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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 1610.PDF
Flight, 5 June 1959 ...and another Four men down with a damaged aircraft on a flight from Coral Harbour to Nottingham Island in the Arctic. 20-below-zero weather. Their location, a tiny ice floe 8QV x l,50<y - studded with ice hummocks 30 ft. high. Clearly a rescue mission for a helicopter. But with no helicopter available, and darkness ap- proaching, Pilot Carter is down with his ski-equipped Otter on (he treacherous surface, and off with the survivors to safety. Another "routine" entry in Pilot Carter's log. Another "routine" chore for which the Otter was originally designed. DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT OF CANADA DOWNSVIEW Established in Canada since 1927 Western Sales and Service, Edmonton, Alta. ONTARIO Pacific Sales and Service, Vancouver, B.C.
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