Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

 On our late summer road trip to Lillooet BC in search of the perfect "pick your own" tomatoes...we thought that the local airport would have an interesting treasure or two. Turns out we were wrong on that one, kind of. There was nothing, but this one lonely plane, but it was definitely a treasure. Not a soul to be seen. An empty ramshackle hangar with the bones of an ultralight plane...and this good looking ( in need of TLC ) old timer. My road trip partner is a pilot, he's thinking that this is a great project. Odd little dents in the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer Aftermarket wing tips and fences Always an eye for detail on airplanes, Brian guessed that it was about a 1955 model...even without Wikipedia or an IPhone....just good old fashioned knowledge filed away for future use. When he researched the tail numbers, it turns out that the owner is a guy that he flew with in Pemberton on another adventure, some years ago. The plane does not hav...

Just add a juicy contract ( dreamer! ) and stir. All the equipment you need for your next gig is right here waiting for. How many of you guys would come shopping here if you won the lottery?...

From a late August road trip with Brian Fitzpatrick to Lillooet. I have never seen one of these rigs up close and personal before, so this was a bit of a treat. The fact that I was in good company on an awesome interior day was an added bonus.

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Aerial photo that I took from a helicopter, 14 years after visiting the site with my dad This was taken in 2006/07...the site has been massively improved since then The original idea was to just post a few old photos from the early 90's, when my dad and I stopped in at the Britannia mine site to look at the huge mining truck that had just been re-assembled there. The truck used to be one of the workhorses of the Highland Valley Copper operation at Logan Lake. At the end of it's service life, it was donated to the Britannia mine site museum. It had to be taken apart and shipped in pieces from BC's interior to the coast at Howe Sound. The truck is a 1974 Wabco 3200B, and carried a record for the era...235 ton payload. There is a lot of information online about these trucks and their history and evolution. A couple of interesting points.. Wabco...is short for "Westinghouse Air Brake Company" I read an online comment that mentioned that the Logan Lake 3...