Planes and stuff

Ultimamente as publicações têm sido escassas...as idas ao aeroporto também mas, não queria finalizar o ano sem uma última publicação, desejando a todos os que ainda passam por cá, umas boas entradas em 2018! Esperemos que no início do ano lá meta uns registos dos 330's da TAP que estão previstos nos primeiros dias do ano e o habitual tópico com os destaques de 2017. Bom ano a todos! Registo obtido a partir dos restos do antigo Noratlas 6419 em direcção à final da 23. Estes restos estiveram durante vários anos na Água de Pena, após atentado à bomba no aeroporto da Madeira, por parte da FLAMA, a 13 de Novembro de 1975

Last Saturday, a couple of outside spotters were around for a spotting day at Madeira. The main purpose: to get the SBA's 767, in the morning. I only joined them at lunch time for a "espetada" on a nearby restaurant, after which we went around before the rest of the afternoon traffic. The first place we went was the old Noratlas, a well known wreckage at Água de Pena, near the airport. This was Portuguese Air Force Noratlas 6419 that sufered a terrorist atack with a bomb, back in 1975, carried through by FLAMA , an independentist group that was quite active back then. PoAF took the usable stuff and made a public sell of the wreckage. Runway 23 quite visible, from the cockpit. After a visit to under the runway 23 (which has an area of playgrounds and several sports) we went behind the airport, for a catch of CS-TNN take off, from runway 23. An early take off, so no interesting background... . With no more more traffic to take off, it was time to go for t...