Planes and stuff

Tinha acabado de sentar-me em frente ao pc para preparar uma pequena entrada, relativa aos Tui's da passada terça-feira, quando tive conhecimento de uma má notícia... Uma pessoa que era bastante conhecida no meio aeronáutico regional, tinha morrido. Apenas tinha contactado com ele algumas vezes, uma delas na altura em que quase voei de Chipmunk (que acabaria por não se realizar por condições atmosféricas) mas, sem dúvida que é uma perda que será fortemente sentida não apenas pela família, como por todos os que lidavam com ele todos os dias. RIP... Ficam os TUI's para outro dia...afinal, com o movimento que temos tido por cá, não há de haver falta de tempo para publicá-las...

This week's photo will be dedicated to smaller birds. No special reason at all, was just browsing my photos, searching for some interesting photo when I noticed this one: It's a pic I really enjoy, I like the framing and colors. I also find the livery (specialy the tail) of this little bird a very nice one! Besides this one, on that day, also got a couple more pics of 2 litle birds with some meaning: This shot of CS-AYY must be one of my best and favorite bizjets photos. And on that day, also got the gone CS-DIR on one of its flights... Regarding the airliners, there were a few nice catches on that day, but as this post is dedicated to small birds, I'll just share this one, of last week's Photo of the Week , still on the old colors...

Yesterday afternoon, the well know local aerobatic Zlin142 CS-DIR crashed at Madeira Airport. No photos or any other comments, just a word of sympathy for the two people on board, specialy the one that was most injured, evacuated this evening to the mainland.

Ok, let's boost this blog a little bit... Yesterday we had, finally, some military traffic at LPMA: A C130, from Portuguese Air Force. For a military aviation fan, like me, this airport can be very frustrating as there's nothing going on in terms of military aviation. Anyway, the pics... Bruno, the owner of this Zlin also went for a quick ride to Funchal Bay (and the Aeroclube Piper, went to Porto Santo)