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Photo of the Week: Windy final for Vistajet

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  Early wake to get 9H-VIM, a Vistajet Bombardier BD-700-2A12 Global 7500, arriving positioned from Las Palmas to grab some passengers for a flight back to Washingon Dulles International Airport (IAD). Today, the wind made some (not much) of its usual damage at Madeira, with some flights diverting during the day. In the morning, no planes diverted but some made had some bumpy approaches... This Vistajet was one, with an hard final to runway 05, quite noticeable in this shot, where it is supposed to come already straight and stabilized on very short final.... Over the runway they had another "twitch" to the other side...but managed to land at first atempt.

Porto Santo at Madeira

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 Back to Frebruary, from the day of RAF A400 (Check HERE ), a late afternoon shot of TAP Express (Portugália) Embraer E195LR CS-TAY, baptized "Porto Santo", arriving at Madeira's runway 05, from Lisbon.

Smartwings...Prague kind of loves you

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Something new for me... Smartwings B738 OK-TVF with the remains of the Prague Loves You special livery Went for the Portugal Air Force C-130 (Check HERE ) and didn't even looked at the remaining traffic so, it was a nice surprise Taxiing for the return to Prague

Photo of the Week: P-51 Frances Dell

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Back to Air Invictus 2026, another shot of the beautifull P-51 Frances Dell (  OO-NZW) at Vila da Luz airfield with a great light...

757 and company

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This month we had, for the first time in a long time, a B757 Icelandair's TF-FIC on one of it world tours...unfortunatelly, completely white....still nice to see a 757 once more. Arrived from Brazil, stayed for a few days and departed to London, before heading to Reykjavik  Didn't get the landing nor the departure but, for the record, a shot of the apron on Aug.21st with a nice light and TAP's A321NEO CS-TJJ and Transavia's A321NEO PH-YHR with the new livery.

RCAF C-17 177703

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Today we got at Madeira, a Royal Canadian Air Force C-17 (177703), coming from Porto, after a night-stop there. The stop at Madeira was quite short, before proceeding to Marrakech Unfortunatelly, didn't manage to get it..bills aren't payed by spotting... A shot, back from 2024 of 177705, the first and only RCAF C-17 I photographed around here (or anywhere else... ) Check the entry HERE

San Marino aircraft

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 On the same day of Portugal Air Force C-130 16801 (Check HERE ) and EH-101 Medic25 (check Here ), managed to get a rare San Marino registration bird. T7-SLA, a Bombardier CL-600-2B19 Challenger 850 arriving from somewhere with someone... A tourist girl came and ask me who was the owner of the plane. Replied to her that it was a private plane and honestly, didn't know and didn't care.... It's a rare bird around here with nice colors...it's good and enough... After landing (with a hard light...) it backtracked to taxiway Charlie for a stop on A01... Didn't really liked any of the landing shots so, a taxi pic, entering the apron with the light on a more suitable heading...

C-130 16801

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Alguns registos do C-130 16801 na Madeira, após passagem pelo Porto Santo, no passado dia 20. Chegada pela 05: Algum tempo depois, veio a ter a companhia do EH-101 19607, que chegou igualmente do Porto Santo como Medic 25, numa missão de Evacuação Médica a partir daquela ilha. Mais fotos do Medic 25 AQUI O "C" acabaria por ficar em night-stop pela Madeira, partindo no dia seguinte.

First Austrian A320NEO

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These last years haven't been photographing many Austrians so, really not sure if the A320NEO is already regular around here but this was the first time I made some shots on one of their NEO's... OE-LZR arriving from Viena with some "special" titles