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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/