dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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I always wondered why some of Lufthansa airplanes have small yellow rectangles along the right edge of the main boarding doors. This Ask The Pilot article explains it all. It's a board for crewmembers to scribble greetings to the...
What a day! It had been drizzling on and off all morning, I forgot my rain jacket, and my feet got soaking wet. Visibility was poor, with very low cloud cover. So it was pretty much impossible to get decent photos of precious few...
When I travel light, this is what I use as my preferred backup setup: an iPad mini 4, an Anker USB-C 2-in-1 card reader, and a Lexar 128GB microSD card as backup storage. An iPhone with a USB-C port would make it an even lighter and...
I've implemented a simple but convenient feature that automatically picks up files with names containing the current date from the articles/drafts directory and publishes them (that is, moves all matching files from articles/drafts to...
Boeing 737-783 registration LN-RPJ is not a regular airliner. It's a medevac airplane that transports wounded Ukrainian soldiers from the Polish border town of Rzeszów (RZE) to destinations around Western Europe. Here are articles that...
Camera? Check. Lunch? Check. Coffee? Check. The weather was wonderful, so off I went to capture airplanes in NUE. Out of habit, I went to the rooftop of the car parking building. But there I ran into a chatty teenager, who kept talking...
Between our trip to Malta, bad weather, and Euro 2024, I hadn't had a chance to visit Frankfurt for a while. But last weekend, the weather forecast looked somewhat promising, and I had no other plans, so off I went. Saturday tuned out to...
> Airbus is hinting it might resume production of the 'king of the skies' – the prospect of a new version is a tantalising possibility
As it often happens, all I wanted to do was to make a few simple tweaks in Tinble. Of course, one thing led to another, and I ended up implementing a new feature, fixing a handful of issues, and reworking the entire design.
I upload many of my photos and RAW files to the Internet Archive, but its web-based uploader is slow and clunky.
I stumbled upon these vintage airline signs right in the middle of Valetta. It looked like they were simply left hanging after the travel agencies they belonged to went out of business.
Monday, June 24 was the last day of my summer vacation. Unsurprisingly, I spent it capturing airplanes at NUE. I actually didn't plan to spend the entire day there: I just wanted to catch the Atlas Air Boeing 767-300ER. And since the...
We went on a week-long trip to Malta. We explored Valetta and the nearby cities, savored the local cuisine and wines, consumed copious amounts of Kinnie and iced vanilla latte, took loads of photos — and not a single time I thought about...
I thought I'd share my current ADS-B station setup. It runs on an Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 machine.
This book is one of the most useful additions to my rather modest library of aviation literature.