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This week, our screeners' choice is depicting all the aeronautical range. First of all, we have some airliners with an Arik Air Airbus A340-500, an American Airlines Boeing B767-300, a Corsair A330 taking off at dusk, an Air France A319 and a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 leaving the airport at Dinard, in Brittany.
As for the military, we have warbirds as well as more modern aircraft (Please note that many photos were taken during the Duxford Airshow by David Barrie). Thus, let us begin with a flight of Royal Air Force Spitfires and a B-25 wearing British roundels which are reminiscent of the great sacrifice of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. Then more "recent" airplanes come next, all being in their forties such as the C-160 Transall, flying for the Luftwaffe, the MiG-21 and the American cargo helicopter CH-47 Chinook. Finally, we end this military section with a state-of-the-art rescue helicopter used by dozens of SAR operators around the world, the EC-145 seen here wearing the colours of the French Sécurité Civile.
Finally, we've got some interesting general aviation photos we wanted to share with you. The first one represents the Antonov-2 LY-LEI approaching Sion airport. Then, there are photos of the last member of the Breitling fleet, a DC-3 and a Pitts S-2.
That's it for now. I hope you have enjoyed our Weekly Screeners' Choice!! See you next week!!!
After a long break, the weekly selection is back. Unfortunately plenty of great shots released in March and April won’t be part of the screeners’ choice because there are too many of them and it would be very difficult to select only some of them.
Now, let’s see the selection and begin with commercial aviation. We’ve got some heavies: two Boeing 777-200ER belonging to British Airways and Asiana, one of the two A330-200 operated by XL Airways France, the former French subsidiary of the now defunct XL Group shot during a diversion to Brest-Bretagne Airport and a MD-11 of Martinair.
Representing the short haul aircraft category, we have a TU-134 captured in a quite exotic place by TLaurent.
Finally, a PC-12 is also present in the selection. However it is in a weird situation and needs some fixing to get back in the air again.
As for military aviation, our screeners chose two photos: one of the Swiss Acrobatic Team flying F-5 Tiger and the other of a French Air Force Caravelle. This particular aircraft belonged operated for more than 15 years to ETOM 82 “Maine”, a Tahiti-based squadron in charge of linking Polynesian nuclear sites and performing medevac flights for the islanders. Called TOREA, this aircraft operated side by side with two other Caravelle christened MAIRE NUI and TEVA
To end this selection, a wonderful sunset. See you next week!!!!
You may have noticed that Pictaero had a major failure yesterday afternoon with two interruptions at 4pm and at 6pm.
Those failures were caused by a power cut at the server level and the data were corrupted by such. The server had then difficulty starting back on and we lost all the data that were processed yesterday (new memberships, pictures added, comments, ...)
Therefore, the website was returned to the state it was yesterday at midnight because of the loss.
On behalf of the whole team, I would like to apologize. We will try our best in the future for such a problem not to occur again.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hi to everybody!
I have been away for a while, but I am back now!
This week's choice looks really dense and varied. I suggest we start with a few fighters from the oldest to the newest!
However, the biggest part is made of airliners. You will find aircraft that fly, have flown and flew: a 737-200, a Concorde on static display for its 40th anniversary, Triple Sevens and even an Antonov 22 on the apron at Toulouse airport. I let you have a look at all that!
And finally, not in the right order, three aircraft that are very different: a Lockheed Electra, a Gulfstream G-450 taken with a wide angle and a helicopter landing in Martinique!
Our screeners' choice comes to an end now. We hope you have enjoyed it. See you on Monday 30th March for our next weekly Screeners' Choice.
40 years ago, precisely today, Concorde performed its first flight from Toulouse-Blagnac airport in France. 40 years later, the adventure has come to an end, but passion remains. Most of us were not born for the first flight, but we all heard of Concorde when we were little. Sometimes, it was the very plane that made us discover aeronautics.
For this occasion, various exhibitions have been organised. For instance, here in France, it was possible to see a Concorde on the very airport it had taken off 40 years beforehand. You can find a few of them in museum, in Duxford for instance. Concorde will stay in everybody's minds although its life was put to an end too quickly ... six years ago, by a joint decision from Air France and British Airways.
Pictaero pays a tribute to such a magnificent plane!
Many thanks to Alain Michot for this shot taken at the 1971 Paris Air Show.
At Tarbes-Lourdes in 1978!
A very specific nose.
Take off and landing.
The British prototype and the flight deck.
40 years later!
