Planes and stuff

Window seat view of a Tui winglet...doesn't matter which, when or where to...just that feeling of vacation and freedom from everyday routine...

On board TAP Express Embraer 190 CS-TPS

 Inflight shot, while descending to Madeira with the spoillers up...

 An overview at Madeira Airport (FNC/LPMA), with a TAP A320 landing on runway 23 and a TAP Express Embraer holding short off runway 23, on taxyway Bravo Despite the general bad quality of the pic, trought the window, it was quite a beautiful day and an amazingly calm sea where even the airport columns were reflecting...

 Um registo obtido à saída de LPMA, num fantástico dia de sol e poucas nuvens, em que quase dava para meter a ilha toda no enquadramento, com o aeroporto da Madeira em primeiro plano, o Funchal ao fundo, na costa sul e a costa norte também descoberta de nuvens, tal como o maciço central onde (na versão original, pelo menos...) é visível o radar do Pico do Areeiro e as eólicas do Paúl da Serra... Achei curioso a forma como, no vale de Machico, a construção parece escorrer pelo vale, até ao mar...

 It's not every time I manage to get some decent shots on a terminal, during departure.... Departing from EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL, EAP, MLH) on board of a unexpectedly noisy Easyjet A320NEO (at least, during the climb)

  First flight on this airline...quite nice and uneventful, both ways...

Tui fly Belgium is celebrating its 20th Aniversary so, pic of the week dedicated to them with a shot taken aboard B738 OO-JEF, departing from Madeira, passing by Ponta de S.Lourenço. A list of the airline's highlights, as published on their FB page: 📍 2004: First comercial flight to Almería. 📍 2005: A fleet of diferent airplanes back then, including the Fokker 100. 📍 2008: begining of Tec4Jets, their maintenance company. 📍 2012: Integration of Morocco airline Jet4you in TUI Airlines Belgium. 📍 2013: HQ opening at Zaventem. 📍 2013: First Embraer E-Jet E190. 📍 2013: First Boeing 787 Dreamliner. 📍 2016: Jetairfly becomes TUI fly. 📍 2018: First Boeing 737 MAX. 📍 2023: First Embraer E195-E2.

A window shot on final to Rome - Leonardo da Vinci / Fiumicino Airport with the last lights of the day A nice sharklet reflection and a FLAP condensation trail...

  Foto da semana...durante muito tempo os spotters tentaram convencer a TAP de que as Wingtips ou Sharklets pintadas no interior eram um meio muito barato de promoção da companhia....estava difícil de se convencerem disso....mas, como uma imagem vale mais que mil palavras.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Departing from Madeira, with a nice view of the island, possible due to the fact that it went south quite a bit, after take-off, probably due to traffic separation. In the original size it's visible Pico do Areeiro radar and the wind towers of Paúl da Serra...

 It's been a while since I last got a Vueling... This didn't turned out too bad, with a Vueling A320 holding short of runway while we were landing on London Gatwick, with the sun on the right spot

From last year, the first time I flew an A321NEO LR TAP's CS-TXC

Para nova foto da semana, mais uma vista janela, desta feita aquando da estreia num A321NEO LR: o CS-TXC...

Um registo feito recentemente, aproveitando o pôr-do-sol...

Already miss flying... A shot I hadn't published, taken some time ago, departing from Brussels Zaventem Airport (BRU/EBBR) on a TUI Belgium B738

Tanto quanto me recordo, esta deve ter sido a vez que sobrevoei, num voo comercial, tão directamente sobre o Porto Santo. Apesar das nuvens e asa, ainda é perfeitamente visível a zona da pista 18 e do AM3 (Aeródromo de Manobra Nº 3, da Força Aérea):

Nova foto da semana...penso que foi a primeira vez que apanhei a sombra do avião no meio de um círculo de arco-íris...mesmo assim, apenas reparei nisso no pc...na altura em que tirei a foto, foi pela luminosidade difusa de final de tarde que achei dar um toque diferente...

For this Week's highlight Photo...a window shot on board a TUI plane, while passing by north of Porto Santo Island! This one goes for the local spotters ;)

A first for me... Inflight shot from a TUI B738, departing from Madeira's runway 05...