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It’s been a long, five-day trip.

We came home just a few minutes past afternoon, and the weather wasn’t great.

What happened, what has changed in the atmosphere (or, somewhere else?) since the time we were leaving Calgary 5 days ago?

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SEE VIDEO HERE

Tired!

Attempted to upload the video - just one short video, nothing more. And failed But tomorrow we go home!

Somewhere near Ottawa we had a crossing traffic, Boeing-767 going from right to the left, 2000 feet below, and I shot the quick video showing ‘basics’ of air traffic management, and what planes do when they meet at the crossroad.

(Nothing special in our case, the guys in other plane represented by ‘hollow diamond’ on the TCAS display were doing, probably, the same - just watched us, passers-by)

Should figure out why the video is being assigned .jpeg tag while originally it is .avi..

Alright, you’ll see it soon!

P.S.

Wait a minute! At the very last minute I’ve got it!

HERE IS VIDEO!

I’m reckoning now that particularly for me ‘Writing in English’ is a most challenging part of this whole blogging endeavor. Lion’s share of the time is consumed by a mere ’sitting and writing’ (i.e., excruciatingly slow processing of ideas and putting them into reasonable English sentences.. thanks Heaven, this process doesn’t require a lot of ‘Russian-English translation’ any more. However, I wish some of you would understand Russian well:).

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It’s in fact a ‘ground breaking&Earth shaking” even, - what’s going on RIGHT NOW!

I am sitting cosily in the Sheraton Four Points’ hotel room, (it is in Edmonton), and writing this post on a new Mac which is connected to the world via the hotel’s wireless network. Absolutely mind-boggling experience:)!

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I found this image in one of my albums, and it should be dated back to 1999, as I remember. I took it in Krasnodar, Russia, - and this Yakovlev-18T was not a common view there, and then, - even on the ‘back-side ramps’ of the airports - you know, sometimes you can hit into something really interesting at these quiet spots..

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‘Back in the USSR!’

Not on the BOAC plane, but on our ‘Time Machine’:)

Here’s a couple of words about FLIGHT TRAINING IN THE USSR.

An aviation training system in the USSR was remarkably different from what existed for the same purposes in the Western countries. In the middle of 70s the Ministry of Civil aviation in the USSR began introducing a new type of training facilities that could be defined as ‘ab-initio colleges’.

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Tell you, almost ‘got lost’ navigating through the maze of winding roads in the ‘time and space continuum’. Working on the ‘Time Machine’ has turned to be a challenge as I switched back and forth between decades on the time line and two computer platforms (PC vs Mac;) in the mission control centre.

OK, let me just run the ‘reality test’, and I’ll be back (or ‘forward’) in Canada, and NOW - not for too long though, for we are going to look into the Canada’s history book.

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Get bored with ‘the decrepit Soviet-era junk’ I’ve been feeding up to the blog so far?

OK, take the seats in our Time Machine, buckle yourself up, and - off we go. To the Hollywood!

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Well, we’ve just driven them back to where each of them has his or her ‘current ‘dwelling’ now, and here we are again, the two ‘empty-nesters’, and I’m going to explain what did the two previous posts mean.

So, today’s the Mother’s Day, and it looked as a pretty good reason for them to come and visit us, - ‘their folks’. So, they did.

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OK, they are visiting us tonight, - a rare occasion, yeah, - and I have hurriedly rounded them up for a ‘1989′ picture remake photo session’.

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