Photo of the Week: The balcony Fokker

Fokker 100 PH-OFE / FE-004

Well, I guess not many Airport balconies with an open Fokker 100 with the air radio comms inside...you gotta love it :)

Looks like the balcony will be under works up to the summer so, for the current visitors of Amsterdam Schiphol it may not be possible to get up there...

Luckily, despite all the rain we got on the Netherlands, that day the weather was really nice for some spotting on the terrace...

On the other side....

TUI Nederland (Arke) B738 PH-TFF pushing back at Amsterdam Schiphol 

One of the boring blues that comes to Madeira (or at least came, back then), seen on the other end of the route, as it was pushing back for a departure from AMS.
On the back...the omnipresent blue home team...KLM B738 PH-BXV

The guys in blue

No...no talking about the Police...
Back to Amsterdam, a shot of KLM B737 PH-BGH....

I guess, the dificulty here is getting just one....still with a bigger "brother" on the back, an A330...

By the way...a good moment to remember the only time I got KLM colors at Madeira...
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Photo of the Week: Public Balcony

For this week some planes but with the focus on the spotters, either when they do know that they are spotting or just think that they're watching some planes.... ;)

Amsterdam Schipol public balcony

The smaller ones

Sometimes, no matter how many heavies you have around, the smaller birds are the ones that caught your attention...
The Dornier 328 is a very rare bird around here. The airlines (which I had never heard before) colors are also quite nice, so it immediately called my attention...

(still, was nice to have a 747F on the back... :)  )
Pic taken trough the glass....

According to their page, they have 3 of these and another 3 Saab 2000

"KLM" at Madeira

Today I noticed that the plane that made the Transavia flight, from Amsterdam was the PH-HZM.
Nothing special there...no special livery, no story at all...

But then, I was checking some old photos when I noticed this one very special:


The first time I caught KLM colors....and, as far as I know, the only time those colors were here at Madeira.
The plane: PH-HZM, the same one of today!

Back then, (3th August 2006) the plane had just returned to Transavia, after some time on duty with KLM and was still using its colors...Great!!!

I remember it was a day I had went to the airport to photograph an An12 (another very rare visitor) and was about to leave when the Transavia was arriving. Still though of leaving without photographing it but, as I was already there, so waited a bit....and BIG prize!! I couldn't believe...
Anyway a unique catch on my colection...