by Tony F. Powell
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GENRE: Biography/Autobiography
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BLURB:
Tony
Powell was born on March 16, 1955 in Charlottetown, Labrador, NL, on the
Northeast Coast of Canada, son of the late Benjamin and Effie Powell. Together
they had nine children - seven boys and two girls. Six boys become bush pilots.
Tony is married to Ida Powell, and they have one child, Ramsey, who is a
medical doctor.
Tony will take you on
his life's journey. His stories are captivating, inspiring, and
heart-wrenching. He never faltered in achieving his dreams and aspirations.
Tony has a great love
for family and history. His greatest qualities are his positive attitude and
calm nature, never allowing negative thinking to weaken his strengths and
defeat his goals.
Tony's early years took
him to the rich fishing ground off the shores of Labrador. At the tender age of
seven he would accompany his dad and the crew to haul the cod traps in an ol'
10-metre motorboat. At age fourteen he was fishing as a share-man on his dad's
longliner in the furry seas of Northern Labrador.
At age seventeen Tony
was guiding sports fishermen from all over the world, fishing for trout and
Atlantic salmon in our rich Labrador rivers and streams. Their excitement
became his enjoyment.
Tony begin his career
as a commercial pilot at the age of twenty. His love of flight included seven
years with Labrador Airways, coupled with three years flying the mission plane
out of North West River, Labrador.
Tony's dream was to
have his own flying service. Pursuing his dream, he became owner/Chief Pilot of
Labrador Travel Air, an aircraft charter company. With the newly constructed
Trans Labrador Highway along our shores, Labrador Travel Air became history.
He has 45 years of
flying experience and 27,000 hours of flight time on over 30 different types of
single-and multi-engine aircraft on wheels, skis and floats, including a
commercial helicopter licence, often logging 1500 hours in a single year. In
Tony's years of flight thus far he is very proud to have a proven record of
never having any injuries to his passengers or himself.
Tony continues to fly
seasonally on a legendary Beaver seaplane for Portland Creek Aviation, and has
his own PA-18 Super Cub C-GTFP.
I invite you to come
experience first hand Captain Tony Powell behind the controls of the legendary
de Havilland pistonpowered Beaver during the seventies without heaters in -50°C
temperatures. Watch him perform many lifesaving mercy flights while battling
some of nature's most severe weather conditions anywhere on the planet. His
described flights will surely capture the attention of the most avid flyer as
we witness him survive engine failures and even a crash landing amongst the
huge trees in Labrador.
Come live out in real
time his heroic shipwreck. Sit on his modified Mach Z Ski-Doo and feel the
adrenaline flow through your veins as you race for dear life up the big
mountain in the Race on the Rock at Marble Mountain, NL.
At age forty-eight,
Tony was diagnosed with fourth and final stage cancer. Learn of his prognosis,
and his courageous determination to survive. Experience his fight to beat the
odds.
Throughout Tony's
recollections you will travel by air, water and land, experiencing historic events
and fatal airplane crash scenes in Labrador, including the story of his
Grandfather Powell sailing onboard the Dorothy Duff while delivering a load of
salt cod fish to the Mediterranean Sea during WWI. It will surely chill you to
your core.
Tony will welcome you
to his childhood family home where you will find pure love overcoming many of
life's obstacles. Find out the true meaning of perseverance, courage and
strength.
Tony has shown us what
life's struggles are all about and how he survived them.
This book is a true
reflection of living our lives one day at a time. Each day we all journey
Against the Wind and survive the storms of life.
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EXCERPTS:
Charlottetown’s Worst Accident
At the Labrador Travel Air hangar, we opened the doors and
pushed out the Chieftain. Sandy and Irving climbed aboard with me, Ace would
stay to answer the HF radio and the phone. Sandy told me he saw the airplane
flying very low in by Garden Pond and it looked like Clarence’s plane. I taxied
out, taking off runway 10, turning left to check out Garden Pond first.
I circled the pond area but we saw nothing. I continued
flying south to the road where I last saw him. There in front of us was the
accident site, less than two miles from takeoff, and it didn’t look good. I
continued on in for landing on runway 10. I parked the aircraft and we all
jumped aboard the truck and headed in over the road toward the accident site.
We met a vehicle coming down the road with a survivor that had been picked up
by the side of the road next to the downed plane. He was taken to the
Charlottetown nursing station. We walked over to the downed aircraft to have a
quick look. We could see where the aircraft skidded along the road for about
seventy feet, gear-up, leaving propeller marks before going off the road, then
stopping abruptly after hitting a rock embankment. The pilot, Clarence Chaulk,
and two passengers, were leaning forward in their seats . . . sadly they were
gone. I came back to my house and called St. Anthony FSS to report the
accident. It was a very sad day in our little community of Charlottetown. Most
sad for me was that I saw right in front of my eyes, a fellow aviator lay
lifeless, just moments after I spoke to him. I was probably the last person he
spoke to that day. Later that evening, Ace would return to the site and turn
off the plane’s emergency locator transmitter.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Tony Powell was
born and raised at Charlottetown, Labrador, Newfoundland Labrador, a proud member
of NunatuKavut, Southern Inuit of Labrador. He is mixed blood Inuit and
European decent, the son of the late Author Benjamin W. Powell of
Charlottetown, Labrador, NL. His mom was the late Effie Mary Campbell Powell,
born at George's Cove, ten miles south of Square Islands on the southeast coast
of Labrador. Married to Ida Powell of Conche, on the great Northern Peninsula
of NL, they have a son, Ramsey Powell, who is a medical Doctor.
When Tony was a
boy the main mode of transportation along the Labrador Coast was by a Team of
husky dogs or snowshoes.
A travelling
doctor and nurse visited our community once during the winter by dog team, and
once during the summer by boat. The first scheduled Aircraft passenger service
was Labrador Airways by single engine Otter in 1970 winter time only.
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