Planes and stuff

Back to December, a couple of shots from Aigle Azur A320 with Sharkets F-HBIX. The landing was on runway 05 and the take-off on runway 23 with a great light...despite the early take-off....

After almost two years without coming to Madeira for the first time (presented in January 2014), now the Air Berlin Etihad "Moving Forward" livery has been a regular presence at Madeira (please, don't forget to send us the #cominghomeforchristmas livery, Air Berlin ...) Yesterday  it came and the saturday before it also came...these are some pics taken last week, with take-off from runway 23 and landing in runway 05... Taking off, back to Berlin - Tegel from runway 23 with a nice light. In the apron, its Swiss "brother" HB-IOZ and Aigle Azur's A320 F-HBIX, with new livery and sharklets an hour earlier, the landing, on runway 05 Another shot of the take off...

Esta já estava na calha para publicar há uns tempos (as fotos foram tiradas há 1 mês...) mas, tem surgido outras coisas mais interessantes (embora não necessariamente tão interessantes, do ponto de vista fotográfico...) A foto da semana, F-HBIX da Aigle Azur , com reverses e spoillers abertos, após a aterragem na 05. É um tipo de foto que gosto particularmente, quando o sol está na posição certa para iluminar os mecanismos dos spoillers, no interior da asa...as sharklets dão o toque final! Qualquer dia, estou tão farto de sharklets que já nem ligo mas, por enquanto continuam a ser um toque extra :)  O resto das fotos dessa chegada..... aterragem na 05 chegada ao stand, com o A320 da TAP CS-TNG , ao lado. (Curiosamente o CS-TNG foi o avião retratado na minha última foto publicada numa revista...ver AQUI )

Last Saturday French airline Aigle Azur presented us with an A320 with sharklets for the first time, in its flight from Paris/Orly. Looks really nice in this plane with the light blue color and the dark blue lettering... Looking forward to see if TAP Portugal will just keep their sharklets white or will give it some "marketing colors"....