design - rounded corners & simplicity and ease of use - took my breath away...they are little works of art! They have no makers name or country of origin on them, and I have never seen these anywhere else, certainly not in the UK.
ABCs & 123s: C is for...code
Tenuous Link: cigarette lighter
the shot at hand: inspired by Ryan the one, the only....always pimp!
this is a regular family outing for the O'Connor family on any given saturday night...it started with "i've got a shot stuck in my head, who wants to help?"
my boy...first hand up!! and can i bring a friend....well only if said friend asks a parent because first, it's illegal and second, there is a small element of danger and third, it's illegal!!
so we're off....to a trespass into Holmes Foundry....hubby is never keen to trespass...what if we get caught, then what...and as always, i assure him that the cops have better things to do than to chase a family around in an abandoned place when all they're doing is taking pictures!!
the image above, truly a joint venture...included the following technicalities:
*the pose - strategically placed by me
*the subjects - 2 boys told to stay very still for 25 secs. (no easy task)
*handheld flashlight - me again to light the graffiti
*red gel flash - courtesy of hubby moving around the scene flashing on command
my son's friend, who had never done anything like this thought this was the best ever outing so the boys were paid with a late dinner out....we got home by midnight!!
isn't this a normal outing?
so now.....tell me what the rest of you do on any regular night out????
With code blue skies, Big Blue, 5418 sits on the old Saginaw main next to the coal tower awaiting it's day's work out on the Bald Eagle Job.
My weak attempt at doing all the different components of facial expression as dissected by Paul Ekman here.
It made my face hurt.
ink on plastic paper that has been transformed through heat
the code links to an extract of "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoi (pdf)
In 2008 we went to Pueblo Grande for the Annual Indian Market in Phoenix. The Navajo (Diné) Code Talkers played a vital role in winning World War II in the Pacific. Only one of the original 29 Code Talkers is still living. However, after they were established in 1942 there were approximately 400 Code Talkers.
During the early months of WW II Japanese intelligence experts broke every code the US forces devised. They were able to anticipate American actions at an alarming rate. With plenty of fluent English speakers at their disposal, they sabotaged messages and issued false commands to ambush Allied troops. To combat this, increasingly complex codes were initiated. At Guadalcanal, military leaders finally complained that sending and receiving these codes required hours of encryption and decryption—up to two and a half hours for a single message. They rightly argued the military needed a better way to communicate.
When Phillip Johnston, a civilian living in California learned of the crisis, he had the answer. As the son of a Protestant missionary, Johnston had grown up on the Navajo reservation and was one of less than 30 outsiders fluent in their difficult language. He realized that since it had no alphabet and was almost impossible to master without early exposure, the Navajo language had great potential as an indecipherable code. After an impressive demonstration to top commanders, he was given permission to begin a Navajo Code Talker test program.
Their elite unit was formed in early 1942 when the first 29 Navajo Code Talkers were recruited by Johnston. Although the code was modified and expanded throughout the war, this first group was the one to conceive it. Accordingly, they are often referred to reverently as the original 29. Many of these enlistees were just boys; most had never been away from home before. Often lacking birth certificates, it was impossible to verify ages. After the war it was discovered that recruits as young as 15 and as old as 35 had enlisted. Age notwithstanding, they easily bore the rigors of basic training, thanks to their upbringing in the southwestern desert.
The code was as ingenious as it was effective. It originated as approximately 200 terms—growing to over 600 by war's end—and could communicate in 20 seconds what took coding machines of the time 30 minutes to do. It consisted of native terms that were associated with the respective military terms they resembled. For example, the Navajo word for turtle meant tank, and a dive-bomber was a chicken hawk. To supplement those terms, words could be spelled out using Navajo terms assigned to individual letters of the alphabet—the selection of the Navajo term being based on the first letter of the Navajo word's English meaning. For instance, Wo-La-Chee means ant, and would represent the letter A. In this way the Navajo Code Talkers could quickly and concisely communicate with each other in a manner even uninitiated Navajos could not understand.
Once trained, the Navajo Code Talkers were sent to Marine divisions in the Pacific theater of WWII. Despite some initial skepticism by commanding officers, they quickly gained a distinguished reputation for their remarkable abilities. In the field, they were not allowed to write any part of the code down as a reference. They became living codes, and even under harried battle conditions, had to rapidly recall every word with utmost precision or risk hundreds or thousands of lives. In the battle for Iwo Jima, in the first 48 hours alone, they coded over 800 transmissions with perfect accuracy. Their heroism is widely acknowledged as the lynchpin of victory in the pivotal conflict.