Hi,

First of all, thanks for visiting my webpage.

Let me introduce myself.
My name is Hans-Werner Klein, I am 48 years old, I live in Cologne, Germany and I’m the man behind this site.
I started airplane photographing in 1973. After a few month of testing films I decided to use Kodachrom II ( later K25 ) for my shooting of airliners and military transporters. From the early beginning my favourite airplanes were - and still are - old piston props and the noisy four-engine jets.
My principal airports in the 1970‘s were Cologne, Duesseldorf and Frankfurt.
Since 1984 I made many dedicated spotting trips to various airports around the world. First of all to the United States, especially to Miami, my favourite airport during the past 15 year. I also spend some nice time at many airports in Central Europe, Middle East and Asia.
The result of almost 30 years photographing airplanes is a collection of more than 30.000 slides. Some pictures you will find on this page.
In August 2002 I made a step forward and bought a digital camara.  From now on I mainly take digital pics.

Well, enough talk, go ahead and enjoy the pictures.
Hope you will visit this website again.

Hans-Werner Klein

Member of Aviation Friends Cologne Bonn eV.