AUGUST 2003 – Passengers board EI-CDD (St. Macartan), a Boeing 737-500 of Aer Lingus, at the airport of Dublin in Ireland. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
Leaving Dublin after a prolonged weekend was hard, really hard. It had been so beautiful and full of new impressions (like the final concert of Robbie Williams’ world tour in 2003) – yet we had to leave.
Our plane was not located at a finger so we had to take the bus. And when I approached the plane, I was truly impressed by its beauty. A massive, yet relatively lightweight, construction, painted in the traditional green and white of Aer Lingus. It carried the registration EI-CDD and the name St. Macartan, a Boeing 737-500 which belonged to the airline since 1991. The name, by the way, follows the tradition of naming aircraft after Irish saints, a custom that began when the airline was founded to give its expanding fleet a distinct identity.
Awesome.
P.S.: The aircraft was sold to a Russian aviation company in 2005 and operated until 2013 for Rossiya Russian Airlines before it was scrapped.
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The high resolution image
| Capture Date | August 2003 |
| Location | Dublin Airport, Ireland |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | EPSON Perfection 4870 Photo |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 6513 x 4243 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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