December 4, 20214 yr My compilation, here, of the three entities: Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star Jackson Hole Airport is a result of my (combined) long-held curiosities about (1) one of the oldest Canadian Airlines (though CP Air still remains my favorite (classic) Canadian Airline) (2) the modified variant of the (trend-setter) Douglas DC-4 known as North Star, and (3) a unique Rocky Mountain Airport, Jacson Hole (KJAC). TCA (Trans-Canada Air Lines) is, indeed, one of the oldest airlines founded in Canada...and, most importantly, was the predecessor of "Air Canada" that's so well-known to us today (TCA was renamed "Air Canada", after nearly two decades of operation). If one looks at the logo on the screenshots, below, one will see the earliest form of the famous red "maple leaf" emblem. When TCA introduced this iconic logo in 1937, there was also a (stylized) paper-plane just above the letters "TCA" on the maple leaf. In 1945, the paper-plane disappeared from the logo, leaving only the letters "TCA", which is the logo, seen, in my shots below. Then, in 1965, when TCA transformed to Air Canada, the lettering "TCA" disappeared, and the big/bold/red "AIR CANADA" appeared above the maple-leaf...and, so on, the logo evolved to what it is today... Mention of Canadair North Star would be incomplete without reference to TCA. Canadair contract-developed the North Star, first, for TCA, from the base DC-4. The primary difference was the use of Rolls-Royce Merlin powerplants instead of the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp. The Merlin engine would, of course, also power legends such as the Avro Lancaster, de Havilland Mosquito, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire etc. Please find, below, a collection of pictures of the TCA North Star lifting northward off (KJAC) Rwy 01. With the airport elevation at 6,451′, even with 40% fuel, I barely lifted off the end of the runway...🙂 ... (see shots) ...The majestic Teton Range is seen on the Pilot side of the a/c...as I climb to 2,000' AGL, make a (CCW) U-turn, right over the Phelps Lake (see shot), ~10 nms out, in the narrow valley, and then head back, with the same mountain range, now, on my starboard side. I finally land on Rwy 19 after capturing the LOC/GS signals of this ILS Rwy. Hope you enjoy these pictures of the (TCA) North Star in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...! [Flight Replicas (North Star), Orbx (CRM/KJAC)]
December 4, 20214 yr Beautiful set of shots ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
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