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All the local residents in Victoria who we were talking to, and who ventured to commenting the weather in a small talk on this December day, put a remark about a ‘rare chance to see the blizzard of winnipegian proportion’, - which was anticipated, but yet, - as usual in these cases - caught the city dwellers with a ‘bit of surprise’ on the preceding evening, grew fast into a serious storm, and ravaged on through the night, until the noon of 14th. Read the rest of this entry »

As it seems, a topic ‘Boeing-727 vs Tu-154′ perfectly fits into the ‘clash thesis‘ actively pursued on this blog, - as a case to explore, of course, - not a pretex for another round of ‘Cold War’ So, I thought it would be worthwhile to continue reviewing some traits of two similar aircraft: Boeing-727, and Tupolev-154. 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 »

  Apparently, an acronym ‘NG’, that was first used in the world of aviation for purposes of indicating a new, renovated line of an old but proven design, the Boeing-737, turned to be catchy. At least, for me. Now, as they talk about resuming construction of large Antonov transport planes at Ulyanovsk aircraft manufacturing plant, I decided to tentatively dub the project by the same two-lettered suffix - ‘NG’. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a common knowledge in aviation community all around the world that Canada is a good place for flight training. Maybe, among the best. Training here is recognized for its high quality and availability. Also, there’s a thing that strongly appeals to international students: hourly rates for flight instruction - they are fairly decent compared to those in many other countries, especially, in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

As I continued browsing through pictures taken at Oshkosh, I grew more and more curious about whether there’s indeed something special about ‘Red Strips on the aircraft tails‘.. Read the rest of this entry »

My friend Alex (a young 737′ pilot from Moscow, I mentioned him in this post) went recently to check out a new ’spot of spotters’ attraction’ in this big city: the ‘Vadim Zadorozhny’s Technical Museum’. Airplanes designed by S. A. Yakovlev are representing  the main part of the museum’s aviation exposition. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hello, my excuses: it’s been a while until I got things together to finish this ‘piece of memoir on flying with Aeroflot’.

So, taxi-out route at Istanbul from the area where we were parked to the departure RW 18R’s threshold was pretty straightforward. Read the rest of this entry »

It is not a long trip - one hour and fifteen minutes maybe, at most. Actually we would spend more time on the ground during a turn-around than in the air. Stops at Warsaw - Okecie airport were long enough to make it to a duty free in the company representative’s van, shop for a bottle of ‘Zubrovka’ , and come back, still ‘rush-free’. Read the rest of this entry »