It was a real delight to receive this news. A friend of mine from Russian city of Samara dropped a line a couple days ago tipping me to check out their web-site where they posted a bunch of photographs showing a progress of one long-run project. Read the rest of this entry »
After a fairly long break I’m about to resume posting on this blog. As always, a focus of these posts would be on topics pertinent to Russian/Soviet aviation, and its place in the whole of aeronautical world - all of which I should preface with a proper disclaimer - ‘based in my humble opinion’. Various topics concerning a current state of the affairs in modern Russian aviation, as well as some themes related to its past will be regarded.
Your feedback of questions, suggestions would be certainly appreciated.
Glad to be with you,
Clashmaker
Cargo planes are quite common view on the ramp of Hamilton airport. Since quite long the place is known for being a hub for cargo operation by many companies. Two leading Canadian cargo specialists CargoJet and Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charters have long domiciled airport for their needs. Both fly 727 freighters. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is some notes on our recent outing to Indus, a privately owned airfield located South-East of Calgary, approximately 12 km from an intersection of Highway 22X (‘Marquis of Lorne Trail’) and Deerfoot. A few days ago when I met Butch in Springbank, among other things he was talking about a ‘new season of recreational flying at Indus’, that apparently began picking up, as the average temperature were on the rise, reflecting a full-blown advance of the spring. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a quick post to sustain the blog’s rolling. Got lucky to get a ‘fun ride’ on the Cougar lately. Here’s Butch sitting on the tractor, and another guys is hooking up a tow-bar to it. The plane is going to be bushed back inside a hangar. Read the rest of this entry »
Uh, seems like these underwater images taken by a very simple, $10-dollar camera turned out not too bad. Or, you would rather call them ’so-so’, but they are not as bad as you might expect from such a ‘low budget solution’. At least, I’ve been able to identify some of the fish captured on it in two days of Hanauma Bay snorkeling. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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