Planes and stuff

 Today Madeira got, for the first time,  a B787. Also pretty sure it was the first time we got a Saudi Arabia goverment bird around here. Came from Faro after lunch and made a few training landings and take-offs with some holding on the taxiway between flights. A couple of shots from the last departure, with a nicer and less hard light... HZ-HM4

 A couple of Pilatus airplanes that I photographed recently... OK Aviation OK-PVG Pilatus PC-12, preparing to departure, to Ljubljana (LJU) And local based Pilatus PC-6 Porter, used for Skydiving. Not the best angle but it was the possible one...

This week, the Universe aligned for us... Was lucky enough to be around for some shots on McLaren's couple of days testing with the MCL60, before the summer break. It was the first time I had the oportunity to see, ear and photograph an F1 and how amazing it was... I'd rather have it over a V10 engine but really can't complain for a first oportunity after many years just watching on TV. You can check the McLaren report on these tests, HERE Equiped only with the usual Canon 760D and Canon 18-135mm for vacations, I guess I could get worst results on the few shots I managed to get on some of Oscar Piastri runs... Can tell you that it's definitely harder to photograph an F1 than a plane, specially from the location I had available... A few more shots... Piastri completed 55 laps at Portimão, and it was its first Formula 1 runs on the circuit.

Não sou fã de futebol mas acabei deitando um olho mais ou menos atento à final do Mundial, entre a Espanha e a Argentina... ;) Fica um registo do Zivko Aeronautics Edge 540 V3 N26VE, do Juan Velarde, sobre o Douro, durante o Invictus 2026...Parabéns Espanha!!

Back to May, a few shots of Transavia at Madeira. Transavia France A320NEO F-HXSN, arriving from Paris - Orly Ready for push-back, with a Transavia A321 arriving from Amsterdam With United B737 MAX N27273 taxiing to runway 05, for the departure back to Newark

Um par de cliques à chegada do C-130 16801, do Porto Santo. Acabou por chegar um pouco mais cedo do que eu estava à espera e na sequencia de um Wizzair...as chegadas pela 23 são sempre mais sequênciais e expeditas....acabei por só ter tempo para parar, sacar da máquina e fazer 3 cliques...por sorte a máquina estava com uns settings adequados... A partida para o continente acabou por ficar aquém, para mim, já que o spot que escolhi não foi o mais adequado ao tipo de descolagem....mais longa e baixa...paciência... Só por curiosidade, as 80K horas de voo da frota, assinaladas na cauda do aparelho, foram atingidas já em Setembro de 2019, pelo que agora devem ter mais umas quantas horas em cima, mesmo tendo em conta os processos de modernização que têm sido alvo e respectivos períodos de paragem, bem como o início de operações da Esquadra 506, com o KC-390

Back to May, a couple of shots on the Flight Calibration Services Diamond DA62 EI-TCN parked at Madeira with a couple of other prop planes passing by... Local Aeroclub Tecnam P2002JF Sierra EC-MQY taxiing to the runway for a local flight And a more rare Pilatus PC-12 taxiing for the departure for it's first leg, to Cascais (check HERE )

  Condor A321 D-ABAB departing from runway 23 to Dusseldorf, with Transavia France F-HTVS finishing the push-back and Spanish Air Force Super Puma HD.21-18, at the far end of the apron. The Spanish Puma had arrived from Ponta Delgada, where it was part of ASAREX 26, a SAR Exercise. Will be departing today for Las Palmas.