Planes and stuff

Remember Tuifly's D-ATUC nice special livery? Well...it's gone... It's now painted with regular TUI livery... Tuifly was still the airline that broke with boring TUI all alike livery, carrying lots special liveries or at least a flashing yellow paint... Rebellion times are over, at least for D-ATUC...(I wonder how flashing would be the TUI livery with yellow and orange tones, just to keep a little bit of Tuifly's identity...)

Once in a while we have around here the "Calibrator", a Flight Precision Beechcraft used to calibrate the air NAV Aids. It's been quite a while since I last caught it flying but, last Tuesday got it departing to the Azores after a couple of days calibrating Madeira's NAV Aids. Getting ready for the departure, while Tuifly's DB Air Two (D-ATUC) taxies to the stand, after arriving on runway 23 Cleared to taxi... (to runway 23) ...and quite an early take off, from G-COBM

After a long time without going to the aiport, the oportunity to finally get the last Tuifly special livery that was missing on my collection was a good motive for a spotting trip to the airport On my way to the airport still made a couple of long distance shots to the Cruiseship premiering, at Funchal harbour (MSC Divina) but you can check those later in my Cruiseship spotting blog: Madeira Cruiseship Spotting  ;) When I got to the airport, the star of the day had already landed A great morning for Tuifly traffic, together with D-AHFR "ÜBÄRflieger" was D-ATUC, the "DB Air Two" and another Tuifly with the regular livery (D-AHFW) Later in the morning we still had D-ATUD, the "Gold Haribo", but could wait for it... A great morning full of Tuifly's special liveries.... Pushing back to runway 23 rotate.... A great take-off,..too bad the dark weather The arrival of D-ATUC, on runway 23 A big captain... :) Another nice ta...

Alex just called the atention to yet another fantastic special livery, from Tuifly with the  Bärenmarke livery (check here ) While it doesn't come to Madeira (let's hope it's soon), here a few shots on last Tuesday Tuifly specials... D-ATUD Haribo Goldbaren looks pretty amazing with the right sun! On final to runway 05 Taxiing through "Charlie" to runway 05 Nice reflections! The other special livery from Tuifly that day was D-ATUC, the DB Air Two (Regio) Under a great light Taxiing to runway 05 with another plane beeing guided by the "Follow me" to the stand. Notice closely, back on the left, the small bird is another plane has just started the aproach circuit to runway 05.

Like I mentioned last week, finally caught the DB Regio. Despite the regular Tuifly livery beeing nothing too thrilling (although the yellow livery looks a lot better than the blue one...) still, Tuifly has been the airline that comes to Madeira with the most special liveries and great ones! So, a small selection of these liveries, that I've caught, during times... D-ATUF 's Hapag Lloyd Kreuzfahrt looks a lot like the old Hapag Lloyd livery (but it's a pretty sight indeed...) D-ATUD, the Goldbaren Haribo was also one that I was after for quite a while before getting it... Fantástic livery! D-AHFZ, a nice livery but not too outstanding...never managed to get it in sunny days... The day's I photographed it, the only sun was the one on the tail... D-AHFM, the Blue Haribo looks really nice but the Golden one beats it, no doubt.... D-ATUE the DB1 Regio, really great livery (but the 2, red, looks a lot more colorful...) Only caught it in rainy day...

Finally, this week managed to get the DB Regio!! D-ATUC, was the last of the special liveries from Tuifly I hadn't photographed and a pretty nice one! It had been here at Madeira a few times but for one reason or another never had managed to get it... This day it came twice to Madeira, from Germany and I promisse I'd get it once no matter what.... Arriving from Stuttgart Easy to notice it was a german day...with an Air Berlin holding short of runway on Charlie Indeed a very nice livery, painted in MAAS Aviation Services, to promote  the Deutsche Regio Bahn