Brazilian by night

PR-HNG, a great looking Bombardier BD-100-1A10 Challenger 350, with one of the airport's fire trucks passing behind.

Yesterday, we got 3 Brazilian bizjets...2 of them, with very nice liveries...
Didn't managed to get any of the arrivals but as PR-HNG had this really nice livery and was within reach of some pics from the public balcony, decided to go for some night-shots...

With 1 TAP flight canceled and the other 2 delayed (way to go.....) was beeing a bit hard to get some color behind the plane but finally, the airport fire corp made a change on the vehicles of the Advanced fire station, allowing some nice long-exposure trail on the back.

Later, one of the TAP (an Aigle Azur plane) arrived, allowing some more shots but, more on that later..

Belgium Family Life...Getting stupid

Had already some shots of Thomson's (TUI Uk) Family Life G-FDZG (check HERE) but this was the first time I got the belgium one (OO-JAF).
With runway 23 in use, would probably get some nice shots but decided to try to find a bit of a diferent spot for this take-off, as the G-FDZG had also been caught from here....
Well...long story short....this is the only pic I got of the plane.....

Photo of the Week: Air Europa 30 Years

30 Years of airline is allways worth to celebrate.
Can't say it's the prettiest special livery I've seen....but at least the number isn't under the fuselage, like the TAP 70 years.....
Anyway it was well worth the catch as it was the first I got Air Europa new livery despite  the older one is still my fav....

Photo of the Week: EC-MKL departing from runway 23 to Madrid

 And a few more pics of that day....landing on runway 23, from Bilbao

The taxi to runway 23, passing by US Challenger 300 N301JL

Another shot of the take-off..

Medic 36

O apoio às populações na forma de Evacuações Médicas continua a ser uma das principais missões da Esquadra 502 na Madeira, com várias destas missões a serem efectuadas todas as semanas ou mesmo num único dia.
Ficam alguns registos de uma destas missões...

16707 na placa com a ambulância dos Bombeiros Municipais de Santa Cruz, que efectuaria o transporte do evacuado para o Hospital Central do Funchal.

 Um par de registos da descolagem, da 05, de regresso ao Porto Santo...

Durante o taxi, com um Challenger 300 norte-americano N301JL que ficou por cá uns dias...

N301JL...

É bem raro ter a oportunidade de apanhar a chegada (ver AQUI), o night-stop e a partida de um bizjet..

Tive a sorte de conseguir fazer isso com o Challenger 300 norte-americano N301JL que por cá esteve alguns dias o mês passado.

Night-stop, no dia em que o Fokker 100 da PGA fez o seu últmo voo programado para a Madeira.
(ver AQUI)

Partida, no dia 20 de Junho.

US Challenger

From last Saturday morning, the same day of the Corendon (check HERE) and TAP Sharklets CS-TNS (Check HERE), a very nice surprise...

N301JL, a US Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300/350 on short final to runway 05

Night shots

A couple more shots from last month when I went with a local spotter and a visiting spotter to the balcony for some night shots...
Unfortunatelly, windy night, not long exposure friendly...

Smartwings OK-TVU carrying a Travel Service flight and OO-JAX, from Jetairfly by its side...

The smaller birds, ZS-JDL, a Bombardier Challenger 300 (BD-100-1A10) and local inter-island carrier Aerovip's Jetstream CS-DVQ, getting ready to depart to Porto Santo (PXO/LPPS)

C-130 Força Aérea Portuguesa

Nestes últimos dias, as idas ao aeroporto têm-se sucedido a um ritmo que há já muito não me lembrava de acontecer...Tudo por bons motivos, claro :)

Fazendo um "backtrack", até à passada sexta-feira: além do Swiss Air Ambulance que já referi AQUI, tivemos por cá, durante a manhã, um C-130 da Força Aérea Portuguesa, movimento sempre digno de registo, especialmente para mim...

O "C" era novamente o 16806, ostentanto a pintura especial, que assinala as 70501Horas de voo da frota.
Na final para a 23

Entrando no stand, pelo taxiway "Charlie", com o HB-JRC, Challenger da Swiss Air Ambulance aguardando o paciente que transportaria. (Mais sobre este tráfego, AQUI)

Swiss Air Ambulance

Esta manhã decidi que valia a pena dar um salto ao aeroporto e as expectativas não foram completamente defraudadas...
Só faltou o sol ao encontro...que decidiu mandar a chuva no seu lugar...

Este Swiss Air Ambulance, vindo de Las Palmas (LPA) tinha sido inicialmente autorizado a aterrar na pista 23 mas, a coisa complicou-se desse lado com uma cerração de chuva a tapar completamente a visibilidade do lado leste, pelo que continuou para a aproximação e aterragem na 05, que estava melhor.

HB-JRC

Apesar de tudo, a placa molhada ainda dá alguns reflexos interessantes

Pouco depois chegava o C-130 da Força Aérea Portuguesa 16806, ostentando a pintura especial das 70501Horas
Como a "chuveirada" já tinha passado, aterrou na 23. 

The Austrian private

Sometimes is well worth checking you archives...

This one was taken in 2010, and remained until now in that day folder...
The star of that day was Niki's ERJ-190 (ckech HERE) and this one remained forgoten...

OE-IMK, a Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 from MAP Executive Flightservice departing from runway 05

A Couple of Bizjets

These two beauties have been here for a few day's (at least since August, 25th)

At first tought that this Global 5000 was a Gulfstream, but it does look better than the Gulfstream, that's not one of my fav. bizjets at all....
Here seen with TAP's A330 CS-TOK taxiing after its landing on runway 23 (and an aborted approach, due to traffic on the runway)



This one has a very nice livery!
As far as I know it was supposed to have departed this morning...

SBA back to Madeira and New Photo of the Week

Yesterday (06.Jun.2009) it was quite an interesting morning at LPMA:
The return of SBA (Santa Bárbara) from Caracas and the first daylight visit of Sata's new A320, with the new livery.
Any way, the Sata's photos will be for another post.

Initially schedulled for the 8h, the Santa Bárbara had a 2hour delay, arriving a few minutes after 10h.
Must admit that I the B767 is not one of my favorite planes. It doesn't come much to Madeira and I don't really miss it but in this livery it looks really amazing!!!






A lucky shot, with the beacons on...


This Swiss Air Ambulance was an unexpected visitor. It's allways a nice catch...


After this, took my daughter to the playground, at Santa Cruz. Decided that would be there until she wanted to go home and wouldn't worry much on getting the departure of SBA.

When she was ready to leave, we made a quick pass behind the airport just to check the status of SBA and then noticed it was just finishing the push-back to runway 05.
Headed to the side of runway 23, where I found Ricardo Ferreira and took some pics of the take off, a bit of a late one...




Some noticeable wingflex...