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A while ago I started a theme of Arctic and Antarctic exploration on this blog, and christened it ‘Antarctica: Greg’s files’. Now how my own virtual ‘polar exploration’ goes, - it seems like it has gone far beyond the material which laid originally under the grounds for this topic. Then it all began from the three photo-albums belonging to Greg, one of our pilots. Greg worked for ‘Kenn Borek’ before joining our company, and he flew the Twin Otters over both ‘caps of the World’. Read the rest of this entry »

Good stuff!  Andrei, a friend of mine, responded. Again, we never met in person, and our acquaintance happened on the Internet. And I’m not going to do a comment on how those ‘myspace-style wonders’ work.. It’s been already written and said a lot on their account as they are more and more becoming ubiquotious things, I guess.  Read the rest of this entry »

Neat picture! I’ve got my hand on it courtesy of a friend, who used to be a ‘polarny letchik‘, a ‘polar flyer’. In Russia they use this name (instead of generalized term ‘bush pilot’) for identifying a type of airmen involved in flying up in the Arctic, or down in the Antarctic. I never met this friend of mine in life, we had just bumped into each other on the Russian language equivalent of ‘MySpace‘. Read the rest of this entry »

You never know where this cute, but relatively small and slow going plane would eventually get over at the end of its flying day..

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A few more topics coming soon (which I didn’t announce in the previous post) are going to be based on ‘Greg’s Files‘.

Greg visited me yesterday, we had a very interesting talk while I was treating him with Russian salad called ‘ The Herring Under Coat’, and he kindly allowed me to use his three albums with photographs for a while so that I would be able to scan them, and we would start posting these photos with his comments.

Certainly, it is a sort of unique stuff.

See in the next post: ‘Antarctica: Search for a Soul‘.