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to: STEVEN HORN
from: JIM WELLER
date: 2008-01-30 23:39:00
subject: Re: Metric conversion

-=> Quoting Steven Horn to Jim Weiier And Bo Simons <=-
      
 SH> this was on a 1983 flight from Montreal to Edmonton


Thanks. I couldn't remember the details.

 SH> I still look at this as one of the more significant feats in
 SH> the history of Canadian flying.

If I recall the pilot glided in successfully without power from
40,000 feet. He landed on the tiny airstrip at Gimli, near Winnipeg.



Cheers

YK Jim


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