Planes and stuff

Back to May, a few shots of Transavia at Madeira. Transavia France A320NEO F-HXSN, arriving from Paris - Orly Ready for push-back, with a Transavia A321 arriving from Amsterdam With United B737 MAX N27273 taxiing to runway 05, for the departure back to Newark

 This month we had United back to Madeira, from EWR, with its B737 MAX8 birds... Currently not really fond on US Americans but, a diferent traffic is a diferent traffic... (by the way, if you are one of those stupid red necks offended by my last sentence and feel compeled to protest...don't. Comments are moderated and will be deleted without even reading, because I don't give a fuck on your opinion...You allways have the option to go to the Madeira of the Pacific....)

  With 3 weekly flights, since June 8th, yesterday was only the second time I made some shots on the United flight and the first with sun... Couldn't manage to get the arrival so, waited for the departure, also from runway 23. It was a bit of a late take-off for this B737 MAX8 ( N17326 ), on its way to Newark.

United Airlines made its first flight to Madeira today. B737 MAX8 N17272 crossed the Atlantic during the night, after taking off from New York EWR - Newark  around 21:50 (local time) and arriving at Madeira the next morning, around 09:11 (local time). Despite the nice weather at Funchal, at the airport, in Santa Cruz, was dark and there was a barrier of Easyjet planes blocking the landing view...spotter's life... Still managed some bit of sun in the aircraft during the taxi... Anyway...still no welcoming bath around here... The flights will be carried on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays until September.

For this photo of the Week, a return to LHR photos. Didn't go on a spotting trip, just took some shots while waiting for my flight with my small 17-50mm lens... Still, what an amazing airport, regarding traffic... German Wings A319 D-AGWV with some Brithish Airways and a United B777 on the back

Ainda em ritmo de férias, está custando voltar a colocar as publicações do blog em modo regular, apesar de tudo, cá fica mais uma pequena entrada relativa a um par de movimentos que tive oportunidade de apanhar recentemente na capital (Lisboa, LIS/LPPT/) Para muitos não serão nada de especial mas, o TAAG, com as suas belas cores (e o facto de ser um 777, 300 ainda por cima...) era algo que já me vinha a escapar desde os tempos do 747, uma vez que por diversas passagens em Lisboa tinha oportunidade de vê-los às distância e normalmente com toda a aparelhagem do handling em volta, sem grandes hipóteses de obter fotos limpas... Desta vez e apesar do vidro do terminal e de alguma distância, apanhei-o menos mal, precisamente na altura em que fazia o push-back... D2-TEH, o mais recente dos 777 da TAAG e um dos 2 aparelhos da versão 300 à sua frente ainda outro extra...um Jumbo que, apesar de ser um completo frigorífico, continua a ser um belo avião de se ver e muito raro em fren...