Planes and stuff

Usually try to keep the airlines and spots diferent each post but today fell like posting another Easyjet pics :) Back to March, from the day of the Sata's A310 (check HERE ) a couple Easyjet pics... A320 G-EZPU and A319 G-EZDZ 1/30 panning of the departure of A320 G-EZPU, from runway 05

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...

A few more shots of last monday... It will be interesting to see the other side photos, taken by the inside spotter...lol This afternoon, the SAS is again the retro (OY-KBO) and Transavia is speciall livery (PH-HZL) (FINALLY!!! some special livery by Transavia around here...let's see if I can go there...)

Like I said on the previous post, last Monday was had a great afternoon of spotting. Good traffic in little time and a great afternoon light. Still wasn't this time we had a special livery from Transavia... The Cimber Sterling (from Copenhagen) had about 4 hours delay, which was great for me (not so good for the passengers...) as allowed me to photograph it and arrived with great afternoon light, instead of the awfull mid-day strong light (actually I thing that at the schedulled time it was dark, cloudy and with litle shower rain...) Anyway, a diferent registration from last week but still with Sterling livery. Maybe next week we get a Cimber Sterling livery... About to leave. Holding short of runway 05. Waiting for the departure of Transavia. Was almost forgeting this one, allways a well worth catch as the 735 is a very rare bird around here (also didn't expect to see Palmair livery around here anymore, after European bankrupt) FlyGlobespan is one of those that's allways n...

Time for a new pic of the week. Today at the end of the afternoon went for some spotting and it was one of those great spotting days with lots of great traffic on little time and a very nice afternoon sunlight (and after changing a little bit the location, a few other spotters to talk a little bit...) This Easyjet got a little wind on final with pilot making some corrections. While this is not the shot were the wind effects are more visible I really like the way the plane looks high above ground and with an angle like if I was flying in formation with it...

So, here's the rest of the traffic for the Monday, 11th May . As I said a very nice day for spotting with some really interesting traffic. On the afternoon, besides the more interesting traffic, the sunlight was also better (on its location and quality). In little more than half an hour there was a lot of traffic. Good, that's the way I like it, specially if I was supose to be "somewhere else" :)) Anyway, we had the SAS with retro livery, which is always a nice catch. Until now had only caught it once and the photos were real crappy... This Flyglobespan returned back to its operator just a few days, after a lease to Oman Air and it's still wearing hybrid colors (very nice ones, be the way...) Transavia, as usual, with the regular livery...no PH-XRA... It made a bit of a longer and... ...quite a smoky landing... And at this time, it even looks like its orange time with lots (for our kind of traffic) of Easyjets... Luxair new colors is allways a nice catch. Much bet...