Passing by...

Today I went to the airport side of the island and on the going and on the return made some quick stops and managed to get 3 interesting planes...

This Neos comes on regular basis to Porto Santo but it's very irregular on the trips to Madeira.


Despit beeing another Tui blue plane it's not a very usual airline so, it's a nice catch (but I would go to the airport just for it...)
Lining up on runway 05, before departing to Milan, Malpensa Airport.

This one was a surprise! Noticed a military convoy in front of me on their way to the airport and was convinced that it would be arriving an Air Force C-130.
Well...I went on my affairs and returned and they were still waiting at the airport's ramp door...
They must have been there waiting for about 1:30h... (g'anda seca...)
So much for schedulles...
Anyway the plane was finally arriving with callsign "Portugal 37" and it wasn't a C-130... it was a C-295!


This Tuifly was right behind the C-295 (with a big delay...it was suposed to arrive early in the morning, not at lunch...) and it was a yellow one, rare catch for me, so waited...

After turning right into final it made a huge deviation to the left with pilots strugling with the wind during a bit of a long moment to stabilize the plane....

Monday afternoon - 1

Like I said on the previous post, last Monday was had a great afternoon of spotting.
Good traffic in little time and a great afternoon light.

Still wasn't this time we had a special livery from Transavia...

The Cimber Sterling (from Copenhagen) had about 4 hours delay, which was great for me (not so good for the passengers...) as allowed me to photograph it and arrived with great afternoon light, instead of the awfull mid-day strong light (actually I thing that at the schedulled time it was dark, cloudy and with litle shower rain...)

Anyway, a diferent registration from last week but still with Sterling livery. Maybe next week we get a Cimber Sterling livery...


About to leave. Holding short of runway 05. Waiting for the departure of Transavia.

Was almost forgeting this one, allways a well worth catch as the 735 is a very rare bird around here (also didn't expect to see Palmair livery around here anymore, after European bankrupt)

FlyGlobespan is one of those that's allways nice to catch! Just love that livery...

A windy final for this Easyjet...


...and a litle higher than usual...

New Photo of the Week - Easy...

Time for a new pic of the week.
Today at the end of the afternoon went for some spotting and it was one of those great spotting days with lots of great traffic on little time and a very nice afternoon sunlight (and after changing a little bit the location, a few other spotters to talk a little bit...)

This Easyjet got a little wind on final with pilot making some corrections.
While this is not the shot were the wind effects are more visible I really like the way the plane looks high above ground and with an angle like if I was flying in formation with it...

Sharing some music...

While processing the last photos on the Belair 767, was listening some of my favorite, from several groups/artists...

My musical tastes goes from classical to heavy metal passing through regular "commercial" music...
One of those I was listening was one of my favorite songs from what used to be my favorite band...Nightwish...
(Used to be my fav. when Tarja was the singer...definitely the Nightwish + Anette (new singer) is less my kind of music...)

This video's from their last concert with Tarja as a singer...



Got curious and searched the same song with Anette singing...Argh...awfull, she definitely shouldn't try to sing songs that were obviously written for Tarja...

Belair 767

767 are quite rare around here (well, at least they used to be...now we have a weekly SBA 767 from Caracas, on Saturdays and will became 2 weekly flights)
Belair colors are also very rare. These two combined...are rarer on the double...lol

Last week, we had a 767 from Belair making an Air Berlin flight from Zurich. When we knew it was already too late to photograph it.

This week we were already paying atention to that flight. Anyway, couldn't manage to get landing... So, the rest of the pics...

Registration and notice the skid...trail strike prevention?




Pushing back....

Double lettering (Belair / Air Berlin)

Taking off from runway 05 to Zurich.

This one's made me spend more time than usual on post-processing...LOL

Still around...

This morning went to the airport to photograph Belair's (Air Berlin) 767.
D-AAAZ was still around, so got the oportunity for some close-up's...

17401 @ Porto Santo

Taken on a scale during lunch time at Porto Santo, before proceeding to Lisbon...

The King's plane

Finally I get these online...

It's the photos I managed to took from the Spanish Air Force A310 that brought the Kings of Spain to the visit to our Archipelago.
They stayed a couple of days at Madeira and then came to Porto Santo, for a quick visit and lunch, before leaving.

Was expecting this one as I had missed the day they made the trainings at Madeira and never had photographed a military A310...

Very short final to runway 36...

Some local ocasional spotters...

Cleared for take off...

A Couple of Bizjets

These two beauties have been here for a few day's (at least since August, 25th)

At first tought that this Global 5000 was a Gulfstream, but it does look better than the Gulfstream, that's not one of my fav. bizjets at all....
Here seen with TAP's A330 CS-TOK taxiing after its landing on runway 23 (and an aborted approach, due to traffic on the runway)



This one has a very nice livery!
As far as I know it was supposed to have departed this morning...