True, after that memorable ‘date’ in Calgary with a Canadian-built, Russian operated Dash-8, I picked up a bit of interest towards knowing more about SAT ‘Sakhalin Airways’. And it wasn’t for too long before some pieces of information started ’seeping through the Internet cobwebs’. Read the rest of this entry »
Browsing through tons of images taken within a couple of recent years, I found a few featuring an Ilyushin-76, when it rested for a while on the Calgary’s airport ramp in the end of 2007.
In one of the recent posts I mentioned this type, although put a remark that it is not the kind of plane you could see here often. At least not as often as it may be with a more ‘prominent’ Antonov-124. Read the rest of this entry »
This story goes back to one particular occasion of ‘improvised spotting’, - a kind of thing that could happen to me once in a while whenever I’m on my way to work 
“Gee!”, I thought of pictures acquired during that ’shooting session’, “that will make a strong basis for continuing the ‘Bombardier in Russia’ series on my blog!”. Read the rest of this entry »
Spotted in a showcase at the departure level in the Edmonton International airport. Interestingly enough, I saw two real Ilyushin-76s at Edmonton not too long ago. One of them was wearing exactly the same livery, - of Russian cargo airline called ‘Volga-Dnepr’. Unfortunately, it was dark, and I didn’t have a chance to make a good shot of it. Read the rest of this entry »
A quick remark following Greg’s comments on the the type of ‘landing gear solutions for bush planes‘. Not too often, but you can see them, ‘Bush Tires’, here in Alberta. The rationale is that, I believe, Alberta is more facilitated with decent aerodromes and airstrips than ‘truly bush’ countries like Alaska, NWT, or Yukon. However ‘relatively remote’ communities may be, they are still connected to the ‘rest of the world’ fairly well, and there’s a ground transport option available in many cases. Thus, I assume, folks put bush tires on their recreational planes mostly for the ‘kick of it’ Read the rest of this entry »
So, here’s an ‘excerpt’ from ‘Arctic Chapter’ of Greg’s ‘Antarctica Files’, as it written by Greg himself. See also a previous post with some sort of ‘preface’ to it.
I went through my log books to get more detail on where those photos were taken, but I didn’t keep much detailed information, I don’t know exactly where all the photos were taken for example, but made a pretty good guess.
Photo 1. Taken in the central Arctic on a flight from Resolute Bay to Inuvik. I surprised at this polar bear.. Read the rest of this entry »
“Uh, it’s so much better here!”, I though as we got inside, away from cold, into a warm lobby at the ‘Stanford Inn’. A few minutes passed before I had entirely shaken off some ’stiffness in body parts’ acquired during a brief but overwhelming exposure to ‘minus 38 C’ outside, and started relaxing. As my crew mates were checking in at the front desk, I filled leisure minutes by casual observation of the hotel’s interior. Read the rest of this entry »
As I wrote in a previous post: my friend Alexei is doing good as he deploys ‘a somewhat’ that in terms of North American General Aviation could be called a ‘Fixed Base Operator‘. I intentionally predicated the statement with ‘a somewhat‘, because you have to adjust the meaning of ‘commonly known things and notions’, when you try to find their equivalent in ‘Russia’s realities’. Read the rest of this entry »
What a beautiful dawn! Mornings like that are a special feature, highlighting an outstanding character of the Kuban region (oficially - ‘Krasnodarsky Krai’) located in Southern part of Russia. I wrote already a few dedicated posts about this country, and there seems to be a good reason to write one more. Yes, it was a pleasure to receive a mail from an old friend of mine living in Kuban. Aleksei (one more Alexei here and around! ) wished all good things to us in the New Year Eve, and ‘briefed’ me on what’s going on in his ’sophisticated household’. Read the rest of this entry »
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