Planes and stuff

Na manhã do passado Sábado, a Vinci Airports organizou a I Edição do Vinci Airports Spotters Day.
Uma excelente iniciativa para os spotters, que decorreu em vários dos aeroportos geridos por esta empresa.
O Aeroporto da Madeira foi um dos locais onde decorreu esta iniciativa, permitindo a entrada no lado ar de vários spotters mais habituados a ver, fotografar e filmar um pouco mais longe..

Como seria de esperar, foram muitos os cliques...por hoje fica apenas um cheirinho com uma amostra de alguns dos movimentos...depois logo vou colocado mais umas fotos/registos desse dia...

Back to July 2008, a pic of Luxair's B737 LX-LGS landing on runway 05 with the previous livery
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...

It's been quite a while since I last got a Luxair.
Also, a long time since my last Monday afternoon spotting.
The weather was dark everywhere but still, had the time and decided to go anyway.

A fellow spotter suggested going to this spot to get some take-offs and it was a great idea as the take-off area was the only one with some sun....

Allways liked those action pics where you can fit a few planes on the framing...lately hadn't been doing many of those.

On the day I went photographing, for the first time, the B738MAX (Tui Belgium OO-MAX, check HERE), managed to get this one also, more interesting specially because Transavia usually makes short take-offs and on this day, it made a real slow departure up in the air...also...no Airbus on the pic :)
That's dificult, here...

From the same day of TAP's A330 Star Alliance CS-TOH (Check HERE), a sequence of a Luxair B737 take-off, from runway 23...
Don't have any published Luxair pics from last year and this year, these are the first....way long time...
Really like their livery and with a sunny take off from runway 23, even better...

First Luxair pics I publish from this year...LX-LBA B738 landing on runway 05:

Already said more than once that I love when runway 23 is in use...last monday was one of those days...
When planes take off on the right spot, not too early, you can get some really nice background...

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

A few shots from last Nov.9th 2015 of the arrival of Luxair's B738 LX-LBA with a great afternoon light...

Mondays are one of the busiest days at Madeira International, mainly with Uk traffic...

Um registo do Aeroporto da Madeira (FNC/LPMA) num final de segunda-feira...
De interesse, além marcar presença ali no meio um Luxair, companhia que nunca mais tinha tido oportunidade de fotografar, é um aparelho que ostenta já as novas scimitar, o primeiro que vi dessa companhia com esses apêndices...
Esta foto é aliás um bom exemplo das mudanças que têm ocorrido no desenho das asas (ou pelo menos na ponta das asas...) dos aviões de médio-curso, nos últimos tempos, com o par de Airbus das pontas (Easyjet e Condor) a ostentarem igualmente as recentes sharklets.

No meio daquilo tudo, o nosso TAP é o único ainda sem qualquer alteração ao desenho original das asas....
Apesar de já ter ouvido falar que as sharklets já tinham sido efectivamente adquiridas pela TAP, ainda não tinham sido instaladas...claro que isto tem a fiabilidade de rumores...se alguém souber algo mais sobre isto....(??)

Some from the first Monday of August...
Currently the traffic isn't that interesting on Monday afternoons but, still Monarch, Binter and Luxair are airliners that I haven't photographed much, lately...
A few shots of the Monarch flights, from London Gatwick and Birmingham ...

Like I mentioned previously, last monday was a day of firsts for me...
First Finnair and Binter of the year, the first Smartwings new colors and B738 and also...the first Luxair of the year (for me)

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...

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:

Today had a photo that managed to get to at least the #2 at Airliner's Top5 of last 24H...
It's allways nice and even best when it's a pic of the kind I really like

One of the plane I got last monday was LX-LGR, from Luxair.
It's one airline I haven't photographed in quite a long time and definitely one that I really like the livery.

Looks like many people (spotters) don't really like it but, althought I tought the old one was nothing special, the "new" one looks rather nice, specially the tail.