50th Anniversary of the Sputnik Launch

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Google put the Sputnik image into its logo Congrats to the whole Human Race!

On October the 4th, 50 years ago, Soviets launched Sputnik. Wonder, whose idea was to put the Sputnik image into the Google’s logo? Probably, Sergey’s, who was born in Moscow, and whose family immigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1979.

Could the Google’s launch into the Internet Universe be compared to the historic Sputnik launch? I guess so. And it is only THE BEGINNING.

Petlyakov-8, a Soviet WW II long range bomber.

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A vintage photograph showing the Pe-8 bomber, - apparently undergoing some maintenance. Being under impression after talking with Shere, visiting the Nanton Lancaster Museum, I thought about how to continue this little research on the long range bombers - pilots and machines - and post some results of it here.

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Lancaster Museum in Nanton

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Something about John Fraser.. Following up the ‘Flute Attendant‘ story I looked into a folder with the Nanton Air Museum pictures taken during a recent visit to the place. Bingo. I found a picture of the information board on the wall in one of the museum’s corner with a brief on John Fraser, a Shere Lowe’s father.

Nanton Air Museum

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Sheer Love

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Shere and Len Krenzler, an artist Another interesting unscheduled meeting: as we were getting together downstairs to check out from the Four Points hotel in Edmonton, I saw Shere and this gentleman, who happen to be her friend Len Krenzler. Len is an artist.

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Russian WW II plane built in Calgary

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I learned about Butch Foster, his friend Ron and their homebuilt project from a flight examiner who I flew a Transport Canada Instrument Rating test with.

To create this poster I used a cover of the original Yak-1 flight operation manual.

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