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.
Interestingly enough, he tried to reach me through the feedback link on the site three years ago, but I can’t remember if I had received anything on that account, or maybe, we were so busy with immigration that his mail just went by unnoticed.
Not too long ago he re-tried that type of communication again and, - here we go! - this time I got it.
His story was about the Yak-18T rebuilding project he and his wife have been undertaking for “3 years, 4 months and 21 days ” - as of today, and Mark, - that’s his name, - has just sent me a few pictures showing some moments of recent events happened on the line of project.
Definitely, I’m not going to comment much on these images, - I’m just going to say that the plane looks great - back then in the Soviet Union we never had them finished so nicely, - they were mass-produced on the factory, heavily exploited, and kept on the open air parkings.
So, it is a great pleasure to know that this particular Yak is being attended with so much care and love, that it’ll soon ‘forget’ the brutalities of the winters in the Kazakh Steppe.
Enjoy the photos of the ‘reborn Yak, now the Australian resident
And of course, we are looking forward to hearing from Mark with his comments on the pictures.
My respect, guys.
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