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Here, nine professional pilots tell their stories of how the pandemic affected their professional careers
Credit: pat138241/Getty By nature, pilots like to be in control. Because of this, many have found it difficult to deal with the effects on their careers. Some actually refuse to accept they’ve lost their jobs or will never earn the same salary again. Nevertheless most pilots I know are resourceful and imaginative, so it is interesting to examine some alternative career paths a few of them have taken.
Nils Alegren (right) was a first officer on Brussels Airlines/Eurowings fleet of Airbus 330s and A340s for two years
Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story
Paul Wells: Why doesn t Canada have a robust pharmaceutical industry? Until the COVID crisis hit, Ottawa spent years putting up don t bother signs.
February 22, 2021 A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Jan. 7, 2021 (CP/Nathan Denette)
On the bright side, when it comes to vaccines, so far Canada is actually doing better than Australia.
That country bet big on a thriving domestic bio-sciences sector. It was making good progress on a made-in-Australia vaccine until December, when it had to scrap its vaccine program because while the candidate vaccine did well against COVID-19, it also produced weirdly high levels of false positives on HIV tests.
From the Archives, 1928: The first solo flight from England to Australia
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BERT HINKLER WINS
World-Wide Congratulations
Australia at last!
I landed at Darwin shortly before 6 p.m., after flying over the sea practically the whole way from Bima. I found Bima inconvenient. I put up in a nativeâs hut and, bitten continuously by mosquitoes, I could not sleep.
I was out at 4 a.m. ready to start for Darwin. I had a tricky climb with a full load out of the mountains, and then set out for the open sea.
I passed over Kupang about 10.30 a.m. Then came more monotonous seaâI was over the Timor Sea for about five hours, and my first sight of AustraliaâBathurst Island caused great joy in the cockpit. âHINKLER.
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Tun Fuad Stephens signing the memorandum of the Malaysia Agreement. Looking on second left are Tun Mustapha, Encik Khir Johari, a Brunei representative and Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
THE headlines of The Canberra Times of 6th July, 1948, reads, “Sir Edward Gent Killed in a Plane Collision”. Sir Edward was flying in an RAF transport plane, an Avro York, when it collided with a Scandinavian Airlines’ passenger plane while in holding pattern over Northolt airport, London, under adverse weather conditions.
Sir Edward had left Singapore on 29th June, 1948. The news shocked the people of Malaya as Sir Edward was the first High Commissioner to the Malayan Federation and had also been the Governor of the short-lived Malayan Union. It should also have invoked an emotional response from some of the former officers in the service of the Rajah of Sarawak as Gent had also played a part in hastening the cession of