Planes and stuff

  The first Luxair I publish, from this year. B737 LX-LGS arriving from Luxembourg and coming to a stop on runway 05.

Back to July 2008, a pic of Luxair's B737 LX-LGS landing on runway 05 with the previous livery 14.Jul.2008 Opposite to many rebrandings these days, in my opinion, the new livery of Luxair turned out really nice and a lot better than this one...

Sometimes an older post get a sudden boost of views...don't really know why in most cases... Last week (and this one) noticed that there was a publication regarding Luxair that's been kicking so, time for visiting that entry... Check HERE Luxair's LX-LGS departing from 23 with an SAS Airbus taxiing to the same runway

Com o início do novo ano, decidi substituir a imagem de topo do blog. Apesar de gostar bastante da anterior, penso que a nova imagem é uma excelente forma de assinalar o início de um novo ano no Planes&Stuff... Fica a imagem completa, como nova Foto da Semana. Bom Ano a todos!

The Airliner World magazine maintains its new subscriptions campain on the October issue, offering a Madeira Airport DVD. The chosen pic for the campain advertisement is again one of mines: LX-LGS , landing on runway 23

Yesterday got a few more shots rejected at Airliners.net. They're getting more and more picky everyday and if the SBA was nothing really special, regarding quality, in my opinion, the Luxair's and the Sharan's were really nice ones... Lately I've been sending less and less pics to Airliners, and I guess it's time to stop sending them at all, they sure won't miss my pics and I won't wast my time on them... Have a few more on queue, if they're acepted, it's ok, if they're rejected, who cares.... Will keep uploading to Jetphotos and obviously the main point of upload is now this blog. Hope you enjoy the pics and keep following the blog.

These were also taken on one of those last days of vacations. Afternoon sun and runway 23 landings allways provide some great background for photos, specially with some nice livery like the Luxair one. Looks like this was the first time this Year I got Luxair...have to check on that...

Jorge called my atention today on a new plane to Luxair ( info on Skyliner Aviation ), so in lack of new traffic (still processing the pics from last monday, with a couple of nice catches, specially G-OOBA, with new colors, Thomson ones, and winglets...) decided to share some Luxair pics, remembering old and new colors... The next two are definitely my favorites on this airline: Taking off from runway 23, in the afternoon... Landing on runway 23, on the afternoon... Taking off from runway 23 in bad weather...This is the only pic I have published on paper for this airline: Still old colors and another take off from runway 23 on the late afternoon... New colors landing on runway 05 by the afternoon... and taking off, from runway 05, also on the afternoon... Want to know how to get into these locations? Have a look at Madeira Spotters Webpage ...it's mostly there.

This week's photo will be dedicated to smaller birds. No special reason at all, was just browsing my photos, searching for some interesting photo when I noticed this one: It's a pic I really enjoy, I like the framing and colors. I also find the livery (specialy the tail) of this little bird a very nice one! Besides this one, on that day, also got a couple more pics of 2 litle birds with some meaning: This shot of CS-AYY must be one of my best and favorite bizjets photos. And on that day, also got the gone CS-DIR on one of its flights... Regarding the airliners, there were a few nice catches on that day, but as this post is dedicated to small birds, I'll just share this one, of last week's Photo of the Week , still on the old colors...

Last Monday (29th, June) was one of those great afternoons of spotting. In less than one hour and a half, there was some real nice traffic, great light and the least usual runway in use (23). It was one of those days I was really happy with the results and considered it a well worth trip to the airport. The pics could be probably better (they allways can) but still took some of the best pics I've taken lately (in my opinion, of course) Runway 23, in the afternoon provides the light from the right direction and some great backrgound in landings and take-offs. My daughter wasn't beeing very "cooperative" in the landings, so ended up staying in a place not so good, with a lot of photos out of focus or with light poles and other stuff in front of the planes... Anyway, for the take-offs I went to usual place, behind the airport, which provides some nice backgrounds in runway 23 take-offs. Couldn't manage any good pic of the landing of this Travel Service with Oman colo...

It's time for a new Photo of the Week . Haven't seen today's shots in much detail but this one instantly called my atention. Even thought of not going to the airport today but the fact of the Travel Service got delayed for around 17:30h and the fact of runway 23 being in use made my decision to go. Later afternoon light is always the best at LPMA (in my opinion) and runway 23 is a lot less comon than runway 05 so it was the oportunity for getting some diferent shots. Plus, the take-offs from runway 23 allways offer some great background (unless the planes make a really early take-off...) In this case, the background was made by the sea with SAS's OY-KBP restarting its taxi, after holding off runway, on taxiway "Bravo".