Here’s a quick post to sustain the blog’s rolling. Got lucky to get a ‘fun ride’ on the Cougar lately. Here’s Butch sitting on the tractor, and another guys is hooking up a tow-bar to it. The plane is going to be bushed back inside a hangar. Read the rest of this entry »
Uh, seems like these underwater images taken by a very simple, $10-dollar camera turned out not too bad. Or, you would rather call them ’so-so’, but they are not as bad as you might expect from such a ‘low budget solution’. At least, I’ve been able to identify some of the fish captured on it in two days of Hanauma Bay snorkeling. Read the rest of this entry »
It was taken with a very simple, conventional camera. Of course, water-proof, designed for underwater photographing. Last year, in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we fly to Hawaii, - for another round of experimenting with same kind of camera. It makes up to a total of four cameras, that we are going to take with us 
Let’s make a short break in posting all that ‘bush stuff from Siberia’! Aloha!
Have just begun another interesting communication with a pilot, who used to fly MiGs, and now - the Antonov-2s in African desert, hauling loads of tourists on so-called ‘aero-safaris’. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Kelowna Flightcraft (the company’s full name: Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd.) added recently two units of heavy equipment: DC-10 freighters. Apparently, this addition has boosted up Kelowna’s available capacity, and provided the company with a new ‘tool of trade’ enabling them to expand and grow business to a new level. Read the rest of this entry »
Got a chance to get a clear shot of the DHC-5 ‘Buffalo’. What’s interesting (’rumors, rumors’!), the ‘Viking’ of Victoria, a company that is about to begin production of the renewed ‘de Havilland Canada’ aircraft, is said to be having included Buffalo in its ‘remake list’. Read the rest of this entry »
No doubt, the name of Cargolux is wide know in the industry of air cargo transport. I don’t know how much of a strain it would be to call them ‘one of the largest and influential player in the field’, but Cargolux can be proud of its reputation, and it also has quite a decent size fleet of 747-400F cargo planes (16-strong), which could be seen at many places around the planet. And here’s one of them, spotted yesterday morning at the Calgary International airport. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a map of Arctic. The one in which you could literally see ‘both sides of it’, as if you ’soar over the top of world’. I’ve got this picture by scanning a page in an old Soviet atlas, published in 1985. By the way, this year bears some significance in respect (how it would turn out later) - to the fates of the world’: ‘Perestroika’ was officially ’spinned-off” then, and in the following years this same world has changed unprecedentedly. Read the rest of this entry »
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!
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