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dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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From the I went all the way to NUE just for this airplane, and all I got is a bunch of mediocre photos department.
Up until now, Tinble included a simple guestbook that I shamelessly borrowed from the flat-file-guestbook repository. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I reasoned it was better than nothing. The other day, I stumbled upon this...
> What happened to Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 and why?
I know, I know: FRA again. But this time it was my wife's idea. She wanted to use Frankfurt as a basecamp, and go for a day trip to Mainz. And she didn't mind spending time photographing airplanes in between. It was a flawless plan,...
Today, I received email confirming that I'm now a fully fledged member of AirsideFoto 🎉 ✈️
New addition to my growing Aviationtag collection:
Originally, I planned to go to Hamburg to catch a Beluga. But I really didn't feel like I was up to it, and I cancelled the trip. Instead, I decided to go for a day trip — surprise, surprise! — to FRA. I didn't have any specific...
Tinble now shows the contents of the preamble.md file right under the navigation menu. The file could contain a quote of the day, a description of the blog, a current status, and pretty much anything else. Right now, I use this...
> Airbus and Boeing dominate the commercial aviation industry, accounting for the vast majority of aircraft carrying passengers and cargo through the skies. With so many similarities between aircraft, it can be difficult to visually...
We had a somewhat rare visitor in NUE today. I managed to quitely disappear from work for a couple of hours to witness the event.
I spent Friday night rewriting Tinble's CSS both to simplify it and to make it more, um, stylish? There are still a few ugly styling hacks here and there, but I'm pleased with the result. Source code
Here's another super useful website and app: METAR & TAF. As the name suggests, both provide up-to-date current weather conditions and forecast for the airport of your choosing.
By my rough estimation, I spent maybe one weekend at home in the last couple of months. But even though I felt pretty tired, I talked the missus into spending yet another weekend in Frankfurt. The offer to visit Wiesbaden sealed the...
Last weekend, I had an opportunity to be a guest on a photo tour organized by AirsideFoto.
> Pilot fatigue is in the spotlight this week, after the news that one Indonesian flight had two sleeping pilots at its helm. But military organisations have been grappling with this problem for decades – and they have a surprising...