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Sorry for being so late for our choice! Let's start straight away then! Unlike every Monday, we have helicopters, military planes today, although we still have our usual amount of airliners.
That's it. I will try to be on time next Monday and type a little more for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
Here we are! Since Pictaero was launched in August 2007, we have hosted your pictures! The database now has over 5000 pictures online! We achieved a lot of things and we will keep on offering our members more capabilities and functions in the months to come. To celebrate this new stage in our growing, I have asked the whole team to tell me about their favourite photos. But first of all, I would like to show you the 5000th picture that was accepted. It was sent by Marc-A. Veillard:
Marc-A. has actually chosen a picture of Singapore Airlines' first A380:
Marc-A. explains his choice, "It was a historical moment for Airbus and Singapore Airlines, that was the first A380 to be used in commercial flights and is ready for her ferry flight. The picture is nice on a technical point of view."
Vincent chose a picture of Concorde, taken by Jean-Philippe Lemaire:
Vincent says that he chose that photo because, "with such a cloudy sky, the picture shows one of the most wonderful elements of the supersonic plane which has impressed a whole generation of plane-lovers."
Simon prefered a picture of an A380 (yet another one!!!):
Guillaume chose a picture that blends two of his passions; civil and military aviation, "In addition, my first dream was to become a pilot in the Air Force. So that photo sums it all up."
Guilhem got us a wonderful shot, "a beautiful air to air photo of two Russian planes. The reasons for choosing that picture are on the one hand technical (air-to-air and the sunset) and on the other hand specific to the topic: two unusual (Russian) planes and an unusual scenery."
As for myself, I prefered an old aircraft, a F8F:
Actually, I have many favourite pictures, such as a Philippine Airlines A330, or a beautiful picture of a DC-2 taken over the wing. I had to make a choice. So, amongst the planes I worship, the Bearcat has a special place in my heart. Quite irrational; The Hellcat and the Wildcat are part of that list too. Here, the picture is rather old, but of good quality. That's why I chose it.
Still, I can't resist showing you the DC-2 with an old KLM colour scheme. Many thanks to Quentin for that photo!
Many thanks to you all! Now, our next step is to reach 10,000 photos as soon as possible! That's our greatest hope!
No, I am not thinking about the summer holidays yet!
Actually, I was surfing through our members' photos on Pictaero when I saw a 747 with a peculiar registration ... F-HLOV. So, I clicked on the airline - Corsair not to mention it - and I noticed that their planes had quite unusual registrations!
Hence Sea, Sex and Sun:
F-HSEA, F-HSEX and F-HSUN
That made my day, and I was quite proud of myself! At least, that was better than my whole day at Toulouse-Blagnac airport waiting for planes that never came!!! 
Hi everybody!
With over 450 pictures published this week, choosing was difficult! We tried our best to select the happy few, although some very interesting ones could have been chosen too! That is why you can tell us what your favourite photos are! If I get enough feedback from you, I will write a separate article, with the members' choice!
Enough typing ... let's start right now!
As usual, statistically, there is a lot of airliners, but thankfully they are very different as a whole. For other aircraft fans, I shall then begin with a picture of a wonderfully composed Pitts S-2. Many thanks to Jonathan for his shot!
Then, once more, many thanks to Alain Michot for his rare pictures and aircraft ... some are so rare that it takes us quite a while to find every detail of what he sends us! 
That's about it for unusual planes.
Airliners now. A Frontier Airlines A320 with a different colour scheme, a Ryanair 737-800 with the same colour scheme as all the others ... an A300 and an A310.
Not to forget regional planes (otherwise I might be told off!): a Régional Airlines Fokker 70, a Scandinavian MD-81 and an Air Baltic Avro.
Eventually, I have kept long haul planes for the end. Between two Boeing 747-400 is a Martinair 767 at Amsterdam airport with lots of KLM tails in the background!
Well, that's all! Thanks to all of you, we are going to reach a new milestone with 5000 pictures online. For that occasion, we will probably publish a special article on the blog ... I do hope it will be very soon!! See you on next Monday then for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
Holiday at last (for me at least)! Therefore, I can have some time to write a longer article on the blog and I do hope writing a special article for the 5000th photo online! Our screeners have chosen their favourite pictures within over 350 photos that were accepted last week. I would like to start with a personal choice ... I write the Screeners' Choice every week after all!
So, many thanks to Alain Michot for sharing all his old and rare pictures with us all ... particularly for his pictures of a "Catalina" shown at the Paris Air Show in 1994.
Then, here come the regional airliners, such as Embraer and ATR aircraft.
Before showing you the larger ones, I had almost forgotten a nice small colourful Beech 1900 and on the contrary a Lockheed Jetstar in a very bad state!
There ... now, serious matter! I shall start with an A330 MRTT taken at Toulouse as it landed! Follow a Wizz Air A320 landing too and an Etihad A330 with prefect colours and sharpening! Congratulations to Laurent Faure for such a beautiful shot!
I guess that is all for this time. I hope you enjoyed it. Now, only 800 pictures left before we have 5000 online! So, see you on next Monday with many more photos for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
