Planes and stuff

Já que estava no campo das recordações, por hoje ficam dois registos da Sterling que ainda não tinha partilhado por cá... Desde miúdo que a Sterling me ficou marcada por trazer à Madeira o que na altura (e ainda hoje...) pensava ser um dos mais belos aviões comerciais, o Caravelle, que ficava lindo na pintura Sterling de então.... Fundada em 1962, acabaria por passar por várias falências, reaberturas, fusões e renomeações...e falências....sim, já falei em falências mas...foram várias... Podem ver historial AQUI Ficam pois, 2 registos de Setembro de 2009, do OY-MRF, ainda com cores e títulos Sterling mas, já ao serviço da Cimber Sterling (que abriria falência em Maio de 2012....) B737 OY-MRF aterrando na 05 (agora ao serviço da Southwest, com o registo N7816B) Taxiando para a 05, com destaque para o G-MSJF da Flyglobespan (que já faliu igualmente) e para o A319 da SAS com cores retro OY-KBO... nos últimos anos, a SAS voltou a voar com 737 para a Madeira...

Definitely the spotting of an islander.... On the back, some Fred Olsen cruise ship... (Black Watch?)

Last Sunday got the info that the monday afternoon Transavia would be a special livery, the PH-HZL. Finally Transavia was bringing some special livery to Madeira... They failed to bring the PH-XRA with its amazing livery (and still after it changed to another special livery, it also didn't come, altough they brought some other 737-700...) Anyway made a quick trip to the airport for getting the Transavia. The sky was real dark when I arrived and runway 23 was in use. SAS (retro painting) was over the VOR and entering final when the heavy rain and clouds got around the plane and we lost sight of it for a few moments before seeing it aborting the approach and turning in direction to FUSUL. Started raining a lot with no visibility for quite a while. SAS and Transavia went to holding and Transavia started asking about the METAR at Porto Santo...crap, I had litle time to wait and it probably would divert to Porto Santo.... Finally the visibility started improving but still was raining a ...

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...)

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...