Planes and stuff

No dia que se assinala o dia da Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa, desta feita com as comemorações a se centrarem no Porto, fica um registo de 2008, ano em que as celebrações tiveram lugar no Funchal, assinalando igualmente os 500 anos desta cidade. Lynx 19204, no decorrer de uma das suas demos, com uma frente mar bastante diferente da atual...

Hoje tive a oportunidade de fazer, pela primeira vez, uns cliques a um dos Lynx modernizados, da EHM, da Marinha Portuguesa. Não deu para grandes ângulos ou pormenores mas, de qualquer forma, foi interessante ver e registar pela primeira vez um Lynx Mk95A, neste caso, o 19204, que se encontra embarcado na fragata F333, NRP Bartolomeu Dias e uns registos à NRP Bartolomeu Dias...

Noticed at FB that Commander H.C.'s birthday is today so, decided to share some pics of the Portuguese Navy Lynx demo during the Navy celebrations, that took place at Funchal, in 2008. A big thanks to H.C. for the way he received us! 19204 demo in front of Independence of the Seas cruise ship 19203 diving nose down almost over me.... Landing in NRP Álvares Cabral

This week, the Photo of the Week is dedicated to E24th HM (Navy Helicopter Squadron). One year ago, the Navy Day celebrations were carried through at Madeira. Like I said before, a fantastic week and also the first time I got to see the Navy Super Lynx in action. This photo was taken from Funchal "beach" with the Lynx almost on vertical with me in the final part of the demo. Pretty sure the pic isn't able to pay justice to the moment, the sensation of noise and power... Took lots and lots of photos and it's allways hard to choose, so today, I'm sharing a few ones of the 24th May 2008 demo. It's just a small random selections of the pics I took that day. The rescue demo The boarding demo. On that day, we also got the first visit of the Independence of the Seas, which was, at the time (don't know if still is) the world's biggest cruise ship. Inserting marines The ending of the demo with one of the Lynx landing on NRP Álvares Cabral getting ready to retur...