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Photo of the Week: Norwegian from London

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Norwegian has one of my favorite liveries so, could miss the oportunity for some shots on a diferent airport... Early in the morning, with a nice light, arriving at Porto Santo, from London. B738 EI-FVY, about to land on runway 36 The public balcony at Porto Santo is still a nice place to see the planes...let's hope they maintain it on the works that are beeing prepared for the airport terminal....

Dragon Rapide

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Esta semana, um companheiro destas andanças do spotting e aviação que se dedica ao desenho de perfis (bastante bons, por sinal), pedia informações acerca dos De Havilland DH-89A Dragon Rapide da CTA - Companhia de Transportes Aéreos, pelo que lembrei-me de ver o que tinha deste tipo de aparelho... Não são muitas nem nada de muito especial mas, como nunca tinha publicado nada deste aparelho, cá vão 3 registos, obtidos em Cuatro Vientos, Madrid e no Museu do Ar, em Sintra. Começando pelo Português, no Museu do Ar, o 2307 G-ACYR da Olley Air Service, em Cuatro Vientos ainda em Cuatro Vientos, um espanhol, de registo 40-1  Já agora, relativamente à CTA, fica o link para um blog bem interessante com alguns registos e história da mesma, AQUI

Back to Amsterdam

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Back to June 2018, TUI Nederland B738 PH-TFB departing from runway 05, to Amsterdam. Back when the TUI Group started using this livery I tought it was really nice but after getting once more the same livery to all the planes of the group it's just simply boring...come on!... They could at least change the colors, like Tuifly made, with the yellow...or use the green or pink or whatever for the diferent airlines of the group...

Vídeos: Lacuna Coil

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Os italianos Lacuna Coil eram, há algum tempo atrás,  um dos grupos que gostava de ouvir mas, nos últimos tempos têm-me passado um pouco ao lado. Um dia destes encontrei, por acaso este recente video ao vivo em Londres...Excelente! Blood, Tears, Dust (The 119 Show - Live In London):

Back in time...10 years

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Back to July 2008, a pic of Luxair's B737 LX-LGS landing on runway 05 with the previous livery 14.Jul.2008 Opposite to many rebrandings these days, in my opinion, the new livery of Luxair turned out really nice and a lot better than this one...

Photo of the Week: First Vueling at Porto Santo

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From August a sequence on the first Vueling at Porto Santo. A320 EC-MAH was coming from Barcelona to Madeira but due to the winds out of limits, had to divert to the neighbour island. landing on runway 36 taxiing to the apron joining the TAP (A319 CS-TTI) and Binter (ATR-72 EC-LAD) that were already there

TAP Express

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De regresso ao ano passado, na capital, um registo do ATR-72 da TAP Express (Operado pela White) à saída do stand. CS-DJB, com o A320 EC-IZR da Iberia ao lado Entregue em Junho de 2016 à White e baptizado como "Guarda" é uma visão que dificilmente terei pela Madeira, pelo que suscita sempre o meu interesse, quando vou àqueles lados...

I Love Manchester, by Thomas Cook

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Thomas Cook UK A321 G-TCDM on final to runway 05, from Manchester An unexpected catch, this morning, on a quick stop at the cargo terminal zone. Haven't caught many Thomas Cook UK planes lately so, any of it would be nice.. Turned out it was carrying ILoveMCR titles...nothing to extravagant but still, a diferent touch on the regular livery...

NEOS B763

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B767 are one regulars at Madeira but, during the summer, neighbour island of Porto Santo has been receiving a weekly flight from Milan by Neos, with the B763... I-NDMJ just arriving from Milan...the return flight should arrive at Milan at an "interesting" time of the night....

Divergidos no Porto Santo

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Por hoje ficam 3 registos, do mês passado, no Porto Santo, de 3 dos aparelhos que divergiram para aquela ilha, devido aos ventos acima dos limites na Madeira. TAP A319 CS-TTI Binter ATR-72 EC-LAD, que faria a ligação Porto Santo - Madeira... Acabou por ser a primeira vez que ficou em nigh-stop na ilha Dourada ver AQUI A320 EC-MAH da Vueling a taxiar para o stand...acabaria por regressar a Barcelona, algum tempo depois... Segundo os spotters locais, foi a primeira vez que tiveram um Vueling pelo Porto Santo. Consegui fazer uns registos da aterragem...logo os partilho, daqui a uns dias...  Ainda apareceu pelo Porto Santo um CRJ da Air Nostrum mas, acabaria por não o apanhar, já que acabaria por regressar a Madrid...

Photo of the Week: MEDEVAC at Zermatt

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For a change on Portuguese Air Force EH-101 MEDEVAC's, at Madeira, a MEDEVAC at the Alps made by Air Zermatt, from its helipad, on the city the Volkswagen ambulance was also from Air Zermatt HB-ZSU, a Bell 429 Global Ranger power on for the departure... Departure...unfortunatelly, F*cked up the remaining shots of the departure as I was trying to keep a low shutter speed for the prop blur...got more blur than just the props... :P

Condors

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Back to Madeira, from last month, a couple of Condor pic's, lining up on runway 05, in the morning... (yeah...not the regular heart livery, for a change...) A320 D-AICA, still with the retro livery, back from the 50's Hybrid Afriqiyah / Small Planet A320 performing a Condor flight

Golden Hour Easyjet

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Golden Hour at golden island (Porto Santo) is quite nice...despite that, at the airport, the sun disapears a bit high behing the hills, it still gives a nice colors for the late afternoon landings.... Easyjet's A319 G-EZFV was one of the planes diverted from Madeira on this day, due to the winds and landed at Porto Santo with the very last sunlight on the runway... touchdown on runway 36 far on the back, the "downtown" and the ferryboat "Lobo Marinho" that makes the connection to Madeira Ended up staying for the night at Porto Santo. Many faces on the windows, curious about this alternate destination. Despite the change of plans, it should have been a very nice approach, over the 9km golden sand beach, into Porto Santo...

Binter: Night-stop no Porto Santo

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Uma das críticas que têm sido apontadas à Binter é o facto de o aparelho não ficar baseado no Porto Santo... No mês passado, tive a sorte de poder registar o primeiro night-stop da Binter na ilha Dourada :) Claro que, essa mesma escala nocturna nada teve a ver com contratos mas sim com o vento fora de limites na Madeira, que obrigaram a companhia espanhola a cancelar o voo de regresso a FNC... ATR-72 EC-LAD

The New Airbus...

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I'm one of the guys that found it real strange to start calling the Bombardier C Series: Airbus A220... Anyway, call it whatever you want...the plane is (in my opinion) a real beauty and definitely one of the better looking airliner you can see flying currently... Despite having seen it around previously, only this summer, after the renaming to Airbus A220 did I have the oportunity for some decent shots.... A220-300 HB-JCC taxiign to the gate, with bigger brother A330 HB-JHG, on the back, in Zurich Those engines look great :) The cockpit windows also look great...

The Brazilian Legacy

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PP-JLO at Madeira, after arriving from Milan This beautiful brazilian Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 600 has became a more frequent sight at Madeira, with a few visits during last months. Still, not many pics of it, and the oportunity of getting it on a night-stop in front of the public balcony was too good to miss.. Unfortunately, the public balcony was mostly closed due to some works that are beeing prepared (I wonder what works are those....) and this was the only possible perspective...which was rather good...if the plane would have been parked on any other stand and it would have been a lost trip to the airport....

Project "X" Photography

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As from today, just started colaborating with the Project "X" Photography. It's quite a great honor for me to be choosen to integrate a team of such talented photographers! Please check the Webpage for more info and images, HERE TAP's A330 CS-TON departing from Madeira A small banner was also added to the right...

Star Alliance by Swiss

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Swiss A320 HB-IJM getting ready for the departure.... Lot's of Swiss International Airlines planes at Zurich (who would have guessed?... :P  ) so, decided to sart with a "diferent" one... Unfortunatelly, didn't get any special livery while there so, the next best thing (yeah, right...) .... a Star Alliance livery plane. Taken from the terminal, while getting ready for the departure....

Porto Santo - Acompanhamento do EH

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Em manhã de chuva, foi fácil notar a chegada ao Porto Santo, primeiro de um C-295, seguido pouco depois de EH-101, pela 36. Inicialmente pensei que teria sido alguma missão a longa distância ou treino mas, depois logo soube que se tratava da rendição do EH-101 destacado no AM3 - Porto Santo e respectivo aparelho de acompanhamento. O C-295 de acompanhamento, 16709, um dos VIMAR, pouco tempo após a chegada, ainda com a chuvinha a borrar o horizonte.... Curiosamente, apercebi-me agora que é a primeira foto do 09 que publico...a confirmar, se foi efetivamente a primeira vez que o apanhei.... Pela hora de almoço, quando o EH de regresso ao continente se preparava para sair, a meteo já estava a ficar mais agradável... EH's 19611 e 19609 e C-295 16709

Foto da Semana: Coimbra no Porto Santo

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Banal para muitos, um dos movimentos de destaque para mim no Porto Santo, seria, sem dúvida o Embraer da TAP Express, que no arquipélago, apenas voa para aquela ilha.... Uns registos da chegada do CS-TPW, Embraer ERJ-190LR da TAP Express, operado pela Portugália, na chegada ao Porto Santo... na final para a 36 entrada na placa...