Spotted in a showcase at the departure level in the Edmonton International airport. Interestingly enough, I saw two real Ilyushin-76s at Edmonton not too long ago. One of them was wearing exactly the same livery, - of Russian cargo airline called ‘Volga-Dnepr’. Unfortunately, it was dark, and I didn’t have a chance to make a good shot of it. Read the rest of this entry »
Holly! Antonov-2 in Vancouver! Made of mahogany wood, though. And not quite as big as the real one. But as a matter of fact, this model can be found in Vancouver, at the ‘Aviation World‘ pilot supply shop that is situated near the YVR’s South Terminal, in the corner of Nr.2 and Gilbert roads.
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 »
We’ve got a guest, a young Russian pilot who came to visit us on his vacation. It seems Alexey enjoys exploring our country, and sure enough - takes lots of pictures ‘for the record’ 
Yes, he happened to be a photography enthusiast as well. Day before yesterday we went to the Banff national park, and it was obvious - the tranquilly of ‘winter Rockies’ in Banff and Lake Louis left him profoundly impressed. Read the rest of this entry »
It is a quick follow-up remark to the previous post. That one was about possibility in the future to see an aircraft which is one hundred years old, - and not on a museum display, but in the air. Read the rest of this entry »
No, apparently, it is not the volcanic ash - stuff coming out of the volcano’s crater on this picture. It could be something less harmful - if you talk about ‘hazards of flying nearby the active volcanoes’ - just a plume of water steam, for example. Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t you know that flying into a volcanic ash cloud doesn’t sound like a great idea? Whereas flying into a usual cloud may at times even be a fun (if it is not a big CB though), getting into a volcano eruption plume warrants dealing with a serious trouble. Read the rest of this entry »
It was my first ever sighting of so many American military aircraft flocked together at one spot. Although they looked quiet, it was obvious that they hadn’t been like that over most of the time, and their presence here were ‘on purpose’. ‘Here‘ was at Manas, the Kyrgyzstan capital’s (Bishkek) airport. 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 »
This photo-session took place on an excellent evening of November 5. Shortly after we checked in to the Radisson hotel my friend came to visit, and I suggested we would go and see ‘an interesting place’.
It seemed he liked an idea, and - as it turned, - the place too, so, we spent almost an hour around there, at the Frazer River float plane base well known as ‘Flying Beaver’.
It was exactly the time when all the aircraft, the float planes of a few operators such as ‘Harbour Air‘, ‘SEAir, and some others, were coming back home so that to be in before dark would fall.
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