News / POLISH GAS RESERVES [40]


I doubt that I will cry then. ;)

News / POLISH GAS RESERVES [40]


There is no known way to make everyone in the world happy at once. ;) At least my realtives in Ukraine is pretty satisfied by warming in relations with Russia. So, it's ok and for me too.

Just looks little bit expensive... ;)


I'm not about drilling. I'm about the gas itself.

I was in Udmurtia last year to install some telemetry equipment for a local oil company. Seen many places where gas that come with oil is simply burned for nothing in a special furnaces set aside of oil fields, near oil preparation facilities. Asked why not use it for something more usefil - and was told that it has so much ballast gases so it cannot be considered a high quality fuel. And, in addition, it is quite corrosive, and its preparations for safe transfer by pipes would cost more that it may be worth by itself.

News / POLISH GAS RESERVES [40]


May be to resell it with a good profit to Ukraine, once ukronazis will come to power again and denounce linked gas discount-fleet base agreements? ;)

By the way, estimate up to 1.36 trillion cubic metres of unconventional shale gas is not the same as gas in pipes. ;) And there is always questions about composition of these deposits. It may require some expensive pre-treatement before it will be safe to feed to pipelines.

Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]

I think that for someone who will try to learn Polish And Russian at same time, it may become a quite difficult task. Just because of a lot of similarities that often lead to "mixing up" and curious mistakes.

Russian as a step to Polish for a native English speaker will be a bit easier than Polish as a step to Russian, IMHO.

Russian have a much larger number of people who speak it around the world, and it is much easier to find Russian classes. There was curious case when I saw German, Polish, Russian and Kazakh guys speaking on a Hong Kong street using Russian. ;)

But if ultimate goal is to learn Polish - I think someone should concentrate entirely on it.

News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]


I already published a link to complete schematic of TU-154M fuel system (overlayed on plane contours) on this forum. Use forum search, it was during famous discussion about fuel dumping nozzles. ;) It was in Autocad DXF format, so you'll need some converter to see it.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Russian speaking readers understand what I mean. ;) For the rest - answer is yes,we are talking about the same person. ;)


Some sort of geopolitical kamasutra? ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

What? They was in preparations to attack Belarus just like Sobakashvili attacked Ossetia? Otherwise, why they would care about it so much?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


They BRING movable ILS there for Putin/Tusk visit. But I don't think that FSO nave movable ILS in their deep pockets, so most likely they "borrowed" it from some other strip, together with some personnel.


It is not evidence of anything.
Do you want perfect video of some overhead TU-154 landing to SVO? Will you be able to determine by this video - was it filmed near SVO or near XUBS? You may be able to exclude (as impossible) some combinations of time of day and landing strip, because of wrong sunlight angle, but nothing more.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


I think no, just regular handling of evidence materials during investigation. There is separate rules concerning plane crash investigations, I never known it, it is even remotely not in my area of interests.

Did you checked that sounds?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Just found in the news that was published this night... In Russian....

At the site of a plane crash near Smolensk, investigators found operating the recorder, which can be used as an additional source of information.

"Operating the recorder is not protected and is very rare in the aviation crash it is stored. However, in this case it has been preserved and ... will be used as an additional tool in the investigation and explanation, "- said the head of the Interstate Aviation Committee Tatyana Anodina.

According to her, the operational recorder contains the same amount of information as the emergency recorder.

Anodina added that the recorder Polish aircraft manufactured in Poland and by a joint decision of the Polish and Russian sides will be decrypted in Poland at the factory.

One more flight recorder (unprotected one, that rarely survive a crash) is found in decent condition. It contains a copy of all (parametric?) data, same as "black box". Recorder made in Poland, so it was decided that it will be readed and decoded in Poland, in a company where it was manufactured.

Another info, earlier, was that all parts of aircraft moved from a crash site to a secure storage place until end of investigation. Investigators finishing to check crash site for small parts that may be related to this case.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Nothing changed yet.

I asked a friend to find this film online and locate this scene, film is at film-free.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_4408.html , film with lots of advertising and small format, but soundtrack is there. Look around 1h 30m 05sec from start (you can rewind it fast to necessary fragment, like on youtube). My friend confirmed that there is that "old style" fire truck horn signals may be heard.

Hope this helps.

Love / Do Polish couples live together without being married? [18]


Looks very similar to Russians in Moscow, ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Can agree with this. But I don't think there are too much really new trucks, maybe a lot after complete restoration. Fire trucks in a small city (and especially in airports) have not so much use, constantly parked in a dry and somewhat heated box, and very well cared of. So, 20-30 years is not so much for a chassis. Maybe modern foam generators has to be installed, all aged rubber parts in engine and transmission replaced to new, and repainted all around.... Will work like new for more many years.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


I was unable to quickly find recording with such type of siren. Everywhere in sounds libraries is more modern "western type" dual-tone signals. If you can find some russian films from 1960's-1980's where fire trucks at work is pictured, almost certainly it will be such type of single-tone signal.

If memory serves me correctly, in film "Укрощение огня" ("Taming the fire" or "Wildfire" in English translations, 1972, film about early stages of Soviet space program) there was scene where fire trucks speeding to a rocket start position after accident, with such a signal. If I will be able to find that disk tomorrow, I'll try to cut this fragment. Not sure that I still have it, though.


Not always a joke. I used to live (since I was born to 1981) in a building within 200-300 meters from Kremlin, with windows looking to Borovitskie gates and Big Stone Bridge.

Not a best place to live, of course.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

National standard GOST R 50574-2002 "Automobiles, buses and motorcycles of emergency services. Colours diagrams, identification symbols, inscriptions, special light and sound signals. General requirements"

protect.gost.ru/document.aspx?control=7&baseC=101&RegNum=11&DocOnPageCount=15&page=1&id=130340

98 scanned pages total. Requirements to special sound signals is on page 11. From new systens it is required to have "western style" dual alternating tone siten (alternating every 0.5 - 6 sec, tones within 150-2000 Hz band). At same time later chapter approved use of "Air Horn" and "Short Siren" signals (possibly because there is still a lot of older equipment and it is not economical to replace signals on older cars/trucks).

By the way, if someone collecting car models and wish to paint their Lada model to colours of russian road police or other emergrncy service - this standart is a very good guide, all drawings is there. ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


It is one of three types of siren that I seen on fire trucks in Moscow. This one was looking like a short square horn extending from box where compressor is located. Purely pneumatical, gives constant tone, slightly changing in beginning while there is lower air pressure. quite directional - very errating to ear when you stand ahead the truck, but much less loud from sides and back. Usually seen this on older truck based on ZIL or GAZ cargo truck chassis.

Another one with two horns, starts from one tone and in a few seconds switch to alternating lower and higher tone (tones changed every approx half second or so).

Third type is somewhat mystery for me, as I heard as loud siren sound was changed by somewhat distorted by still understandable voice announcement. Maybe some hybrid electro-pneumatic system. Was unable to get close to look at this truck (imported for sure, longer truck with large reservoir at back).

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Why not? When I was little boy, I thinked that metro tunnels is very-very long and if someone will go by that tunnels far enough, they may even come to hell. ;) That was until I get to tunnel past end station with my father's friend who worked there, and seen its end by my own eyes. ;) I was 5 yrs old or so that time. ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


The words " wygnat' " or " prognat' " means the same in Russian and used almost equally as often as verb " gnat' ".

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

By the way, "gnat'" mean not very polite way to drive someone from some place. It may mean even something forceful or somewhat threatening. So. I can imagine few shots to air just to get full attention of crowd that is so shocked or nervous, so cannot understand words of law enforcement official at once. But I never seen that by myself during my life, just heard about one such case. Police officer that shot at least once from their weapon during their duty shift is already somewhat in trouble. Investigation is mandatory, and they will need to prove that their use of weapon was legal and necessary. So, it is highly unlikely, but still possible.

I simply do not have speakers on this computer to hear soundtrack of this flick. Maybe someone can separate soundtrack from flick and amplify it by some software that used to recover old recordings?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


It is good that it was not some slang from Brazilian Portuguese. ;)

In russian (criminal) slang, pistol is "stvol", "dulo", "dryn" or "volyna".. ;)

dryn also have another meaning - wooden pole.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Oh, holy sh*t! And probably ISS is also fake, just to siphon funds from russian and us governments?

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


You are completely right. They was first in space, for example. ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Will we see any proof link? Or we should think that you are talking about some parallel world with different russian language.

BTW, I finally found the word "gnat" in one of slang dictionaries. Attributed to drug consumers subculture, means "Jew"... ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


No, there is lunchtime in KGB building. ;)

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Your imagination is really impressive.

First word may mean "give me" or "move to" depending on context, second word as it written is simply not existant in Russian.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


And, from Russian joke, not to fuss under the client. ;)

News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]


You can see those ILs on sat photo. Locals told that some of them is already somewhat parted (maybe those nearing end of their flight resource, or how max. limit of flight hours and landings can be correctly named in English).

I was really surprised why such city as Smolensk does not have decent airport. Asked my friend who born near Smolensk... Answer was simple - almost no demand.

Smolensk is not so far from Moscow, main hub in european Russia. And there is lots of trains, both direct Smolensk-Moscow and passing (Warsaw, Berlin, Vilnius, Minsk, Brest, etc...). You can come to railway station and get ticket to nearest train, day or night. In about 6 hours you are almost in center of Moscow.

With plane (especially with all that modern security measures) it would take about 3-3.5 hours to get to VNO or DME, and then add at least one hour to reach center of Moscow or at least 2-2.5 hours during daytime to reach SVO. Almost no gain in time, weather dependant and more expensive than train.

News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]


Is this technically possible at all?

News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]


I was told that there is no ILS, as this airstrip is just recently "converted" from military airbase.

Another airport near Smolensk (Smolensk-South) is now defunct, and technically can accept only light regional planes, too short strip, ancient navigation aids. It was planned to be modernized sometime around 2011 to be usable for modern jets.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

ieportal.net/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=6&min=30&orderby=dateA&show=10

Second file from the top. Detailed schematic of TU-154M fuel system in AutoCad DWG format.

Anyone with eyes connected to something valuable may look and make their own conclusion.