Be-200ChS is getting its ‘feet wet’ rolling down the sloped ramp at the Beriev test base, which is a venue site for the Gelendjik ‘Hydro Aviation Salon’. It is a 2006 picture, but we are looking forward to seeing images from this year’s airshow at the Black Sea. Read the rest of this entry »
Yeah, my penchant for photography is quite an old one, true. Goes back as far as when I was after the Grade 5.. However, I’m not a ‘photographer’, by all means. It still is a hobby. Some say, “it looks already as an obsession!” Don’t know, I just like it, and that’s it. Blogging and digital photography are getting along very well. Wonder, what their lines are on blogging?! 
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Here you find a little bit more information on ‘Aurora’, - a plane, that was a subject in my post ‘Once upon a time: Cold War‘. I found a few better pictures of the plane, they were taken at the Abbotsford Airshow. A full official name of the aircrfat is ‘CP-140 Aurora‘. Read the rest of this entry »
You can’t see them too often at St. John’s, Newfoundland. Oh, well, in fact, these, and other of their kind fly over the Newfoundland by dozens per any given day - across Atlantic, in both directions, but these big ones never stop at YYT (’Torbey’) routinely. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you know why do they paint this spiral (or, - ‘helix’?) on a spinner’s cone? I’ve heard a couple of things, and I can bet you have, too, - at least, of one of them. What? - yeah! - there’s a myth, and according to it this spiral figure is to put on the spinner to help scare birds away if they happen to be nearby the flying aircraft. Nope, nothing like that. Read the rest of this entry »
So, next day we flew over the Abbotsford area heading East from Vancouver. Weather seemed to be improving, there were some breaks, and even large openings showing clear sky. We were climbing on top of all clouds already, and I took a short glimpse on the Airshow premises.
“Looks like they are going to be more lucky with weather today..”, was my ‘PIREP’ to a captain. Read the rest of this entry »
I always wanted to tell a couple of things about this plane, and its pilot. Surely they both deserve our attention, and paying due tribute to them I regard as a debt of honor, no less. Lives of both tragically ended up together..
But before this sad accident there was a fascinating story of ‘re-birth’ in which they too were ascending together. Oleg Liakishev and Li-2, - the Man and the Plane..
Hello,
yeah, there’s some ‘cool stuff’ from Siberia that may be available here. I’m in communication with a friend, a pilot, a photographer, and he has in possession an excellent collection of images from nowadays Siberia. Maybe, we’ll organize a communication session with Siberia one day.
Hello, my dear friends,
Happy New Year!
Spent a really beautiful day in Banff, and Lake Louise. Totally ‘classic winter day around Christmas’, as if from a Carol
Got a few nice shots, - of course!
This post is actually a ‘trial for an idea’ - I let my friends from Russian “My Space” know that they would be able to download pictures in large size here, if they like them and want use them somehow, - as ‘desktop pictures’, for example.
CLICK ON PICTURE TO MAKE IT LARGE!
All my Best Wishes in the New Year to everybody who may stop here,
Cheers!
Hi, folks,
I’m ‘taking five’ again. A lot of stuff did pop up recently, - piled up, in fact, like a good snowball! (Unwrap boxes under the Christmas tree - is one of these ‘to-do’ items And we have to respond, and ‘read a check list’ for that.
I’ll be with you in the New Year with really interesting stuff,
Wish you all the best,
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year,
Yours,
Clash
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