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Panning on the double...

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Just to share something different, a couple of pannings... Thomas Cook A320 G-SUEW and Monarch A321 G-OZBT

Air Flair, by Thomas Cook Belgium

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Last Friday was Summer's first day...despite the rain and dark weather... Anyway, we had Thomas Cook Belgium latest logojet around here so, despite the winter weather there I went.... As usual on TC logojets, the sticker were applied just on the left side... OO-TCJ, ready to push-back, to Brussels see you...

Um único Monarch

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Nos últimos tempos têm sido bem poucas as vezes que tenho ido ao aeroporto por causa de um único avião... Ontem foi um desses dias...sem grande movimento de especial, decidi, à ultima da hora, que queria "apanhar" o 321 da Monarch . No Funchal até estava bom tempo mas, ao chegar a Santa Cruz já me estava a arrepender, pois estavam chuviscos, tempo escuro e com a visibilidade algo "nublosa"... Felizmente, quando o Monarch vinha para a aterragem, o tempo já estava mais limpo (pelo menos na final para a 05) Entrando na perna base, com as nuvens a darem um belo efeito Entrando na final, com o céu para o lado do Funchal com bom aspecto... G-OZBG, já sobre a 05 Entretanto, sabia que mais para meio da manhã viria um C-295 da Força Aérea Portuguesa mas, decidi não esperar...fiz mal, já que afinal era o 16701, com a pintura especial das 10.000 Horas de voo da frota... Já o apanhei uma vez mas, as fotos não ficaram nada de especial (podem ver AQUI ) e coi

Aigle Azur: Old colors, still...

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The last couple of Saturdays, Aigle Azur brought planes with its new livery. Still haven't photographed any of it so, decided to publish the only Aigle Azur I photographed this year, F-GJVF still with "old" colors. Smoke on, landing on 05. Honestly, the only thrill of getting the new livery is just because its new... This one looks rather nice (for me...) entering the stand with a nicely filled apron of German traffic...

XL France

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The same day of Air Europa's ERJ-190 (check HERE ), right after the Embraer's departure we had the usual XL France flight (the XLF had to extend the downwind leg to allow the ERJ taxi and departure). Haven't got much of these so, despite the crappy wheather, made some shots... Rampa do sr.Manuel, one of the big spotting places at LPMA, with XLF's B738 entering final Some tourists and a local spotter were on the area ;) Lucky shot with the beacons and the small fishing boat F-HJER

From Russia with...B738

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Transaero resumed its summer flights from Russia (Moscow, Vnukovo) to Madeira last week. Yesterday went by the end of the afernoon for some pics of its arrival. With clear sky, it's a nice time for some pics but, yesterday was not the day... Still, some last rays of sun were still around in the plane's final path to runway 05 on the back "GELO" with the ferry-boat (Lobo Marinho) that connects Madeira to Porto Santo on its way to the other island aka...Transacaspa... ;) (direitos reservado ao Tovarich Pagoda) EI-RUB...burning rubber...

The first Arkefly....

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....of the season, for me... Like I've mentioned a few times, Tui regular colors like the ones used by Arkefly are definitely not a thrill to catch so, haven't made much effort to get Arkefly since they started making the summer season flights. But, in this day, it happened to catch PH-TFD, arriving and departing from / to Amsterdam... Landing on runway 05 Madeira flowers...... The take off was made from runway 23

Foto da Semana: ERJ-190 da Air Europa

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A foto da semana foi tirada ontem, dia de Portugal...apesar de tudo destaca a presença de um espanhol por estas bandas...sacrilégio? Ná....apenas spotting... EC-LLR Apesar de não me lembrar de ver a Air Europa por cá, consta que já andou por estas bandas, há já muito tempo (provavelmente será fácil de encontrar mas, ainda não procurei...). De qualquer forma, esta operação charter marcou a estreia do ERJ-190 deles pela Madeira, com um primeiro voo, de Madrid, na passada sexta-feira e ontem, o voo que veio buscar os passageiros. Acabei por não conseguir chegar a tempo da aterragem, pelo que  ficam umas fotos do taxi para alinhar na 05 e descolagem de regresso a Madrid. Por sorte, o beacon, num tipo de avião que é uma raridade por cá...

Small Planet indeed...

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I guess the name of an airline called "Small Planet" suits perfectly when you got the polish branch of a Lithuanian airline making flights from France to Portugal... It's one airline that was in my whishlist for some time. Only caught them a couple of times, none of wich I made a wow pic but, here's a few ones from last month, with runway 23 in use at Madeira international (FNC/LPMA) just landed at runway 23 Taking off from runway 23, back to France