Jul 26
Just one picture from my ‘trophy’ storage of imagery worth ca. 10 Gig accumulated on the Mac’s disc in two says in Oshkosh.
Mind-bugling place.
I’ll start posting on Oshkosh once we get back home.
Cheers,
Clash
Jul 23
Red ‘Hot’ Lake
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We’ve just stopped by for overnight in Duluth, Minnesota, on our way to Oshkosh, and it appears to be the first place where I could get an access to the Internet. We’ve driven already some 2500 km on the roads across the half of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, a bit of Ontario, - to Red Lake, a small town where the Highway 105 ends, and the most reliable transport to get you further North is the aviation.
Which means presumably ‘planes on floats’. Some of these planes have been around here for more than 60 years, and they are still in very good shape. And the truth of this we have just checked out as we visited the ‘Norseman Festival’, a local Red Lake airshow featuring unique planes ‘built to last’.
Jul 17
A Cossack Girl in a Cowboy Country
Flickr, Editorial, Family, Home, Travels, Clash, People 4 Comments »… Sounds like the ‘heredity really matters’.
She came to visit us from the ‘Cossacks’ Country’ - a region of Russia traditionally called ‘Kuban’ (nothing has to do with ‘Cuba’, though, and I was reflecting on it here), with a main city of Krasnodar. In old times it was called ‘Ekaterinodar’, which meant a ‘big gift’ to the cossacks from Katherine the Great, a legendary Russian Empress .
Jul 17
A Road to Red Lake
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It’s going to be a long journey, - the one to Red Lake, Ontario.
Vacation time, and we are planning the trip across half of the country to see the Norseman Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Jul 16
Let’s have Beriev try to do the Mr. Mars’ job.
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People who normally take seats for doing their jobs in these ‘offices’ - FLIGHT DECKS - wouldn’t probably mind to do ‘a trial exchange’ between the two pictured here.
For example, - I didn’t, in my case, - I rather enjoyed it 
, when I found myself sitting in the 737NG’s right seat one year after I made my ‘farewell flight’ on the Tu-154’s left nest with Aeroflot.
I recalled it immediately when I was reading an article about the venerable Martin Mars planes would be retired after the 45-year service in the firefighting.
Jul 13
Eric’s introduction to the ‘RA-85123 Fan Club’
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In fact I didn’t even push too hard to persuade Eric to join our club. He welcomed the idea at once.
So, we’ve got a Club Member #4.
Jul 09
They say that it is very difficult to land a sea plane on the ‘glossy water’. Wonder then how it works if you’ve got an amphibian aircraft with ‘glass cockpit‘?
So, this brief post is an announcement for a chat on the topic of amphibian aircraft from Beriev Design Bureau.
Hopefully, we’ll have an audience interested in this kind of exchange. I don’t guarantee it for sure, but we might expect something ‘unexpected’ :_)
You folks are strongly encouraged to join this talk,
Cheers,
Clash
Jul 09
RA-85123 Fan Club. An Invitation to Don.
Flickr, Editorial, De-mythology, Times&Spaces, Clash, RA-85123 Fan Club 3 Comments »Hi, Don,
It is my pleasure to offer you an invitation to join our Club, and I’m sure the other Club Members too would be delighted to have you as a fellow member, - especially when they know of your ‘great deal of involvement and expertise in handling the air traffic consisted mostly of the Soviet-built aircraft’, and the fact that it is you only who (except the Club’s Chairman had an opportunity to ride on a flight deck of the Tu-154 in the year of 2001.
Jul 09
To the legal alien in Moscow-II
Editorial, De-mythology, Freedom of Choice, Times&Spaces, Clash, People No Comments »See also: To the legal alien in Moscow
Robert, Preevyet,
Are you in Moscow now? I’m still in Calgary.
I thought it might be worthwhile to bring the topic up this way, - by starting a new post. And there’s a link to the old one for the convenience. And now LOTS OF PEOPLE reaching this blog’s home page can read amazing stuff about two folks, ONE CANADIAN, and ONE RUSSIAN, and how they both left their home countries, moved across Atlantic in the opposite directions (or, in your case it might be Bangkok from where you started your travel to Moscow), did it around the same time, and, seemly, - ‘had just exchanged the places’
Jul 06
‘Summer in Montreal’. How’ s this in French? - should ask somebody…
It is very true, the summer is on in Montreal. Sure, it is warm in the city, and truly ’summer rains’ pumping the water onto its streets now and then. We watched one of them, as we approached RW 24R today, on July, 6th, at about 2:30 p.m.
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