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Aeroperlas

Aeroperlas (acronym for Aerolíneas Islas de Las Perlas) was a regional airline based in Panama City, Panama. It was the third largest airline in the country, surpassed only by Air Panama and Copa Airlines. From its hub at Marcos A. Gelabert and Enrique Malek International airports, Aeroperlas operated over 50 daily scheduled flights to 15 domestic destinations, as well as charter and courier flights. It operated services as part of the Grupo TACA regional airlines system.

On February 29, 2012, Aeroperlas ceased operations due to financial problems.

Inauguration and expansion years

The airline was founded in June 1970 as Aerolíneas Islas de las Perlas and started operations shortly after. It was a state-owned company from 1976 until 1987, when it was sold to private owners.

During the late 1990s, Aeroperlas was owned by APAIR (80%) and the parent company of American Eagle Airlines, AMR Corporation (20%). According to Dan Garton, AMR took a stake in Aeroperlas to find a way of streamlining American Eagle's fleet and placing their Shorts 360 fleet with another airline. It was unclear if AMR remained as a shareholder in the airline in 2009. In 1996, Aeroperlas begun international operations, launching services to Costa Rica.

In 2004, Aeroperlas became an affiliate member of Grupo TACA and made a big improvements in terms of security.

In October 2007, the airline became the first Panamanian regional airline to be certified under the strict regulations of Panama's Civil Aeronautic Authority (ACC) agency. It was also the first airline in Panama to neutralize emissions from the air, because of a partnership with nature conservation group ANCON, which included the promotion of trees conservation at a private reserve in Darién Province.

In July 2011, Aeroperlas started scheduled flights from the domestic terminal of Tocumen International Airport to Chirquí and Bocas del Toro provinces, with a stopover at Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport.

Demise and closure

The beginning of the end for Aeroperlas came in 2010, when two well-publicized incidents involving ATR 42 aircraft caused Panama's Civil Aeronautic Authority to raise several safety and maintenance issues. The public's confidence in Aeroperlas took a downturn as a consequence, with passenger numbers dropping by one-third. This caused Aeroperlas to suffer serious financial problems and to withdraw all the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters from the fleet, which were sold to other airlines or scrapped.

In February 2012, hundreds of people from the Ngobe-Bugle tribe blocked several points of the Pan-American Highway in Panama for almost a week, protesting against a mining project in Cerro Colorado. This caused major disruptions in traffic to the extent that the Minister of Tourism at that time, Salomoh Shamah, decided to create a nationwide airlift to move people and tourists who were stranded on the highway, at bus terminals and airports, and critical supplies without any cost. This situation aggravated Aeroperlas' financial problems to the point of entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

On February 29, 2012, Aeroperlas ceased operations, citing market conditions and an obsolete business model. Around 150 employees were left without work, and they were transferred to Air Panama along with the routes left by the airline, and Copa Airlines. On March 6, 2012, Aeroperlas made its last official scheduled flight from Tocumen Airport to Bocas del Toro, thus ending 41 years of operation.

Destinations
Aeroperlas operated services to the following scheduled regional destinations:

Final fleet
The Aeroperlas fleet included the following aircraft :

Retired fleet
The airline formerly operated the following aircraft:

 * 2 Beechcraft Model 99
 * 2 Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan
 * 15 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
 * 4 Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante
 * 3 GAF Nomad
 * 8 Shorts 360

Accidents and incidents
During its early years of operation, Aeroperlas had a less-than-admirable safety record (as detailed below). However, since its commercial affiliation with TACA Airlines in 2004, operational procedures were improved and safety technology on aircraft were upgraded. The installation of a new, safety-focused management team in late 2005 improved Aeroperlas' safety record. In 2006, according to official numbers published by the Panamanian Civil Aviation Authority, Aeroperlas suffered just one minor incident - the same safety record as Panama's Copa Airlines achieved in the same period.

As of May 15, 2007, Aeroperlas had a clean safety record and started pointing to its safety strength in commercial activities (e.g.; its "Fly Safely, Fly Aeroperlas" campaign).

Hijackings

 * On July 5, 1990, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter was hijacked. The hijacker(s) demanded to be taken to Colombia. The hijacking lasted less than one day. The Twin Otter was stolen by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on the same day on a flight from Colón and was destroyed in August 1990.

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On the topic of homemade slime I'm basing my input based on my personal experience coordinating the making of the stuff at kids parties and as a kind of home chemistry experiment on rainy days.

My inspiration for documenting this here follows from a conversation I had with a school science teacher at the Young Scientists Exhibition in Dublin 2005 where she had supported a group of students and their project to measure the viscosity of different slime recipes. The basic ingredients being PVA glue (white glue), Borax (household chemical with various uses, odor removal for fridges, or as an antibacterial wash) and water.

The best external source for detailed quantities & instructions I found was http://www.madsci.org/experiments/archive/878680114.Ch.html

Final Fantasy
The "Final Fantasy" link doesn't actual point to anything slime-related in the series. Oddity-User Talk 08:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Dragon Quest Slime
Nearly half this article is an indepth list of different slimes found in the Dragon Quest games which are not familiar to many readers or interesting to anyone looking for an general article on slime. Shouldn't this be either moved into the Dragon Quest article or moved into a new article (e.g., Slime (Dragon Quest))?

This certainly could deal with a mention in the Slime In Games section but the current list seems a bit much.

mako 00:39, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Fluid dynamics?
Does this really belong in the fluid dynamics category? —mako 21:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Slime(s) in Popular Culture
Perhaps the Slime in Video Games section should be renamed "Video Games" and incorporated as a subsection of a new "Slime(s) in Popular Culture" section ("slime" could be both a count noun and a mass noun in this context). Other subsections could include "Anime and Manga".

Anime and Manga
Slimes appear in several Japanese anime and manga. They generally appear as colorful, translucent, bouncy, jelly-like blobs with human facial features, and arms when the need arises.

 * In Dragon Half, Princess Vina is a slime-half, being the offspring of the human King Siva and Queen Venus, a slime who transformed herself to human form using a magical People Potion. Vina transformed herself to human form by other means.
 * A family of slimes appear briefly in the first Slayers movie, Slayers Perfect. Perhaps this was a nod to Dragon Half.

(I'm sure there are other examples, but I can't recall any at the moment!)

Ebichu63 21:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Zoological Slime
This article appears to need a section on natural slimes, such as those produced by slugs and snails. Any zoologists in the house? --71.36.251.182 16:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Reqphoto
How can this page possibly not have a picture? Something from Double Dare or You Can't Do That on Television. —Ben FrantzDale 05:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Question
Is it really that necessary to mentioned that its called "gunge" in the UK that many times?
 * No. Fixed. —Ben FrantzDale 01:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for getting to this. —mako (talk•contribs) 16:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2022
Italicize "Minecraft". It is a video game and video games should be italicized. Thank you. 143.44.165.98 (talk) 04:18, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ 💜 melecie   talk  - 04:53, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

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Jamestown Ferry

The Jamestown Ferry (also known as the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry) is a free automobile and bus ferry service across a navigable portion of the James River in Virginia. It carries State Route 31, connecting Jamestown in James City County with Scotland Wharf in Surry County.

The service provides the only vehicle crossing of the river between the James River Bridge downstream at Newport News and the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge upriver near Hopewell. It is toll-free and operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The vessels carry over 900,000 passengers annually. Operations are based at the Scotland Wharf in Surry County.

History
The Jamestown Ferry service was privately established in 1925. The Commonwealth of Virginia acquired it and the Department of Transportation (VDOT) assumed operations in 1945. It runs it as a state service. Nearly a million vehicles make the fifteen-minute voyage across the James each year.

The ferryboat Captain John Smith made the first automobile-ferry crossing of the James River on February 26, 1925. The privately owned business was founded by Captain Albert F. Jester. After the Captain John Smith was retired in the early 1950s, the deckhouse was put into adaptive use. For another 50 years, it was used as a private waterside cottage, perched on pilings in the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth. In 2003, the deckhouse was removed and donated to a preservation group in Surry County.

Bridge alternative considerations
The Eastern Virginia Bridge Company considered building a bridge at the ferry location in 1928. Replacing the ferry with a bridge is an issue which has been revisited by politicians, transportation officials, and the communities. Elmon T. Gray, who represented the area in the Virginia Senate from 1972 until 1992, advocated a bridge to replace the ferry for many years but the bridge was vehemently opposed by residents of a nearby upscale waterfront residential community in James City County as well as historic preservationists. The plan was ultimately defeated when the Commonwealth Transportation Board unanimously killed plans for the proposed span in 1991.

Given the strong opposition of local residents on both sides of the river and the cost of such construction, plans for a bridge have not gained broad support since. Opponents are concerned with adverse effects of potential increases in population that a permanent crossing may cause on the southern shore of the James River. In addition, the need to provide deepwater access for shipping would require either a high bridge or drawbridge, adding to the potential cost. There has been a strong desire by VDOT to avoid building any new drawbridges since the disastrous 1977 collision of the SS Marine Floridian into the Benjamin Harrison Bridge at Jordan Point, a drawbridge located 35 miles upstream. The area south of the James is very rural and tolls would not be sufficient to cover the cost of construction. Other critics cite the negative effect of a bridge on views from Jamestown Island, the Colonial Parkway, and the surrounding area. They are also concerned about increased traffic on the two-lane roads on either side.

Periodically a ferry vessel will be out of service for repairs and inspection, and motorists experience delays. Existing alternate routes to the east include the James River Bridge on Route 17, and the Interstate 664 Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, and to the west the Benjamin Harrison Bridge on Route 106 or the interstate 295 Varina-Enon Bridge.

Current ferry operations
The ferry operates 24 hours a day with a minimum of a single vessel in service at all times; additional frequencies are added with a second ship during the day and a third during times of high traffic in the summer. The Virginia Department of Transportation owns and operates four vessels for the service—Powhatan, Pocahontas, Surry, and Williamsburg. Powhatan can carry up to 70 vehicles and 499 passengers, and was built by VT Halter Marine in 2018 to replace the 1936-built Virginia that had a capacity of only 28 cars. Pocahontas, built in 1995, has a capacity of 70 vehicles and 444 passengers, and sister ships Surry, built in 1979, and Williamsburg can each carry up to 50 vehicles and 360 people.

Park and Ride bus service
To mitigate rush-hour traffic and delays due to security measures, in October 2007, Williamsburg Area Transit Authority (WATA) began a Park and Ride transit bus service from three stops in Surry County to limited stops at several major points in James City County and Williamsburg. These terminate at the Williamsburg Transportation Center in the downtown area adjacent to the historic area of Colonial Williamsburg. As of October 2016, the route terminates at the Jamestown Settlement, where passengers may transfer to WATA's Jamestown Route to connect to the Williamsburg Transportation Center.

 * At the Williamsburg Transportation Center, connections are available with:
 * Eight other WAT routes covering portions of the city, areas in upper and lower James City County, the Bruton District of York County, and the western tip of Newport News at Lee Hall;
 * an express route of Hampton Roads Transit (HRT);
 * intercity bus services from Greyhound Lines (and its Carolina Trailways affiliate); and
 * intercity passenger rail service by Amtrak.
 * Surry County stops include Surry Government Center, Surry Community Center, the Surry branch of the Blackwater Regional Library and the VDOT Park and Ride lot near Scotland Wharf.

The bus makes three round trips each morning and three each afternoon during peak commuter periods, Monday through Saturday. The daily fare is $3.00 as of October 2016, which includes the cost of any transfers to other WATA routes.

Scotland in Surry County
"Scotland in Surry County" is only a short distance from the Town of Surry and State Route 10, which runs between Richmond and Suffolk. Highway 10 parallels the south bank of the James River, serving Hopewell and Smithfield.

Highway 10 provides access to many historical sites, including City Point, Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Upper Brandon Plantation, Lower Brandon Plantation, Chippokes Plantation State Park, Bacon's Castle, Smith's Fort Plantation, and the Isle of Wight County Museum in Smithfield.

In popular culture
The ferry served as the title and subject for Tanya Tucker's 1972 top-ten country single "The Jamestown Ferry", composed by Mack Vickery and Bobby Borchers. This song has more recently been covered by Charley Crockett in 2017.

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