Russia was a lot more fun in the Soviet era.For one thing, a scarcity of aviation fuel led
to what is possibly the world's largest collection of grounded aircraft photos. I have a whole stack of them, but I'll restrain myself to this one.
Photos of helicopters -- about 99% of them -- tend to feature them actually
flying. There's a really good reason for this: Helicopters look HILARIOUS on the ground. Few things look more pathetic than a helicopter at rest among the weeds, especially one with TWO sets of droopy rotors.
And another thing:
Aeroflot is a passenger airline, like American, or United. What do they do with this? Use it to pick up SURVIVORS? One at a time? Who decided to put it on a post card, for sale to people with boarding passes?
I know I'm getting
carried away here, but I can't resist. In the 1980s, Aeroflot published a phrasebook for non-English speaking passengers visiting America. To the question, "How was your flight?" the suggested response was, "Flying
in the Soviet-built IL-76, I felt myself very comfortably."
As far as I know, this has never been demonstrated on a post card. If you have evidence to the contrary, please contact the Archive.
