As I continued browsing through pictures taken at Oshkosh, I grew more and more curious about whether there’s indeed something special about ‘Red Strips on the aircraft tails‘.. Read the rest of this entry »
Love the look of those vintage trainers from 30s.. Again, browsing through a behemoth image collection taken at the last year’s trip to Oshkosh, I found a few pics deserving to ‘talk about’. Read the rest of this entry »
My friend Alex (a young 737′ pilot from Moscow, I mentioned him in this post) went recently to check out a new ’spot of spotters’ attraction’ in this big city: the ‘Vadim Zadorozhny’s Technical Museum’. Airplanes designed by S. A. Yakovlev are representing the main part of the museum’s aviation exposition. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello, my excuses: it’s been a while until I got things together to finish this ‘piece of memoir on flying with Aeroflot’.
So, taxi-out route at Istanbul from the area where we were parked to the departure RW 18R’s threshold was pretty straightforward. Read the rest of this entry »
Aerial photography goes back to days when the aviation itself had just left its cradle. I can only imagine, as flying was becoming more and more sustainable, how great might be a temptation experienced by some pioneer aviators then, - to lift up a camera, and bring back to Earth some imagery taken right from the ‘eagle’s point of view’. Read the rest of this entry »
How much trace of Logic is present in an extremely rare and random event? Such as a ‘human factor-caused’ accident, for example? Can we ultimately come up with a solution to effectively guard against them with predictable results? Read the rest of this entry »
What is special about this nicely looking Twin Otter - it has been rolled out from a ‘manufacture’ just a short while ago. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find out when it happened exactly. So, this plane could qualify for a ‘New Generation’ Twin Otter. Read the rest of this entry »
Oh, well, to be honest, it was not specifically a SNOOKER game that we played back then, during my years in the flight college. As far as I remember, we had fun with some ‘amateurish’ version of BILLIARD. Stakes weren’t too high. Actually, I couldn’t recall if we ever put the money on stake. Maybe, some did. On the quiet. ‘Cause, ‘you never know’.. Lenin was always.. kinda watching us 
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A news has just come: our ‘babe’, the Tu-154 Reg. ‘RA-85123‘, reappeared at Krasnodar lately. Her sister-ship, RA-85795, is also back to Kuban. They can be seen here, sitting side-by-side on the ramp at Krasnodar airport. Read the rest of this entry »
If somebody told me many ears ago, that so much stuff associated with the Soviet Union’s achievement in aviation and space could be found in America.. Probably, I wouldn’t have taken it seriously.
Here we go: a very authentic replica of the first artificial object ever launched into outer space has been seen hanging out from a ceiling in the Boeing’s ‘Museum of Flight‘ at Seattle.
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