81 replies to this topic

[Redd42]

Have you actually seen it? Maybe you should add another hour to your daily drive and go there. It is nothing like all the warehouses out there.

[Mike K.]

I was there last week. Oh it’s puny, at 115,000 sq ft.

Try to visualize Amazon’s fulfillment centre in Tennessee comprised of 3,600,000 sq ft.

[Redd42]

We are not in Tennessee (or Kansas for those of us old enough to understand that reference). I'm talking about height, not sq footage. It is a huge concrete behemoth right next to the road. 

[Mike K.]

I know, trust me, do I ever know

Thrifty’s has a much larger warehouse just down the road, that opened a decade ago. It’s nearly half larger and I think it might even be taller.

[Redd42]

But Thrifty's (actually Sobeys) is not right next to the main road. It is set back.

[Mike K.]

Soon it’ll be high bank waterfront for Matt.

[Redd42]

I've seen huge warehouses in the middle of no where Arizona (Walmart, Amazon). I was actually so taken by them I took pics. But sorry, that Amazon warehouse where it is, is misplaced. And I didn't think so until I saw it.

[Barrrister]

REDD: Time to get with it, the rule for all of Victoria is "Build ugly and build cheap" 

[Mike K.]

Folks, it’s a warehouse at an airport. It’s not the Taj Mahal.

[Matt R.]

It’s not even the Garage Mahal!

[Victoria Watcher]

Maybe somebody can paint a whale mural on the side of it.

[Nparker]

I just wish someone would post a picture of this Amazon beast for those of us who rarely get out to that part of our region.

[Victoria Watcher]

I wish someone would walk 5 minutes and get the White Spot demolition.

[Nparker]

I guess some of us never get what we wish for.

Edited by Nparker, 24 August 2022 - 07:46 AM.

[Matt R.]

I was just at the WS location yesterday, nothing to see yet.

[Victoria Watcher]

t was an unusual sight at Victoria International Airport Friday as an old air tanker made a final water run, dumping its load on the runway as a ceremonial end to its 66-year career in the skies.

A crowd gathered outside the B.C. Aviation Museum to welcome Conair Aviation’s Convair-580 to its new home. The museum will also welcome the aircraft’s retiring pilot Grahame Wilson, who will become a guide at the museum.

“This for the museum is an incredibly special day, we have the first time in our history the retirement of a pilot and the retirement of an aircraft, both coming to our museum,” said museum librarian Doug Rollins.

https://www.cheknews...aanich-1094971/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 September 2022 - 04:20 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Convair 580 touched down gracefully on the tarmac at ­Victoria International Airport on Friday and taxied through a ­cascading welcome spray from two airport fire trucks.

The twin-engine turbo prop plane — a pioneer in early ­air-passenger travel and for the past two decades a workhorse water tanker fighting forest fires — arrived on time for retirement to the B.C. Aviation Museum.

The plane’s long-time pilot, Grahame Wilson, who flew the CV580 over his near half-­century career, is doing the same.

https://www.timescol...e-pilot-5865648

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 September 2022 - 04:24 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The BC Aviation Museum is asking for donations for a new exhibit that will tell the story of coastal aviation in B.C.

Stories, pictures, artifacts, log books and more are needed for the new exhibit that looks at the civilian and military use of float planes in the 1950s.

Chuck Ford, who works with the museum said they are looking for any donations related to seaplanes during that period.


https://www.vicnews....-a-new-exhibit/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 November 2022 - 02:39 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The last air-worthy Martin Mars water bomber is headed to the B.C. Aviation Museum in Sidney.

 

The Hawaii Mars, owned by Port Alberni-based Coulson Groups of Companies, hasn’t been used to fight wildfires since 2015 and has been tethered to a dock in Sproat Lake since its retirement eight years ago.

 

Discussions between the aviation museum and company president Wayne Coulson about bringing the massive aircraft to Sidney have been ongoing for more than a year. The sides are now trying to determine the costs and logistics to get the bomber to the museum’s site at Victoria International Airport.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-museum-7141501

[LJ]

I wonder why we don't have any DC10 water bombers? The desert has a lot of them in storage.