História...

Há coisas e locais com as quais convivemos diariamente e que se tornam tão habituais que passamos por elas sem sequer olhar, muitas vezes...

A foto desta semana retrata bem isso, quer em relação ao helicóptero da Helibravo/Heliatlantis (há muito desaparecido...) quer em relação ao próprio local e área envolvente, que começou esta semana a ser alvo de uma intervenção que, terá uma duração prevista de cerca de 2 anos e mudará completamente uma zona (foz de 2 das ribeiras que atravessam o Funchal) que foi bastante afectada pelas enxurradas do 20 de Fevereiro...

CS-HEU, Robinson R44 Clipper

Uma imagem que já faz parte da História...
Vamos lá a ver se o resultado valerá os 2 anos de estaleiro e os gastos...
(ou será que ainda fica pior?)

Heliatlantis at Take-off

Just got the portuguese aviation newspaper Take-off.
One the articles was about Helicopter companies in Portugal, which included one of my pics....

First air pics of the CS-HEU

Yesterday, on lunch time, went to the harbour, trying to get the Heliatlantis/Helibravo airborn.
The only pics I had of it were from the days after its arrival and all on the ground.
As I was arriving, noticed its noise...landing or taking off?? I was lucky. It wasn't on the helipad.
So, I just had to wait a little bit. Probably 15minutes.
After around 15m there it was again coming back...

It's definitely a lot lighter than the other helicopter. The last time I had go to that place, I got a "bath" from the sea water, sprayed by the downdraft of the rotor.

This one came in a bit higher and didn't spray neither water nor even some wind...

Refueling...

My first Robinson

Today arrived at Madeira the "new" Heliatlantis helicopter, replacing the CS-HCY (an Ecureuil)

The "new" helicopter is a Robinson R44, operated by Helibravo.
DN had publish a few days ago that it would arrive today by sea so, after leaving work made a quick stop at the entrance of the Funchal Port (local of operations for Heliatlantis) to see if it was already there...

Yes, there it was...it was the first time I put eyes on one of these and my first impression was that it was kind of an R/C Helicopter....lol

Not much light but here's a first pic just for the record, let's see if this weekend I can get some airborn pics...