We visited the Sæby Glider Club and enjoyed good weather, glider flights, coffee, and cakes. Flying in a glider was quite an experience!
Kentucky Air Guard Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules in CNL today.
Military exercise in CNL today, with two USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplanes circling above our place this morning.
An eventful day in CNL today. The flight club had an open house, with quite a few visiting airplanes. I took hundreds of photos, and for the first time in my life I flew an ATEC 321 Faeta ultralight airplane. I loved every second of it! Despite a rather bumpy flight, I managed to take a handful of aerial photos, including the Rudbjerg Knude Fyr.
Aerobatic monoplane Extra NG — this is one of the most beautiful airplanes I've ever photographed. I had a chat with its friendly pilot today, and I hope I'll have an opportunity to capture it again. Luckily, he is based at CNL, so 🤞
Another sunny and windy day in CNL with nothing going on. But I spent most of the time chatting with a fellow flight club member. And when he left, I dug up a book about airplanes dating back to 1958 and enjoyed learning about what it was like to fly from Copenhagen to Los Angeles on a Douglas DC-7C.
New obsession — clouds. Well, not really, because clouds have always fascinated me, and I have countless snapshots lingering in my photo library. But now a passing interest is turning into something more serious. Or maybe not. We'll see.
I think this one is altocumulus.
Cessna R172K Hawk XP II in CNL on a sunny but rather windy day.
New ADS-B range record! For the first time ever, my humble ADS-B station tracked an aircraft beyond 200 nm.
No airplanes to photograph today in CNL. Actually, there was an ultralight practicing touch-and-goes, but I don't think I managed to bag any decent photos. Still, I had a pair of barn swallows to keep me company. They built a nest under the airport building's roof, and I watched them flying to and fro. At some point, they got pretty curious about me and sat on a fence studying yours truly. I think they (correctly) decided that I posed no threat, so they went about their business and didn't mind me.
I bought a Skådis pegboard from IKEA, 3D printed feet and hooks, and now I can have my modest collection of Aviationtags on display. It's actually only half of all the Aviationtags I have. I use the rest as luggage tags.
I spent this Monday in AAL, photographing airplanes. I enjoyed it very much. (Sorry about the reflections in the snapshot above).