Yeah, I have to toot my own horn, I have just finished uploading my photo's from my trip to ATL, and the funniest part is that last picture to be posted N16976, was also my 5,000th post!

great!

I unterstand your feeling - i passed the 3000 mark 2 days ago :-)

Dietmar "Yakfreak" from VIE

7 days later

Well Done, Lad!

I'm sitting at almost 900. Actually, this site was a lark. I have a collection of about 4500 images of military aircraft; lots and lots of 35mm slides, 3x5 and 4x6 photos and I am a new computer and scanner owner. So, I thought I'd scan all my shots in so they are in order, but I decided to research the serials to make sure they are correct before I label them. In the process of researching a Windecker Eagle that I shot to represent the type used for an E-5, I found this site. There was that line asking if I had a photo and I sent it, which led me to start sending all my Warbirds with N-numbers as I scanned them in. You will notice that comprises the majority of my photos. However, I have an old album of shots I took for an aircraft recognition course I sold to the FAA for $1000 back in the early 1980s, so I thought I'd put them to use also, and that's where most of the civil planes came from (about 1/3 of those shots aren't posted because they are no longer registered or else crashed). I've been shooting some airliners since I got my digital, mostly for practice to see what I can do. I work in the control tower at Cedar Rapids so I have a pretty good angle for shooting. Right now I have finished putting in my T-28s and will start scanning my T-33s soon, but not many of those have N-numbers. The shot I posted today is from way back in 1980 when I was taking a jump-seat ride in a B737 and we taxied past an L1011 that had had an engine fire. (I'm scanning in old family slides also so we can have photos to look at, and that shot was among them so I just had to send it). I don't think I'll be looking at 5000 shots for quite some time!

Wow - 5K is a huge load! I am sure ken is happy, too :) Congrats!

micha

2 months later

Well I just got back from Sun N Fun in Lakeland. I also passed 5000 a couple weeks back and discovered on another DVD that I have a couple thousand more shots plus the 2000 I took at Sun N Fun -LAL the busiest airport in the world from April 17-23 - expected 40,000 operations in those 7 days. I attended Saturday and Sunday, and got frustrated that there were too many planes taking off at once that I could not get. - basically they were all taxiing by me to take off, then they would shoot them off the runway and taxiway, which was used as a runway every 10 seconds or so. Obviously could not be done normally. However there could be 10 aircraft airborne while over the 8,000 ft runway alone.

Congrats Michael.......now that we know how you spend your days !

Now if you could tell the rest of us how to have more fun than work, it would be an extra bonus celebration......

Best,

John L.

Congratulations Daniel! Great job!

Ken

Thank you,

A lot of the stuff I seen at Sun N Fun that I posted so far is new GA stuff that hasn't been posted yet. Although Tim was there as well as Mark P, so we might get a few duplicates in there.

3 years later

Today I'm the 30th person to have posted 5000 photos on Airport-Data. I still have some photos from my trip to Pensacola and from Airventure 2010. 6000 won't be far way if I work through by backlog.

Way to go Timothy! Keep'em coming!

( I still have a 2 month back log.... yikes! )

I hit 2,000 a few weeks ago. Plus I still have 1,000 from AirVenture that shall be uploaded. I've been on this website since 2008, and the way things are going I'm averaging roughly 1,000 photos a year. Wow, I'm impressing myself, haha.

Welcome to the over 5000 club, Timothy! I'm struggling towards 9,000 still. I'll never be close to Compton!