Siberian RV-10
I'm New Here
This is my story for what it is worth. May be a little bit long but anyway...
My RV-10 tail was shipped to me not directly from Vans but through a company in Moscow. I have never received shipments by railroad, especially from Moscow! And it was not just a shipment - it was the empennage of MY AIRCRAFT!
...An appealing female vioce sounded one day from the telephone and I was very politely advised that there is a package for my name and I have to is to go to place XX, bring documents FF, fulfill procedures YY and I will receive ZZ. Being a heavy Internet browser I knew there could be some interesting episodes, I took my camera to save funny moments of history for posterity.
I entered the gates of transportation company on my brand new "Gazelle" truck, filled a pound of paperwork and was told to wait in line.
Man, what a landscape around, not pleasant at all. Delapidated buildings and muddy "liquid asphalt" spoiled my holiday mood a bit. Just a bit.
Finally it's my turn. My boxes were carried by three brave Russian laborers. They even were sober I thought at first.
Beautiful blond lady, a supervisor, came out personally to control the loading of my kit, probably it was a stipulation in the shipping contract. She gave the laborers a hawkish eye and warning to do things correctly - cargo is very precious and fragile.
And what do you think? They ( laborers) did wrong thing anyway doesn't matter how hard the fine lady tried to persuade them. They loaded my kit with arrow pointing DOWN! For Russian laborers this high mathematics of those foreign red arrows is a VERY complicated subject. Anyway I interfered and told them to flip the case right way. "What's the matter? What's the difference?" - was the answer. I was getting hotter. After persuasive lecture and detailed explanation that this is not junky chinese stuff, this is an american made airplane and I will be transporting it many many miles through rough roads, they gently flipped the box. Sigh.
OK. Kit is secured at the back of my truck, ropes secure the back, red strip attached by local traffic code for oversized load. Everything perfect again! I can go home.
Final look at delapidated warehouse and falling apart infrastructure... Well, pretty sad picture...
Let's roll! Yankee (my kit) GO to MY home! These roads are our Siberian HighWays, this portion of the road is so so... not bad... teeth clanked... the rest I was not able to concentrate on both - driving and taking pictures... At right there is a road sign which says Irkutsk. This is the closest large city to my home from the East. Almost 1000 kms from me.
I am home finally. Backed my truck into my garage for unloading. I think I should have backed more...
Inside is working disorder - usual thing. I didn't have time to clean up at the moment of receiving my tail. But right now (not at the picture) it's nice and clean.
That's it. That's how we do these things here. THE BOX and two smaller packages with complete RV tool kit were placed where they belong to. The signature on packages with tools translates as "It is TIME to Be" the name of the shipping company doing the transportation leg Moscow - Novosibirsk. Then to ship to my rural place it was another company, not TIMEd to be.
My RV-10 tail was shipped to me not directly from Vans but through a company in Moscow. I have never received shipments by railroad, especially from Moscow! And it was not just a shipment - it was the empennage of MY AIRCRAFT!
...An appealing female vioce sounded one day from the telephone and I was very politely advised that there is a package for my name and I have to is to go to place XX, bring documents FF, fulfill procedures YY and I will receive ZZ. Being a heavy Internet browser I knew there could be some interesting episodes, I took my camera to save funny moments of history for posterity.
I entered the gates of transportation company on my brand new "Gazelle" truck, filled a pound of paperwork and was told to wait in line.
Man, what a landscape around, not pleasant at all. Delapidated buildings and muddy "liquid asphalt" spoiled my holiday mood a bit. Just a bit.
Finally it's my turn. My boxes were carried by three brave Russian laborers. They even were sober I thought at first.
Beautiful blond lady, a supervisor, came out personally to control the loading of my kit, probably it was a stipulation in the shipping contract. She gave the laborers a hawkish eye and warning to do things correctly - cargo is very precious and fragile.
And what do you think? They ( laborers) did wrong thing anyway doesn't matter how hard the fine lady tried to persuade them. They loaded my kit with arrow pointing DOWN! For Russian laborers this high mathematics of those foreign red arrows is a VERY complicated subject. Anyway I interfered and told them to flip the case right way. "What's the matter? What's the difference?" - was the answer. I was getting hotter. After persuasive lecture and detailed explanation that this is not junky chinese stuff, this is an american made airplane and I will be transporting it many many miles through rough roads, they gently flipped the box. Sigh.
OK. Kit is secured at the back of my truck, ropes secure the back, red strip attached by local traffic code for oversized load. Everything perfect again! I can go home.
Final look at delapidated warehouse and falling apart infrastructure... Well, pretty sad picture...
Let's roll! Yankee (my kit) GO to MY home! These roads are our Siberian HighWays, this portion of the road is so so... not bad... teeth clanked... the rest I was not able to concentrate on both - driving and taking pictures... At right there is a road sign which says Irkutsk. This is the closest large city to my home from the East. Almost 1000 kms from me.
I am home finally. Backed my truck into my garage for unloading. I think I should have backed more...
Inside is working disorder - usual thing. I didn't have time to clean up at the moment of receiving my tail. But right now (not at the picture) it's nice and clean.
That's it. That's how we do these things here. THE BOX and two smaller packages with complete RV tool kit were placed where they belong to. The signature on packages with tools translates as "It is TIME to Be" the name of the shipping company doing the transportation leg Moscow - Novosibirsk. Then to ship to my rural place it was another company, not TIMEd to be.
