• Air BC was a Canadian regional airline headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It later became part of Air Canada Jazz. This regional airline...
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    the Air Canada fleet consists of 197 mainline passenger aircraft, a mix of Airbus and Boeing narrow-body and wide-body jets. Additionally, Air Canada's...
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  • Look up BC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BC most often refers to: Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the...
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    Air BC, Air Ontario, Air Nova and Canadian Regional Airlines were merged to form a new airline, named Air Canada Jazz. After the consolidation of Air...
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    by 580741 BC. In 1997 Central Mountain Air placed an order for additional Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner aircraft and began operating as an Air Canada connector...
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    conditions/inversions). Air quality in much of BC is good compared to many areas of North America. This is particularly true for cities in BC such as the Greater...
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    Series), as well as the BC Sports Hall of Fame. Opened on June 19, 1983, BC Place was originally an indoor structure with an air-supported roof, the world's...
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  • Aeroméxico Air Algérie airBaltic Air Calédonie Air China Air Creebec Air Dolomiti Air France Air India Air Malta Air Mauritius Air New Zealand Air Serbia Air Tahiti...
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    The Travel Air 2000 is an open-cockpit biplane aircraft produced in the United States in the late 1920s by the Travel Air Manufacturing Company. During...
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    Aviation LP. Air Canada Regional Inc. was established in 2001 from the consolidation of the Air Canada Connector carriers Air BC, Air Nova, Air Ontario, and...
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    The BC-348 is an American-made communications receiver, which was mass-produced during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Force. Under the joint Army-Navy...
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    Canadian Pacific Air Lines was a Canadian airline that operated from 1942 to 1987. It operated under the name CP Air from 1968 to 1986. Headquartered...
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    operated an office in Richmond. Before it merged into Air Canada Jazz, regional airline Air BC was headquartered in Richmond. Prior to its dissolution...
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    continents: United Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Thai Airways International, Air Canada, and Lufthansa. The alliance chose Young & Rubicam for advertising...
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  • FortisBC is a British Columbia based regulated utility that provides natural gas and electricity. FortisBC has approximately 2,600 employees serving more...
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    March 2021. "Awood Air". rzjets. Retrieved 7 January 2020. "B C Yukon Air Service". rzjets. Retrieved 11 January 2020. "B.C. Air Lines". Airline History...
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    crew base in Toronto to support this growth "Lynx Air's network continues to bloom as it adds Victoria, BC as its sixth destination" (Press release). GlobeNewswire...
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    Hypocaust (category Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
    Temple of Ephesus in 350 BC was heated in this manner, although Vitruvius attributes its invention to Sergius Orata in c. 80 BC. Its invention improved...
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  • writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning...
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  • Bravo Bulgaria Air - former operator Hemus Air - ceased operations  Canada Air Atlantic - former operator Air BC - former operator Air Canada Jazz - former...
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    30% of the island's land area. The island is accessible by boat or by air. BC Ferries runs a passenger and car ferry between Cormorant Island, Malcolm...
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    air carrier had become an all-jet airline. By 1995, the airfield no longer had jet service with flights to Vancouver being operated by either Air BC flying...
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    White Spot returned to local ownership when the company was purchased by BC businessman Peter Toigo, becoming part of Shato Holdings Limited. After his...
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  • Pacific Air Lines before CBCA went into operation. Baker's wife Madge paid the lawyer's fees for incorporation. After Baker had secured a contract with BC Forest...
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  • Columbia. Following the end of the Second World War, two former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) instructors, Carl Agar and Barney Bent, aspired to continue...
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    Anaximenes (c. 586 – c. 526 BC) favored air, and Heraclitus (fl. c. 500 BC) championed fire. The Greek philosopher Empedocles (c. 450 BC) was the first to propose...
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    Pacific Coastal Airlines (category Air Transport Association of Canada)
    merged into Air BC. The current Pacific Coastal Airlines was established in 1987 by the merger of Powell Air and the Port Hardy division of Air BC. It acquired...
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    grocer Hok Yat Louie (1875-1934). Tong Louie expanded the company within BC and, for the first time, beyond the provincial border into Alberta with the...
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  • companies in San Jose and Chico, CA. 2005 – Acquired control of Icicle Seafoods (BC.) Inc. Acquired Freeway Dodge Chrysler Acquired Spartech Corporation's corrugated...
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    In ballistics, the ballistic coefficient (BC, Cb) of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional...
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