About
About this website
This website was founded in December 2000 on a free webhosting server (Tripodnet, owned by Lycos), but it was not until halfway January 2001 when the first visitor was logged. Therefore, I consider the first of January 2001 to be the official foundation date. In this period, the website mainly featured fact sheets about all types of aeroplanes. It was also in this period that my interest in aviation gradually moved in the direction of plane spotting.
Because of growing popularity of the website, my interests in web design and plane spotting being a fully grown hobby of me, I bought aeronautics.nl as my own domain name as well as some webhosting. The website was now fully dedicated to plane spotting and it also got a more professional look and character. A positive side effect of paid webhosting was the disappearing of annoying advertisments. On the first of December 2003, this new website was lauched. This website is currently hosted at 2uhosting.
On 28 December 2005 I bought myself a Christmas present: a Minolta 5D Digital SLR, with result that the website now no longer needed to rely on scanned low-quality pictures, but could show high-resolution, high-quality pictures. The look of the website was changed once more to accomodate this revolution in quality.
This website does not have any commercial intentions whatsoever. It is run out of pure interest in web design, plane spotting and the opportunity to inform and entertain visitors. Money needed for the webserver is paid out of my own pocket. I have experimented with advertisments to cut the expenses, but the revenues were not worth the space the advertisments occupied. All content is copyright protected by international laws. More information can be found in the disclaimer / copyright section of this website.
The website is currently not being maintained anymore.
About prints, slides and digital
All photos shown on this website are made with a 6.1MP (3000 x 2000 pixels) camera. The originals (mostly RAW, early ones JPEG) can be send to you on request. Please contact me for more information about prices and availability. I do not swap, sell or buy slides and prints
About my equipment
- Minolta Dynax 5D
- Minolta AF DT 18-70mm 3.5-5.6 D
- Minolta AF 75-300mm 4.5-5.6 D
- Dane-elec Compact Flash XS 512MB
- Scandisk Compact Flash 512MB Ultra II
- Konica Minolta NP-400
- Uniross NP-400 Minolta
- Vosonic VP2160 (40GB 5600rpm)
- Uniden Bearcat UBC200XLT frequency scanner
