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Air Finland at Porto Santo

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Joined recently a FaceBook Group regarding "old glory" aviation :) Despite I just do photographic plane spotting since 2004, already have some shots that are Aviation History part... Today shared this Air Finland B752 (OH-AFK) landing at Porto Santo , during a summer charter operation to that island. This airline went bankrupt in 2012 (check HERE )...

Calendário: Fevereiro 2014

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O mês de Janeiro já está na final curta, pelo que cá vai um novo wallpaper de calendário para o novo mês: Fevereiro 2014. Foi algo de iniciei como experiência o mês passado e penso que vale a pena manter...sempre é mais qualquer coisa diferente para partilhar... O destaque deste mês vai para a ilha vizinha de Porto Santo e para um tráfego que pertence já à História da Aviação, com o B757 OH-AFK da extinta Air Finland efectuando um voo de Milão para a Livingston, com o esquema de pintura anterior àquele que utilizavam na altura em que fecharam portas....

Air Finland files for Bankruptcy

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Unfortunatelly looks like there's another airline that didn't manage to survive these times... Air Finland wasn't exactly an usual airline here at Madeira but on last years they've made some flights during Winter Season. My favorite shot at them was taken at Porto Santo, still wearing the old colors... OH-AFK landing at Porto Santo (PXO/LPPS) runway 36 in a flight for another company (don't remember if it was NEOS or Livingstone...) Another great surprise was in the day they brought this 757 (OH-AFL) with Allegiant Air colors But the airline's latest livery was also very nice, here with OH-AFJ landing on Madeira's runway 23 (LPMA/FNC)

Nova foto da semana: Longas diurnas

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Ontem de manhã, fui até ao aeroporto decido a fazer umas experiências que já tinha em mente há algum tempo. Como o movimento era muito mas, em princípio nada de muito fantástico ou diferente, seria o ideal para experiências que tanto podiam acertar, como falhar redondamente e além disso, apanharia o Air Finland, ao final da manhã, já que ainda não o tinha fotografado esta época (recomeçou a vir na semana passada). Ao final da manhã, a placa já estava bastante composta, com a grande surpresa em destaque: G-GDFD, o 738 da Jet2 com a pintura especial Jet2 Holidays Foi precisamente com este avião que me acertou melhor as experiências que andei fazendo, com a utilização de filtros ND para conseguir fotos diurnas de longa exposição. É nestas alturas que sabemos que fizemos bem em ficar com a máquina antiga como backup já que, com a 1000D montada no tripé e com os filtros, restava sempre a velhinha 300D para apanhar outras coisas interessantes que iam chegando. Foi a primeir...

New Photo of the Week - Air Finland dressing Allegiant Air

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Today was one of those days that got myself thinking if it was worth to go to the airport at lunchtime, before heading to work.... Finally decided to go and check the status of the Easyjet that had yesterday a birdstrike on the engine...if nothing would be going on with that plane, at least would have some nice traffic to photograph.... The first surprise of the day was the Jet2 757....as far as I know it's only the second time they bring one of those.... But, the best was yet to come...noticed Air Finland coming in to land in 23, far away...pointed the camera and noticed the winglets...Great! They still hadn't brought any 757 with winglets... When it was on final, noticed that the livery was different....at first though that it was the old livery but then, realised it was something completely diferent!!!! WOW!! It's been quite a while since I last got a surprise like that....just like the old times when you had no idea what was coming and kept getting new stuff.... F...

Nordic highlights on lunch time

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Monday's are busiest days at Madeira but most of the planes are well known, so decided to go just for while, at lunch time just to get the nordic highlights of the day: Air Finland's OH-AFJ with its great (and still rare around here) livery. (second time at Madeira with new colors)   And, the other highlight would be Cimber... I didn't even knew what was the registration but, didn't matter, either Sterling or Cimber are great looking. Got lucky with today's Cimber, OY-MRU, the first Cimber livery for me this year and looks like it's also the first time I get this registration...

Air Finland new colors

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Last monday, like I already mentioned we had a couple of returns. The most expected was this Air Finland , for the first time with new colors at Madeira. (Really nice livery!) Landed at runway 23, from Helsinki: OH-AFJ Unfortunatelly, couldn't wait for the departure... Maybe next time...