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100 Years of Lufthansa

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Today german carrier Lufthansa celebrates its 100th Aniversary! Congratulations! Despite having a few Lufthansa Group airlines flying to Madeira, currently the main one does not. Still, a photo, a photo of retro livery A321 D-AIDV receiving the water salute at Madeira, on the day of its return to our skyes, back in 2016... More on that day, HERE

A339 CS-TUN

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 Uns cliques à chegada do TAP A339 CS-TUN de Lisboa, ao final da tarde. Foi o primeiro 330 do ano para mim e acabei tendo sorte, com o sol a mostrar-se para a aterragem na 05... A saída foi já sem luz, pelo que, sem tripé, os cliques foram mesmo só para testar umas brincadeira com ISO1600 e velocidades de 1/25...nada que ganhe prémios de qualidade :P 

Air Baltic

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 Back to December 2025, Air Baltic A220 YL-ABW from/to Riga with a cew change and a jolly F/O on arrival. Happy New Year to you too! Coming to a stop, after a runway 23 landing... entering A05 stand Captain signaling ground staff New crew boarding... runway 23 take-off back to Riga...

Photo of the Week: 2026 Opening

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Today went for the first spotting of 2026.  Happy New Year everyone! Got some interesting stuff...mainly the A339 landing later afternoon and then some panning playing on the begining of the evening... Transavia new livery got quite a delay so, didn't wait... The Easyjet A320 HB-AYP departure to Basel was one of the pannings that turned out ok... 1/20 panning, with ISO800, with a Canon 760D...I guess it could be worst (and a lot of the other pics were...lol)

Foto da semana: 01 eletrónico

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 Hoje tivemos pela Madeira o KC-390 no voo FAP semanal. Ainda não foi desta que fiz as primeiras fotos ao 03 mas, acabou por ser interessante, com a 23 em uso e um extra que ainda não tinha tido oportunidade de fotografar.... 01 à saída para o Porto Santo, com um par de "pods" de guerra electrónica SPEAR AECM ("Active Electronic Counter Meausures"), da Elbit Systems O resto das fotos, à chegada de Lisboa e mais umas da saída...pena que não foi uma saída muito "tática"...

First regular A321

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Yesterday got, for the first time, a regular livery Transavia A321. Up until now, the only Transavia A321 I had photographed had been the retro. Wasn't there for the spotting but might as well make some shots, while around. Beeing already dark, had to increase ISO up do 1600 (with a Canon 670D) and try some handheld shots at f4.5, 1/25, at 135mm...wasn't expecting great results but wouldn't miss a thing by trying... Indeed didn't got premium results but I guess it could be a lot worst.... PH-YHY arriving at Madeira, from Amsterdam, about to enter taxiway Charlie, after a runway 23 landing

Photo of the Week: Transavia retro

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 Still the only Transavia A321 I photographed, and also the first time on this spot . Just a lucky catch, after a personal matter at Santa Cruz, made a quick stop at the airport to check the apron...something was on the downwind with some nice light on the runway so, decided to make some shots... Transavia retro A321NEO PH-YHD, arriving from Amsterdam... :) Love the smoke on this one but decided for the general cleaner look of the first shot, for the photo of the week...

SAS windows upgrade

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 Just for the record, SAS A320NEO EI-SIT arriving at Madeira, from Stockholm Arlanda with windows 25H2 already installed.... :) Just joking...new window on the cockpit, which wasn't even painted...

TAP: 75+5

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 Depois de um par de dias de mau tempo e ventos fora do limite, causados pela depressão "Emília", em que prativamente não aterraram voos em FNC, na segunda-feira, a TAP trouxe 3 A330s, 2 deles de manhã (um A332, CS-TOO e um A339, o CS-TUD) Com os títulos referentes aos 75 anos da companhia, foi a primeira vez que tive oportunidade de fazer umas fotos ao aparelho, 5 anos depois...no ano em que a companhia completou o 80º Aniversário....mais vale tarde... :) A chegar de Lisboa, pela 23...