Olli Vainio Photography http://ovp.fi Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:51:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New Year http://ovp.fi/2010/01/29/new-year/ http://ovp.fi/2010/01/29/new-year/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:56:44 +0000 Olli Vainio http://ovp.fi/?p=299 On the last day of 2009 I was at Helsinki-Vantaa to photograph one of the final Finnair MD11’s. On the first day of 2010 there was stunning light here at Oulu and I was at the airport here too.

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Finnair MD11 floating down to runway 04R at Helsinki-Vantaa.

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Blue1 RJ85 at Oulu on New Year’s day 2010.

I also update Oulu Airport 2009 -gallery with 34 photographs.

]]> http://ovp.fi/2010/01/29/new-year/feed/ 0 Gloomy day at Oulu airport http://ovp.fi/2009/11/27/gloomy-day-at-oulu-airport/ http://ovp.fi/2009/11/27/gloomy-day-at-oulu-airport/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:50:26 +0000 Olli Vainio http://ovp.fi/?p=295 More on FiAF’s activity here at Oulu, here are few photographs from a very foggy day.

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Getting ready for a mission.

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Departing…

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…in a nice line.

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LJ-2, a Learjet 35 coming back from it’s mission.

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Lonely F/A-18 Hornet waiting to go on a mission.

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HN-401 landing runway 12.

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HN-437 taxiing after landing on runway 12.

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HN-401 taxiing to military apron after landing.

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HN-461 taxiing to runway 12 for departure on a training sortie.

]]> http://ovp.fi/2009/11/13/fiaf-hornets-training-at-oulu/feed/ 0 October colors http://ovp.fi/2009/11/04/october-colors/ http://ovp.fi/2009/11/04/october-colors/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:55:22 +0000 Olli Vainio http://ovp.fi/?p=284 This year’s October was particularly good for photography. Lots of clear days and very nice colors. Here are few examples.

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Finnair B757 taking holiday makers from cold and dark Oulu to Rhodes.

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Finnair A320 approaching runway 30 on a very nice autumn evening.

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Blue1 RJ85 taxiing to runway 12 while Finnair B757 is making a visual approach for the same runway.

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Blue1 MD90 taxiing to stand.

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Overview of the taxiway and apron with Finnair E190 taxiing to runway 30 and Wingo(operated by Jet Air of Poland) ATR42 awaiting it’s departure to Tampere.

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Blue RJ85 taxiing to runway 30.

ps. Finnish Air Forces with their F/A-18 Hornets are having a training exercise at Oulu. Expect to see some photos of them in the near future :)

]]> http://ovp.fi/2009/11/04/october-colors/feed/ 0 Oulu airport at it’s busiest…sort of http://ovp.fi/2009/10/17/oulu-airport-at-its-busiest-sort-of/ http://ovp.fi/2009/10/17/oulu-airport-at-its-busiest-sort-of/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:56:28 +0000 Olli Vainio http://ovp.fi/?p=281 One one morning, due to aircraft spending the overnight at Oulu and two charters, there was a bit of a parking issue on the apron.

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View of the apron. The Finnair B757 is parked on the taxiway.

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Panoramic view of the whole apron.

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Freebird Airlines A320, TC-FBY slowing down after landing runway 12.

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Finnair A320, OH-LXG landing runway 12.

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Finnair A319, OH-LVC taxiing to runway 30 for departure to Helsinki.

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Blue1 RJ85, OH-SAQ taxiing to runway 30 almost an hour after sunset.

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I’ve now added lots of photos to the gallery.

Oulu Airport 2009, Oulu Airport 2006 and General aviation galleries have been updated with new photographs. Oulu Airport 2005 is a new addition to the gallery after I went trough my archives, as is Lapland 2008-2009 winter charters gallery.

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Hornet scraping the runway with it’s tailhook.

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Finnair B757 in it’s old color scheme.

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FiAF Hornet at Hosio during Baana ‘07.

]]> http://ovp.fi/2009/08/22/from-the-archives/feed/ 0 Cracked windshield http://ovp.fi/2009/08/20/cracked-windshield/ http://ovp.fi/2009/08/20/cracked-windshield/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:42:28 +0000 Olli Vainio http://www.ollivainio.com/?p=219 19-8-2009_efhk-efhk_oh-lxk02

Wrong way!

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And the reason…ouch.

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