I'm in the preparatory stages of a long-distance move, so I'm currently considering what to do with all the stuff I own. One of those things is my collection of aircraft models (mostly snap fit or die cast), including quite a few models of Wardair Canada planes. My collection isn't just made up of t...
Jump to postHere's the video I recorded inside the plane. Sorry about the less than steady camera (sadly, I don't have steady hands, so the vibrations of the plane got amplified): https://www.flickr.com/photos/federhirn/33674230294/lightbox/ Touchdown occurs around 1:10. I think I can hear the first set of whee...
Jump to postHello On the off chance that anyone's been taking photos or videos at Heathrow yesterday (Saturday, 6th May), I'd be very interested in any photos or videos of my plane landing - Turkish Airlines 777-300ER operating TK1985 from Istanbul. The reason I'm asking is that the landing felt bumpier than us...
Jump to postI'm trying to find some (ideally free or very cheap) tools to do fairly minor editing to some (HD) footage shot in portrait / vertical aspect ratio. Any suggestions or tips? I intentionally filmed vertically (not on a smartphone, but a camera on a tripod) because it suited the subject matter (planes...
Jump to postI'd consider it, depending on the price. I'd probably be more interested if I didn't live in the UK. Have you tried offering a package on an app like Showaround?
Jump to postI decided to post a slightly improved & more in-depth planespotters' guide to Madeira on my blog.
Jump to postWell, I agree with Airplane! on that list... I would have added Flight (the Denzel Washington movie) as I thought it was compelling and authentic (up to a point) in its depiction of the lead-up to the accident. Also, as mentioned by tb727 and klm672, Airport - an absolute must. I recently rewatched ...
Jump to postHello! It's been a very long time since I last visited airliners.net. I hope I picked the right forum for this... Accommodation Recommendation I visited Madeira earlier this month, primarily to watch planes. I stumbled across a superb planespotter-friendly AirBnB accommodation in Madeira , which is ...
Jump to postThanks for the advice. After looking at the dpreview website, I suspect I'll try and go for the Fuji camera... in a few months, if prices drop a bit.
Jump to postHi Does anyone own any of these 3 cameras? (Konica Minolta Dimage Z20, Fuji Finepix S5500 or Praktica Luxmedia 4008) I'm trying to figure out whether they are good quality for all round use (not just, but of course including planespotting), and which of the three is likely to be the best quality and...
Jump to postAaaaaaargh. Now I have to rename all my albums, find out which photo IDs I used as headlines, and amalgamate all the double and triple albums back into one..... There goes a weekend in the future. Well, the improvements look nice. Pity there was no e-mail sent out to users. Also kind of ruins the su...
Jump to postNice one. But clicking on the coloured bars does not actually bring up the pictures in question, for some reason it always returns invalid searches (at least from my personal profile - the site one works fine) Don't you ever get worried that the current airliners.net growth trend - being exponential...
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since the menu bar at the top is now much more comprehensive since the redesign, would it perchance be possible to include a link to the photo albums under the "photo" tab? That way, they'd be quicker to access...
Thanks,
Ikarus
Hmmm. Only 200? I better treat mine very carefully then and sell it in 2010 on ebay as collector's item, eh?
Jump to postThe problem with photo albums is that they store the information (i.e. which images belong to the album) inside the URL. If that URL gets too long, browsers cannot cope. If the album is larger than 200 photos, in my experience, then all pages after the first will not be displayed. (For some reason, ...
Jump to postI once asked for the price (wanted to put some political propaganda ads online), but they were rather outside this student's budget...
Remember, it's sales, not site hits, that determine whether or not the advert is worth it...
Hello, you might have noticed adverts on airliners.net lately advertising Mark Garfinkel's aviation calendar. I've just received my copy, so I thought I might be audacious enough to review it... Well, first of all, the ordering was fairly simple. Payment via Paypal, no problem, but also no direct co...
Jump to post<a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4006545.stm' target='blank'> A BBC news article</a> covers the fact that Virgin is investigating opportunities in India, to possibly purchase 49% of a local low-cost carrier. They haven't decided which one yet. My favourite typo: <i>In addition to its maj...
Jump to postHow do I know which ones are high-res and which aren't? Is there any facility to contact photographers and ask them to upload individual images as high-res, for poester purposes?
Thanks a lot!
Hi, a while ago I asked about the Photo Sales - whether any big expansion / new features / more ultra-high-res pics were on their way. Henks (I believe it was him) promised that a lot would change during the next few weeks / month. So, with Christmas on its way, and my parents bugging me for a wish ...
Jump to postDue to low demand, it was killed off and replaced by the "Polls" forum.
Jump to postIt is my understanding that the separations are not in fact linearly adjusted by weight, but in steps, by type. So I suspect very strongly that the A380 and 747 will simply be lumped in the same separation category together. Does anyone know how they treat Antonov 124s and 225s? I would think the A3...
Jump to post The BBC news story
Well. I suspect it'll be resolved within 60 days...
Regards
Ikarus
Songs that have something to do with planes / flying: Typically Tropical: Barbados Reinhard Mey: Ueber den Wolken Roxette: Seven-Twenty-Seven Don McLean: American Pie (about a crash) Lenny Kravit: Fly Away Shawn Colvin: Another Plane went down today The Beatles: Back in the US<acronym title="Swissai...
Jump to postA different view would be: Armadillo is a little outfit of people who lack expertise in rocket design. They have altered their design multiple times by now, because none of them was very good. Originally, the craft was to return from space by parachute, but not very slowly. A crushable nose cone was...
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Besides, please keep in mind I am purely speculating at this point. It's quite possible that there is no real problem, that it all just boils down to a clumsy yank of the controls at the wrong point in time.
From a trip report I wrote a few years ago... <i>Short period oscillation (Pitch): When a plane is perturbed (disturbed away) from the steady (trimmed) state, and provided it is statically stable, it will attempt to return to the state it is trimmed to be in. Hence, if the pitch is increased for a v...
Jump to postHi there I just watched the Spaceship One webcast on www.xprize.org, and the unplanned roll caught my attention somewhat. The test pilot later said he may have triggered it unwillingly by a clumsy flight control input, but I thought I'd invite some speculation about the cause anyway. In particular, ...
Jump to postThere is usually a zone of supersonic flow. The key about supercritical wings is that they have very weak normal shockwaves when decelerating the flow - so they decelerate the flow to just above Mach 1, then there's a weak shock, and the flow continues just below Mach 1. You can see the shadow of th...
Jump to postIt merely means the guy with an <acronym title="Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)">RR</acronym> of 100 is having more and more users respecting him, so his lead grows. Since his <acronym title="Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)">RR</acronym> is fixed at 100 and can't get any bigger, all the others hav...
Jump to postOkay, it might or might not be coupled to an advert that says "Winner Winner Winner" and flashes in (epilepsy-inducing) red and white. The problem is, the stars are not in the ad, but all over the rest of the screen, rather distracting and disturbing when trying to read a forum post or looking at a ...
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For some odd reason I have multicoloured stars (some blinking) flying across the screen of my airliners.net browser window. Two other windows are open, but without stars.
Can anyone explain why?
Cheers
Ikarus
European Low Cost carriers do not generally overbook. They do keep the money and the taxes for no-shows, though. However, now that they allow changes to bookings, they might also change their policy on overbooking (pure speculation on my behalf). I believe there was talk about an EU regulation that ...
Jump to postAccording to the article, they bought 2 Burans. One is Buran 002, a prototype that flew several atmospheric flights, and apparently was displayed in Sydney during the Olympic games, then leased and shipped to Bahrain, but the lessor never paid, so it got stuck in legal arguments. (Much like the Cana...
Jump to postHi Next week, there'll be two attempts to win the XPrize: Scaled Composited will launch from Mojave, and the da Vinci Project will launch from somewhere in Saskatchewan. Are any airliners.net photographers planning on attending / photographically documenting either event? (Don't forget to allow phot...
Jump to postBoy, that guy is in for a big surprise when the auction closes. Final Value Fee will be huge...
Regards
Ikarus
Personally, I think the fact that there were <b>only</b> two complaints is really depressing. It shows the sad state of British society... And as far as I'm concerned, encouraging a hate campaign can never be a joke. Banning someone from flying an airline because he did his job can never be a joke. ...
Jump to postI merely wanted to make sure no one gets misinformed by this post.
No, I don't think it matters when they put up the ad, but you seemed to think it was current, so I wanted to correct that impression.
Regards
Ikarus
To be fair, I should point out that the advert is not a current thing. It was sent out at the time, and it's just the processing of the complaints (two of them, among all their newsletter readers, I believe), that took so long.
Jump to postHi Just thought <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3678610.stm' target='blank'>this story</a> might be found interesting by some people: FlyBe is being criticized by an advertising watchdog. Apparently, FlyBe sent out an e-mail newsletter encouraging people to harass the referee of that football...
Jump to postYes, but some of the links are made by users who want to piss off others. Some users have put those with opposing viewpoints (their nemeses, if you like) on the RU lists, because that seriously annoys those users.
Jump to postI tried it before, but it didn't work. Photobox is simple, reliable, the prints are of a standard quality, and I can order the photos at sizes of my choice. Photographers may have to ship from abroad, may not offer large prints (due to loss of quality or because they won't entrust a lab with the fil...
Jump to post Expect a lot to happen within a month.
Henks, any chance you could put a post in this forum, or reply to this topic, when it has happened? That way, I'll know when to start shopping...
Cheers
Ikarus
Aloges: <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym>, first of all, I did not create any of those images. I merely link to them. They are being hosted on www.clickpix.de. Secondly, while I am in agreement with them or find them amusing, they are satire (the BMW thing and the keyboard) or photos ...
Jump to postKlaus: I doubt the moderators are seen as entirely responsible. They are seen as partially responsible: In this case, they had editorial control over their discussion forum and did not exercise it until prompted. So they permitted libel in an environment entirely under their own control. The solutio...
Jump to postHi I've found <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3644610.stm' target='blank'> this BBC article</a> rather enlightening: Technically it means that the editors (forum admins) of airliners.net could be held liable for any and all posts put online by its users, and sued for libel if the mods...
Jump to postOK, Just one suggestion for a feature that might be useful: Would it be possible to have a list of photographers (or, I guess, individual photos) that recently joined the photobox scheme, somewhere easily accessible? Just like the "Airliners.net welcomes the following new users" list at the top of t...
Jump to postIt would be kind of funny if those two men, both equally as bad as each other (and occupying a joint number one in my most hated list) would actually declare a propaganda war against each other. I would absolutely love it. As pessimist, I don't believe there's any confirmed news of the Pope official...
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