The British Columbia Aviation Museum is a major attraction on
Vancouver Island. It is located next to the Victoria International
Airport. In the Museum, there are many interesting aircraft,
engines, pictures, models and artefacts.
The altitude of an aircraft, determined by a radar-type radio
altimeter. It is the actual distance between the aircraft and the
nearest terrain feature.
"People must realize that firefighters do more than fire
extinguishment and rescue at these events... They also provide
critical command and control functions as the incident commander
under the Air Force Incident Management System
construct."
Source: Senior Master Sgt. Shawn Ricchuito, the
fire and emergency services chief of the 379th Civil Engineer
Squadron. The squadron used a teamwork approach to recover a
Aerospatiale SA330J helicopter that crashed Dec. 15 at a forward
operating base in Afghanistan.
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