That’s it. I’ve had enough. I got tired of pointless waiting. I grew worn of futile dreams in which I’d all but crave, hopelessly, for ’some time’, in ’some indefinite future’.. Nah, forget it, - I want it now! So, I’ve decided to get my own An-2 on floats!
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 »
Nicely looking airplane, the 727 is. I always enjoy its look when it may appear somewhere nearby. No wonder: it is a sort of ’sister-ship’, an airplane having distinct similarities to the Tu-154, the one I flew in Russia before moving to North America. Interestingly enough, .. Read the rest of this entry »
If somebody told me many ears ago, that so much stuff associated with the Soviet Union’s achievement in aviation and space could be found in America.. Probably, I wouldn’t have taken it seriously.
Here we go: a very authentic replica of the first artificial object ever launched into outer space has been seen hanging out from a ceiling in the Boeing’s ‘Museum of Flight‘ at Seattle.
“Knowledge is Power”.. Perhaps, many people here in the West have heard this expression, which is a quote from Sir Francis Bacon. What a powerful tool Google is, huh? 
I should put it honestly, I haven’t known much about Sir Francis Bacon until after I have made a search on this one. However, I heard the name years ago - from a course of history and philosophy (can’t you believe?! - future pilots attending flight training institutions in the USSR had to satisfactory pass a mandatory course of the ‘Marxist-Leninist Philosophy’ in the educational curricula!) at our flight college. Read the rest of this entry »
It was my first ever sighting of so many American military aircraft flocked together at one spot. Although they looked quiet, it was obvious that they hadn’t been like that over most of the time, and their presence here were ‘on purpose’. ‘Here‘ was at Manas, the Kyrgyzstan capital’s (Bishkek) airport. Read the rest of this entry »
Before the dawn of ‘helicopter era’ over the ‘bush country’ across the span of the Soviet Union (see the previous post), aviation engaged into exploration, transport, and communication in the country’s remote areas went through more or less the same lot of problems, and was learning the same kind of lessons the bush aviation in North America did. It may sound incredible, but there were far more aircraft types flown across the country than it is now. 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 »
A week ago I opened an account at the Russian language social networking web-site called ‘Moj Mir’, - which can almost literally be translated as ‘My Space’.
There’s no way to be prepared beforehand for all kinds of surprises that may ‘unleash’ upon you once you’ve stepped in this area of virtual universe.
So was my experience with it.
During those ‘incredible 90s’ in Russia when ‘Perestroika‘, - a tremendous shift of epic proportion from ‘Communism to Capitalism just overnight’ was on full throttle, Russians were introduced to many things either unknown to them before, or it was the stuff they might have just heard very little at the best.
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