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Radial engine is back to Canadian bush. Noteworthy that it is a Russian engine now. Well, generally speaking, radial engine hasn’t been written off yet completely as a choice of power plant for specifically bush aircraft.  But it presumably means those choices were made many, many years ago, when that design for internal combustion engines was ‘in fashion’. Or, in favour among the ‘then’ engine manufacturers. Read the rest of this entry »

No, apparently, it is not the volcanic ash - stuff coming out of the volcano’s crater on this picture. It could be something less harmful - if you talk about ‘hazards of flying nearby the active volcanoes’ -  just a plume of water steam, for example. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t you know that flying into a volcanic ash cloud doesn’t sound like a great idea? Whereas flying into a usual cloud may at times even be a fun (if it is not a big CB though), getting into a volcano eruption plume warrants dealing with a serious trouble. Read the rest of this entry »

“Tah-Dah!” It has happened, at last.

Antonov-2, a venerable biplane celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, was reintroduced on floats. Aviators in North America might wonder, “why, - what’s a big deal?..” Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, a communication with Samara has been established! I wrote in a previous post how guys from the Russian city of Samara (located in the Volga river region) teamed up to build a replica of the famous Polikarpov-2 biplane. Read the rest of this entry »

No doubt, it is a very interesting topic to explore into. I purposely put this picture here, because it shows the work of building a famous biplane, Polikarpov-2 (Po-2), that was a feature in one of my posts lately. Read the rest of this entry »

Be-200ChS is getting its ‘feet wet’ rolling down the sloped ramp at the Beriev test base, which is a venue site for the Gelendjik ‘Hydro Aviation Salon’. It is a 2006 picture, but we are looking forward to seeing images from this year’s airshow at the Black Sea. Read the rest of this entry »

Nah, ‘Aerial Photography‘, - sounds a little bit too pretentious when you see those hazy images taken at some occasions of flying in middle-late 90s. Like this one that I took on the departure out of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in April of 1996. Read the rest of this entry »

Gelendjik ‘Hydro-Aviation Salon‘ is to open on September, 4. We haven’t proceeded with our plans to go and visit the event this year. Kinda long trip, but first of all there’s been a few reasons related to a necessity to do some immediate stuff at home.  My apologies to our ‘RA-85123 Fan Club‘ members for ‘failing to fulfill expectations’ Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps, some know that the Moscow city’s needs in the commercial air transport are mostly being served by the three large airports: Sheremetyevo (UUEE), Vnukovo (UUWW), and Domodedovo (UUDD). There’s also a smaller one called Bykovo (UUBB), that is also a part of the air transportation system and the whole airspace organization in the vicinity of this metropolitan area. Read the rest of this entry »