I am sitting in the Ottawa International Airport (YOW – my favourite airport code!) after a whirlwind trip to my hometown, and am now awaiting a flight to my newly adopted hometown of Edmonton.
Not much would have lured me away from the chaos of my first house and all the accompanying DIY projects, but I can’t turn down an exciting opportunity (by history geek standards). And being interviewed for a documentary on one of the world’s most interesting aircraft trumps tearing down ceramic wall tiles – as fun as that was!
I first heard about this proposed ‘bio-pic’ on Douglas DC-3 “Sister Ann” last June when I was stranded in Regina on my For the Love of Flying book tour. Through the magic of the internet a film production crew from Colorado Springs found my website and contacted me. After all, “Sister Ann” aka CF-POY was registered to Laurentian Air Services from 1971 to 1980.
Since then we have stayed in touch and when it came time to conduct interviews in Ottawa, they asked me to speak to the DC-3’s importance in Canada, the type of work it did with Laurentian, and so on. And while the timing for me wasn’t the greatest – my hairdresser found various colours of paint stuck to my strands yesterday! – it is perfect for the history of the Dakota, Dak or Gooney Bird. This year marks its 75th anniversary and in July 50-odd aircraft will do a mass fly-in at Oshkosh. Gosh!
It will be many months before they wrap up interviews in India and other locations, and piece together the footage they’ve collected. In the end, I’ll be a tiny piece of the puzzle, just one talking head among many in a feature-length documentary. And it’s so cool (in a history geek kind of way).
Hi Danielle,
do you have any more information about “Sister Ann” when it was flying in the RAF?
I’m asking because I was contacted by Mr Masahide Kuwabara of Hi-Vision Eizo Corporation in Japan. That company is also planning a movie about this aircraft. It will focus on the crashlanding in Japan in 1946 and about the relationship between the flightcrew and the local people.
He is particulary interested in the interior and the cockpit configuration at that time.
I found in the Flightglobal archives it was a VIP-aircraft, but that could be anything…
Perhaps, as a researcher and historian, and already involved in a project on this aircraft, you can provide some more information.
Thank you,
Peter
Steadyimage is the new film production company in South Florida contracted to finalize the Sister Ann documentary. Send info to info(at)steadyimage(dot)com
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