Planes and stuff

Continuing with the 5 themed entries.... After the 5 highest rated pics at Airliners , this post shares my 5 most viewed pics at Jetphotos , the other Aviation Photo Database where I usualy upload my pics... #1 - Runway's not that way.... Taken in 2004, still with the Sigma 70-300, it's not a very sharp pic (it was taken from near GELO, very far away...) but the moment makes the photo with G-TTOE , an A320 from GB suffering the effects of crossed winds on short final... #2 - Aer Lingus Premiere Aer Lingus was one of those airlines I allways wanted to see around. In 2007 that wish became true with EI-CVD as the first Lingus around here... Unfortunatelly they didn't come for long but still managed to take a couple of pics that are in my favs... (this is one of them....) #3 - Bridge landing... The new part of Madeira's runway, with the columns is allways something that really calls attention  of everyone, allowing some diferent shots...it's not ev...

Just got an email, from Jetphotos , advising me that one of my pics is on Top4 of Last 24H: Last Week, had another pic on the Top4 of Last 24H and Top of last Week: It's allways nice when you get to see your pics with so much views. Thank you all!

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...