Planes and stuff

A memory pic from exactly 10 years ago...18.Mar.2010...Air Berlin was still around and more...still around with A330... This must be one of the strangest pics I've taken, with the low cloud ceiling just visualy above of the top of the fuselage, on a dark day... Air Berlin's D-AERK landing on runway 23...

Para variar dos aviões (embora sem livrar completamente...)... Comecei há algum tempo a partilhar algumas fotos através do Google Maps e volta e meia lá mandam um mail com algumas estatísticas referentes a visualizações das mesmas.... Uma boa oportunidade para partilhar algumas das mais vistas por cá, dando a conhecer um pouco da outra fotografia que tento fazer... Esta fantástica vista (sem modéstia, eu sei...mas, é de facto uma das minhas fotos de "não aviação" preferidas de sempre) teve o recorde de visualizações da semana...amanhecer no Lido, Funchal. A segunda mais vista da semana...o Duomo di Milano e, não podiam faltar os aviões, com esta passagem pelo Aeroporto da Madeira, numa bela descolagem do fantástico A330  D-AERK ,da LTU, companhia que foi entretanto absorvida pela Air Berlin Ghent...apesar de toda a beleza dos canais, esta é igualmente uma das minhas preferidas da cidade A igreja de San Giorgio in Braida, junto ao rio Ádige, em Vero...

Hi, hope your hollidays were great and whish you all the best for 2011! Decided to start the new year with a new Top Page Banner for Planes&Stuff. Hope you like it. Yesterday went to the airport for the Jet2 premiere with the 757 at Madeira and also some other traffic of the day... Will be posting that tonight or tomorrow morning...

Once again, wasn't sure what pic I'd choose for this Week's Photo. As the Q400 is something new and expected for some time around here, decided for this one. Full report on this premiere, will be posted soon. Meanwhile you can read about it on the Madeira Spotters page . The other candidate was one from an interesting landing of an Air Berlin A330, taken last week, with the visibility conditioning the operation to LPMA...maybe any other week.... Also, full report on this day, soon...

This is one of my best photos (or at least is one of favorites). It was taken on June, 7th 2007 from a spot I had been trying for quite a while. That kind of pics, from that spot, aren't that usual, because the plane has to be using runway 23 (from runway 05, the most used you can also get some nice pics but it's harder, unless its a really early take off), and the best light is on the afternoon...during the morning and initially at afternoon you get too much backlit for any good results... A nice curiosity on that day was that the plane brought a Ferrari (a real one) on its cargo bay (it was a regular flight with passengers, the space available was the comon one on a passenger flight...) There's the Ferrari, near the handling cars Anyway, here's another shot of that take off. And just for curiosity, 3 other shots, also from that spot, with runway 05 in use (also in the afternoon) Works better with big planes...