Farewell to Niki Lauda

Niki Lauda died yesterday...
I guess no presentations are needed for the amazing man...

The only of its airlines that hasn't (still) been around here was the most recent Lauda Motion...

A few shots to remember...

Lauda Air B737 OE-LNO, back in 2004

One of the few airlines that ever flew the Embraer to Madeira...Embraer ERJ-190LR OE-IHD (a registration now used by one of Lauda Motion's A320...This Embraer is now flying as HB-JVL at Helvetic)

A321 OE-LES, June 2016

A320 OE-LER, April 2013

Gone with the wind....

Yesterday was (depending on the perspective....) a very calm afternoon at Madeira....
On my perspective, of course...
Due to the winds out of limits, I spent an afternoon (after 16:30) at Madeira airport without seeing a single plane as they were holding at ABUSU and diverting to Porto Santo or returning to Lisbon...

They only started landing at late afternoon with almost no sun...
Niki's A321 OE-LES landed when the sun was already gone...so an ISO400 1/50 panning for this one...

Niki...with the fly

It's been quite a long time since I last photographed a Niki with the Fly livery...Too bad there are less and less planes with this livery...

 A321 OE-LES landing on runway 05

the departure from runway 05