Dawn Encounter Boeing 787-9 · Flight deck
The acrylic print is made in Germany, your photo sealed behind gallery-grade acrylic glass.
- Glossy and Deep: The acrylic glass deepens the dark flight deck and makes the floodlights, the warm panel glow and the lit terminal stand out.
- Razor-Sharp Details: Printed at full resolution, so the A340-600, its engines and the terminal behind it stay crisp.
- Ready to Hang: The hanging system is fitted on the back, so the picture sits slightly off the wall.
The fine-art print is made on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, a 325 g/m² paper with a barium sulphate coating.
- Darkroom Character: The baryta coating gives the paper the silk sheen and fine texture of a classic darkroom print; its deep blacks make the floodlights and the panel glow.
- Razor-Sharp Details: Pigment inks on bright white paper keep the A340-600, its engines and the terminal behind it sharp.
- Ready to Frame: A 2 cm white border on acid-free, museum-quality paper. Shipped unframed, ready for the frame of your choice.
Four sizes in the original 2:3 ratio: 20 × 30, 40 × 60, 60 × 90 and 80 × 120 cm. Fine-art prints ship unframed. Acrylic glass arrives ready to hang. The signed edition, Positive Climb, comes in 80 × 120 cm only.
Shipping is included in Germany and the rest of the EU. Printed to order in Germany and shipped by parcel service. From order to your door it takes about 3–5 working days within Germany and about 4–8 elsewhere in the EU. A fine-art print in 80 × 120 cm takes about 9 working days within Germany and 11 to other EU countries. All countries and special cases are on the Shipping page. If you need a print by a certain date, write to me before you order. If your print arrives damaged, email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and two photos, and I’ll arrange a replacement or a refund.
Manufacturer
Made to order by Saal Digital Fotoservice GmbH, Zeppelinstraße 36, 91187 Röttenbach, Germany (www.saal-digital.de) or by WhiteWall Media GmbH, Europaallee 59, 50226 Frechen, Germany (www.whitewall.com).
Seller and contact in the EU
Aaron Püttmann – PilotstoriesArt, Alt-Praunheim 53, 60488 Frankfurt am Main, Germany · hello@pilotstories.art
Safety
Acrylic glass prints are heavy, especially at 60 × 90 and 80 × 120 cm. Hang them with screws and wall plugs suited to your wall and to the weight. Carry and unpack them with both hands and hold them by the edges. Keep packaging material away from small children.
Care
Dust acrylic glass with a soft, dry microfibre cloth; for marks, use a little clean water. No alcohol, glass cleaner or abrasive cloths. Hold fine-art paper by its edges. Hang prints out of direct sunlight and away from heaters.
Dawn Encounter
The story behind the frame
Frankfurt, early in the morning, at the end of the night flight from Rio de Janeiro. The Boeing 787-9 is on the taxi to the gate and it is not yet light: the apron floodlights are still on, and the sky over the terminal is only beginning to turn grey.
Straight ahead, nose to nose, an Airbus A340-600 is being pushed back, all four engines facing us. At 75.36 metres it is the longest airliner Airbus has ever built, and for a moment the two long-haul jets look at each other across the apron, one just in from the night, the other on its way out.
The details
I took it from the jump seat, focused through the windscreen. The flight deck in front of me stays soft: the lit overhead panel, the glareshield, the pilot’s arm reaching up, the displays at the bottom of the frame. Only the A340 and the terminal behind it are sharp.
Along the top edge, the overhead panel’s lights blur into orange dots. The pushback truck’s lamps glow under the A340’s nose, and a second wide-body stands at its gate on the left. The A340-600 has four engines and first flew in 2001. Our 787-9 has two and first flew twelve years later.
For this one I would pick 60 × 90 cm as a fine-art print. The deep blacks of the baryta paper keep the flight deck dark and let the floodlights glow. At that size you can still count all four engines from across the room. Next to it I would hang Positive Climb, my signed edition. It shows a night take-off from runway 25C, so one print leaves Frankfurt in the dark and the other arrives just before dawn.
From the jump seat, February 2025
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