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Aircraft Manufacturing in Russia: Modernized Il-76

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:28:00 +0000

Since one ‘memorable Il-76 sighting‘ that took place almost a year ago in Toronto, some more information regarding the situation with the type’s future has trickled through. And some more sightings happened since then as well. (more…)

Rocking Balalaika invites to Sochi

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:58:51 +0000

Among a few interesting things, noteworthy to mention about ‘Russky Dom’, a Russia’s ‘mission house’ in Vancouver (which was in essence the country’s ‘flag post’ heralding the next Winter Olympics in Sochi), there were the impromptu concerts and performances given by a number of folk dancers and musicians. For example, we had an exquisite pleasure to watch a delightful performance by Dmitry Kalinin’, a well know Russian ‘balalaika master’.

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Po-2 biplane authentic replica

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:08:41 +0000

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. (more…)

Resuming posts on Clashmaker

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:05:46 +0000

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.

I’m on Twitter now.

Glad to be with you,

Clashmaker

Boeing-727 vs Tu-154. Engines. Noise. Production.

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:42:09 +0000

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. (more…)

Recreational Flying out of Indus.

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:07:52 +0000

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. (more…)

Ride the Cougar

Sun, 17 May 2009 01:50:10 +0000

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. (more…)

Hawaii Impressions-II

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:59:46 +0000

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. (more…)

Hawai’i Impressions

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:01:14 +0000

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. (more…)

Underwater Photographing

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:54:04 +0000

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!