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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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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
A nostalgic vintage video of people flying. Good times!
I felt a bit under the weather this morning. So I called in sick and spent most of the day on the couch, reading and tweaking Tinble. I've added a page that lists articles and pages sorted by number of reads. Think of it as a poor man's...
This is PGYTECH protective wrap, and it's more than just a thick soft cloth.
In case you haven't noticed, this very blog is powered by Tinble which is a heavily modified fork of Tiny Blog Engine (Tinble stands for tiny blog engine). I removed the parts I don't need, added a handful of features I do need, and I...
This 29-year old Fairchild SA-227DC Metro 23 operated by Binair is probably the oldest airplane I had the fortune to photograph.
You never know what to expect in NUE, because many flights are not listed in the regular timetable available on Flightradar24. And even if a flight does appear on Flightradar24, there is no guarantee it will be on schedule — or even...
TIL: The B612 font family developed for use on cockpit screen is avaialable under an open-sorce license. B612 is the result of a research project initiated by Airbus.