> 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 stats. Now it's also possible to append &noreads parameter to page and article...

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 tried to improve the underlying code to the best of my modest abilities.

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 arrive or depart at all. Today is a case in point. I boarded the bus no. 33 in hope...

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 Main and Tehran on a weekly basis, but it doesn't get a warm welcome in our part of...

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 kept an eye on Flightradar24 for departure times, but no dice. So this Monday...

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. There is a bench and a table, so it does qualify as Besucherhügel I suppose. The...

> 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 good.