A handful of nice machining service images I identified:
Air Canada’ s First L-1011
Image by caribb
A Blast from the Previous
-Ok this is a bit of a historic image in a sense. I remember this simply because it was a moment that nutured my adore for aviation. It was the 1st time I had ever observed an L1011. Air Canada had just had it delivered that week in 1972 and this was the Friday before it’s inagural flight on the Monday… so Air Canada’s first TriStar before getting into service. I believed it was the most beautiful plane I had ever noticed and ever given that then I’ve followed aviation with a private passion.
An intriguing note for Montreal planespotters – the balcony here in the front was the original outside spotting platform at Dorval’s principal terminal. You could go out the length of the main terminal developing and take photographs, smell the jet fumes and wave goodbye or hello to people you knew coming or going on flights. It was great really but of course hijackers or terrorists about the globe shut this all down years ago, I consider even by the time this photo was taken. These days it’s been replaced with new gates along the front of the terminal. We cannot even see out of the front of the terminal like this anymore.
Note: Also in the picture: Two EPA (Eastern Provincial Airlines) 737-200s, an Air Canada Viscount and and an Air Canada DC-9-32 C-FTMF #731