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A few days ago we were tasked with bringing one of our ‘tail numbers’ down to the ‘Cascade Aerospace’ facilities in Abbotsford for a due maintenance check. After finishing a quick procedure of transferring the plane to a Cascade technician team, two of us, the flight crew - and the only occupants on board of this flight - started to walk our way out of the premises. A hotel transport was already waiting for us outside.. Read the rest of this entry »

That’s it. I’ve had enough. I got tired of pointless waiting. I grew worn of futile dreams in which I’d all but crave, hopelessly, for ’some time’, in ’some indefinite future’..  Nah, forget it, - I want it now!  So, I’ve decided to get my own An-2 on floats!

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Long timers! Good for them, good for people who still care. ‘Keep them flying!’ - you’ll hear this motto once you get in touch with the world of  ‘Norsemen Festival’ at Red Lake, Ontario. Read the rest of this entry »

Radials are alive, and no doubt, - they will be.

I took this picture last summer at Red Lake, during their unique ‘Norseman Festival’. Town’s main street was closed for traffic, so the festival got some room for placing booths and kiosks of commercial participants. Read the rest of this entry »

“Tah-Dah!” It has happened, at last.

Antonov-2, a venerable biplane celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, was reintroduced on floats. Aviators in North America might wonder, “why, - what’s a big deal?..” Read the rest of this entry »

Be-200ChS is getting its ‘feet wet’ rolling down the sloped ramp at the Beriev test base, which is a venue site for the Gelendjik ‘Hydro Aviation Salon’. It is a 2006 picture, but we are looking forward to seeing images from this year’s airshow at the Black Sea. Read the rest of this entry »

Gelendjik ‘Hydro-Aviation Salon‘ is to open on September, 4. We haven’t proceeded with our plans to go and visit the event this year. Kinda long trip, but first of all there’s been a few reasons related to a necessity to do some immediate stuff at home.  My apologies to our ‘RA-85123 Fan Club‘ members for ‘failing to fulfill expectations’ 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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Yesterday we stayed overnight in Vancouver, and it was a chance to do another session of ‘fair spotting’ (See one recent report of this kind, from YYZ).

There’s a place on the South part of YVR known to many people as ‘Flying Beaver’. Or, some people call it ‘Flying Beavers’ - that’s for a reason - there’s a fair number of DHC-2 ‘Beaver’ aircraft flying in and out of the place.

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I guess, they are bound to have such a meeting one day. It is amazing, how smaller and smaller this world is becoming!

And now I’m going to to pass a ‘Hello’ from a Mars pilot to Beriev pilots.

The only problem is all active Beriev pilots now out of their bases, posted to somewhere else (around Europe), pretty busy fighting fires, including those ones ravaging in Greece.

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