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As I keep drafting these notes for a future work tentatively called here ‘Bush Operation on both sides of Arctic’, somehow it occurred to me that a ‘drafter would probably miss a point’ unless he gives a quick outlook of existing ‘bush environment types’. Apparently, the kinds of landscape over which the operation takes place will define some essential traits characteristic to a particular case. Read the rest of this entry »

No doubt, the name of Cargolux is wide know in the industry of air cargo transport. I don’t know how much of a strain it would be to call them ‘one of the largest and influential player in the field’, but Cargolux can be proud of its reputation, and it also has quite a decent size fleet of 747-400F cargo planes (16-strong), which could be seen at many places around the planet. And here’s one of them, spotted yesterday morning at the Calgary International airport. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s interesting, how things are now on a ‘parallel branch’ of the whole air transport universe, - the one that’s in charge of air cargo transportation. Read the rest of this entry »

Winter! It is so asserting in its cold reality. Something about this winter makes me think, a ‘hot topic of global warming’ should be adjusted a wee bit, uh.. at least, in terms of assessing its pace to be rather ‘moderate’, than ‘rapid’, as it falls upon us So far, the winter is surely reigning all over the North-Northern hemisphere.

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One of the motives that inspired me to begin posting a series covering the topic of “Bush Flying in Russia” was simply the fact that I’m being often asked “whether there’s any kind of ‘bush flying‘ existing nowadays in Russia”. Although in almost any instances I positively affirm the mere ‘fact of existence’, - strictly speaking, and, depending on definitions that would be fixed upon some ‘essential elements of subject matter’ -  the answer could be ‘Yes’, and/or ‘No’ Read the rest of this entry »

Was lucky yesterday to get a few shots of the Volga-Dnepr’s Ilyushin-76 cargo plane in Toronto. Interestingly, these Ilyushins has been ‘haunting’ me since a while ago, and I even made a couple of posts, regarding them (28 January, on the one spotted in YYC, and the post of January 20, to which I was inspired by a quick marvel at the 76’s model at YEG airport) Read the rest of this entry »

At times it occurs to me, why didn’t I write a good post devoted to a first plane I flew commercially.. It was the Tupolev-134, and given all the circumstances surrounding my career transitioning into its right seat, I should summarize it: it was a fairly complicated ‘flying platform for the purposes of continued on-the-job training’ Read the rest of this entry »

  True, after that memorable ‘date’ in Calgary with a Canadian-built, Russian operated Dash-8, I picked up a bit of interest towards knowing more about SAT ‘Sakhalin Airways’. And it wasn’t for too long before some pieces of information started ’seeping through the Internet cobwebs’. Read the rest of this entry »

  This story goes back to one particular occasion of ‘improvised spotting’, - a kind of thing that could happen to me once in a while whenever I’m on my way to work

“Gee!”, I thought of pictures acquired during that ’shooting session’, “that will make a strong basis for continuing the ‘Bombardier in Russia’ series on my blog!”. Read the rest of this entry »

  “Uh, it’s so much better here!”, I though as we got inside, away from cold, into a warm lobby at the ‘Stanford Inn’. A few minutes passed before I had entirely shaken off some ’stiffness in body parts’ acquired during a brief but overwhelming exposure to ‘minus 38 C’ outside, and started relaxing. As my crew mates were checking in at the front desk, I filled leisure minutes by casual observation of the hotel’s interior. Read the rest of this entry »