Planes and stuff

Belgian bizjet OO-JUK, a Dassault Falcon 7X, ready for the night stop at Madeira, earlier this month

Today decided to share a 10 year old pic that, aparently I still hadn't processed... Back then Sterling was still flying so I guess that this is really worth sharing...definitely not for its quality but for the memories.... B738 OY-SED landing on runway 23...is currently flying for Sun Country as N813SY

Revendo fotos mais antigas, fica um registo já de 2015, de um A319 da Aigle Azur, descolando da 05, ao final da tarde. Não admira que tenha ficado para trás...a estrela do dia foi o D-ABDU da Air Berlin...o Etihad...(ver AQUI ) F-HBMI descolando da 05, em Novembro de 2015 Curiosamente, segundo o AirFleets, este aparelho foi armazenado o mês passado, com cerca de 21 anos...

Back to July, from the same day of Air Europa's 30th Aniversary livery (check HERE ) a previously unpublished pic of British Airways A320 G-GATS departing to London Gatwick, from runway 23... Love these kind of shots....and really miss making some of these....not really a fan of taxi/side shots....

Com uma data tão importante a ser assinalada hoje, não podia deixar de dedicar-lhe a foto da semana. Faz hoje 40 anos do acidente do CS-TBR "Sacadura Cabral" no Aeroporto da Madeira. Um dos dias mais negros da aviação em Portugal ... Fica o link para relatório oficial do acidente, AQUI Como foto da semana, fica um registo do único 727 que tive oportunidade de fotografar na Madeira (apesar de vê-los aterrar todos os dias quando era miúdo), o XT-BFA do Governo do Burkina Faso, curiosamente um ex-TAP, o CS-TBY...

Um registo, já de Outubro (do dia da estreia da Novair e do 321 NEO na Madeira...ver AQUI ) Sem grandes anúncios, especulações, bandeiras eleitorais...este consórcio montou e executou a rota de carga aérea Lisboa-Madeira-Lisboa, utilizando aparelhos da Swiftair, já nossa conhecida, de outros projectos de voos de carga para a Madeira. ATR-72  EC-JXF, descolando da 23, para Lisboa

Back to August, Gulfstream V N85JM. Taken on the same day we got WindRose for the first time. Check HERE

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.....

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....

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

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...

...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....

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....

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...

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 ;)

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...