PH-DSL was a DC-7C, ex KLM and ex Martin’s Air Charter, scrapped at Stansted.

I visited the Musee des Avions de Chasse at Savigny-les-Beaune during the summer of 2008 and made this video:

http://vimeo.com/6599526

Some of my pictures:

http://www.panoramio.com/user/311774/tags/Savigny-les-Beaune

Tillerman.

Who said that old, pensioned off aircraft are not beautiful? Especially when they are softly fading they still can look good….

Picture taken at Riga.

Tillerman.

We travelled the Baltic countries this summer. Of course I visited two lesser known aviation museums, at Riga (Latvia) and Tartu (Estonia).

Videos are here:

Riga: http://vimeo.com/14807583 , 8:12 mins

Tartu: http://vimeo.com/14810224 , 6:12 mins

And there are some more of my aviation video’s on Vimeo.

Tillerman.

My first car was an Opel Rekord 1700, from the late ’60s or so. I got that from a couple who were divorcing, and both of them did’nt want the other one to have it, so they gave it away…. to me. I had it only for two weeks as it was a near wreck. After that I fell in love with Citroën for the next 20 years.

Through those years I owned
1 x Citroën Dyane
3 x Citroën 2CV
1 x Citroën AZU200 (that’s a 2CV van)
2 x Citroën 11B Traction Avant (a classic of the 40’s and 50’s)
1 x Citroën AcaDyane (a Dyane van)
1 x Citroën GS Break
1 x Citroën GS
1 x Citroën GSA

Then, in 1995 we went to Australia for a holiday in the Outback with a rented Toyota LandCruiser. When back home again my wife gave me an off-road course as a birthday present. This was done in Land Rovers, and I immediately fell in love with this go-anywhere vehicle.

So I bought one myself, a 90D 2,5 NA. I owned that for 10 years, until I had an accident with it. I sold the wreck and after saving some money I was able to buy a Land Rover Defender 90 Td5. I drive this car for 2,5 years now, and I plan to do so for many, many years.

Some of my cars:
http://www.cardatabase.net/search/search.php?photographer=Han%20de%20Ridder

Tilleman.

I can only begin to imagine what people put down toilets in aircraft, despite signs asking for only human waste and toilet paper.

I have done this job of emptying aircraft waste tanks for many years myself, and believe me, not only the passengers throw all this blocking stuff into the toilets. I’ve seen CA’s throw milk cartons, trays of used tea-bags, plastic water bottles, halfway used-up toilet paper rolls and such in the toilets at the end of their shift when they wanted to get off the plane ASAP. As we, ramprats, were not allowed to put our arms into the tanks, it was always a ground engineer who ended up with one arm stirring the poo to clear the exit valve of the waste tank. And when they tried to explain to the CA’s why they should not throw that stuff into the lav they were met with surprised looks from the innocent-eyed CA’s. They said something like ‘oh, really?’ and left.

Tillerman.

Does anyone know what the current condition of the second, unfinished An-225 is?

I remembered seeing a picture of the 2nd one on te web some time ago, and after some searching I found it again. Click for big pic.

Tillerman.

The rotting fleet of Okada Air located at the Benin City airport, Nigeria, is now visible in Google Earth. A lot of BAC 1-11’s and a B-727, stored since 2005. Resolution is not quite good, but it gives an idea.
Also, Mr. Ken Iwelumo was kind enough to upload a fresh batch of pictures of the stored BAC 1-11’s to Airliners.net: http://tinyurl.com/lmsvvh

Tillerman.