C/n 19918/68

Why you won't see this photo on airliners.net: I occasionally get e-mails from aviation fans all over the world asking me why I don't post most of my old photos on airliners.net.

The reason is that airliners.net instituted anal screening standards lacking consistency where certain favored people have inferior shots accepted while better shots from others are rejected and I don't have the time to waste manipulating photos over and over to meet their nitpicking lack of standards for everyone. I would rather get as many photos as possible up onto the net on my own site where people can find them by doing Google, Yahoo, whatever searches based on airline name, aircraft type, tail number, etc.

Instead of selecting reasons to reject a photo airliners.net should be selecting reasons to accept a photo. In addition, it wasn't until 2005 or 2006 that the owner of airliners.net at the time finally developed a brain and decided that he was missing out on a tremendous amount of historical photos by rejecting photos that weren't perfect in the minds of his screeners. He then changed his years-long policy and started to waive the screening standards for old photos, after rejecting them including some of mine for years. Unfortunately a number of old photographers have passed on to the big airport in the heavens and their works will never be displayed unless their heirs take the time to preserve those photos and scan them someday which is doubtful. And, also unfortunate, is that a number of still-living old photographers like me were so turned off by airliners.net rejecting their current and old photos that they will never re-scan their works and resubmit to airliners.net so the owners can make money from them by advertising and other means on the site.