Let me tell you an unexpected and memorable sensory experience I had this summer while staying for 2 days in Bucharest. I landed for the first time in Romania a bit after midnight on the 4th of july. My friend would be joining me the next evening, flying in from Lyon for our journey towards […]
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In November 2021, an exciting chance to log at least some flying for 2021 came unexpectedly in the form of British Airways A380 training flights! My previous flight was in January 2020, just before the cough started. This meant I could finally log something more substantial than the short Cessna 152 flight back in October!
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For some mysterious reason, two years Korean Air has chosen Prague as one of its 747 destinations. For a few months in the high seasons of the last 2 years, we have been enjoying our one and only passenger jumbo service, 4 times a week. This is a little unexpected adventure from the airport trying
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Athough I find not many aviation enthousiasts have them, binoculars are a fun and often very useful addition to the toolbox. Most people that enjoy aviation photography will have some sort of large zoom, but the view it provides is often narrow, and “2D” as only one eye is used. There are binoculars for hunting,
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If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been places. If you enjoy keeping track of where you’ve been, you might be looking for ways to turn your travel memories into great wall art. Most people will rarely get a reason to create a map, but if there is one particular activity that is very mappable:
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British Airways did it again. They kept with their tradition of occasionally getting a bit less conservative and painted some of their Boeing 747-400s in not one, but 3 different retro liveries or their flagship aircraft! This time around, BA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its creation. Through the years, the airline has been
If we don’t count sitting in first class in the nose of a 747, there are many different ways to significantly enhance your traveling comfort on an airplane, while staying in the same booking class and without paying any more money (or just a bit more). All seats and sections in an airplane are not
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Most of us will enjoy a good lego set. It is one of the rare collectible items that you get to build yourself, modify if desired and put up somewhere to enjoy. A friend of mine recently got a huge Apollo 11 set, and although I was skeptical in the beginning, it surprisingly makes for
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