1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT
Taxiing to the floating dock somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.
Somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.
Starboard retractable float of 1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT.
(?) Possibly BCFP’s (British Columbia Forest Products) Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill, Crofton, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on return flight to Cowichan Bay after 10 days or two weeks treeplanting on the steep slopes at and near the head of Knight Inlet.
[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]
© Copyright photographs by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011
Not sure what prompted me to take this trip down memory lane (or how I remembered CF-VFU from 40 years ago...) My dad worked for Pacific Logging, one of the FIFT consortium. I would occasionally go up to Rivers Inlet with him and the FIFT pilots would usually let me take the controls while they ate their lunch. Big thrill for a 12 year old. Never got to sit up front in the Mars though!
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