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Conawapa spring 1975

Helair

The proposed Conawapa generating station on the Nelson River was located approximately 18 miles downstream from the Limestone station. Midwest Helicopters was there with a Bell 206.

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Dryden-18 finally winds down

OMNR

By the time mid-August of 1974 rolled around, the bulk of the helicopter flying operations on Dryden-18 were winding down. Retrieval operations were in full swing, and those of us remaining were anxious to see the end of the operation and depart.

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Setting poles

Viking Helicopters

February of 1974 found me in Central Patricia. Ontario Hydro had hired Viking’s 500 to support their operation to replace poles on the line from Pickle Lake to Red Lake. Much of the right-of-way ran through swamps and bogs, thus the operation couldn’t have been completed in the summer.

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Viking Helicopters does it different

People

In the spring of 1973, Viking Helicopters took over Ontario Hydro line patrols in northwestern Ontario. Initially we had a running battle with Hydro over how we planned to do the patrols. As a money-making operation, we were unwilling to consider even for a minute the six- to eight-week schedule that Hydro used.

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Hydro line patrols

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Ontario Hydro used a 47G-2 to do their powerline patrols in northwestern Ontario. The G-2 was chased by a maintenance vehicle with all of the needed tools and gear – depending on the season – for the engineer accompanying the aircraft.

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