Between our trip to Malta, bad weather, and Euro 2024, I hadn't had a chance to visit Frankfurt for a while. But last weekend, the weather forecast looked somewhat promising, and I had no other plans, so off I went. Saturday tuned out to be rather windy with occasional rain showers, but the light was pretty good,...

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As it often happens, all I wanted to do was to make a few simple tweaks in Tinble. Of course, one thing led to another, and I ended up implementing a new feature, fixing a handful of issues, and reworking the entire design.

I upload many of my photos and RAW files to the Internet Archive, but its web-based uploader is slow and clunky.

I stumbled upon these vintage airline signs right in the middle of Valetta. It looked like they were simply left hanging after the travel agencies they belonged to went out of business.

Monday, June 24 was the last day of my summer vacation. Unsurprisingly, I spent it capturing airplanes at NUE. I actually didn't plan to spend the entire day there: I just wanted to catch the Atlas Air Boeing 767-300ER. And since the weather was good, I decide to pack a lunch to enjoy it al fresco on the Besucherhügel.

We went on a week-long trip to Malta. We explored Valetta and the nearby cities, savored the local cuisine and wines, consumed copious amounts of Kinnie and iced vanilla latte, took loads of photos — and not a single time I thought about airplanes.

I thought I'd share my current ADS-B station setup. It runs on an Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 machine.

This book is one of the most useful additions to my rather modest library of aviation literature.

This is Cirrus Vision Jet G2 (also known as Cirrus Vision SF50). It is arguably the cutest airplane ever. Last Sunday, I had a chance to see the airplane in person, and it's even more cute in real life than on photos. And the engine on top makes the airplane look even more whimsical.

Last night, I updated my installation of DxO PhotoLab 7 Elite from version 7.6 to 7.7.1, and it refused to accept my registration key. This effectively locked me out of the application, and I now have to wait for DxO to fix the issue. Isn't software activation just great?

An Airbus A321neo Luftwaffe landed in NUE, and I was there to capture it.