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YC Airport History.
I put together this video of the history of the Calgary Airport dated from 1956 to mid 2010. The few black and white photos were available to me from an aerial photographer I flew back in 1959 and the 1960’s. Possibly some were taken during the time I was flying him. The remaining photos I took and signed. The added music is Apples free-music in iMovie.
For those interested in my background, I started flying in 1954 at age 17 in Edmonton. At age 19 in 1956, I started training for my Commercial Pilot’s Licence (CPL) and it was my first time to the Calgary airport on my solo cross country.
After two years flying in the Canadian north, I applied for and trained in Air Traffic Control. My first posting was Calgary Tower in 1959. To keep my CPL current I flew part-time while off duty from the tower as a Flight Instructor and Charter pilot. I also worked part time aircraft refuelling and as a hangar attendant. I flew from, refuelled, and worked as a hangar attendant in most all the hangars on the Calgary airport during these years. So I was quite familiar with all the hangars, the interiors and those employed at the various companies renting hangar space.
After a few relocations in ATC and back at Calgary Tower, I took an early retirement after 27 years. Having flown an Aerial-Photographer over a 10 year period, I was familiar with the cameras and composing aerial photos so I opened my own aerial-photo business. I did Scenic-Oblique Aerial Photo for more than a decade throughout southern Alberta and BC.
After retiring for the second time, I donated over five thousand negatives and positive slide film to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary as these photos are historical. The glenbow.ucalgary.ca now archive my images and have fourteen hundred of my photos up on their website for public viewing.
I wrote a book of factual stories from my experiences over 27 years in the Towers and my 52 years of flying. The hard copies of my book are sold out but the electronic version of “Tower Tales” is available on Amazon.ca
My hobbies now include Drone-Photography and playing on my MacBook and doing KZfaq videos for my KZfaq channel....
..... All photos are mine taken over many decades and are now historical.
All stories relating to my videos are of my experiences as I lived them over just the dates indicated.
If I include a photo that is not mine, I was either the pilot for the photographer, and /or have the rights to use the photo, and where practical I will indicate it.
To ensure authenticity to my work I do not write, publish, here-say stories, photos, or information received from the internet, or other individuals as they may be fictitious.
JH
Those with questions may contact me (Jim Hall).
Enjoy...