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A300 40th aniversary

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Looks like the A300 is celebrating its 40th aniversary...so decided to dedicate this week's photo to this plane... Only managed to get a couple of these, until now. One in Madeira and another in Lanzarote (G-OJMR, from Monarch)... D-AIAX, from Hapag-Lloyd, taking off from Madeira Check another post on these planes HERE

Holidays Czech Airlines Premiere

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Holidays Czech Airlines took the Paris, Charle de Gaulle route that used to be made by Enter Air. Passing in Fuerteventura and then in Madeira, before returning to Paris, it was the first time we had this airline around. A320 OK-LEF, landing on 05. Despite would prefer the one with the special livery, the regular one still looks rather nice On the return, pushing back holding short off runway 05, on taxiway Charlie (waiting for the landing of D-CCGN, an ambulance...posting pics on this one later)

Deutchland

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Esta tarde chamou-me à atenção o facto do Deutchland pernoitar na Madeira. Confesso que continuo a achar um atractivo especial neste tipo de navios de cruzeiros mais pequenos e mesmo que de forma rápida, lá lhe tirei uns "retratos"... Baixa do Funchal, com a torre da Sé e o Deutchland em destaque... A iluminação nocturna dos cruzeiros é algo sempre bonito de ver... Embora a foto ficasse mais interessante com um céu menos escuro por trás, já noite escura foi a hora que se pode arranjar, para estas fotos...

Good-bye Hello...

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Looks like another airline that used to come to Madeira (in the last few months) was shut... According to the public release, it will be a temporary stop of flight operations...(but unfortunatelly we know what this probably means...) Check the public release HERE Managed to get their planes a couple of times. Once, back in 2007, still with the nice MD-90... HB-JIC landing on runway 23 More recently, already equiped with the Airbus A320, they started a weekly operation to Madeira. Unfortunatelly, the time of the day wasn't the best to me...only managed to photograph it once... (and now these pics are worth gold, to me....) HB-JIW landing on runway 05 all the best for the employees of Hello...

West Air Europe cargo flights

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When Sata got rid of its ATP's I thought it was the last time I'd seen those kind of birds around... With the dayly cargo flights beeing made by West Air Europe, we've seen the ATP's return and with quite a change of registrations... These were taken on the same day of the EH-101 (check HERE ) LX-WAV taxiing to runway 05 Looks like that tail as seen better days... Early take off, from runway 05, to Lisbon

Cmdt. Marcelino

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Faleceu hoje uma das figuras incontornáveis da aviação em Portugal. O Cmte José Sequeira Marcelino, faleceu aos 96 anos de idade (20JAN1916-19OUT2012) e foi sem dúvida um dos aviadores Portugueses que se tornou um marco, na sua profissão, como piloto e como pessoa, pela sua longa e distinta carreira e pelos grandes momentos da História da aviação nacional e do país em que participou. Deixo informação acerca de 2 excelentes livros. O primeiro, obra biográfica acerca Cmdt. Marcelino: "A Vida que Eu quis - TAP264" Ver link para informação sobre o mesmo AQUI O outro, uma excelente obra quase obrigatória para quem se interessa por estas coisas do ar... "Histórias com Asas, Memórias dos Pilotos da TAP dos tempos da Hélice" Mais informação sobre estes 2 livros num outro tópico meu, de 2009. Ver AQUI

Spottada de despedida...

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Numa tarde em que não se previa nada de absolutamente especial ou interessante, só mesmo o que se previa ser a spottada de despedida na Madeira, de um companheiro destas lides é que poderia atraír tanta gente e máquina fotográfica por metro quadrado às rampas... :) Da minha parte, valeu mesmo mais pelo convívio, do que pelas poucas ou nenhumas fotos que tirei, no entanto, para azar de alguém, ainda tivemos a presença do Medic36, o C-295 (16701) da Força Aérea Portuguesa, baseado no Porto Santo (AM3), efectuando uma Medevac daquela ilha para cá... O CS-TNU da TAP foi outro que mereceu umas fotos e até nem saíu mal, até porque tenho poucas fotos deste avião... Grande abraço J.B., vamo-nos falando por aí (e com pontaria ainda dá para mais uma spottada, antes de ires...)

New Photo of the Week: Phenom 300

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The Embraer Phenom is quite a rare sight around here. It's a nice little bizjet and in this case, PP-ABV (a Phenom 300) holds a great livery. After the inside pic of last week, I guess that this one's a great example that outside pics can also turn out really nice and personally, my best/fav. pics are from the outside, no doubt.... With a TAP A320 landing on the back, in runway 05 Sata's A320, CS-TKJ was also with lights on while maintenance was working on it....

Top Jetphotos: Spottando o Easyjet

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Reparei hoje num email do Jetphotos, de ontem, informando-me que esta foto tinha estado no Top das Últimas 24h... Os turistas não pareciam ser do tipo spotter "profissional" mas, aquele ponto ali, com os aviões a passar mesmo em frente, é irresistível para qualquer pessoa... G-EZBJ da Easyjet aterrando na pista 23 da Madeira (FNC/LPMA)

Madeira Islands

Here's a fantastic video made by Mathieu Hervé, a French tourist that visited us last September... A must see, specially if you're thinking about visiting us... Enjoy! MADEIRA ISLANDS // SEPT. 2012 from mat H. on Vimeo .

New Photo of the Week: Arrival

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Not much to say...TAP's CS-TTN arriving to the stand... It's not everyday I get the oportunity for one of these.... This one goes to Capt. D.Gonçalves.

Aigle Azur in the morning...

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It's been quite a long time since I last caught Aigle Azur like this... ah...the morning sun, right after the rain...clear and smooth... F-HBAO, Aigle Azur's A320 about to land on runway 05, passing by taxiway Charlie all out, for the stop...

Jet Time premiere

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Today we got the first flight from JetTime. It's not an airline with an exciting livery and the weather was also quite dull, as the pics... Anyway, it allways good to have some new traffic... Nice detail on the winglet... OY-JTV arriving from Bergen, in Norway. wind was calm and it was given the oportunity to choose the runway. It went to 05... I guess it allways interesting to pilots to make the approach and landing into this runway...

Air Berlin by OLT Express

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Diferent liveries, even with the same colors are allways a good motiv for some pics. Last Thursday morning, the Portuguese Air Force EH-101 and the D-ABDB, with the OLT Express livery were motivs interesting enough for a trip to the airport... Despite the great weather in Funchal and until the GELO area, the airport had dark and rainy weather... entering final to runway 05 with some nice sun on the plane and in the back landscape... while at the airport, it was raining.... The departure was made already under some sun.... That's Madeira weather...