Today was planespotting weather and I got some nice shots with the new camera – among them once again ANA’s Boeing 787, which is still flying daily from Tokio to Düsseldorf and back.

Here’s a better-processed photo of yesterday’s A340 – on this second shot, the wingtrail was not visible and I was able to crop it closer and filter the noise out. I have not been able to get a completely clear shot of this plane with the new camera yet, there was always some haze in the sky!

This photo is extremely noisy, but it was the only way to show the wing trail this Lufthansa A340 left behind in the very thin cloud layer we had today. The white glow behind the wings is not a processing artifact, I believe this was also caused by the plane. I’ve seen this before, but not so distincly visible!

I think this is an Airbus A318 – I love those little ones, they look like toy airplanes in the sky :-).

Look who visited our city two weeks ago – I didn’t even know the JU-52 was coming and I think it flew only one time from the local airport, so I only got a sort of grainy photo this time.

Another look at that Swiss helium balloon that flew by yesterday.

We’re used to the occasional hot-air balloon flying over the city, but this is the first time we saw a helium gas balloon! The writing on it says Fribourg Freiburg Challenge which must have to do something with the website FRChallenge.ch, but I’m not sure what’s it all about or why this balloon was flying around here since my French is not good enough to understand the site.

I finally managed to catch Lufthansa’s A340 today, but it’s still a little blurry. This is the only four-engine jet currently starting and landing in Düsseldorf, although Emirates Airways will start using the A380 this Summer – which we probably won’t be able to see from our location, because Emirates does not take the North route anymore on the way to Dubai.

We get things of all sorts in the sky around here, from the biggest jumbo jet to the smallest single-engine plane – I’ve seen this white Piper SuperCub before, but it’s always nice to see something else than the usual small Cessnas and more advanced Pipers from the small aircraft department!

An even closer look at Air China’s Airbus A330 from a couple of days ago – this plane goes directly from Düsseldorf to Beijing and is one of the biggest jets around here.