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Originally Posted by Alex Blair
Derek..
In the summer of '76 I took a crew of guys up to Yellowknife and installed a fuel tank,a prefabed shack to house the gas driven spark proof pump,concrete containment catch tank and elevated 2 thousand gallon av gas tank on the loading dock for our Airforce float planes and the RCMP float planes..
We prefabbed everything in Greiusbau and Nameao and flew it all up in Herks..
As a construction engineer stationed in Edmonton we looked after all the north ,up to Yellowknife and Inuvik..I think Montreal or Trenton looked after the Eastern Arctic..
Anyway I'll post this link,but don't know how to post the picture of the dock and float planes..Although you can't see the tank and shack ,you can see the fuel rail leading back to the rig which is just out of camera shot to the right...The little shack that is shown is unknown to me..It wasn't there in '76...
It was all granite so it was either blast a trench or elevate the fuel rail....
Up until we installed the refueling station all refuelling was done by hand pump out of 45 gallon drums..Were they ever glad to see us..
http://floatplaneflyin.com/old/uphere.pdf
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Great story Alex, few people know the benefit to all that is derived from the efforts of the Engineers across Canada and throughout the world. I enjoyed the stories about Buffalo Airways and their continuing use of C46s and C47s and the Ragged Ass Syndicate and the street named after them...that would make a great name for the city of Yellowknife.
CHIMO! Derek.