As I keep drafting these notes for a future work tentatively called here ‘Bush Operation on both sides of Arctic’, somehow it occurred to me that a ‘drafter would probably miss a point’ unless he gives a quick outlook of existing ‘bush environment types’. Apparently, the kinds of landscape over which the operation takes place will define some essential traits characteristic to a particular case.
Observing, for example, a type of landscape shown on this picture, one wouldn’t probably need to apply a lot of reasoning power to make a conclusion that ‘float plane operation in the bush will last forever in Canada‘, - for the Canadian Shield covers about a half of the country’s territory.
‘Canadian Shield country’ over the most of Ontario, Quebec, Northern and Eastern part of Manitoba, Northern Saskatchewan is a fascinating maze and variety of water bodies entangled with a land mass of woody, rocky hills and flats.
A choice of float-equipped aircraft comes just naturally, if you consider flying over the countryside as ‘wet’ as this one. And, - imagine, what kind of ‘expertise’ have been accumulated by generations of pilots and mechanics flying and maintaining bush planes for decades over this country!
When you consider finding an example of countryside in Russia with somewhat similar landscape, ‘Karelia’ would probably be the first thing to come to your mind. Interestingly, in the Soviet Union time Karelia was a home for pretty large float plane operation too.
(to be continued..)
P.S.
I would suggest to check out this photo stream on Flickr showing pictures form Finland (tagged ‘Karelia’, by the way) - which is an immediate neighbor to Karelia. Both have the same type of landscape. I’ll try to find some ‘genuine’ imagery from Karelia.
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