Planes and stuff

Nova foto da semana...penso que foi a primeira vez que apanhei a sombra do avião no meio de um círculo de arco-íris...mesmo assim, apenas reparei nisso no pc...na altura em que tirei a foto, foi pela luminosidade difusa de final de tarde que achei dar um toque diferente...

De regresso ao mês de Junho, ficam alguns registos que ainda não tinha publicado do A319 da TAP CS-TTF na final para a 23 (e no push-back, para o voo de regresso). As fotos da aterragem foram obtidas muito próximo do novo local de spotting inaugurado ontem pela autarquia de Machico. Mais sobre isto em breve. Ao contrário de ontem, neste dia (24 de Junho), a METEO estava fantástica para umas fotos... Push-back para descolagem na 05.

Yesterday we got Vueling's second flight. Arriving at late afternoon, with a sharkleted A320 and with runway 23 in use, decided to go to the airport to see if I would have any luck with the light and pics.... For me, it was pretty worth it...hope you like it too... EC-MAH arrivinf from Barcelona, on runway 23, with Ponta de S.Lourenço in the back  A lucky beacon / smoke shot... On the apron, together with TAP's A319 CS-TTF pushing back to runway 23...TAP's CS-TTF had just took off from runway 05 so, we were unsure where to go for the take-off of the Vueling....glad we stayed... taxiing, through taxiway Bravo still on taxiway Bravo. This area used to be the treshold of old runway 24, before the runway had its lenght extended, for the last time. Early take off..... ...with Ponta de S. Lourenço once more...

Ontem dei um salto ao aeroporto com o objectivo de fazer umas fotos ao Transaero, que regressou aos voos Moscovo-Madeira de Verão a semana passada. Apesar da descolagem feita pelo 737 russo, os meus registos favoritos do dia acabaram por ter as cores nacionais, com a descolagem do A319 da TAP, CS-TTF, de regresso a Lisboa. Apesar de não ligar muito a futebol, ficam igualmente os desejos de uma boa "descolagem" à Selecção Nacional, que inicia esta semana a competição no Mundial de futebol do Brasil, frente à Alemanha. Entretanto, ficam uns registos da sua chegada, mais cedo e mais um par de fotos da descolagem... Mais um par de fotos da descolagem, com o terminal ao fundo e o beacon por baixo da fuselagem a dar um arzinho da sua graça...

A foto que tinha inicialmente em mente para a Foto da Semana era esta... A321 CS-TJF na final curta para a 05... Gosto bastante deste tipo de close-up's...   Entretanto, ficam mais uns TAP's do mesmo dia... A319 CS-TTG na final para a 05 Aquele céu escurinho, com um solzinho a bater no avião são também das minhas preferidas, apesar de normalmente não gostar de fotos dos aviões apenas com o céu como fundo... CS-TTF, sobre a soleira da 05, com o sol a bater no "sítio errado".... 

So, here's the rest of the traffic for the Monday, 11th May . As I said a very nice day for spotting with some really interesting traffic. On the afternoon, besides the more interesting traffic, the sunlight was also better (on its location and quality). In little more than half an hour there was a lot of traffic. Good, that's the way I like it, specially if I was supose to be "somewhere else" :)) Anyway, we had the SAS with retro livery, which is always a nice catch. Until now had only caught it once and the photos were real crappy... This Flyglobespan returned back to its operator just a few days, after a lease to Oman Air and it's still wearing hybrid colors (very nice ones, be the way...) Transavia, as usual, with the regular livery...no PH-XRA... It made a bit of a longer and... ...quite a smoky landing... And at this time, it even looks like its orange time with lots (for our kind of traffic) of Easyjets... Luxair new colors is allways a nice catch. Much bet...

On this morning, the highlights were the two Axis flights and the Viking. Still this wasn't yet the day that we had Axis new livery around here. Instead I got surprised with a NEOS making the second Axis flight. Also, another point of interest was the Viking that have been bringing diferent registrations on every week since it restarted flying to Madeira. This Thomson had the "fly.com" from the titles gone (begining of the change to Thomson Airways?) Weather didn't help, as it was too unstable with areas with sun and others with no sun...I don't know about really skilled photographers but, for me its gets real hard for getting good results with that kind of changes...specially because when photographing a plane coming real fast on final you don't get much time for changing settings... I guess the second shot of this Thomson was the best of the day for me. It turned out really sharp and clear with the sun on the right place and the heat from the jetblast gi...