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A few days ago we were tasked with bringing one of our ‘tail numbers’ down to the ‘Cascade Aerospace’ facilities in Abbotsford for a due maintenance check. After finishing a quick procedure of transferring the plane to a Cascade technician team, two of us, the flight crew - and the only occupants on board of this flight - started to walk our way out of the premises. A hotel transport was already waiting for us outside.. Read the rest of this entry »

Since one ‘memorable Il-76 sighting‘ that took place almost a year ago in Toronto, some more information regarding the situation with the type’s future has trickled through. And some more sightings happened since then as well. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a real delight to receive this news. A friend of mine from Russian city of Samara dropped a line a couple days ago tipping me to check out their web-site where they posted a bunch of photographs showing a progress of one long-run project. Read the rest of this entry »

After a fairly long break I’m about to resume posting on this blog. As always, a focus of these posts would be on topics pertinent to Russian/Soviet aviation, and  its place in the whole of aeronautical world - all of which I should preface with a proper disclaimer - ‘based in my humble opinion’. Various topics concerning a current state of the affairs in modern Russian aviation, as well as some themes related to its past will be regarded.

Your feedback of questions, suggestions would be certainly appreciated.

I’m on Twitter now.

Glad to be with you,

Clashmaker

Here is some notes on our recent outing to Indus, a privately owned airfield located South-East of Calgary, approximately 12 km from an intersection of Highway 22X (‘Marquis of Lorne Trail’) and Deerfoot. A few days ago when I met Butch in Springbank, among other things he was talking about a ‘new season of recreational flying at Indus’, that apparently began picking up, as the average temperature were on the rise, reflecting a full-blown advance of the spring. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, everything is eventually coming up to its end. So was our unforgettable ‘Hawaii tour’, - we already got back home, and now it is stored in my not so reliable memory. Luckily, there’s a more solid back-up to it available, - on an external hard drive (which in its turn was immediately copied for further back-up ), in a digital form, easily retrievable, in vivid colors, representing pretty much of everything that was seen during this terrific trip. 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 »

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 »