Nah, ‘Aerial Photography‘, - sounds a little bit too pretentious when you see those hazy images taken at some occasions of flying in middle-late 90s. Like this one that I took on the departure out of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in April of 1996. 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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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 »
Before the dawn of ‘helicopter era’ over the ‘bush country’ across the span of the Soviet Union (see the previous post), aviation engaged into exploration, transport, and communication in the country’s remote areas went through more or less the same lot of problems, and was learning the same kind of lessons the bush aviation in North America did. It may sound incredible, but there were far more aircraft types flown across the country than it is now. Read the rest of this entry »
Seems like it was a second picture in a set taken during the same “photo session” - it shows the time and the date in the lower right corner (the 13th of whatever month..), - a date registering format in the camera is set in such a way that unfortunately there’s no indication of the month and the year. But at least we’ve got the time: it is 9:32.. 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 »
A while ago I started a theme of Arctic and Antarctic exploration on this blog, and christened it ‘Antarctica: Greg’s files’. Now how my own virtual ‘polar exploration’ goes, - it seems like it has gone far beyond the material which laid originally under the grounds for this topic. Then it all began from the three photo-albums belonging to Greg, one of our pilots. Greg worked for ‘Kenn Borek’ before joining our company, and he flew the Twin Otters over both ‘caps of the World’. 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 »
Annual airshow in Abbotsford was opened yesterday. And how it turned, I’ve got a bit of ‘random luck’ having been scheduled for a flight to Abbotsford on this day. Well, I didn’t plan anything specifically with regard to air show beforehand. Didn’t even make a bid for such a feature as ‘overnight in YXX’. Read the rest of this entry »
Seems like we’ve got another Chinook here in Calgary. I went out for a walk, - didn’t want to miss a chance to marvel at my favorite ’spectacle’ the Mother Nature is staging every now and then in our area.
At some times we are lucky enough to see Chinook Arch while in the air..
.. like in this one: we flew an approach to Calgary from the West, and a flight path angle was sort of following the sloped Chinook Arch ceiling, - it was kinda cool to see these ‘grandiose’ cloud structures hanging up there, above your head.
But everybody knows Chinook is also associated with quite a strong wind, for, - by physical nature, - exactly the wind it is - a katabatic wind blowing from the slopes of mountains.
One thing about photographing Chinook: you can catch a terrific still view of cloud forms on your camera, but it is going to be a bit of challenge to convey an idea of motion, a ‘visual idea of wind’, - if you don’t have a camcorder
See, what kind of solution I found for this:
Click on the image!
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