Planes and stuff

Like I mentioned yesterday, on the Photo of the Week entry , will be publishing some more 5 themed entries... This one is regarding my 5 Top rated pics at Airliners.net. It's not the ones with the most views, they're just the 5 ones that have been best voted by airliner viewers... #1 - Asas de Portugal at Funchal 500 years Celebrations (2008) PoAF Alpha-Jets 15250 and 15206 on an amazing effect of smoke and condensation... Perfected rating (5) from the users and defnitely on of my favorite pics,.. #2 - Down into 05... rated 4.5625: G-EZAG , an Easyjet A319 going down into runway 05. This is really a very nice spot. Best time, on the late afternoon... Unfortunatelly only went there once, with Jorge... must try it some day again (with the A330...) #3 - Air Berlin's belly rated 4.5: Air Berlin's new livery looks very nice even from under the plane ( D-ABCD ) and with the light of that day, the pic turned out really nice! I don't usually like pics ...

Last Saturday, a couple of outside spotters were around for a spotting day at Madeira. The main purpose: to get the SBA's 767, in the morning. I only joined them at lunch time for a "espetada" on a nearby restaurant, after which we went around before the rest of the afternoon traffic. The first place we went was the old Noratlas, a well known wreckage at Água de Pena, near the airport. This was Portuguese Air Force Noratlas 6419 that sufered a terrorist atack with a bomb, back in 1975, carried through by FLAMA , an independentist group that was quite active back then. PoAF took the usable stuff and made a public sell of the wreckage. Runway 23 quite visible, from the cockpit. After a visit to under the runway 23 (which has an area of playgrounds and several sports) we went behind the airport, for a catch of CS-TNN take off, from runway 23. An early take off, so no interesting background... . With no more more traffic to take off, it was time to go for t...