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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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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.
Imagine being trapped in politics and suffer from whatever dumb decisions your government makes. That's probably how the Airbus A330-200 with the registration EP-IJA from Iran Air must feel. It ferries passengers between Frankfurt am...
On Sunday, all I could do was to track via Flightradar24 a Lockheed Martin CC-130J Super Hercules from Royal Canadian Airforce landing in NUE. Why? Because it landed after the sunset. So there was no point in trying to photograph it. I...