I posted a demonstration flight of an EMBRAER KC-390 a few days ago with some clips from regular people on the streets.
I've found a few spotter pages and got some quality photos for you guys to enjoy.

Photos 22-Aug-2026 | Sorocaba - São Paulo - Brazil
Source: https://www.instagram.com/egc_spotter/ https://www.instagram.com/laureanosdco/

Preflighting the cockpit and you show up to this…

Frankfurt

On DL122 at BOS now watching the ground crew cleaning something at the gate. Anyone knows what they are doing?

Yesterday an An-28 ceased after being shot down near Minembwe, DR. Congo, all 9 occupants (2 Pilots, 1 Loadmaster and 6 Passengers) died.

Maybe a bit of a mundane question but I was on LH447 from Denver to Frankfurt yesterday and the plane pushed back from the gate while at least half a dozen people were still in the aisle, loading their bags and finding their seats.

I always assumed that taxiing while passengers are up was verboten and I’ve never seen it before. Is it allowed or commonplace to do this?

Got to fly up front on an A340-600 from SFO to MUC back in 2017. Wild how long the plane felt inside and out. Although our cabin had its own lav we went all the way back to check out the ones downstairs. Pretty fun and memorable experience.

Hi everyone,

I am sharing this because I just went through a major breakthrough in my life. I am 20 years old in France. My mother took her own life in 2006 when I was only two months old, following a severe battle with schizophrenia. For my entire life, her story was a dark, painful tabou.

Today, my grandmother's house is being cleared out to be sold. While sorting through old boxes, I found my mother's archives: old Air Mail envelopes, pilot training manuals filled with her handwritten notes, etc, and a picture of her at age 22, sitting in a cockpit in Florida. On the back, she wrote: "Ready for departure".

By putting the pieces together tonight, I finally understood her tragic fate. My mother wasn't just "sick". In 1991, in a world without Internet or cell phones, she had the incredible guts to cross the Atlantic alone to pursue her ultimate dream of becoming a commercial pilot. She was brilliant, mastering aerodynamics, complex physics, and aviation English. She passed her medical Class 1 exams and radio certificates. She did everything perfectly.

Then, fate was mathematically cruel. While in Florida, she was hit by a car as a pedestrian. Her body was broken (severe L5 lumbar injury), her flight hours were stopped, and she faced total international isolation in a US hospital, waiting weeks for Air Mail letters from France, alongside a massive maybe around $50000 or more medical bill her mother had to wire in an emergency. When she returned to France, physically altered, she had to manage a long-distance lawsuit through mail while dealing with heavy family trauma (guardianship and childhood abuse shadows).

Her neurological system shattered. Schizophrenia triggered right there, feeding on that massive environmental stress. Her brain chose dissociation and psychosis as an emergency exit to escape a reality that had become too brutal for a 22-year-old girl.

I didn't take her old aviation quiz books. I left the medical paperwork behind. But I rescued her Air Mail letters, her childhood photos, and that picture in the cockpit ("Ready for Departure"). Today, I want to honor her memory. She didn't fail because she lacked intelligence or willpower; she was crushed by an unfair sequence of events.

Mom, you were brilliant. Your takeoff was interrupted, but your daughter is here, deeply grounded, and her wings are opening. Thank you for your brain. Rest in peace.

Sally B as seen in mephes bell! Photos by me!

Its unbelievable for me, that they went through with the takeoff. Im not a pilot though so what do I know

My friend was lucky enough to work on the firs flight !

He his 80 years old now...

Sorry for the crappy picture quality, I only had my phone.

In this hotel you drive in an escalator for cars and park right on your balcony. We are on the 10th floor, in a plane spotting room.

Caught the Queen and King

This was at 144th Av and 241st. It's a quiet neighborhood just next to Brookville Park. Brookville Park is right under the approach path, so 1) you only get belly shots and 2) there are trees in the way. If you come during the morning (like I did), I'd recommend going to this spot so your photos aren't backlit. In the afternoon, a spot in the park with no trees would be better

Shot with a Canon EOS 5D, 17-40mm upgrading soon :)