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Despedida na Patrulla Águila

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Parece que este fim de semana será a despedida do C-101 com a Patrulla Águila, durante o Festival Aire 25, em San Javier, Murcia, Espanha. Passarão depois a utilizar o Pilatus PC-21. A única vez em que tive oportunidade de ver e fotografar esta patrulha acrobática foi já em 2009, no decorrer no Portugal Air Show desse ano, em Évora. Grandes tempos... Curiosamente, algumas das fotos que fiz então, figuram no livro Volez, JETS en Patrulles / Flyning, Jet Teams, um livro fotográfico sobre diversas patrulhas acrobáticas que ganha agora um gostinho ainda mais especial e histórico. Fica um registo desse ano... Mais algumas fotos AQUI

Binter by night

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Binter ATR-72 EC-MYT (first time I publish this registration....not sure if it's the first time I got it...) on the usual spot for the night-stop, with TAP A320NEO CS-TVC arriving from Lisbon, in the back...

Photo of the Week: United first flight

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United Airlines made its first flight to Madeira today. B737 MAX8 N17272 crossed the Atlantic during the night, after taking off from New York EWR - Newark  around 21:50 (local time) and arriving at Madeira the next morning, around 09:11 (local time). Despite the nice weather at Funchal, at the airport, in Santa Cruz, was dark and there was a barrier of Easyjet planes blocking the landing view...spotter's life... Still managed some bit of sun in the aircraft during the taxi... Anyway...still no welcoming bath around here... The flights will be carried on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays until September.

Hungarian Smartwings

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Back from March, Hungarian Smartwings B738 HA-LKG arriving from Prague, on smooth landing, despite the crossed wind...

Air Vitosha...filming 23

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9H-THB, Air Vitosha Learjet 31A arriving at Madeira's 23, from Malaga, Spain, for a stop, before proceeding to Marrakech. I guess Madeira landings are allways a must for every crew....F/O was filming the all final and landing with his cell phone...

Photo of the Week: French C

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 Despite the light and shots are definitely not the best, the arrival of Armée de l'Air C-130 61-PO is well worth the photo of the week. Pretty sure it's the first french C-130 I get and with the extra of beeing a special livery one...too bad about the time of the day and light... Special livery for the 10,000 flight hours of the Franco-German Binational Air Transport Squadron (BATS). I guess its arrival is related to the presence of a French navy training Squad at Funchal (check HERE )

Photo of the Week: Croatian Condor

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With the new season, Condor leases all kind of planes to assure its summer operations... Despite not beeing that colorful, at least its not full snowwhites... Never had one of these with croation registration... Fly Air41 A320 9A-SHO, arriving from Dusseldorf, a week ago...

MGM

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 Air Charter Scotland Cessna 560XL Citation Excel 9H-MGM departing from runway 05 to Porto Santo (PXO/LPPS)

Esquadra 506: 2º Aniversário

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A Esquadra 506 assinala hoje o seu segundo aniversário. Parabéns a todos os Rinocerontes! Mais fotos do KC-390 AQUI