Yellowknife teaser

You really want some more flying chicken shacks?
I'll see want I can do... :bump:
Now who said that the germans can't build beautiful aircraft...? :icon_lol:

Just keep in mind that they may not all get used.
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The choice of course is yours!
 
OK guys, this is getting a bit painful...:icon_lol:

1. Someone (thanks Sidney) actually grokked that the control tower cab is 7-sided (it's a long story but has to do with angles of incidence and reflection on the inside glass).
2. The 'wonderful' stacks for the heating system (just above the Cdn North name in the 2nd pic) that sent plumes of hot, moist air up to fog over the FSS and tower windows on cold days! and the intake system that sucked up the fumes from kerosene-burners and then pumped it thru the heating system (and the First Air 748's ran at idle for ages on a cold day). Strong enough to cause the FSS staff in the lower section to get nauseated.
3. the good/bad memories - the polar bear in pic#2 looks like he's sniffing in my office window - no wonder I got the habit of looking over my shoulder while writing Ops Memos :icon_lol:
4. Unless they've changed procedures, most days the ramp in front of the terminal (about where the building 'bends') there would be 2 or three unattended baggage carts and/or pallets stacked high with groceries for the trips north ... and constantly guarded by the biggest, meanest ravens who were laying claim to their lunch (the boxes of Ruffles were their favourites :icon_lol: ) - some days the ravens won!

I was there for the two years it took to build/rebuild the terminal ('89& '90)... odd sight when they stripped the tower of it's cladding and it looked like a steel skeleton. Then there was the huge (tank-car-sized) propane tank just east of the tower to provide heating fuel. One day a worker threw/dropped a sheet of the plywood skin off the tower. It hit the tank valve and, unnoticed, started a slow leak which filled the basement of the new terminal ... "Hmmm something smells odd here...", causing the fire dept. to evacuate the building, ramp and shutting down ops for several hours. Fortunately there was no "Big Bang"! The just-landed 737 was rerouted via the threshold of Rwy 27 to the NWT (now First Air) hangar where they deplaned.

Yellowknife is never a dull place :}

Rob
 
7-sided?? Oh crap. I thought it was either 6 or 8 and decided 8. It was surprisingly difficult to tell even from the photos. I should have asked Tim before I went ahead and built it. Oh well...if you thought it was 7 sided I guess it's not such a serious error. :icon_lol:

And here's the 440 ramp (formerly the Tindi ramp) with some of the wonderful ai static aircraft provided by Markus. :applause:

We're getting real close to being done, Rob. Hang in there. :ernae:
 
LOL Sidney, it LOOKED 7-sided!

The design was 'borrowed' from the FAA but was modified, partly because of places like YZF and YEV that have very low sun elevations in wintertime. The science determined that the least internal reflections came with an odd number of surfaces and the best angle was about 52* (360/7). Of course this turned into a nightmare for engineers and contractors who couldn't imagine anything but 45* & 90* :icon_lol: (and probably add grey hair to FS modellers). The "new" fishbowl ones with frameless glass are 15-sided.

One other little Real-world 'flaw' ... the standard skin was a 3/4" plywood surface coated in fibreglass and resin, lined with insulation. As anyone who's built boats will know, glass/resin is NOT waterproof and after a few years moisture would soak through and rot the plywood :kilroy:
 
Darn ravens always seem to win lol today. 4 Twotters = the 440Sq dead on. Im not going there about them pipe stacks and steam, they made yesterday heck on the ramp due to the wind and mother natures mood swings lol. Now if only the light bulb up here would stop dimming or give more northern lights. Gonna take me time to get used to this midnight sun.
 
CG_1976 said:
Now if only the light bulb up here would stop dimming or give more northern lights. Gonna take me time to get used to this midnight sun.
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ROFLMAO!!

20 years ago today I drove out of Yellowknife for Calgary (after the previous night's ATC "open House" Christmas party - 15 gal of homemade eggnog, 23 doz. beer, 6 40's of rum ). When I started the car it was -48C and after I stopped at the airport for a farewell coffee I drove to Peace River. After Hay River the highway runs straight south... the sun is about 8 degrees above the horizon - which is found just over the centerline of the road... and just below the lowest point of the sunvisor in the car :icon_eek:. Of course, going south it stayed up a bit longer. 5 hours from YHY to YPE with a dim but still bright spot right in my eyes. :blind:

Relax lad.. after today there's a bit of a 'pause' and then, about Jan 5th you'll see the days grow a bit longer with each sunrise. :icon_lol: Believe me, after 5 winters in YZF and YEV I share the pain!
 
srgalahad said:
LOL Sidney, it LOOKED 7-sided!
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Seven, eight, whatever. What's a side or two between friends? And I can guarantee you that we used only the finest materials and our tower will stay looking brand new and never need repairing. :mixedsmi:

I'm afraid your pain is about to get worse, Rob. The static ai aircraft, thanks largely to Markus, transform the scenery from "Wow" to FREAKIN' AWESOME! :medals: :icon29:
 
Looking great Sidney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we used only the finest materials and our tower will stay looking brand new and never need repairing
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Obviously this ISN'T a government contract!

All that needs to be done now is crank the temps down to "Severe Cold", fill the air with ice fog and muttered curses, dial up the wind and it'll really look like the first of winter.

:applause::applause::applause:
 
Sidney Schwartz said:
FREAKIN' AWESOME!
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What else could I say...?
I'm mesmerized!

And talking about weather conditions:
No northern lights here, but don't forget that my humble hometown of Berlin is at 52°31'N and the mercury is currently down to -10°C.
Just like Yellow"freezin"knife but without those fluffy polar bears... :bump:
 
-19C with a Snow flying:icon_lol:. Saw a great Northern light show last night off Slave Lake by the Water Aerodome. In the sim wise ya those northen lights need a fixin, gonna have to call the REX Maint. Dept.
 
Dangit!

With my posting above, I tried to show off with my hometown being on the same parallel than Yellowknife. Sid's screenie of post #52 read to me like 52°N.
But now I learned that "the Knife" lies far northern at 62°N.

Shame on me!
Blame the small monitor in the civil registry office I'm currently working in (it's 2:25 pm here, almost time to go home... :running: ).

At this minute, it seems to rain here on the frozen ground - this'll be some nice skidding... :bump:

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Made it home safely. Finally.

One more thing to mention:
The two graceful Buffalo DC-3 in pic 3 of Sid's post #50 were painted by Mike Wilson on the MS stock DC-3

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He kindly gave permission to re-pack and include them in the upcoming project. I just tweaked the airfile to make them invisible in the "choose aircraft" menu.

Thank you, Mike!

Cheers,
Markus.
 
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