Planes and stuff

From August a sequence on the first Vueling at Porto Santo. A320 EC-MAH was coming from Barcelona to Madeira but due to the winds out of limits, had to divert to the neighbour island. landing on runway 36 taxiing to the apron joining the TAP (A319 CS-TTI) and Binter (ATR-72 EC-LAD) that were already there

Por hoje ficam 3 registos, do mês passado, no Porto Santo, de 3 dos aparelhos que divergiram para aquela ilha, devido aos ventos acima dos limites na Madeira. TAP A319 CS-TTI Binter ATR-72 EC-LAD, que faria a ligação Porto Santo - Madeira... Acabou por ser a primeira vez que ficou em nigh-stop na ilha Dourada ver AQUI A320 EC-MAH da Vueling a taxiar para o stand...acabaria por regressar a Barcelona, algum tempo depois... Segundo os spotters locais, foi a primeira vez que tiveram um Vueling pelo Porto Santo. Consegui fazer uns registos da aterragem...logo os partilho, daqui a uns dias...  Ainda apareceu pelo Porto Santo um CRJ da Air Nostrum mas, acabaria por não o apanhar, já que acabaria por regressar a Madrid...

De regresso às cores nacionais...TAP A319 CS-TTI na final curta para a 05, ao início da manhã...

EDIT: Face ao ocorrido esta manhã (ver AQUI ), na Base Aérea do Montijo, e como forma de homenagem aos que pereceram no acidente (bem como a todos os restantes militares da 501), deixo uma nova foto da semana, também com as cores nacionais e com um significado bem mais especial...DEP! Hoje a foto da semana vai dedicada às cores nacionais, com a chegada do A319 da TAP CS-TTI, no passado 20.Jun.2016: A mudança de "rampa" já permite uma perspectiva bem diferente do toque.... Este foi um aparelho que depois do toque voltou a levantar e fiquei à espera de ver borregar mas, acabou por aterrar definitivamente lá mais ao fundo, já fora da minha vista... 

Last Friday, Transaero flight UN9121, from Moscow arrived with a 6 hour delay... Instead of arriving in the afternoon, it arrived around mid-night. It was a nice oportunity for some night-shots of something different, so, some of the guys gathered at the airport's terminal balcony for some shots... Tryed something diferent for the arrival of Transaero's B738 EI-EEA all the fuss around a plane is even more interesting to photograph in the night... In the back, the arrival of TAP's A319, CS-TTI  And another angle for the arrival of the surprise of the night (for me) TAP's new plane CS-TNW, an A320 named after "José Saramago", the Portuguese Writer awarded with the Writers Nobel. For the departure, we decided to try out a diferent spot that would be Great! (Either great shot, or great crap...unfortunately, they lined up and took off without stopping so, great crap....)

Despite the interesting stuff from last spotting session, TAP planes, even if more usual, weren't forgotten... So, a couple of shots to CS-TTR and CS-TTI, TAP's A319 CS-TTR taking off from runway 23 CS-TTI arriving at the stand

Last Tuesday ( 19th May ) we had a couple of very rare movements around here. The first was a C40 (B737) from US Navy. Military planes are rare around here, specially US ones so, although this hadn't many differences form any B737 civil airliners, it's allways an interesting catch. Its presence had probably something to do with the scale of USS Nashville at Funchal Port. Went for the afternoon traffic and as I arrived it was getting ready to leave. What a luck. Anyway, its departure was quite delayed as they realised upon cleared for push-back that they had no push-back tow.... I'm guessing that someone forgot to contract one... Finally, after almost 45minuts, they managed to get a tow for the job and linned up on runway 05: Although it has winglets now, the US flag and "United States Navy" were removed, so the plane is visually less actractive... You could notice in the comunications that the crews wasn't used to navigate around here, as they were carefully (...