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Breguet Br 765 Sahara (Deux Ponts)
Breguet was a French aircraft manufacturer that existed from 1911 to 1971. In 1944, even before World War 2 had ended, the company was already designing the future of aviation in France. One of the designs was a double decker capable of carrying passengers, cargo and even large rolling cargo. The type would be called the Breguet 761 but this designation would only be used for the prototype and the pre-production aircraft 761S. The production model for Air France would become
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Jul 29, 20242 min read


Dornier Do 31
Aviation geeks ... flight simulator fans ... look at this! The Dornier Do 31 was a design from the 1960's for the German Air Force, the...
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May 19, 20241 min read


Short: Scheveningen - May 2024
Another day ... another trip ... a short one! I had worked halfway through the night so I slept out before making my way to Eindhoven...
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May 9, 20243 min read


Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
This time our story begins way back when air travel was still relatively new and only for the rich. Although after World War 1, most countries had developed their own air forces and commercial airlines, it was still an industry in its infancy. In the 1930's that would change as more and more aircraft in various countries were being designed to go a step further and higher, from military bombers and fighters to commercial airliners with ever more passenger capacity that would
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May 9, 20243 min read


Short trip to Berlin in March ... by train!
Sometimes an interesting offer comes along and you don't have much time to prepare for it, this happened to me in March. I would need...
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Apr 10, 20248 min read


London in January
January 2024 can hardly be called a cold winter month, apart from a few freezing days! I joined Onno and Vadym of Onnozone on a 4 day...
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Apr 4, 20243 min read


Duxford Imperial War Museum
PART 2 A continuation of aircraft that spark my interest immediately ... but first just a few shots of things I didn't mention in these 2...
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Mar 13, 20246 min read


Short: A few hours in Zeeland
In December 2023, I needed to pass by Zeeland tp drop off some dog carriers that needed to fly back to Egypt (part of the Animal Rescue...
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Feb 24, 20241 min read


Short: Aircraft museum Munich
As a freelancer I sometimes get some interesting requests, without going into much detail ... I was asked to take hundreds of photos of 7...
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Feb 17, 20241 min read


Short: 2 days Belgian coast
In December 2023, I had to give an IATA DGR training at the Ostend Airport in Belgium, I was booked for 2 nights in Blankenberge and...
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Feb 17, 20242 min read


A day in Strasbourg - France
Between Christmas and New Year 2023 I suddenly had an assignment in Germany, very close to the French border. This resulted in having a...
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Feb 2, 20243 min read


The Renaissance follow-up
As promised, here are some more impressions of the ship while she was in Brest at the Damen shipyard. First of all, the only upper class...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read


Duxford Imperial War Museum
PART 1 Duxford Imperial War Museum has been on my bucket list for a long time now, and since I had an assignment in October 2023 that...
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Nov 3, 20235 min read


The Device Forts - part 4
Number 8: West Cowes Castle West Cowes Castle was one of the castles built on the Isle of Wight, located on the Western side of the harbour entrance of Cowes, still used today by the Red Funnel ferries. The castle was built in 1539 at the Western side of the river Medina in a location that was then known as "The Cowes". West Cowes Castle was smaller than many others and was built with a D-shaped bastion in the front and a 2-story keep in the rear, and it was pretty heavily ar
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Nov 2, 20237 min read


Ambassador cruise line
One could say that out of the ashes of the Covid crisis that cost the life of Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV), a new company emerged,...
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Oct 23, 20234 min read


AIDAaura last visit to Antwerp
Aida Cruises is a well known brand on the European market, more specifically the German market, I will not explain the complete history...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read


World Odyssey ... or Deutschland?
So ... what's going on here? Well ... this ship has 2 names, so let's start at the beginning, shall we? The ship was built in 1998 for...
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Oct 2, 20232 min read


The SS Rotterdam viewed by JGADV
The SS Rotterdam V of the Holland Amerika Lijn, this ship has been photographed and written about in so many words, articles, books that...
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Sep 4, 20232 min read


Marina & Riviera in Antwerp
Antwerp has recently replaced the cruise terminal with a new terminal inside the added section to the old castle called "Het Steen", they...
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Aug 21, 20232 min read


My stay in Emden (Germany)
In May 2023 I got an assignment that brought me to Emden for 3 days. Emden is located in the German East Frisia region on the river Ems....
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Aug 19, 20237 min read
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