You can't really impress a crowd at a football game with drones and buying a handful of F-35s would be waste of money...so why not fly a couple of restored RCAF painted WWII planes over games? They'd be exiting, show our heritage (as Canada was the home base for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan) and they don't fly over the stadium in half a second wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars per second of fly-over time.
Who would pay for it? DND does flypasts for free as it is considered recruiting/public awarness (if you pretend like you aren't paying for it through your taxes). Restored warbirds operate on money, and lots of it. If the cost of a flypast went beyond free tickets to the game, flypasts would be a thing of the past.
So it looks like WestJet will go with a new name for their regional carrier, (holding a vote for employees to help decide), but will not refer to the airline as that new name other than where legally required like boarding passes, website.
The new planes will be painted the exact same as the 737s, complete with a Westjet logo, but will not have a reference on them to the new airline's name.
Yes, same name, same uniforms, same everything as on WestJet. The idea is that you are not just getting on some other company working for Westjet, but you really are just getting on Westjet in a different airplane type. The different name is only because it is a subsidiary, and there are certain places where that name legally needs to be provided.
The Mosquito has always been one of my favorite WWII aircraft, beautiful lines, fast, and could carry a bomb load almost as large as the B-17's. It pissed of Goering so much that he actually had this rant about it during the war:
"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
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For anyone flying on Air Canada, on my recent trip I flew on both the 773 and 333, there is no comparison - if you have the option - fly the 773.
Seats are better, overhead capacity is better etc etc etc. Plus its a 773 - its awesome.
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Did you find the 773 louder than the 333 though? That is the most common complaint about the 777's, the cabin noise level (especially compared to the A330 and A340).
No, not really. I had heard complaint at airliners.net but never noticed a difference between the 2. On the 777 I sat in the middle 3 section and on the 33 I sat in the window 2 config. I dont sleep in economy so it didnt really affect me and I had my headphones in the whole time but the person I was travelling with was able to sleep fine.
Also note, PTV on AC is 10X better than that on WJ, I hope WJ changes to the movie on demand rather than flaky TV.
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