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Far East 5 years, 1 month agoBernard Leroy travelled recentl y in WUHAN and on the YANG TSE River. He presents to us this city and its geographical location and also shares with us two videos he made when travelling there five months ago
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Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: VIP in Montevideo to
Anecdotes / Stories 5 years, 3 months agoWhen working on the Postal Administrations project at SITA, I travelled several times to Montevideo to meet PUASP (Postal Union of Americas, Spain and Portugal) there. On one of these trips I was welcomed as a VIP at MVD airport. Here is the story.
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Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Skyway and how I discovered a strange cargo flight to
Anecdotes / Stories 5 years, 4 months agoSkyway was a database of combined passenger and cargo flights developped at the request of Postal Administrations. Here is the story about it.
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Jean Michel
You forgot to mention the well known QBH and QNL respectives off line codes for Beyrouth (created when I was nominated DR for Middle East based in Neuilly) and Neuilly( where was based the Africa regional DR office after Dakar and before Johanesburg -
Hello Jean-Pierre,
Yes interesting! The creation of these codes (of course I know them but did not think to mention their story) has a lot of stories attached to them. It has been easier for SITA to obtain the creation of 3 letter codes than to be allocated the exclusive use of a two alpha code. -
As commented by Jean-Pierre, sometimes codes have a story to tell us. The code for Geneva is GVA. Voltaire, the French philosopher lived in this city in the 18th century; but after some time he had to leave for Ferney-Voltaire, because he as a fan of theater he had plays frequently performed at his mansion , Les Délices in Geneva. But at that…[Read more]
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Votre intéressant article à ce sujet m’a ramené quelques souvenirs en mémoire.
– Lorsque je suis entré à la SITA nous utilisions les codes ICAO exclusivement. Ce n’est que vers 1955 que nous avons adopté les codes IATA.
– EDI and Serge Motard venant dans notre région pour en faire la promotion et ayant fait quelques progrès à MNL en conjoncti…[Read more]
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Intéressant. Merci. Oui Ruedi m’avait mentionné que les codes ICAO étaient utilisés avant les codes IATA: était-ce le cas pour les codes compagnie aussi bien que pour les codes aéroports?
C’est Gilles Roy qui m’a fait découvrir les BSP et expliqué pour la 1ère fois leur principe de fonctionnement. Et cette connaissance m’a été utile lorsque j’…[Read more] -
Oui les codes ICAO étaient utilisés en totalité aussi bien pour les villes et aéroports que pour les compagnies. Ce qui était intéressant à cette époque où les liaisons radio étaient plutôt aléatoires car non protégées c’est que le code ICAO avec ses 4 lettres indiquait le pays ou tout au moins la région concernée ce qui permettait une vérificatio…[Read more]
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Il y a également eu un code Z pour les liaisons teletypes mais les communications étant plus sécurisées ce code n’a pratiquement pas été utilisé du moins à la SITA;
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Les premières liaisons radio, et ce pendant plus d’un demi siècle, ont eu lieu en graphie pure c’est à dire l’émission d’une fréquence radio que l’on pouvait à l’aide d’un manipulateur mettre en route ou interrompre très rapidement. Cela donnait à la réception par battement produit avec un oscillateur local (BFO) un son audible. Pour utiliser…[Read more]
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Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: When Homo Sapiens discovered te Far East to
Far East 5 years, 6 months agoHow Central Asia and Far East became inhabited has been the subject of many studies. Here is a summary of the latest theories which also hold some surprising elements about the migrations which led Homo Sapiens to the Far East. I have also appended to this article two links to films of personal trips in the Xinjiang, the Far West of China, and…[Read more]
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Far East 5 years, 11 months agoAddendum to the article: “SITA’s lengthy journey to Japan”
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Far East 6 years agoComing with the story of visits to Japan to develop the SITA network there, here is a picture show of the country at that time:
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