Loading... Loading...
On Pictaero's Blog, follow Pictaero's news, discover the screeners' and the team's choices and take part in the making of new features to come by leaving your comments!
Difficult to be more different this week, from a balloon to a Triple Seven, also with a Mirage 2000!
Let's try to start with the smaller ones and end up with the big ones ...
So, here is a Pitts S-2 to start with, then come an Alpha Jet and a Mirage 2000:
Going further up takes us to a Panther helicopter, a 737 and an A319!
Bigger is a purple 757, a Beluga and an A330.
Eventually, the biggest today are a Triple 7, a balloon and the A380 (the third one for Singapore Airlines):
Thank you once again for your pictures! Next article is on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
A great amount of photos was sent this week; quality was there too! Our choice is more varied than ever, with more military aircraft and light planes.
First of all, let's have a look at military planes:
Then, here is general aviation, business aviation and a helicopter!
Finally, there are still a few airliners!
That's about it. Our choice stops here! See you on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
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!!! 
