Building a Pelican (October 28th 2001, part 3)
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October 28th 2001 Follow-up of the building of a Pelican Sport from Ultravia Aero International Inc. |
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Heading West. Next destination : flyover the Mirabel Airport. We are almost parallel to runway 24-06.
Permission is granted for us to come down to 1500 feet to see the installations. Some pictures are double clickable to obtain a downloadable enlarged version (~250 Mo) |
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| Control tower can be seen ahead.
It's an air Transat L-1011 jamboree. Seven can be seen on the tarmac and an eight one is going on the taxiway to runway 29-11. There is also a Canada 3000 Airbus A320, a 727 cargo (AllCanada Express), one of the 5 ICC Air Cargo Canada Airbus A300B4-203 and a Canada 3000 Boeing 737-200 with mixed colors Royal/Canada 3000 also going towards runway 29. |
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Taken onboard the Pelican Sport owned by Luc Couillard and Christian Godin and with Christian Godin at the command on this day, the Air Transat L-1011 picture at Mirabel has a little more than 3 1/2 years later become the second most seen on Airliners.net, amongst those taken at YMX (Now 6th in 2007). It was also published in the January 2005 AirlinerWorld magazine on pages 3 and 45. Thanks Christian and Luc! |
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| At this point the control tower asks us to turn North-West. We thus make a sharp turn right over the tarmac, putting us parallel to runway 29-11. The Pelican side door windows offer a really good downward view. One or two more shutter clicks... | |||||
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| I take a look over my shoulder through the rear side window behind the pilot. The L-1011 is taking off on runway 29-11. If it wasn't already done I would have said "someone please wake me up!"
Once a 737 also took off, we turn West for Lachute where we will be on the look-out for glider activity from the air cadets.. |
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