dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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> 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...
My back pain was getting so bad that I had no other choice but to visit a doctor. His advice? Walk it off. Basically, the suggested cure was plenty of exercise and physical activity — walking being the best one. I reasoned that it...
> Suddenly, everyone wants to be like Airbus. In recent months, Renault, CEO Luca de Meo has called for an “Airbus of autos” to face down the threat, opens new tab to European carmakers from Chinese electric vehicles. In March, the boss...
Despite a pretty bad back pain, I ventured to NUE on Sunday, because I really, really wanted to capture an Airbus A400 Atlas. This particular airplane has been on my wish list for a while, but my previous attempts to capture it didn't...
The other day, I discovered OliveTin. This brilliant little tool makes it possible to create button-driven Web UIs using nothing but a YAML file. Better still, defining buttons and their actions is so straightforward that you can whip up...
> It was the Airbus A340-200, entering service with Lufthansa (LH) on its daily flight from Frankfurt to New York (JFK) 31 years ago this month.
We went to Zurich for a short Easter break. For me, the main reason to go there was to photograph airplanes at ZRH. My research indicated that the airport is among the most plane spotter-friendly in Europe. And, boy, wasn't that the...
This one was the oldest airplane I've ever photographed. Until it wasn't. Last Monday, another Swearingen Metroliner made a flying (hah!) visit to NUE, and I was there to capture it.
> From the dashing Comet to the iconic jumbo jet, our fantasy league table of trailblazing aircraft should provoke plenty of travel nostalgia