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Here’s a short note on a subject of bush flying in Russia, some related terminology, and its etymology.

First of all, in Russia they hardly ever used the term itself - ‘bush flying’. I recently had a fruitful conversation with a gentleman, a researcher from Saint Petersburg (Russia) who works on the field of aviation history. He recalls an occasion when he and his colleagues, while studying some historic publications (among other things the materials covered a topic of early bush flying in North America), have faced with the need to interpret into Russian an array of terms related to a notion of ‘bush flying’ (‘bush pilots’, ‘bush flying’, ‘bush’, etc..) He says they had even launched a dedicated discussion on one of the aviation forums, and eventually come up with a more or less adequate version in Russian. Read the rest of this entry »