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.
Do you know that today is the ‘National Aviation Day’? As a matter of fact, it is exactly today, on February 23, 2009, all the country’s aviation community (and all to whom it matters in the entire world, for that sake), commemorate the 100th Anniversary since the first ever ‘manned, heavier-than-air, motor-powered flight‘ in Canada. On this day, exactly one hundred years ago, a motorized craft called ‘The Silver Dart’ made history as it lifted off from the frozen surface of the Bras d’Or Lake in Cape Breton Island, and flew successfully 800 meters, at an altitude of 9 meters. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Just look at that, - it is a moment of real day-to-day life, an episode of very authentic ‘bush operation’ in Siberia! A guy, who posted this image on a Russian aviation forum called ‘aviaforum.ru’, said the crew of technicians are changing the landing gear on this An-2. Read the rest of this entry »
This picture goes back to the early 80s. Surprisingly how well it turned out, - quite crisp, and in pretty vivid colors. What I did on it in Photoshop was just a minor color/balance correction, and a little bit of retouch to remove a few apparent scratches. 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 »
So, here’s an ‘excerpt’ from ‘Arctic Chapter’ of Greg’s ‘Antarctica Files’, as it written by Greg himself. See also a previous post with some sort of ‘preface’ to it.
I went through my log books to get more detail on where those photos were taken, but I didn’t keep much detailed information, I don’t know exactly where all the photos were taken for example, but made a pretty good guess.
Photo 1. Taken in the central Arctic on a flight from Resolute Bay to Inuvik. I surprised at this polar bear.. 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 »
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 »
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