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Well, everything is eventually coming up to its end. So was our unforgettable ‘Hawaii tour’, - we already got back home, and now it is stored in my not so reliable memory. Luckily, there’s a more solid back-up to it available, - on an external hard drive (which in its turn was immediately copied for further back-up ), in a digital form, easily retrievable, in vivid colors, representing pretty much of everything that was seen during this terrific trip. Read the rest of this entry »

It was taken with a very simple, conventional camera. Of course, water-proof, designed for underwater photographing. Last year, in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we fly to Hawaii, - for another round of experimenting with same kind of camera. It makes up to a total of four cameras, that we are going to take with us

Let’s make a short break in posting all that ‘bush stuff from Siberia’! Aloha!

Excellent vintage photo from Valentin’s collection showing a Mil-4 helicopter sitting on a rocky plateau (looks to me, an engine is still running), and you can also see the mountain ‘Narodnaya’, a highest peak in the Ural Mountains. It is 1895 m (6217 ft) tall. Read the rest of this entry »

You have to be genuinely resourceful if you ‘do stuff’ in the remoteness of bush. And if you’ve got a ‘bad day’, and got into a kind of emergency and, as a result, ended up with a sure chance to become stranded in the wilderness for a while, I’ll bet you do everything, employ all your ingenuity to get yourself out of the dire situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Have just begun another interesting communication with a pilot, who used to fly MiGs, and now  - the Antonov-2s in African desert, hauling loads of tourists on so-called ‘aero-safaris’. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Kelowna Flightcraft (the company’s full name: Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd.) added recently two units of heavy equipment: DC-10 freighters. Apparently, this addition has boosted up Kelowna’s available capacity, and provided the company with a new ‘tool of trade’ enabling them to expand and grow business to a new level. Read the rest of this entry »

Got a chance to get a clear shot of the DHC-5 ‘Buffalo’. What’s interesting (’rumors, rumors’!), the ‘Viking’ of Victoria, a company that is about to begin production of the renewed ‘de Havilland Canada’ aircraft, is said to be having included Buffalo in its ‘remake list’. 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 »