Photo of the Week: The almost gone canadian

You know you're getting lazy on the pics when you realise you are about to delete a card with the pics of a one time catch and still haven't copied them to you HDD....almost one month later...

Still, managed to save them...
Tui Nederlands (Arke) made some flights to Madeira using Sunwing hybrid planes. Already had caught C-FTOH (check HERE) but after spotting C-GOWG over Amsterdam (high on the sky) they finally brought it to Madeira at least a couple of times...got it once...

Landing on 05

A colorful TUI apron :)
(Tuifly's CEWE, D-ATUH still with the white nose, after its birdstrike the previous week, at Madeira)

Early wake for the Antonov

A couple of days ago, Tuifly's B738 D-ATUH (special livery Mein CEWE) suffered a bird strike on landing which damaged the nose.
The replacement part had to be brought from Hannover by an An-12, which is allways a great (and rare) sight...
Inicially schedulled to arrive in the middle of the night, ended up arriving a little bit  before sunrise which allowed me to make a quick run for some shots before heading to work.

An-12 UR-CGV just after arriving...(long exposure shot...tried some high ISO shots of the landing but it was too dark)

Tuifly's D-ATUH on a night-stop with the damaged nose.
Unfortunately couldn't stay for the nose change...

Tuifly CEWE new livery

D-ATUH with CEWE Fotobuch new livery, crossing a rainbow on final to Madeira's runway 05

New Photo of the Week: Tuifly take off

For this week's photo, a shot with a little more than a month, with Tuifly's D-ATUH taking off from Madeira's runway 23...always an interesting sight...