It will take you approximately 2 hour 15-25 minutes before you reach Istanbul, Ataturk International (LTBA) from Moscow, Sheremetyevo (UUEE) on Tu-154. Of course, it depends on factors that are well known from navigation by air, such as true airspeed, wind, time on the approach, etc.
In a previous post I mentioned a period of time when we were preparing to the ‘Big Move‘, and how I bought a digital camera to record some moments of ongoing life in that hectic period, the life that we were about to ‘trade off’ soon for something new and exciting, but - challenging and uncertain.
Sure thing, my camera was with me when I was going to fly, - as, for example, on the day of February 27, when I was scheduled for a regular fight from Moscow to Istanbul, Turkey.
These posts are based on photos taken in 2004 when we still lived in Moscow, and I was a Tu-154 captain with Aeroflot Russian Airlines. They cover an exciting period in February and March of 2004, when our big move across Atlantic to the New World was just weeks ahead. Definitely, the whole thing was on a final stage of preparation, and our spirits were already bracing to ‘dizzying leap into unknown’. Read the rest of this entry »
This trend - to put the airlines’ names on the aircraft bodies - emerged a few years ago. Guess, it’s mostly with respect to ‘marketing’ rather than ‘design art’.
However, it is so easy - just type OASISHONGKONG.COM - and here you are.
Congrats to the whole Human Race!
On October the 4th, 50 years ago, Soviets launched Sputnik. Wonder, whose idea was to put the Sputnik image into the Google’s logo? Probably, Sergey’s, who was born in Moscow, and whose family immigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1979.
Could the Google’s launch into the Internet Universe be compared to the historic Sputnik launch? I guess so. And it is only THE BEGINNING.
I guess, they are bound to have such a meeting one day. It is amazing, how smaller and smaller this world is becoming!
And now I’m going to to pass a ‘Hello’ from a Mars pilot to Beriev pilots.
The only problem is all active Beriev pilots now out of their bases, posted to somewhere else (around Europe), pretty busy fighting fires, including those ones ravaging in Greece.
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