Bilingualism...Nunavut style!

[stephen55]

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"A person walks past a stop sign displayed in both English and Inuktitut in the city of Iqaluit, Nunavut on March 28, 2009. Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan will back a report calling for Inuit children to receive bilingual education in their aboriginal language of Inuktitut and either English or French."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/per...n-displayed-both-english-photo-232008136.html

Iqaluit is way up north. It's on the south coast of Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay.

I've been there.
Any other Litsters ever been to Iqaluit?

http://ca.epodunk.com/images/locatorMaps/nu/NU_2001050.gif
Like I said...way up north.

 

[sr71plt]

No, but I've stayed in a Holiday Inn.

That's too far north for anyone who isn't on the lamb from commiting a horrendous crime somewhere.

 

[Dianthus]

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"A person walks past a stop sign displayed in both English and Inuktitut in the city of Iqaluit, Nunavut on March 28, 2009. Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan will back a report calling for Inuit children to receive bilingual education in their aboriginal language of Inuktitut and either English or French."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/per...n-displayed-both-english-photo-232008136.html

Iqaluit is way up north. It's on the south coast of Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay.

I've been there.
Any other Litsters ever been to Iqaluit?


Like I said...way up north.

Yep. Stopped in on my way to Yellowknife, en route to Hay River.

Any place too small to have a Tim Horton's makes me shake my head.

 

[stephen55]

No, but I've stayed in a Holiday Inn.

That's too far north for anyone who isn't on the lamb from commiting a horrendous crime somewhere.

Not really...

If you're seriously on the lam (fixed it!), you head farther north to Alert.
(You couldn't pay me to go there!)

 

[Dianthus]

No, but I've stayed in a Holiday Inn.

That's too far north for anyone who isn't on the lamb from commiting a horrendous crime somewhere.

Not really...

If you're seriously on the lamb, you head farther north to Alert.
(You couldn't pay me to go there!)

Gentlemen, no self-respecting sheep would accompany you up to Iqaluit.

(The phrase is 'on the lam'.)

 

[stephen55]

Yep. Stopped in on my way to Yellowknife, en route to Hay River.

Any place too small to have a Tim Horton's makes me shake my head.

My younger brother knows (and has fond memories) of Hay River. Back in his early days of commercial aviation, he was Flying Fish out of Fort Chipewayan and Hay River to Yellowknife.

10 Lit points to the first Litster to tell us what Flying Fish (a true Canadian bush plane term) refers to.

And he was flying the ultimate true Canadian bush plane, the___________

 

[sr71plt]

Not really...

If you're seriously on the lam (fixed it!), you head farther north to Alert.
(You couldn't pay me to go there!)

Thanks for fixing that. It was a screamer.

 

[stephen55]

Thanks for fixing that. It was a screamer.

Having flown the SR71, bush planes are small potatoes, but surely you've heard of the ________?

 

[sr71plt]

Having flown the SR71, bush planes are small potatoes, but surely you've heard of the ________?

Possibly, if you fill in the blank.

The only plane I can remember how to fly is a Cessna 152.

 

[stephen55]

Okay, I'll almost fill in the blank.

http://bahbs.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/beaver.jpg

 

[TE999]

Having flown the SR71, bush planes are small potatoes, but surely you've heard of the ________?

Dehavilland Otter...the queen of bush planes.

Whup...you were looking for the Beaver. My Bad.

 

[estragon]

DeHavilland Beaver, US Army designation 0-6, single engine, high-wing monoplane, carries six persons. Flew in one over the South China Sea in a thunderstorm in 1969, after a brief stopover in Dalat and Bien Hoa. Flying Fish is the pontoon version.

 

[stephen55]

DeHavilland Beaver, US Army designation 0-6, single engine, high-wing monoplane, carries six persons. Flew in one over the South China Sea in a thunderstorm in 1969, after a brief stopover in Dalat and Bien Hoa. Flying Fish is the pontoon version.

The de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver; undisputed Queen of the Canadian north.

Between hunting and fishing, I've been in those things about two dozen times.

http://www.northwestontariomaps.ca/sscimages/floatplane/MAQlandingnorse_1.jpg

I'm not sure of the South China Sea designation of Flying Fish, but my brother was doing just that; flying fish.

Around Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories and Lake Athabasca, Alberta, there is (was) a thriving commercial fishery for whitefish. He was a pilot for a company that flew to places like Hay River and Fort Chipewyan, loading up buckets of whitefish and delivering them to Yellowknife to be transported south to commercial markets.

So, he was in fact, flying fish.

He told me of a joke between pilots.

Pilot flying fish out of Fort Chip, seeing the contrails of the big iron flying high on route to Asia: "Fish, fish fish..I wish I was flying that boardroom in the sky!"

Pilot of the commercial jet going from Toronto to Tokyo: "Bored, bored, bored...I wish I was still flying fish out of Fort Chip!"

 

[Tio_Narratore]

The de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver; undisputed Queen of the Canadian north.

Between hunting and fishing, I've been in those things about two dozen times.

http://www.northwestontariomaps.ca/sscimages/floatplane/MAQlandingnorse_1.jpg

I'm not sure of the South China Sea designation of Flying Fish, but my brother was doing just that; flying fish.

Around Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories and Lake Athabasca, Alberta, there is (was) a thriving commercial fishery for whitefish. He was a pilot for a company that flew to places like Hay River and Fort Chipewyan, loading up buckets of whitefish and delivering them to Yellowknife to be transported south to commercial markets.

So, he was in fact, flying fish.

He told me of a joke between pilots.

Pilot flying fish out of Fort Chip, seeing the contrails of the big iron flying high on route to Asia: "Fish, fish fish..I wish I was flying that boardroom in the sky!"

Pilot of the commercial jet going from Toronto to Tokyo: "Bored, bored, bored...I wish I was still flying fish out of Fort Chip!"

Flying fish began in 1937 in North Ontario, and proved so lucrative that it soon spread throughout the north. Originally the pilots themselves bought the fish (paid in cash, too; well-appreciated in communities where the trading posts worked on just that - a trade system) and resold them in the south.
An old colleague of mine was doing pretty much tne same thing in the 70s, only his fish were coming down from Labrador in ice chests set in the aisle of a passenger plane.

 

[Tyro999]

"on the lamb"?!?!?!?!?!

Where's Sam Spade when we need him?

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

"on the lamb"?!?!?!?!?!

Where's Sam Spade when we need him?

He's apparently in a Holiday Inn in Iqaluit with a were-lamb.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

He's apparently in a Holiday Inn in Iqaluit with a were-lamb.

...probably filming a horror flick about anthropophagous ovines - "The Violence of the Lambs."

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

...probably filming a horror flick about anthropophagous ovines - "The Violence of the Lambs."

But will it be in English, Inuktitut, French, or some combination thereof? Will there be subtitles for those of us who aren't fluent in Inuktitut? Or will it--horror of horrors--be dubbed?

Perhaps most importantly: will it feature a plane and copious amount of military history in the middle? If so, I can't promise I won't fall asleep.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Have I been to Iqaluit? Hah!


http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/P2080019.jpg

And I know about de Havilland's, too.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/P2100035.jpg

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[Handley_Page]

The de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver; undisputed Queen of the Canadian north.

Between hunting and fishing, I've been in those things about two dozen times.

http://www.northwestontariomaps.ca/sscimages/floatplane/MAQlandingnorse_1.jpg

I'm not sure of the South China Sea designation of Flying Fish, but my brother was doing just that; flying fish.

Pilot flying fish out of Fort Chip, seeing the contrails of the big iron flying high on route to Asia: "Fish, fish fish..I wish I was flying that boardroom in the sky!"

Pilot of the commercial jet going from Toronto to Tokyo: "Bored, bored, bored...I wish I was still flying fish out of Fort Chip!"

For those who know about the Beaver:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_v0k57KhE

Pure magic. . .

 

[stephen55]

For those who know about the Beaver:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_v0k57KhE

Pure magic. . .

I hadn't heard of that song. Great link!!

 

[stephen55]

I've flown in one Beaver converted to turbo, but it just wasn't the same.

The Pratt & Whitney Canada Wasp Jr. radial engine...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-985.jpg/220px-Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-985.jpg

...is the heart and soul of a DHC-2 Beaver.

The original design produced about 300 hp but the popular version for Beavers produce 450 hp.

Companies like Viking Air, out of Victoria, BC will swap out a Wasp Jr. piston radial and put in a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 or P&W PT6A-27 turbo-prop engine (and if you have the cash, even a PT6A-34) but what you make up in power and performance, you lose in shear piston radial noise.

It's kind of like why some people ride Harleys. Taking off while sitting in the right seat of a piston powered Beaver is something that you just have to add to your bucket list.

Watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMVU9Rh9DF8&feature=related

...and imagine being inside the thing.

 

[oggbashan]

I remember seeing these landing and taking off at Gibraltar.

 

[stephen55]

I remember seeing these landing and taking off at Gibraltar.

Four Pratt & Whitney R‑1830‑90B Twin Wasp engines, at 1200 hp apiece.

http://www.beehivehockey.com/images/history_images/12sunderland.jpg

What a racket those things would have made!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Sigh . . . I do so love flying boats!

And if I ever win a lottery or sue some mega corp (and win!) I want one of these.