Surprisingly, but one ‘loose guess’ expressed by myself with regard to some painting job features on some vintage aircraft seen at Oshkosh ensued an interesting discussion which you can see in a string of replics under this picture on Clashmaker’s Flickr photostream. Read the rest of this entry »
How much trace of Logic is present in an extremely rare and random event? Such as a ‘human factor-caused’ accident, for example? Can we ultimately come up with a solution to effectively guard against them with predictable results? Read the rest of this entry »
Oh, well, to be honest, it was not specifically a SNOOKER game that we played back then, during my years in the flight college. As far as I remember, we had fun with some ‘amateurish’ version of BILLIARD. Stakes weren’t too high. Actually, I couldn’t recall if we ever put the money on stake. Maybe, some did. On the quiet. ‘Cause, ‘you never know’.. Lenin was always.. kinda watching us 
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A news has just come: our ‘babe’, the Tu-154 Reg. ‘RA-85123‘, reappeared at Krasnodar lately. Her sister-ship, RA-85795, is also back to Kuban. They can be seen here, sitting side-by-side on the ramp at Krasnodar airport. 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.
A neat picture of these two - ‘the Yakovlevs brothers’. Isn’t it cool to see such a clear illustration of ‘Perspective‘? On a 2-D pic planes project into images of the same size. A friend of mine who flies out of Domodedovo took this shot. Read the rest of this entry »
Russian TV channel ‘NTV’ runs an interesting project called ‘Aviators‘. We watch this show at home via the Internet TV provider. I put here a few frames from footage of a recent episode about Russian/Soviet aviation in Antarctica. As you’ve been able to see for the date, I’m pursuing this theme in a category ‘Antarctica: Greg’s Files‘. Read the rest of this entry »
Follow-up to a previous post: just found a source where they give a reference pointing at some ‘differences’ in ‘Russian’ and ‘Western’ design of attitude indicators (artificial horizons).
The quest is going on..
‘Evolutionary Aspects of Flight Instruments Designs‘ - how’s that sound? For example, - as a name of a subject matter in a course of aeronautical engineering. In my opinion, it may be quite an educative subject. Read the rest of this entry »
A while ago I touched a topic of Western built transport category aircraft deployed in Russia. Specifically, with regard to Boeing. Numbers of planes made by Airbus, I believe, is pretty close to those representing Boeing in the totals for the entire Russian operators’ fleet. I’ll try to find some statistics on both. Read the rest of this entry »
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