We are going on vacation - to check it out what’s going on in ‘Bermuda Triangle’, at its Western point 
Although it is a picture of Freeport, we are going to Nassau. I couldn’t find the Nassau’s picture, anyway, it was taken in the middle of the night, enroute from Montreal to Dominican (right through the Bermuda Triangle!) . Hopefully, I’ll have a break from a constant hanging out in the Internet.
But I’ll be back, in a while
Cheers,
Clash
Seems like we’ve got another Chinook here in Calgary. I went out for a walk, - didn’t want to miss a chance to marvel at my favorite ’spectacle’ the Mother Nature is staging every now and then in our area.
At some times we are lucky enough to see Chinook Arch while in the air..
.. like in this one: we flew an approach to Calgary from the West, and a flight path angle was sort of following the sloped Chinook Arch ceiling, - it was kinda cool to see these ‘grandiose’ cloud structures hanging up there, above your head.
But everybody knows Chinook is also associated with quite a strong wind, for, - by physical nature, - exactly the wind it is - a katabatic wind blowing from the slopes of mountains.
One thing about photographing Chinook: you can catch a terrific still view of cloud forms on your camera, but it is going to be a bit of challenge to convey an idea of motion, a ‘visual idea of wind’, - if you don’t have a camcorder
See, what kind of solution I found for this:
Click on the image!
You never know where this cute, but relatively small and slow going plane would eventually get over at the end of its flying day..
A week ago I opened an account at the Russian language social networking web-site called ‘Moj Mir’, - which can almost literally be translated as ‘My Space’.
There’s no way to be prepared beforehand for all kinds of surprises that may ‘unleash’ upon you once you’ve stepped in this area of virtual universe.
So was my experience with it.
A few more topics coming soon (which I didn’t announce in the previous post) are going to be based on ‘Greg’s Files‘.
Greg visited me yesterday, we had a very interesting talk while I was treating him with Russian salad called ‘ The Herring Under Coat’, and he kindly allowed me to use his three albums with photographs for a while so that I would be able to scan them, and we would start posting these photos with his comments.
Certainly, it is a sort of unique stuff.
See in the next post: ‘Antarctica: Search for a Soul‘.
Hi,
It is a brief outlook of what is going to happen soon in the Clashmaker’s ‘BLOGO-SPHERE’:
Question is: Do you see any differences?
Here’s a link to my blog on this social networking site, although it is a Russian language network portal, I’m going to post some stuff in English.
Welcome to Clashmaker.
*HERE is a report from a previous visit to Springbank
Got a chance to see Butch and Yak today.
However, there’s another practical reason for a trip to Springbank - my medical was due, so I elected to go to the Doctor Adams’ clinic at Springbank.
Well, it may seem to sound like a joke.
However, it is just ‘half-a-joke’
I doubt if Oleg Deripaska reads ‘Globe and Mail’ at all.. Although, it might be that his assistants had prepared some excerpts from Canadian media reporting on an interview he gave them in Moscow a few days ago. (Oh, sure, free media in the West write all kind of stuff on ‘oligarchic capitalism in Russia’ generally, and Oleg Deripaska - particularly
But it is an utterly obscure probability that this post will get ‘on his radar’ any time soon. Anyway, if this thing is going to ever happen, I’d like to invite him to be an honored member of our ‘RA-85123 Fan Club‘.
And there’s something that makes me think this invitation is ‘no-nonsense’.
It is just a short remark on a request I got the other day. A gentleman from Brasilia (! - in a comment to this post) asked me if I had images of the Tu-104 ‘in Aeroflot´s early livery’.
Here’s what I’ve been able to find in my own resources:
Tu-104s and Il-18s on the ramp at Tolmachevo, the main airport for the Novosibirsk city.
As I wrote before, my second cousin Yuri used to fly this type for a few years after he accomplished a short term contract in Soviet Air Force flying the Tu-104’s military prototype Tu-16 ‘Badger. Guess, transition training was no problem
I also scanned two old photographs..
..and by a pure chance found something interesting with regard to the above photo.
This photo-session took place on an excellent evening of November 5. Shortly after we checked in to the Radisson hotel my friend came to visit, and I suggested we would go and see ‘an interesting place’.
It seemed he liked an idea, and - as it turned, - the place too, so, we spent almost an hour around there, at the Frazer River float plane base well known as ‘Flying Beaver’.
It was exactly the time when all the aircraft, the float planes of a few operators such as ‘Harbour Air‘, ‘SEAir, and some others, were coming back home so that to be in before dark would fall.
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