> 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 Bildergalerie zusammengestellt.

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 Saturday on Besucherhügel. This time, though, I traveled with the missus, who was...

> 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.

I'm stating the obvious here, but not every aircraft photography outing can be considered a resounding success. Our latest weekend trip to Frankfurt am Main is a case in point. We chose to stay at the b'mine hotel, because the Zeppelinheim viewing platform is only a short bus ride from there. Except there were no...

The weather was fabulous, so I decided to take a day trip to MUC. But this time, I wanted to give the observation deck a try. Normally, shooting through the glass is lame but, hey, beggars can be choosers (especially if beggars don't drive).

The outcome of my first attempt at photographing the D-BADA aircraft was kind of could-be-better-but-it-will-do-fo-now. So I've been waiting for another chance to meet that somewhat elusive machine. Today was the day. Not only its departure was scheduled for 12:00 (meaning that I didn't have to get up in ungodly...

Another Monday, another day trip to Besucherhügel. This time, I hoped to catch the Boeing 737-783(WL) operated by Airzena Georgian Airways. The wind and weather forecast looked good, so I thought my odds were pretty good. That is, until RWY 26R (the ideal one) switched to arrivals only, while all departures were...

Inexplicably, it never occurred to me look into the error.log file of the lighttpd server. And when I finally did peek into it using the command below, I discovered a few bugs in my PHP code.

A small but important (for me) programming victory. To get a list of hex codes of all aircraft detected by readsb, I used this piece of code suggested by phind:

Creating the Map page was a good learning experience, but in a way the final result was not particularly practical. So I decided to replace it with a dedicated Currently in range page that displays a grid with thumbnails of all aircraft that are currently in range. Each entry contains aircraft data, including hex...

Here's a new addition to my small but steadily growing collection of Aviationtags: