Today I checked on this babe again. And I also love the place where she’s ‘usually hanging out’.
Very nice memories always come to me at this spot, and they are invariably accompained with ‘anticipation of something very good that is due to happen pretty soon:)’, - sounds funny, eh? But that’s true indeed!
I read this Globe article while we were cruising at 38.000 feet over Ontario heading home from Montreal.
It was on May, 29. ‘It’s funny, how everything may be connected’, I thought.
One e-mail I received recently surprised me a lot.
It was a feedback from an old, now a totally obsolete project, our ‘Home Base’, - an experimental web-site me and my son set up in the late 90s, when we yet lived in Krasnodar, Russia.
A gentleman who sent this e-mail was from Australia, and he was talking with regard to the Yak-18T, - he found a Google reference to a page in that project of mine where there was some material about the plane.
Hi, I’m writing this post from Toronto.
Whenever we stay in the Double Tree Hotel that is on the Dixon road near the Pearson airport, this ‘urban view’ always makes me think that I’ve already seen such a picture somewhere else, and, - yeah, - that’s it, - it was in Moscow, and I’m not really sure if it was ‘Khimki’ or ‘Kashira’, but as a ‘general idea’ it is quite similar.
It’s not a ‘regular post’, though. But I’m working hard! In order to ‘tame the Mac’.
We are flying cross-country. Certainly, this time would specifically do for the ‘cross-country’ - I mean, the flight time pilots normally put into the appropriate entries in their logbooks. That’s OK, and the only thing I would like to add is that we are flying across the ‘big country by the name of Canada’.
Early on the morning of 25th we started from Calgary,
and flew the first leg to Toronto. There we turned around, and flew back to the West, - to Vancouver, where we stayed overnight.
It was not very exciting a gray morning today, but anyway,- at some moment of it I looked outside, and thought, ‘Gee, what’s wrong with the calender? Is that all right we’ve got the May 24th today? Or, am I still dreaming?’
I learned about Butch Foster, his friend Ron and their homebuilt project from a flight examiner who I flew a Transport Canada Instrument Rating test with.
Well, I’ve just uploaded some video to the YouTube, and here’s a link to this video.
As I told you before, we didn’t have much time to play with anything but our instruments on the flight deck during the approach. On the ground though, we had more than an hour, and it was quite enough for me to go down on the apron, and make a few shots.
‘Lights in the night’ were becoming an obsession as we slowly approached the Vegas Valley on the descent after almost 4 hour flight from Toronto.
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