1990 Airbus A320-211, c/n 150, C-FFWJ, “210”, Air Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada; powered by two 25,000-lbs thrust CFM International CFM56-5A1 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration C14Y132, short- to medium-range, narrow-body airliner; built by Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France at Toulouse-Blagnac/Hamburg, Germany/England; first flight on December 11, 1990, test registration F-WWDQ; delivered on February 18, 1991.
Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 8:16 am.
[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]
© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2009
1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.
[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 photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011
“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”
Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949
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