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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).
Before we left Germany, I stocked up on aviation-related books, including the depicted one. The plan was to read them during dreary autumn and winter days when I'm unable to go out and photograph airplanes. While Danish spring leaves a lot to be desired, it's not really dreary. And yet, I couldn't resist the temptation of taking a peek. It's a decent book, with plenty of photographs. The information is on the light side, though.
This morning, I hastily packed coffee and a sandwich and biked to CNL. This time, I planted myself on the airside. It has been a busy day. First, I captured a visitor from Czechia (reg. OK-DUD22) and had a chat with its owner. Then I gawked at skydivers from the local skydiving club (and photographed their Cessna TU206G Turbo Stationair reg. D-EFKX). Later, I photographed a Tecnam P2002JF Sierra (reg. OY-MJE) making a flying visit (hah!), and I ended my day with a handful of photos of a Piper Cherokee Warrior (reg. OY-BLO).
Yesterday, I spotted a German visitor in CNL: Cessna 404 Titan belonging to AVT Airborne Sensing.
On the topic of vintage airline postcards, we found these two in an antique store in Paris. They weren’t cheap, but these were originals, not reprints.
It was sunny but rather windy today. So after an exhausting bike ride in 7m/s head winds, I sought shelter in the flight club, perusing past issues of FLYV. I worked my way through 1970s issues, and, boy, it was a fun ride back in time. Just check out this vintage Airbus A300B ad!
Just a snap of the airside with a spanking new windsock, that's all.
Oh, wow! The February 1970 issue of FLYV magazine -- the month and year I was born.
There wasn't much action in CNL today, so I had plenty of time to peruse past issues of the FLYV magazine.
Here's what moving from Germany to Denmark did to my ADS-B stats. On the bright side, my ADS-B station tracks way more airplanes than I expected.
Behold my frugal self-hosted stack! A Fujitsu Futro S920 (right) acts as an ADS-B station and serves TERMINAL-1090 (https://codeberg.org/dmpop/terminal-1090). A Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 (left) runs self-hosted applications: - buen8.tavuk.xyz (microblog) - readeck.tavuk.xyz (Readeck Read-It-Later application) All the hardware, with RAM and storage upgrades, cost me no more than ~€200 (maybe even less -- I'm too lazy to do the math). Both machines are hooked up to a 5G router on the 3 network. The speed varies wildly, and the connection itself can be unreliable. But the low price is the overriding factor here. It costs ~€15/month, which is probably the cheapest plan on the market. Next major project: Move my entire digiKam photo library to the Fujitsu Esprimo Q556/2 and serve it using digiKampanion (https://dmpop.codeberg.page/digikampanion/).
Sometimes you find aviation-related treasures in the most unexpected places. Case in point: last summer, when visiting Luzern, we walked into a random souvenir shop and I found this vintage Swissair postcard. And as a bonus, they had reprints of other vintage postcards.
I'll forever lament the demise of this fine publication. But its name will live on here.
Time capsule.
Jabiru J-170 x2
First post! \o/