It all began in the summer of 1979 with Dan-Air London flight DA4087 from Hamburg to London-Gatwick. It was the De Havilland Comet 4C G-BDIF and I was allowed into the cockpit when I was 14 at the time. On the return flight, Comet 4B G-APYD (DA4086) brought us back from LGW  to HAM - and I was terminally infected with the aviation virus.

I spent the next 10 years until 1989 with my Pentax ME  Super - loaded with Kodak K25/K64 slide films - on the observation decks and airport runways. 

In 1984 / 1985 / 1986 I spent 3 weeks of school holidays on the observation deck at Frankfurt Airport (FRA - see photo on the left) to see the interesting planes from all over the world:  

B707, B727, B737-200, B747-100/-200, DC-10, L-1011, Bac-1-11, Caravelle - those were the days!

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"Spotting in the good ol' days"

In June 2021 my article about Frankfurt Airport in the 1980s was published.