Planes and stuff

Yesterday we had the return of Smartlynx, on the flights from Tallinn. It arrived from that city during the night (around 4.55am) and stayed for a few hours for crew rest. The other few times (or just once, maybe) they brought an airplane with full Smartlynx livery I couldn't go to the airport for some shots so, yesterday, after work made a quick run into the airport to take some shots of its departure, around 4.35pm. It was departing on a positioned (empty) flight to Ponta Delgada, Azores (PDL), so there was a good probability of making a good and early take-off.... Ponta de S.Lourenço on the background... YL-BBC pushing back to runway 05 with a nice Lynx on the nose.. This must have been one of a kind for me! No need to crop nor rotate for horizon leveling...right out of the camera with redimension, a bit of levels and sharp...

Just a few hours before the sky falling over Madeira, around mid-night the night was very nice, a little bit cold but nice, just perfect for getting the Smarlynx with full livery....or so we thought... Despite last pics of this plane beeing with full Smartlynx livery, after arrival we saw that after all, the livery was already gone....it was now another flying fridge...who would have guessed they had changed after last pics.... Fortunatelly the parking changed to a more photogenic place.... (Thanks Alex!) Arriving... TAP's CS-TTS was also preparing to push-back.... Had my wife and daughter in the car, which was parked in a unload/load area of the departures, so hurried out of there after and didn't even noticed the ATP from Sata without the rudder.... From that night, you can check the other guys photos: Alex Maio, (soon) Jorge Abreu, HERE Paulo Olim, HERE