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CS-TPB scrapped...

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CS-TPB landing at Madeira, back in August 2013 After 2 years of storage at Porto airport, former Portugália's Fokker 100 CS-TPB was scrapped yesterday...allways a sad end for a plane, specially one that we used to see flying around... Check the youtube video of the scrapping HERE

No Russian...

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Yesterday made a quick stop at the airport, around the arrival time of Transaero, expecting to make a few shots of this Russian... Noticing that it was a bit late and with the family in the car, made some consolation prize shots of PGA's CS-TPB that was arriving, before heading home.... Deploying speed brakes over runway's 05 treshold curiously the same registration I had caught before, this year... all out for a stop...

O primeiro Fokker do ano...

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Pois é...por incrível que possa parecer, os primeiros "bonecos" de um Fokker 100 da PGA, deste ano, são do mês passado.... Fica um par de fotos da aterragem do CS-TPB na 05, ao final da tarde... Smoke on!

Remembering - A night bath

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A few days ago, Jorge posted a pic on Aviação Portugal Fórum that remembered me a very interesting night a couple of years ago. It was something you don't get to see many times: a night bath ceremony. The event: celebrating the last flights of a PGA capt. that was going to retire. The flights to Madeira and the return to Lisbon would be its lasts (as an airline pilot). The pics...well, not many great spotting pics but definitelly some diferent pics and night well spent. While the guys were getting ready (a well known madeirean spotter on top of the stairs of an handling company that is already gone), the plane is already on the circuit (notice the long-exposition of the lights of the plane, on the low background). The night bath while CS-TPB enters the apron (not much of the plane but a nice effect anyway...) After arrival, the captain received some souvenirs from the scale guys at LPMA and some friends. Meanwhile, took this shot because I noticed that when using the f...

Just testing the pics inserting....

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Fokker 100 from PGA, taking off from 05 at LPMA - Madeira...