The
2004 Logbook
8
November 2004
The
15 pages report from
our trip to Manchester first weekend of
September is almost complete - only the
last couple hours to cover.
Since last - actually on
10 October - the editor and two other spotter were
together with a reporter from Vi Menn (a Norwegian
magazine) at OSL. The three page article came out on
26 October, and together with it PSC released the first
bilingual report from the same event.
A third report has also been released since last entry
here - Jan
Kertzscher's report from Budapest Ferihegy.
11 October 2004
During these couple of months a number
of reports and pages have be added to the site, and the
last out is the Braathens current fleet with photos in
the Airlines section.
17 August 2004
The report from the Kjeller 2004 airshow
was published today.
15 August 2004
All Aircraft - Airbus pages
have been updated yesterday/today and the Aircraft front
page has also been updated with new high quality historic
photos.
8 August 2004
This logbook hasn't been used as much as should have
been the last months. During these months a number
of reports
have been released - from England, Hawaii, Chicago and
Oslo - the last one came out this evening "Evening images
from OSL 16 July
2004". You'll find these reports here.
Nigel Howarth, UK and Jan
Kertzscher, Germany are now part of the contributing editor
team at Plane-Spotter.com together with Kjell Oskar Granland,
Norway and myself.
Jan K is also out with his first publication for PSC - "Tupolev
Tu-154 - variants, history and technical breakdown" (2.9
MB in Acrobat format) - you'll find it here.
7
May 2004
The report from the spotter trip to Northwest England has
now started to roll out. The report has different sections
and covers the airport for Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.
In addtion to this, there sections covering the flights through
Copenhagen and the visits to the museums at Cosford and the
a short visit to Woodford Aerodrome.
25
April 2004
Complete check and update of external
links on site done today.
18
April 18th 2004
Since last date here in the logbook a number of changes has
been made:
- A new complete fleet
list for Widerøe's Flyveselskap has
been added.
- The other fleet lists has been updated.
- A new Spotter Guide for Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport has been added.
- And today a list of the current fleet with photos of
Scandinavian Airlines also was added.
22
March 2004
The Scandinavian
Airlines (SAS) fleet list is updated.
14
March 2004
A full Oslo
Airport section is now ready. It contain a new
slideshow from September 2003, maps of all the destinations
the different airlines serve and serveral trip reports.
9
March 2004
Map showing the complete network/destinations for Norwegian
Air Shuttle for the summer season 2004 is added. The map
include also today's announced additions.
6
March 2004
A new Spotter Guide is added: Boeing
Field / King County International Airport (BFI) in
USA.
24
February 2004
A major upgrade of the Norwegian
Air Shuttle page has been done. It now contains pictures
of all aircraft they've ever had, and a complete fleet
list in Adobe Acrobat format. This fleet list contains
also rumoured identity of three additional 737-300 coming
into the fleet for the summer season 2004.
1
February 2004
The last month a lot of minor changes/corrections
have been done to the website. Yesterday the deciphering
of the Airbus codes was the latest addition to the site,
and you'll find it here.
In January one report from the inland Fagernes Airport
was added. During the first days of this month a new jump
seat report will come out - this time covering a flight
with an ATR 42 between HAU and OSL.
December 15th 2003
Only two days from the century of powered flight celebration,
the forth spotter guide is released - Stockholm
Airport, Arlanda.
November 17th 2003
Now it's done, first part of the
redesigned Airports-section is
now out. This section include three one page spotter guides
for Amsterdam, Manchester and Oslo. Over time more spotter
guides will be added. The section also contains articles
from airports with spotting tips and reports from events
at certain airports.
November 13th 2003
New aircraft manufacture added - Bombardier
Aerospace -
with page for Canadair Jet CRJ100 - CRJ900
October
15th 2003 - November 11th 2003
The retirement of the Concorde has been followed day by day
on Aerospatiale-BAC
Concorde page. The page contain photos
from the last day
of revenue service at Heathrow, technical data for the
aircraft, the fleet an its status, and from yesterday -
photos of G-BOAG arriving Boeing Field and the Museum
of Flight.
September 24th 2003
New trip report added - LCC Norwegian
to Stockholm, Arlanda and spotting at the airport.
During
the last couple of weeks minor changes have been done to
many of the aircraft pages.
August 20th 2003
The Saab
section under Aircraft is
now opened, and Saab 340 is their first out.
August 3rd 2003
A new report ready - the 60 year celebration of the Norwegian
Dakota - airshow at Torp Airport. The next week or so it
will be silent from me - I'm on vacation!
July 27th 2003
The Tupolev family has now been started - with Tu-204 first
out.
July 23rd 2003
The McDonnell
Douglas DC-10 page is now ready with the drawing
of the first delivered DC-10-10 to United Airlines.
July 21st 2003
A new report added - Oslo Airport with
only one runway in use.
July 7th 2003
Changes have been done to the Airlines-section - now two
airlines are included.
July 6th 2003
As yesterday, a new Airbus sub page is
ready - the A310. You'll find
it under Aircraft - Airbus-section.
July 5th 2003
Another Airbus page is now ready - the A300. You'll
find it under Aircraft - Airbus-section.
June 27th 2003
The A330 page under Aircraft - Airbus is now ready.
June 25th 2003
Major upgrade of the web site - Reports section added. At the same time the full report from the
spotter trip to Schiphol last weekend in May is released.
Since last entry in May, a number of pages have
been updated with new pictures or corrected/added information.
May 20th 2003
The
DC-9 page under Aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include
specifications for all sub-types.
May 18th 2003
The Airbus A380 page is now ready, and
you'll find it under Aircraft
- Airbus.
May 14th 2003
The MD-90 page under Aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include
specifications.
May 13th 2003
The MD-80 page under Aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include
specifications for all MD-80s.
A guest drawing has been added under
Aircraft - Boeing - 737.
May 11th 2003
Today the drawing of the Douglas DC-3
is released. The DC-3 drawn is the 60 year old LN-WND from
Dakota Norway. Later this year (August 2nd) an airshow
will be held in honour of the jubilant at Torp Airport,
Norway - you can get more info on this at the web site
of Dakota Norway.
May 1st 2003
New report added - First day of Ryanair
at Haugesund Airport
April 27th 2003
Back from Easter vacation - Jumpseat
report from Fokker 50 flight between HAU and BGO added
- the link is on the home page (click on the Fokker 50
photo).
The SAS aircraft list is also newly updated.
April 10th 2003
The Airbus A340 page is now finally
ready - the page contains a drawing of the first delivered
A340-211 - D-AIBA to Lufthansa.
March 25th 2003
The Boeing 757 page is updated with a drawing of the latest
757-351 to Northwest in their new paint scheme. I will
like to thank Andreas Mowinckel for his spying skills at
BFI ;-)
March 23rd 2003
These last couple of days minor changes and corrections
have been done to a number of the pages, but today one
important addition
has been done to
the Boeing
pages - the Boeing customer numbers.
March 16th 2003
Finally it's done - Scandinavian Airlines is now on line
under Airlines - here
is the shortcut. These pages contains
a lot of information an many hours of hard work. I will like to thank all
of
you
that
have
contributed
in
one
way or another. If you have comments or suggestion, don't hesitate to contact
me
on comments@plane-spotter.com.
The About section is extended with information on contributing photographers
by Plane-Spotter.
February 28th 2003
The Boeing 737-section is now extended
with chronology information and more photos. I'm also happy
to announce that another photographer is now included into
the fold - Nils Mosberg.
February 25th 2003
Boeing 777-300 ER added to the Boeing
777 section under Boeing
Aircraft. I would like to thank Andreas
Mowinckel for his photo session hours ago,
nailing the first landing of the 777-300
ER prototype at Boeing Field!
February 9th 2003
This has been a productive weekend - now the 767 page
is up and includes the drawing of 767-222 N606UA "City of Chicago".
You can find it under Boeing
Aircraft.
February
8th 2003
Now the 757 page is up under Boeing
Aircraft and includes a drawing of the first delivered
to Eastern Airlines.
During the last week have some minor changes been done in
the Links section.
January
30th 2003
Direct links to press releases to the aircraft manufacturers
are now included on the home page
January
29th 2003
The Boeing 7E7-project was launched today - link to the
Boeing press release has now been included into the timeline
on the opening page of the Aircraft
section.
January
26th 2003
Finally the 747 page under Boeing Aircraft is ready.
January
22nd 2003
EuroCeltic has terminated services because UK licensing
authorities suspended the company's UK licences - link to
this airline is therefore taken out of the Airlines in Europe
collection.
January
19th 2003
Now the drawing of the first delivered Boeing 717-200 (MD-95)
and its page is ready under Boeing Aircraft. Next out will
be the 747 - stay tuned.
January
16th 2003
Goodjet is out of business - removed from the Links - Airlines
in Europe.
Links to Airport in Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, and the
Netherlands added.
January
15th 2003
Minor updates done to the A32X pages under Aircraft.
New
pictures to the right >>>
January
12th 2003
Jet2 added to the links page for airlines in Europe - now
the links to official airline sites around the world counts
722!
January
4th 2003
Happy New Year to You All !
I'm
back from my ¿ well deserved ? Xmas / New Year holiday
on the west coast of Norway. And during the last day of
2002 Plane-Spotter.com rounded 100,000 requests - only a
little over 100 days after it was started!
I've
started with the links to official airport sites in Europe.
I've decided that I stage the Europe page even though it's
not complete - then you can follow the progress.
December
16th 2002
Today
the Boeing 727 page is finished and it includes the drawing
of the first delivered 727 N7004U.
December
8th 2002
Today the Boeing 737 page is finished and it includes the
drawing of the first delivered 737. I will at the same time
like thank the Lufthansa and specially Werner Bittner, Leiter
des Firmenarchivs for his kind help to recreate D-ABEB as
authentic as possible.
December
4th 2002
Links - Spotter pages updated with links to registry data
bases in countries around the world + the upcomming name
change for Scanair.net to Scanair.no.
Comming up in a few days is the drawing of the Lufthansa
Boeing 737-130 D-ABEB "Regensburg" (delivered
December 27th 1967) and the rest of the information regarding
the Boeing 737.
November
27th 2002
Links - Airlines now contains 716 links to different airlines
around the world.
November
25th 2002
Cargo capacity added for the three Airbus A32X aircraft.
November
13th 2002
Links - Airlines in Africa is now updated and contains 65
links to airlines in the region.
November
12th 2002
Links - Airlines in Asia is now updated and contains 130
links to airlines in the region.
November
11th 2002
Now the Links for Airlines - Australia and Oceania are complete
(49 links)
November
9th-10th 2002
This weekend has been spent out on the Internet to collect
links to airlines all over the World. The standing in this
search can be found under Links - Airlines, for instance
are 207 links to airlines in Europe now found. Most of the
links in the list will contain callsigns, IATA codes, and
ICAO codes.
November 6th 2002
Links - Airlines are added
November
5th 2002
More Links added
November
3rd 2002
Today the first part of the Links added. There has also
been done minor changes to the Airbus Aircraft pages.
October
31st 2002
A number of pictures has been updated on the site
October
29th 2002
Frequencies added to the Oslo Airport page
October
28th 2002
The Airbus
A320 is up and running.
October
27th 2002
Pictures from a spotter trip to Oslo Airport yesterday is
added under Airports,
scroll down the page - the link is under the map.
The map of Oslo Airport has been updated with pictures from
two more spotts added. I would like to thank Thomas Lorentzen
for using his photo to illustrate these spotts - he is now
the 5th member of photographers included myself by Plane-Spotter.com
- welcome on board.
October
25th 2002
First page under Airport added - Oslo Airport, Norway.
October
24th 2002
The Airbus A321 is up and running.
October
23rd 2002
Three latest picture under About updated.
October
22nd 2002
New links to aircraft pages added in Aircraft main page.
October
20th 2002
The A319, A330 and information on Airbus aircraft are added
to the Airbus section. A further own made drawing of the
first delivered A319 to Swissair is also with this update.
These drawings are made with CorelDRAW (vector graphic),
and it takes between two and five hours to make. The latest
Swissair A319 even contains the correct Rümlang shield.
October
13th 2002
Back from a short spotter trip at OSL. Airbus section under
Aircraft opened with pictures from the first visit of the
Airbus A330-343X LN-RKH of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS).
Today
is exactly one month since Plane-Spotter opened, and during
this month over 20,000 requests has been handled. There
have been visitors from the following countries in order
of visits: Norway, USA, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands,
Canada, Italy, Thailand, Australia, UK, and 17 other countries
with only one visit.
October
12th 2002
Minor change in picture selection under About and Home
October
6th 2002
I'm happy to announce that three experienced photographers
have allowed me to use their photos on Plane-Spotter.com.
The photographers are:
- Andreas Mowinckel - based in Seattle, USA and working
by ATA
- Kjell Oskar Granlund - based in Oslo, Norway - contributing
editor Airways
Magazine
- Ole Johan Beck - based in Oslo, Norway - long time plane
spotter and photographer
Updates done today are:
1. Aircraft Main section ready. It contains the aircraft
history of the last 50+ years.
2. The Boeing section under Aircraft is officially opened.
3. First Boeing type page (777) which includes Plane-Spotter.com
drawing of first aircraft to enter service.
September
30th 2002
I'm back again after an oval weekend on the west coast of
Norway. The Main section under Aircraft will hopefully be
ready by the end of the week, together with the first parts
of the Boeing aircraft section. Hot new pictures on Front
page and Logbook taken during the last couple of days.
September
23rd 2002
Left menu under "Aircraft" modified
September
19th 2002
"About" section opened
September
17th 2002
1. Logbook started
2. Picture of Icelandair Boeing 757-308 added on front page
3. New thumbnail pictures in left upper corner
September
13th 2002
Plane-Spotter.com first day on the Internet
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