Planes and stuff

 After some night-shots of TAP's A321NEO retro, CS-TJR...a few ones during the day, The first ones I take on runway 23... Unfortunately, didn't managed to get the landing so, a sequence on the take-off, returning to Lisbon... On the apron, Tuifly's B738 D-ATUF, preparing the return to Dusseldorf (DUS/EDDL)

Tuifly Hapag-Lloyd B738 D-ATUF arriving at Madeira, runway 23 Despite not beeing exactly the Hapag-Lloyd livery I remember seeing back in the 90's and early 2000's, it's still nice to see this Tuifly with the Hapag-Lloyd titles...

Back to April, a few shots of Tuifly's Hapag-Lloyd. It's allways nice to get these colors, for a change to the regular ones... These are from the same day Portuguese Air Force Sqn.502 brought its C-295 with 60th Aniversary special livery, for the first time. Check HERE Beacon mode on ;) D-ATUF landing on runway 05 Entering the stand, while at Transavia France B738 F-GZHJ, someone is beeing taken into the ambulance. 

Keeping on with the German traffic...D-ATUF, with the Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten livery which looks a lot like the old Hapag-Lloyd livery and fits really nice on this B738. It's been a long time since I last got one of these... Arriving from Basel

Last week we had a couple of Air Berlin's A330...as nice as that sounds, it's not quite new stuff for me and for now, the oportunity of making, finally, some decent shots of an Easyjet with sharklets is far more exciting, specially with this lovely afternoon light :), so Week Photo for G-EZWH, making the Bristol fligh to/from Funchal, last Thursday. Taking off to Bristol, from runway 05 with Ponta de S.Lourenço in the back  Some shots of the arrival, earlier, also to runway 05 On the back, B738 D-ATUF, also another nice catch as it has been long time since I last photographed a Tuifly with the Hapag-Lloyd modern livery.  On the departure...rotate....

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...

Last Tuesday was German day.... The first ones were the Tuifly. 4 of them.... A couple of them were just regular yellow Tui livery but the other two were a couple of special liveries... !! The first (already at the airport when I arrived) was already known D-ATUE, with the  DB ICE IM ZUG ZUM FLUG livery (DB Air One) and it was expected. The other one was a surprise to me and despit I already had some pics of it, it was quite some time since I last caught it....the Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten (D-ATUF) Despite the rainy weather, D-ATUF landed with a nice sunlight! D-ATUE taxiing to runway 05 ...and departing with a great water spraying, from recent shower rain...   D-ATUF pushing back to runway 05. A big cheer group from Tui, waving World of Tui flags to the departure of  D-ATUF

Yesterday had a really nice morning of spotting... Traffic was really nice and there was a really nice group of spotters to hang around and chat all morning long... Even if some of the pics got really crappy...who cares?! It was quality time... (one old lady even came to ask us if anyone important was to come...she's only used to that much photographers  when some VIP arrives at the airport....LOL) Anyway pic planes will be coming next days...for now just this one: Looks like someone else was also having a blast, watching the planes... ;) This kind of situation allways reminds me these 2 pics (Check HERE and HERE ) of old days... Despite the balcony and the clothings are diferent and although aviation is not that far and unknown these days, the magic is still there and the dreams still take-off with the planes... Enjoy kids!