Driving to Frankfurt one passes under the flight corridor of the airport and I try to have my camera ready (not while I’m at the steering wheel, of course). Sometimes I get lucky.
Tag: Flugzeug
With or without
motors.
Many schools are named for Otto Lilienthal, the pioneer in aviation, particularly near Berlin, where he lived and tried out his gliding contraption.
I’m sure the first people seeing Lilienthal in the sky were as mesmerised as these onlookers – admiring a glider that flies through the air without motor.
A plane taking off from Frankfurt airport and then passing Frankfurt’s skyline:
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to do with jets and planes.
IFOs – identified flying objects
When we used to live on the highveld in South Africa bright blue skies without a cloud in sight where the order of the day during winter. In reference to a Perry Rhodan story (a German scifi series, published in pulp fiction form) we used to call it “das blaue System” (the blue system – a defense shield around planets which manifested by bright blue skies without any colour gradient). How can I not use the photo of this aircraft with the “Star Wars” logo blazoned across it to illustrate this idea?
Contrary to popular belief, we have blue system skies even in Germany.
For A Photo a Week with the theme blue.
More blue or blueish photos are linked here.
I’d rather be high
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee picks a photo and you see what you take from it.
This is the photo she picked for this week:
To see what others did with this, click here.
Flying, mostly with wings
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