Page THE HILLS Slurday Octobers 1M0 Nostalgic flights growing trend THUNDER BAY ONT From the southern base of Candy Mountain looking out over the Slate River Valley to the low sloping mountains beyond one beholds a scene that has changed surprisingly little over the years fields bams whitepainted farm houses and cows sleeping in the late September sun Here amid the dark evergreens and autumn yellow poplars time seems to stand still or even slip backward So it should come as no surprise perhaps when driving down Con cession from Gammondale pick yourown strawberry farm toward Highway 61 one comes upon a big silver airplane a DC 3 sitting in the field dwarfing the barn that stands on slightly lower ground behind it But it does Even in this neck of the woods which boasts its fair share of eccentrics one does not expect to see a passenger airplane perched nonchalantly in a Three smaller airplanes attend it Overcome by cunousity we turn into the and meet hte planes owners Emil David and his son Ron The Davids through their Classic Airways are hoping to cash in on the desire of well heeled tourists from Europe and Japan to travel backward in time Nostalgia travel is best ex emplified by the refurbished luxury train the Onent Express Sam Blyth s plan to buy the Canadian from Via Rail and turn it into a North American version of the Onent Express is along the same line Mr is the youthful founder of Blyth and Co a hugely successful Toronto tour company GROWING TREND Nostalgic flights on old fashioned airplanes are a growing trend sas the senior Mr David a professor of forestry at There is a market he sa Other countries are already there Ron David points to Sen Journeys which operates out of California as a model for Classic Airways Switzerland many and New Zealand have similar operations he says The Swiss airline flies clients to France for dinner Standing in the of the Davids dream is They are trying to raise for marketing and start up expenses So far thev have had no luck The bankers are ask ing for 200 per cent collateral Emil David grumbles reflecting the frustration of other entrepreneurs And his attempts to get help from the provincial government have not met with success The vounger Da id figures that Classic could break even in 2 years He has already been ap proached a tour company that wanted to use the DC as a sort of bus canning a group of travellers from Reno to Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas The DC 3 is not the Davids project The senior David who comes from Czechosloakia has heeded the call of President Vaclav Havel to help that build itself anew He has been appointed to a board to oversee the restructuring of Czech universities And he is negotiating the rights to sell Czech airplanes in Canada Among these planes is the One of these motorized gliders sits like a big red toy out behind the Davids bam David figures the gliders would sell for The advantage they have over other gliders is that they do not need a tow plane Step in go for a ride he of fers Ron the pilot beams EGAD I climb into the tiny plane with the big wings I have never been in a small aircraft in my life let alone a glider I am so afraid of heights that I can scarcely change a light bulb Ron David pulls down the glass bub ble and rolls down the runway on the centre wheels Emil David runs alongside balancing the wings Lightly effortlessly we take off We climb over the trees and head in the direction of Candy Mountain There is nothing to hang on to nothing to make one s knuckles white The cows get smaller and smaller Ron turns and circles The plane tips like a sailboat 1 dig in with my toes We re at a thousand feet he gnns I smile wanly Then he shuts off the motor and we glide He opens a slot in the window Wind he ex plains Out beyond Mount McKay the Sleeping Giant lies How strange it is to see both of them at once To the southeast the waters and bays of Lake Superior shimmer in the fading light The red Czechoslovaktan glider dips lazily silently circling the field where another plane has just landed Then it drops down for a perfect Ian ding Whether Classic Airways gets off the ground remains to be seen In the meantime Emil and Ron David will be busy Unlimited selection of tulips available for home gardener One of the oddities of bulbs is the stereotyping of the ap pearance of the tulip bulb Children are asked to draw flowers and it is either a daisy or a tulip The tulip is usually red and bears the shape of an egg on a stick This is fine but I would like to bring forth our children s imaginations to the nineties and maybe you w ill see some diversifications in their art Tulips have been hybridized into fashion There is an unlimited selec of tulips with variations in height shape hardiness colours bloom time and fragrance There are different classifications of tulips which gave direction in selecting tulips to your specific demands Darwin Hybrids The name speaks for itself as this is one of the largest groups of tulips Darwin Hybrids grow in full sun locations and ire extremely hardy This group of tulips grow up to To in height and cover the rainbow with colour selections everything im Some notable mentions are a fragrant called a pink called a blush Douglas Queen of the Night which is black a dirk blue called Bleu and last but not least a green tulip called Spnng green Now you have a green tulip to plant with your green daffodil for St Patricks Day Darwin blooms look tike your children tulip pictures It is a perfect egg shape Lily Flowering Tulips This is a small group of tulips with blooms shaped like a pineapple I think so meone got mixed up when they nam ed this one But the bloom is dif and almost exotic so it does fit into potential gardens quite well This variety grows tall and prefers full sun Parrot Tulips This group of tulips are quite new in perspective to the time bulbs have been cultivated The blooms of parrot tulips are very unusual They fly well above the foliage of tulip and tht flowers are ruffled red blue apricot and many multicolored variations These look fantastic in a mass planting or mix into a perennial garden in full Multi Flowering Tulips This group of tulips are new he market place and are taking it storm flowering are just what they imply Each bulb stem bear a bloom with tulips in a cluster This allows a mass planting effect with less bulbs and more show Available in three colons pink red and white It will not be long before the Dutch have this one in a colour that will match your curtains Tulips A small group of tulips that have the purist colors and early flowering dates The blooms are not as large as Darwin Hybrids but every much as colorful Greign and Tulips are the dwarf tulips or sometimes the water tulips These tulips grow in half day sun to full sun Thev are recommended for border plantings and rockenes They are quite vigorous and complete the need for a drawf flowenng bulb after the crocus are finished Single Early Tulips This is another picture tulips but doesn grow as large as Darwin Hybrids as a rule They usually bloom at about 16 where the Darwin blooms over 2 These are the earliest blooming tulip as the name suggests and this group of tulips comes in so many colors you can paint the rain bow with them Double Early Tulips This group are similar to single early habit except the blooms are doubles and look like peonies So for you peonies lovers use these beside your peonies and they will bloom until your peonies takeover The available allow you a lot of flexibility in design flowenng time and location With all Int selection at fingertips you might just set your children draw a masterpiece If you have any questions just call the Gardening Grapevine Hotline at Survey Completed Wednesday October 3 MORTGAGE RATES ANNUAL INTEREST SIX MONTH ONE tear TWO YEAR THREE van FOUR YEAR FIVE TEAR TRUST COMPANIES Canada Trust 13 13 13 13 Municipal Trust NA 13 13 14 14 14 Trust 1325 13 13 13 13 13 CHARTERED BANKS Bank of Commerce 13 13 13 25 13 13 Bank of Montreal NA 13 13 13 13 25 13 Bank of Nova Scotia NA 13 25 13 13 13 Royal Bank 13 13 13 13 13 Toronto Dominion 13 13 13 13 13 13 This survey was prepared to help the Herald Homestyle readers track weekly Bank and Trust Company rates Suns activity creates problems on our planet RECYCLING f Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper ByJOHNEBERLEE The sun was unusually active from mid summer 1989 to mid summer 1990 according to measurements by Canadian physicists Unusual solar activity gives off particles that interact with the ear magnetic field interfering with electrical and enmmunica equipment They may also pose a health risk Using ground level monitoring equipment Professors Titus Mathews and Dnraiswamy Venkatesan of the University of Calgary detected solar cosmic rays a record ten times between July 1989 and July 1990 Since scientists began keeping a con record of such events in 1957 the high energy particles have rarely been found more than or twice a year Their frequent appearance over he period studied coincides with a peak in the suns 11 year sunspol cycle says Mathews As well it may a gradual increase in an increase which scientists believe has been going for years If the trend continues re power can be expected Mathews says It possible cancer rates may slightly increase airline travellers although the health risk from solar cosmic rays isuncleir Scientists are debating whether a lung term increase in solar activity will alter Earths We d n I know abiut how the sun transfers to our atmosphere flo pass judgement Mathews says lar cosmic rays are produced during solar storms he says a giant flare arises from a large that is changing rapidly The flare spews out an enormous number of particles The phenomenon occurs fairly frequently but scientists rarely catch it Unless the cosmic ray particles have very high energies they won penetrate the Earth s atmosphere Each particle to have at least one billion electron volts of energy thai is one billion times the energy of a typical electron to reach the Earths surface Usual we notice particles that start out with about four billion electron volts Mathews says With that amount of energy they can easily penetrate matter or get lodged in human tissues he says for people a ground level the risk of being struck is remote But the odds in crease when you re in an airplane II all depends n what routes pilots fly and how long high levels of radiation are around Generally you gel far more radiation taking a Polar route lhan flying closer to the equal r activity an also affect telephone and power transmission lines says Mathews Besides releasing cosmic ray particles solar flares can disturb the Earth magnetic field Occasionally they will do so with force trip safely mechanisms as during a Quebec power blackout in March 1989 They on cause in in telephone com and satellite Iransmtssn Mathews and Venkatesan receive funding from Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering