B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16591 posts, RR: 11 Posted (6 years 1 month ago) and read 2442 times:
i found airliner.net in the summer of 2006. i was searching pictures on a boeing 747 (BA) because that summer we was going to LAX with BA. when i searched i found the best site in the world.
JamesJimlb From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 1023 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2400 times:
i found it searching for a 767 photo and every time i searched an airplane picture that was one of the first site to pop up. so i remembered it, and started using the photosearch and then i joined.
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DALelite From Switzerland, joined Jun 2000, 1770 posts, RR: 28 Reply 7, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2388 times:
I was bored and was playing with the internet. This was in early 99. For what ever reason i ended up on the A-Net site.
But still it took me more than a year till i became a member.
Ayubogg From UK - Scotland, joined Mar 2007, 216 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2382 times:
My story is as similar as everyone's. I googled a picture (probably of a 777) and every search kept giving me a.net as the top choice so I started doing my searches directly with them. I tested the site by searching very obscure pictures (like a MX 727 of 1982 in MIA) and the site kept finding anything I threw at them. I was impressed! About three months later, I joined.
LAXspotter From India, joined Jan 2007, 3650 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2366 times:
I was probably searching for a picture of some type of aicraft however i am not too sure. I then searched for all kinds of pictures, looking and looking and finally became an av photographer myself. I am so glad this has happened, I love this website and this hobby.
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CV990 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 2359 times:
Hi!
I really don't remember how this happen...maybe on Google or at that time the trend was for Alta Vista. At that time there was a lot of very good discussions with very good topics...and I actually learned good stuff with some of the old guys in this forum. I noticed that lately this forum tend to get pretty wild in some topics, and that's a pitty.
Regards
Ag92 From India, joined Jul 2006, 1317 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 2339 times:
Some time ago I was just surfing the net, and looking for pics of planes. The rest is history.
Though initially I waited, my father also found this site, dont ask me how, and gave me a gift invitation to be a first class member. Never asked for this and he said that he knew this alot earlier but I should wait till my 13th birthday before I join.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11249 posts, RR: 63 Reply 16, posted (6 years 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2318 times:
I was doing a class project on aircraft many, many years ago; probably in 98 or 99 and at the time very few people had internet in their homes, so the teacher typed in 'Airliners/Aircraft' or something like that into a search engine and up came this site. I found it at various times again when looking through pictures and then became a lurker from about 2001 until I eventually joined up.
Feroze From India, joined Dec 2004, 794 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (6 years 4 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2317 times:
I was an avid flightsimmer. I would like to be still but this site takes up too much of my time!! Anyway, there was a 3rd party scenery manufacturer called simflyers that had superb renditions of world airports - one of the sites they used to create the scenery was this one. So I clicked on the link.....
Boston92 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 3390 posts, RR: 7 Reply 18, posted (6 years 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2312 times:
Searcing pics of Learjets a few years back, maybe 2000. Then about 2005 was searching again for 747 info, came here again and went ,"Oh yeah, this is that cool website." Read the forums for about a year, and then signed up.
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BNE From Australia, joined Mar 2000, 3156 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (6 years 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2301 times:
I had been a regular reader of rec+travel+air news groups but after a few times of it not working I thought I would use something different. At that time altavista was the search engine to use, and found this site towards the end of 1999.
Mexicana757 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 2961 posts, RR: 30 Reply 22, posted (6 years 3 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2270 times:
I found A.net in 1999 when I was at my high school's computer lab searching for airplane photos.
Flyboysp From Australia, joined Apr 2007, 736 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (6 years 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 2249 times:
I was searching the net for pictures of QANTAS 747-SPs. The results linked it to this site. I was a lurker for a while then became a member recently.
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25 B747forever: Hi, and thanks for your posts. Most of you guys found airliners.net by searching on photos. Wonder if some found it by another way.
26 Airtrainer: Don't remember exactly how I ended here (I think I was doing a yahoo search) but I remember that I couldn't believe my eyes when I found the site
27 WestJetYQQ: Google Image Search on WestJet. Love the site!
28 AllegiantAir: I saw a jetphotos.net ad in an Airliners magazine then showed the jetphotos site to a guy and he showed me a.net, and I knew a.net was ten times bette
29 Srbmod: I discovered the site back in the summer of '99, as a guy I worked on the ramp @ FL was also an plane geek and told me about the site. I browsed mainl
30 Daleaholic: A mate showed me at school. I was intrigued. I was going to MCO like 2 months later so I logged onto airliners.net to search for the type of aircraft
31 AzoresLover: Here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet... An article in USA Today several years ago talked about how this was one of the top sites for aviation en
32 Rwy04LGA: A friend told me about it in August 1999. There were only about 20,000 photos at that time. Now, that's how many are added every week or so.
33 InbarD: I was probably looking for some picture of a plane using google, when i found this site. I wasn't a member for about 6 months but then i decided to jo
34 Deskflier: I was searching for data on an aircraft. It wasn't even an airliner, if I remember correctly it was the Piper PA-25 Pawnee.
35 N215AZ: It was only about nine months ago when I was just starting at Bowling Green State University and my room mate was on this site constantly. He and I ar
36 HAWK21M: Found this Forum looking at Aircraft Pics. I used the Tech/Ops forum to discuss Aviation at Work. regds MEL
37 Elite: A friend told me in 2002. Wasn't until 4 years later did I join - lots of lurking involved!
38 OHLHD: Our cleaning staff in our office was taking about it and I checked it and.... well I stayed
39 Boeing77W: Pretty much the same as everyone else, I did a google search for a picture of the 777-300ER and found this website. I read the forums etc. for a while
40 Eagle11: Likely a simple google search for "airplane pictures," and up popped one of the best sites for airplane pictures on the net (and for any other stuff a
41 Jas161: I was told about it by a member of my family. I can't thank them enough!
42 Pawsleykat: It was in September 2003 when I was 11 and I typed in "Cool plane photos" into Google Images and up they came. When I clicked on one, i got an article
43 Sabena332: A friend and me were searching for pics of Sabena, Delta Air Lines and National Airlines planes (via Yahoo) because we flew on them a month or so befo
44 AirNick: Okay, I was researching why BA, an probably other airlines, dimmed the lights upon landing and taking off in the dark. I typed it into google, and wha
45 Pe@rson: I was searching for porn but somehow this came up.
46 Adopim88: KaiGywer introduced me to the site. As scary as it is he sparked my real interest in airplanes.
47 A320ajm: I was looking for a good background picture to put as my wallpaper and i typed Airbus A320 into google images and it came up with loads pf pictures fr
48 Cjh2007: A classic... I google searched a LH image i wanted to find... linked me to A.net... and hooked i was... and from then on i needed my daily fix of A.ne
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