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KLM Cityhopper, a division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has a new aircraft in its fleet to replace the Fokker 100’s. KLM placed an order of 10 ERJ-190 jets at the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer.
Last weekend we celebrated the 12,5 years marriage of my father and stepmom. The whole family was invited to our favourite Dutch island, Ameland. My niece and I live in the same region, so we decided to travel to the island together. We met at Amsterdam Central station, and were right on time to board the train which should bring us to Leewarden, a 3 hour trip. And I say ’should’, because we weren’t even halfway when an announcement told us the train couldn’t continue due to an accident on the track.
The last couple of weeks I spent most of my time studying for my exams. Every eight weeks I have an exam week at college. I had 12 exams, most of them related to aviation in some way. In comparison to last year, this year will be a challenge for all of us. For most of the exams I already have my grades, and I must say that I’m pretty satisfied about the achieved results.
Since last week I’m the proud owner of an iPod Touch 2nd Gen. I decided to replace my 2 year old iPod Nano, which could only store 2GB of songs. I can now watch movies, listen to music and go online with the build in WiFi everywhere. Apple has done a great job with this iPod, which actually is an iPhone without the call, text and GPS functions. After trying lots of free applications for this mobile device, I’ve compiled a list of my personal recommendations.
While searching for some aviation videos on the Internet, I recently discovered this video of a Boeing 747 landing on St.Maarten (Princess Juliana International) Airport (PJIA). Its runway has a total lenght of 7000 feet (2180 meter), which is pretty short for aircraft of this size. As a result these large aircraft have to make an extremely low approach, sometimes just 30 metres above the sun tanning people at the beach.
When you visit a website you might notice a small icon in the left side of the address bar. This is called a favicon and it can help you to brand your website or blog. The favicon doesn’t only show up when you’re on the website, but also when you save the website to your browser’s favourites, the icon will be shown. It’s easy to create a favicon.
When it comes to downloading music and video from the Internet, there are lots of free solutions to do so. Today I tried Orbit Downloader, a download manager with lots of features to get the best out of the web. Sometimes we don’t realize how rich we are, with websites like YouTube and Wikipedia. In the past we had to go to the library, to do a time consuming search in books, now we just search for it on the Internet.
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