Planes and stuff

Já que estou nos clássicos, mais um destes aparelhos, desta vez em voo. O Boeing Stearman da Aerofenix, há já quase 10 anos atrás, no Portugal Air Show 2009, que se realizou em Évora...infelizmente, o último deles... N62TS em voo...neste caso, sabia bem um vídeo, já que o som destas velhas glórias é algo de fantástico :) Aparentemente está em manutenção profunda...a ver se regressa aos céus nos próximos tempos

Estava há dias a brincar com alguns filtros e lembrei-me que tinha as fotos ideais onde aplicar os mesmos... Esta lembra-me as fotos tiradas há 40 anos atrás durante as operações destes helicópteros na Guerra no Ultramar... Quase 50 anos depois de entrarem ao serviço, ainda estão aí para as curvas e missões! (Allouette III 19401, no Portugal Air Show 2005) CS-AZX, um Chipmunk ex-FAP do Museu Aerofénix, também no PAS 2005 Sea Fury, no PAS2009 (F-AZXL) Boeing Stearman N62TS ES-AKE, the C-47 from Fly LPI CS-DIE, outro avião Aerofenix (Piper Cub) numa bela demonstração!

Carrying on with the spirit of this week's photo, it's a good time to share a couple of pics of another old bird from Museu del Aire. Aerofenix is also restoring to flight state one of these birds, an ex-PoAF T- 6G (1635) . This type has also some special meaning to me, specially due to its connection to one of my first "mentors" regarding aviation: Capt. João Vidal, that flew these at Portuguese colonial wars and had a special interest in it.

Today, a couple of PoAF C-130 came to Madeira with some cargo (probably) related with the PoAF celebrations at Madeira . On the afternoon, they went to the Southern coast of the island (on it's west side) to train some formation flight. Although I didn't managed to get them, I was thinking that the " Bisontes " would be a good theme for this week's photo...when I received Aerofenix newsletter... Though then that one of the Aerofenix's planes would also make a good and diferent theme, specially because it's not one of those things we can see around here... Ended up choosing this pic, taken back in 2005, at Portugal Air Show of the fantastic display of this Piper Cub...