Another shot of the JU-52 from last week – if this looks different from the last shot, it’s because I took this one with the Sony Alpha 65 and the Minolta f/4 210mm ‘beer can’. I had to crop it more, but I think I still got a bit more detail out of it than with the Canon Powershot SX30.

One of the only four flightworthy Junkers JU-52 was a guest at our local airport last weekend again –
this was HB-HOS, one of the three Swiss JU-52’s from JU-Air usually flying much further South.

There was a lot of that familiar buzz in the air in the last couple of weeks – Luftschiff Theo has been very busy! This photo is from June 5, but the blimp was around all this weekend too.

The WDL blimp Theo has a new sponsor now – the Centro is a huge
shopping mall in Oberhausen, our neighbouring city North of us!

Theo, the new WDL blimp, can really glow at night!

Just a quick video of our local blimp – this is the first time this year I’ve caught Theo on video! There’s also the usual Youtube version in case this self-hosted version doesn’t play right (which it usually does).

A great Blimp sideview from about a week ago.

I only noticed this helium balloon because I was looking for the blimp that was making its usual buzzing noise in the sky somewhere else. This balloon was, however, totally silent and actually really far away – but still close enough for my zoom lens to catch it!

It’s a little hazy, but I never got so close to one of these little Fokker Jets from KLM!

Yes, there are still proper airplanes with propellors flying around :-).