Presenting exciting recreation of emergency Christmas airlift supply flight from CYHY Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport located 1.7 miles north of Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada to CYZF Yellowknife Airport located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada using Flight Replicas R5D (C-54G) featuring well polished/buffed masterpiece work painted and polished exclusively by repainter named Hartmut Hekmann who is the official repainter for Virtual Aircraft Restoration Facebook group owned and operated by Hartmut Hekmann and Tobias Krause.
Arriving at the airport to get ready for pre-flight inspection of the plane before boarding my captain seat in cockpit
look how well polished and buff the plane is in time for Chanukah, Christmas, and New Year service!
Inspecting engine
Inspecting another engine while marveling how well polished the engine covers and mufflers are!!
Time for right side inspection
Inspecting right engines (dig that metallic polish!)
Inspecting the tail
Inspecting newly installed tires and landing gear
Forgot to inspect front wheel so went back to left side to inspect front wheel
Pre-flight inspection of the plane is completed and now time to sit on my captain seat and check all gauges to be sure they are kosher and correct
Starting pushback!!
Continuing pushback
Finished with pushback and time to start engines!!
Engines started which resulted into spewing MASSIVE engine start smoke to excite all airport spotting photographers causing them to wet their pants
All engines started and ready for taxi!!
Checking left engines to be sure they are okay and not overheated (you think they would get overheated in -20 degree weather)
leaving passenger apron to taxi to short of runway 32
Entering into runway 32 to taxi more and backtrack
Backtracking!!
Airborne after take off on climb to 5,000 ft for short hop across Great Slave lake to the destination
Cockpit gauges showing progress of the climb
Now reaching 5,000 ft to start cruising
Engines working hard to carry 20,000 lb load of emergency Christmas supplies
Dig polish shine!
Engines still working hard
Cockpit gauges showing progress of cruising
Crossing Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary
Weather is getting so cold that condensation is starting to show from engines!!!! Very exciting!
look at condensation behind engines!!
On final approach to runway 33
Seconds before touchdown
TOUCHDOWN!!
Braking down!!
Making smooth exit from the runway to cargo apron
Still taxiing to cargo
More taxi
Arriving at cargo stand
Time to power down and turn off engines
Engines are off!
Thank you for viewing my screenshot and stay tuned for next exciting flight. And I apologize to all of you for not making enough screenshot flight reports. I have 34,000 thousand screenshots waiting for me to edit, research, do explanations, and of course publish!!
Regards,
Aharon
