Just got a permission from an author of this picture to post it here. What a beauty! Such a nice visual compliment to a topic risen in the previous post. A shot of this departing An-2 was taken in Nar’yan-Mar, Arctic Russia. Read the rest of this entry »
Winter! It is so asserting in its cold reality. Something about this winter makes me think, a ‘hot topic of global warming’ should be adjusted a wee bit, uh.. at least, in terms of assessing its pace to be rather ‘moderate’, than ‘rapid’, as it falls upon us 
So far, the winter is surely reigning all over the North-Northern hemisphere.
Do you know that today is the ‘National Aviation Day’? As a matter of fact, it is exactly today, on February 23, 2009, all the country’s aviation community (and all to whom it matters in the entire world, for that sake), commemorate the 100th Anniversary since the first ever ‘manned, heavier-than-air, motor-powered flight‘ in Canada. On this day, exactly one hundred years ago, a motorized craft called ‘The Silver Dart’ made history as it lifted off from the frozen surface of the Bras d’Or Lake in Cape Breton Island, and flew successfully 800 meters, at an altitude of 9 meters. Read the rest of this entry »
Of course, one of the important subjects, - if you talk about operating aircraft in remote, and sparsely settled areas, i.e., in the ‘bush’, - should be a topic of the aircraft itself. As I keep writing this collective notes, which, I hope, one day will make up a core to the ‘Comparative analysis of bush operation on both sides of Arctic’, I feel a need to talk in more detail about the planes employed for this kind of job, on both - North American, and Russian side, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
Interesting, what’s going on with this Beaver? Been noticed recently in Kelowna, in such a ‘humble’ condition. Hope it’s destined for better. Say, it’s ‘waiting for a major overhaul’, maybe, ‘rebuild’, expecting a new - of course, turbine! - engine to be put on.. And it’ll see more sky one day.
Wonder, are the ‘Viking’ guys, along with a ‘go-ahead’ of their DHC-6 Series 400 program, also exploring a prospect to put a ‘renewed’ DHC-2 in production at some point down the road?
One of the motives that inspired me to begin posting a series covering the topic of “Bush Flying in Russia” was simply the fact that I’m being often asked “whether there’s any kind of ‘bush flying‘ existing nowadays in Russia”. Although in almost any instances I positively affirm the mere ‘fact of existence’, - strictly speaking, and, depending on definitions that would be fixed upon some ‘essential elements of subject matter’ - the answer could be ‘Yes’, and/or ‘No’ Read the rest of this entry »
Was lucky yesterday to get a few shots of the Volga-Dnepr’s Ilyushin-76 cargo plane in Toronto. Interestingly, these Ilyushins has been ‘haunting’ me since a while ago, and I even made a couple of posts, regarding them (28 January, on the one spotted in YYC, and the post of January 20, to which I was inspired by a quick marvel at the 76’s model at YEG airport) Read the rest of this entry »
Just look at that, - it is a moment of real day-to-day life, an episode of very authentic ‘bush operation’ in Siberia! A guy, who posted this image on a Russian aviation forum called ‘aviaforum.ru’, said the crew of technicians are changing the landing gear on this An-2. Read the rest of this entry »
This picture goes back to the early 80s. Surprisingly how well it turned out, - quite crisp, and in pretty vivid colors. What I did on it in Photoshop was just a minor color/balance correction, and a little bit of retouch to remove a few apparent scratches. Read the rest of this entry »
At times it occurs to me, why didn’t I write a good post devoted to a first plane I flew commercially.. It was the Tupolev-134, and given all the circumstances surrounding my career transitioning into its right seat, I should summarize it: it was a fairly complicated ‘flying platform for the purposes of continued on-the-job training’ Read the rest of this entry »
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