Mar 23
It was a nice surprise to find this book in my mailbox at a company’s ‘crew room’. A friend of mine, one of our pilots, left it there, signed: “it was pleasure to fly with you”. Recently we worked together, and, as it turned, after a few short minutes of usual ’small talk’, both of us quickly found a turf of common interest laying in the subject of bush flying. His dad, by the way, was mentioned in the book, for he was one of the prominent aviators opening up the province’s North for exploration and development. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 07
As I wrote in a previous post: my friend Alexei is doing good as he deploys ‘a somewhat’ that in terms of North American General Aviation could be called a ‘Fixed Base Operator‘. I intentionally predicated the statement with ‘a somewhat‘, because you have to adjust the meaning of ‘commonly known things and notions’, when you try to find their equivalent in ‘Russia’s realities’. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 14
Well, it may seem to sound like a joke.
However, it is just ‘half-a-joke’ 
I doubt if Oleg Deripaska reads ‘Globe and Mail’ at all.. Although, it might be that his assistants had prepared some excerpts from Canadian media reporting on an interview he gave them in Moscow a few days ago. (Oh, sure, free media in the West write all kind of stuff on ‘oligarchic capitalism in Russia’ generally, and Oleg Deripaska - particularly
But it is an utterly obscure probability that this post will get ‘on his radar’ any time soon. Anyway, if this thing is going to ever happen, I’d like to invite him to be an honored member of our ‘RA-85123 Fan Club‘.
And there’s something that makes me think this invitation is ‘no-nonsense’.
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Sep 01
I. e., what’s coming up soon on the blog? (Well, as it is always with amateurs: “I wish I had more time to ‘play with it”
Anyway, I’m going to keep posting as possibly regular as I can. Here’s a quick outlook for some next topics:
We’ll pay more attention to the An-2. Hopefully, our effort will pay us back
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We’ll look more into ‘Boeing affairs in Russia’. ‘How many Western built aircraft fly now in this country’, - we’ll try to find out.
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Aug 23
(Topic continued from HERE)
And they already have a name for the would-be joint venture between Boeing and VSMPO-AVISMA: the Ural Boeing Manufacturing (UBM).
Talking about Boeing’s presence in Russia observed in a recent history, it may be said for sure it’s been growing. It is not only about many Boeing-manufactured aircraft, that are now rather common view in Russian airports, in liveries of many Russian air carriers (however, I spotted this Aeroflot’s 767 in Toronto, just a few days ago. They’ve been with the company for many years).
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Aug 23
Bets are that talking of all folks occupying offices in ’some’ of these downtown Chicago highrisings, there’s a group that might be found here, and there’s something special you may say about this group: they are in possession of… ‘unusually extended knowledge of a place called Verkhnyaya Salda, - that’s the name name of a town, which is way smaller than Chicago, and its location is thousands miles away, in Ural region of Russia.
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Aug 15
In all previous posts I’ve never been too close to the ’shadowy’ areas of politics. But reading an article in the recent ‘Canadian Aviator’ made me think: “Hey, it’s gonna be fun, lets talk about it!’
An author, Robert S. Grant, had one in the ‘Tales from the Lakeview’ section of the magazine. It was on the Antonov-2, a venerable ‘bush-biplane’ created in the Soviet Union in the late 40s.
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Jul 16
People who normally take seats for doing their jobs in these ‘offices’ - FLIGHT DECKS - wouldn’t probably mind to do ‘a trial exchange’ between the two pictured here.
For example, - I didn’t, in my case, - I rather enjoyed it , when I found myself sitting in the 737NG’s right seat one year after I made my ‘farewell flight’ on the Tu-154’s left nest with Aeroflot.
I recalled it immediately when I was reading an article about the venerable Martin Mars planes would be retired after the 45-year service in the firefighting.
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May 31
I read this Globe article while we were cruising at 38.000 feet over Ontario heading home from Montreal.
It was on May, 29. ‘It’s funny, how everything may be connected’, I thought.
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It was a nice surprise to find this book in my mailbox at a company’s ‘crew room’. A friend of mine, one of our pilots, left it there, signed: “it was pleasure to fly with you”. Recently we worked together, and, as it turned, after a few short minutes of usual ’small talk’, both of us quickly found a turf of common interest laying in the subject of bush flying. His dad, by the way, was mentioned in the book, for he was one of the prominent aviators opening up the province’s North for exploration and development. Read the rest of this entry »
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