Reply #28: first the "Transat Glider" back in 2001 ... [View All]

[Lisa]

http://www2.ece.utah.edu/~ce4710/session4/avweb4.html

"The pilots managed to do something no one else has ever accomplished (or would likely want to) ... glide an A330 for more than 18 minutes before landing deadstick at Lajes air base in the Azores."



... and now this!

We've been incredibly lucky. I'm not going to whine about Air Canada cancellations, or the Vancouver trucking strike, etc., any more this summer.


Here's a link to a map, showing the locations of the airport and Highway 401. It's big, so I won't imbed the pic.

Type in www., then cs.toronto.edu/~welling/personal/One_Airport.JPG


Page with webcam links to that part of the highway:
http://www.jameskoole.ca/webcams/mtotoronto/

401 at rush hour (some sections have more than 12 lanes!)