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Pictaero's Screeners' Choice - Monday February 25th 2008

Published on 02-25-2008 by Curufinwe in Screeners' choices | Permanent link | 0 comment(s)

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!
Pitts S-2B - N1326K

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! wink
KC-97L Stratofreighter - N49548

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.
A320-200 - F-WWDT 737-800 - EI-DWF
A300B4 - TC-ACY A310-300 - JY-AGK

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.
Fokker 70 - F-GLIV MD-81 - OY-KHN Avro RJ-70 - YL-BAL

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!
747-400 - JA04KZ 767-300 - PH-MCH 747-400 - PH-BFA

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.

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Pictaero's Screeners' Choice - Monday February 18th 2008

Published on 02-18-2008 by Curufinwe in Screeners' choices | Permanent link | 0 comment(s)

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! laughing
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.
PBY-5A Catalina - VR-BPS

Then, here come the regional airliners, such as Embraer and ATR aircraft.
ERJ-145MP - SP-LGD ATR-72-500 - F-WQNB ERJ-145EU - F-GRGG

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!
Beech 1900D - F-HBCB Lockheed L-1329 - VP-BLD

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!
A330-200MRTT - EC-330 A320-200 - F-WWIC A330-200 - A6-EYF

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.

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Pictaero's Screeners' Choice - Monday February 11th 2008

Published on 02-12-2008 by Curufinwe in Screeners' choices | Permanent link | 0 comment(s)

My article comes a little late this week. The reason for this delay is rather simple: a lot of work "In Real Life". So, here is our choice; no need for long talk!

First flight for Kingfisher's first A340-500.
A340-500 - F-WWTG A340-500 - F-WWTG

Then, A320 and 737:
A320-200 - EC-JIB 737-400 - CN-RMX

... the rest of our choice: A330, Il-96, and military aircraft!
A330-200 - F-WWKR Il-96-300 - RA-96014
SA-330B Puma - 1316 CN-235 MPA - 62-IL

Finally, many thanks to Erwan for his beautiful photograph ...
ERJ-145 - F-GRGD

That's it! So, see you on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice.

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Pictaero's Screeners' Choice - Monday February 4th 2008

Published on 02-04-2008 by Curufinwe in Screeners' choices | Permanent link | 0 comment(s)

Many thanks to you all for your photos. Another good week once more! Our choice is just like what you have sent us; that is to say, very diversified!
So, we shall then start with balloons, which are not very common on Pictaero, and not common in general as a whole ...
Cameron N-105 - N4460C Aerophile 5500 - F-GPRI

I do not know why, but we have chosen quite a lot of Triple Sevens' pictures ...
777-200/ER - HZ-AKI 777-200/ER - F-GSPM 777-300/ER - F-GSQN

... as well as many A330s' photos!!! Worth noticing is Marc-A Veillard's awesome picture of a Swiss A330 landing on a misty morning!
A330-200 - F-WWKN A330-200 - HB-IQG A330-200 - A7-ACC

Last, but not least, all that is left; un A380, a Stratotanker and a CRJ wing in front of a beautiful sunset ...
A380-800 - F-WWSK CRJ-700 - D-ACPA C-135FR Stratotanker - 93-CL

Great choice! Thanks to all our members who do their best to share their pictures with a large number of people. So, see you on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice.

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Pictaero's Screeners' Choice - Monday January 28th 2008

Published on 01-28-2008 by Curufinwe in Screeners' choices | Permanent link | 0 comment(s)

Fruitful week for Pictaero! More than 3,000 photos are now online. It is a great achievement for us and we would like to thank you all for that!
Enough self-congratulating, we'd better have a look at the pictures! We have chosen a lot of different aircraft (unlike last week!!). I do hope you will like our choice!

So, before we really start, I would like to thank Alain Michot for the ATR 42 prototype he sent us.
ATR-42-200 - F-WEGA

Then, more classical aircraft: A330s and an A380 taken during her first flight!
A330-200 - F-HBIL A380-800 - F-WWSK A330-300 - B-LAG

I ought to let the pictures speak for themselves now: A French Super Frelon, a beautifully painted 737's tail, an old Australian DC-3 and a Brazil Government Embraer.
SA-321G - 160 737-800 - D-AHFX
Douglas DC-3 - VH-ANR VC-99C - 2580

Now, I shall post another article next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice, but I hope posting very soon for our 5,000th and even for our 10,000th picture online! Many thanks!

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