The Spirit of Manchester

Back from October, on a spotting seasson, together with some spotters from the mainland, a detail on Easyjet A320 G-EZRG, while taxiing to runway 05...

The Spirit of Manchester...some time after the infamous atacks...

Sorry about the lack of quality of the big crop but this was the real interest of the titles.....

Photo of the Week: A318, the second

Last week got a nice present...the (as far as I can remember) second A318 we ever got at Madeira:
Austrian AvconJet OE-ICE, arriving early in the evening from Porto....

Had to rise the ISO to 800 for some aceptable shots....

Easy....

Yesterday we got a couple of nice birds, a Condor 767 and an also rare Privilege 757...Unfortanatelly didn't manage to photograph any of them....yeah...a guy has to work....

So...a couple of shots of a regular one...Easyjet, with a plane that I had never published before...still....something different... :P

A320 G-EZUW finishing the push-back for runway 23 with A319 G-EZFZ with new livery landing on that runway

The departure from runway 23

Treino...

Ontem foi dia de um "presente"...
Infelizmente a hora não era de todo a melhor para algumas fotos pelo que fui aproveitando algum do pouco tráfego anterior para treinar os pannings com baixa luminosidade....

Neste caso, o TAP com Sharklets (coisa rara para mim...) CS-TNT....

Quanto à estrela do dia....logo coloco algumas fotos...

Falha de motor....

...simulada ;)

Há já bastante tempo que não via o Piper do Aeroclube da Madeira a voar...no dia do C-130 da Royal Canadian Air Force (ver AQUI), andava a fazer um voos de treino que suponho estarem integrados num novo curso de PPA.
Fica um par de registos de uma das chegadas com falha de motor simulada....

CS-AIC entrando de forma curta para a 05....

Ghost of the airline past...

When you see an airline making the first flight ever to a new destination with a plane carrying the colors of another closed bankrupt airline , you can't help wondering if they have a Marketing Department....(a working one, at least.....)

What we tought it would be the first flight of a new airline around here, ended up beeing a well deserved farewell bath to a plane with Air Berlin colors :)

D-ABFC landing on runway 05...

Arriving at the stand with the fire department trucks waiting for the welcome bath...

F/O filming...
feel happy for the Air Berlin crew. Glad to see you still in bussiness. Wish you the best of lucks!

 Ending the bath...curious about the new airline around here? Well....if they didn't bother to celebrate it, I guess it's not worth mentioning....

Photo of the Week: Canadian Air Force

Finally, we got some interesting military traffic around here...A Royal Canadian Air Force C-130 made a technical stop here, on its way to Africa.
First time I got one of these...looks really nice on the all grey / low-vis livery.

Unfortunally, it made a really early landing...with that light would have been nice to get the touchdown...

German connections :)

Missing Air Berlin? 

Well... around here it's still possible to see some airplanes with AB full livery or at least with some small memories on the german airline ;)

Enter Air panning

Back to the beggining of October, the first Enter Air pic I publish, from this year.
SP-ESA departing from runway 05.
A 1/25 panning at late afternoon...