Planespotting is a hobby where photographers try to take pictures of aircraft around airports and share them within a community.
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For airplane spotting, what minimum specs should a telescope have?
We are thinking about buying a telescope for viewing planets, stars, the moon, and aircraft! What is the absolute minimum zoom and/or size to achieve getting a good glimpse of an aircraft at its cruising altitude?
Does anyone have experience doing…
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What is a Polar airplane?
I stumbled on a new chinese one here: The "Snow Eagle 601".
Can someone expand a little?
At first sight, I can't make any relevant difference from a regular one (It just looks like a stock DC3 fitted with new turboprop engines + snow skis for the…
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Is this a sunken plane?
I encountered this in Google Maps satellite mode about 3 weeks ago. I thought it may be a passing plane and it goes away when the images update. But now after 3 weeks it is still there. The existence of the shadow also made me think it's a passing…
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How in-flight close-ups are captured
What equipment and preparations are necessary to shot a picture like this (an in-flight close-up, clearly shot over a large body of water, possibly from a short distance):
This question is somewhat similar to my question asked at Travel half a year…
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How can I find aircraft and airline listing data for planespotting?
I vaguely remember when younger a spotter I knew having a book listing all airlines and all aircrafts within the airline at time of print. Is this data available now in book or online format? I'm looking to get back into spotting.
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