We have a cargo 747 that comes to YYC twice a week, I worked the one that came early this morning. They always taxi so carefully when the ramp is snow covered and take things extremely slowly. Multiple times they have simply just stopped and told ATC they were not moving until they had a truck to follow to guide them in. We were shocked by this video, the speed he was carrying anywhere near baggage carts is absolutely insane and I have no clue how they could justify it. We are collectively well-versed enough in 747 winter operations to definitively say that this is nuts.
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Crazy winds gusting at Heathrow and this YouTube channel absolutely popped off, hitting over 230,000 concurrent viewers live streaming the plethora of heavy go-arounds. It's now made international headlines... was a lot of fun this morning. The whole stream is 8 hours but just click through and watch a few landings to see how wild some of the landings were.
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Also posted this in the Covid good news thread but thought it deserves mention here too. Air Canada resuming 34 international routes and although it's not in this release they are starting a few new trans border and domestic routes too. Only one of note for YYC is a new route (I believe) to Fort St John. Frequencies are low to start, hopefully they build back up to per pandemic levels.
Dmytro Kuleba the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs confirming it has been destroyed on twitter.
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This was the world’s largest aircraft, AN-225 ‘Mriya’ (‘Dream’ in Ukrainian). Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya’. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail! https://t.co/TdnBFlj3N8
