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dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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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...
This Sunday, I decided to explore other photography spot around NUE, and I even managed to convince the missus to join me. It turned out that NUE also has a "Besucherhügel". I put it in quotes, because it's just a mound close to RWY 10....
> While the A380 superjumbo is enjoying a steady resurgence after having been on the brink of retirement during the pandemic, its older sibling – another four-engined aircraft from Airbus – seems dangerously close to being grounded for...
> Tonnenschwere Fracht, viel Platz für Passagiere oder Überschallgeschwindigkeit: Auf dem Nürnberger Flughafen schauten seit seiner Einweihung 1955 schon viele spektakuläre Flugzeuge vorbei. Wir haben eine Auswahl in unserer...
This weekend, Munich hosted the annual Munich Security Conference, which meant that MUC was filled to the brim with government aircraft from all over the world. And since the weather promised to be pretty good, I decided to spend my...
> How would you feel about flying in a plane built 50 years ago? We go in search of aviation’s most venerable birds
I don't celebrate my birthday, but that doesn't mean I can't get a nice day out of it, especially if it falls on my day-off. So I got up at 7:00 to be at Besucherhügel a bit earlier that usual.