the plane, the plane...

[jay]

We got a free C-130 flight! Thanks to LB's efforts, there is a USMC C-130 based in Texas that will be leaving within the hour for Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. There our guys will load 20,000 lbs of building materials, equipment and food, which will arrive at Resolute around 11pm CT tonight. And then the Herc will fly to Cambridge Bay for refueling before heading back home. Our cargo will be transferred to a series of charter DHC-6 Twin Otter flights back and forth to Haughton Crater, over the rest of this week.

The "opportune airlift" request will save the project the $45K we were about to spend on a DC-3 charter from Yellowknife. This means that Pascal will have a salary past the end of August, among other things...

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Wow! What wonderful news.

-J

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(smile) dinner on 7/21, perchance?

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I think that might work! I've jotted it down.

-J

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :-)
Useless fact: my father used to work on the Twin Otter assembly lines at their plant in Downsview, ON.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'll think of him in ten days, when I'm sitting in one flying over pack ice. (smile) Those are really rugged, reliable aircraft with great short/dirty field capabilities... great for bush flying.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

At least, from the outside (and my brother used to be in the USAF and spoke about this frequently), the government seems efficient when it comes to sharing plane rides. $45K is significant.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

There's an internal pecking order... as a Federal civilian agency, we were down near the bottom. As a non-reimbursable (free) lift request, we were even lower... however, we had a friend in the USMC who whetted the interest of his old unit in flying to the Arctic, and their dispatch number came up. :)

salaries and flights

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Sounds both exciting and like a relief. There are so many other ways to spend money that sound infinitely more useful and beneficial than spending it to charter planes.

Re: salaries and flights

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Unless I got to *fly* the plane, too... (grin)

Re: salaries and flights

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

now that is something I hadn't thought of. Remind me to bug you for more information about your fliying later, okay?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Yaay!