Russian TV channel ‘NTV’ runs an interesting project called ‘Aviators‘. We watch this show at home via the Internet TV provider. I put here a few frames from footage of a recent episode about Russian/Soviet aviation in Antarctica. As you’ve been able to see for the date, I’m pursuing this theme in a category ‘Antarctica: Greg’s Files‘. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m flying to Mexico today. It is a four and a half-hour flight from Calgary to PVR, Puerto Vallarta, and back. If the weather is fine, I’ll try to make a few pictures. Last time (about a week ago) I flew to Mexico, it looked they were at the end of rainy season. All rivers looked swollen, and on the mountains’ hills, which are normally dressed into their tipicaly desert livery, everything was unusually green.. Read the rest of this entry »
Follow-up to a previous post: just found a source where they give a reference pointing at some ‘differences’ in ‘Russian’ and ‘Western’ design of attitude indicators (artificial horizons).
The quest is going on..
‘Evolutionary Aspects of Flight Instruments Designs‘ - how’s that sound? For example, - as a name of a subject matter in a course of aeronautical engineering. In my opinion, it may be quite an educative subject. Read the rest of this entry »
A while ago I touched a topic of Western built transport category aircraft deployed in Russia. Specifically, with regard to Boeing. Numbers of planes made by Airbus, I believe, is pretty close to those representing Boeing in the totals for the entire Russian operators’ fleet. I’ll try to find some statistics on both. Read the rest of this entry »
Investigation led by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) is on. They found FDR, CVR on a site shortly after the accident of September 14th.. There was a report of these recording devices been badly damaged as a result of severe impact the aircraft suffered after ‘falling from the sky‘. Yeah, that’s how some witnesses, happened to be awake at this wee hour commented on sudden appearance of low flying aircraft over the city’s neighborhood near which the fated plane collided with the ground. Read the rest of this entry »
“Knowledge is Power”.. Perhaps, many people here in the West have heard this expression, which is a quote from Sir Francis Bacon. What a powerful tool Google is, huh? 
I should put it honestly, I haven’t known much about Sir Francis Bacon until after I have made a search on this one. However, I heard the name years ago - from a course of history and philosophy (can’t you believe?! - future pilots attending flight training institutions in the USSR had to satisfactory pass a mandatory course of the ‘Marxist-Leninist Philosophy’ in the educational curricula!) at our flight college. Read the rest of this entry »
A tragic news came from Russia. A 737-500 of the ‘Aeroflot-Nord‘, a subsidiary to the ‘Aeroflot - Russian Airlines‘, crashed nearby the airport of Perm, a big industrial city in the Ural Mountains region. The plane approached Perm following 2-hour uneventful flight from Moscow. Accident occurred in the wee hours of the morning on September, 14, the local time was about 5 o’clock. Read the rest of this entry »
Another training session is coming up soon. In fact, - in the next week. Oh, time flies! Feel a bit stressed, as always. Uh, ‘flyable time’ - it is a different stance.
But as for simulators, and the history of the aviation ’simulated training’ - it is quite an educative topic. My first exposure to the ’simulated flight’ occurred at the Aqtyubinsk Flight College. Read the rest of this entry »
Radials are alive, and no doubt, - they will be.
I took this picture last summer at Red Lake, during their unique ‘Norseman Festival’. Town’s main street was closed for traffic, so the festival got some room for placing booths and kiosks of commercial participants. Read the rest of this entry »
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