Planes and stuff

Looks like French airline Air Méditerranée is down, or as stated in their website, in Judicial Liquidation.... To the memory...a set of pics taken at Madeira... B735 F-HCOA A321 F-GYAQ A321 F-GYAJ

This week while heading to Funchal, at the end of the afternoon, made a quick stop at the Airport just in time to get the arrival of Easyjet's A319 G-EZDU with a great light... final to runway 05 F-GYAQ, Air Méditerranée A321 getting ready to depart to Nantes and the usual A320 from Sata, based at Madeira, CS-TKJ

Last monday, went, for the first time on these vacations, to the airport for an afternoon of spotting. Lucky me, runway 23 was in use so, decided to try out a few diferent spots for the take-offs. The best framings didn't turn out as good as I wanted (out of focus and some heat haze) but still, these points turned out to be some good locations, to explore further more... My favorite of the day...PGA's Foker 100 CS-TPC climbing out from runway 23, to Lisbon (LIS/LPPT) One of the targets of the day...it's been a long time since I last had photographed a Luxair and I really do like its livery... LX-LGQ landing on 23 and the take off...too bad the best framing pics, with the airport in the back turned out too crappy... Very early take off for Easyjet's  G-EZIO, photographed from the most usual spotting point... Another of my favorite pics of the day... F-GYAQ, the red tail A321, from Air Méditerranée The landing another view...

No, not talking about the WWII movie (quite crappy, even for an aviation fan...) This morning was checking out traffic to Madeira airport (LPMA/FNC) when I noticed that the Air Méditerranée of the morning was an Airbus A321 that I had photographed last July and still hadn't processed: one with the red tail, F-GYAQ Taking off from runway 05 ( digg a little tractor spotting, in the mix?lol) Managed to get it on the afternoon, on its 2nd flight of the day but that's stuff for another entry....

Air Méditerranée has been coming to Madeira for some time but until last monday I still hadn't caught any plane other than the B735  F-HCOA ... On monday, the planned model was an A321 , so an extra, besides all the other planes I wanted to get... When it was coming on the downwind leg to runway 05 noticed a diferent tail...it was an extra on the extra....red tail with the palmtree... Despite the all white fuselagem the tail looks real nice F-GYAQ Touchdown was a little bumpy...