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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 »

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?! Read the rest of this entry »

My best chum Sasha (’Shurik’) from our years at the Aktyubinsk Flight College has just turned 50. ‘Big Date’ caught him yesterday. Doesn’t look 50 on this pic though! Oh, in my opinion, he still looks on 25 at his 50 Haven’t seen him since the time of our graduation in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »

A week ago I opened an account at the Russian language social networking web-site called ‘Moj Mir’, - which can almost literally be translated as ‘My Space’.

There’s no way to be prepared beforehand for all kinds of surprises that may ‘unleash’ upon you once you’ve stepped in this area of virtual universe.

So was my experience with it.

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So, Halloween had come on Russian soil. And we learned more about it though.. school, one of the first privately owned and run outfits of this kind in Krasnodar, Russia. The school had an unusually simple name: ‘Julia‘, or ‘Private School ‘Julia’.

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Having passed a boarding for a Horizon Air flight #2536 uneventfully, we were on our way back to Calgary after 5-day trip to Seattle and a few places around.

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This trend - to put the airlines’ names on the aircraft bodies - emerged a few years ago. Guess, it’s mostly with respect to ‘marketing’ rather than ‘design art’.

However, it is so easy - just type OASISHONGKONG.COM - and here you are.

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… Sounds like the ‘heredity really matters’.

She came to visit us from the ‘Cossacks’ Country’ - a region of Russia traditionally called ‘Kuban’ (nothing has to do with ‘Cuba’, though, and I was reflecting on it here), with a main city of Krasnodar. In old times it was called ‘Ekaterinodar’, which meant a ‘big gift’ to the cossacks from Katherine the Great, a legendary Russian Empress .

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757 LANDING VIDEO

Well, I’ve just uploaded some video to the YouTube, and here’s a link to this video.

As I told you before, we didn’t have much time to play with anything but our instruments on the flight deck during the approach. On the ground though, we had more than an hour, and it was quite enough for me to go down on the apron, and make a few shots.

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I’m reckoning now that particularly for me ‘Writing in English’ is a most challenging part of this whole blogging endeavor. Lion’s share of the time is consumed by a mere ’sitting and writing’ (i.e., excruciatingly slow processing of ideas and putting them into reasonable English sentences.. thanks Heaven, this process doesn’t require a lot of ‘Russian-English translation’ any more. However, I wish some of you would understand Russian well:).

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