Planes and stuff

Um registo feito recentemente, aproveitando o pôr-do-sol...

 Well, for a change on planes...a little bit of stuff.... Sunset stuff... Summer time on the island...

For a special day, a special shot...haven't made many of these (and the ones I've made definitely didn't turned out like this one...) Probably nothing too special for a good photographer but for me, it's a really nice shot with the reflections, the colors and the sharpness...but specially the reflections... British Airways A320 G-GATP, departing from runway 23, last week. Tought of not staying for this take-off...the light was already gone on the runway and was pretty sure nothing good would come out of it...but, the plane was ready to taxi and might as well see the take-off, even if all the shots went to the trash...

Despite beeing an already known decision, Leonardo has announced the Portuguese Air Force order of 5 AW119 Koala  (with an option for plus 2) to replace the good old Alouette III (check HERE ) The first units should be already delivered this year .... With 55 years duty on the Portuguese Air Force, the remaining 6 (?) helicopters have seen a lot during all these years, from the war in Africa, and since then all the other missions in Portugal, instruction, SAR, surveillance, etc.... Maybe the sun is setting on them but, for now, I'm sure they'll still have some more to give...

Despite I don't usually reserve places nor plane my trips considering the photos, still, sometimes you get some oportunities that you can't miss... flying somewhere up high while the sun sets down...

CS-TNW Esta já foi foto da semana por cá mas, continua a ser uma das minha fotos preferidas em voo, pelo que esta semana, vai para o lugar de destaque... Bons voos a todos!

Not many word on this...inflight sunset, onboard TAP's A320 CS-TNW

Today, on the afternoon, as I was going home, decided to air-up my head a little bit while watching the sunset. A couple of newbie paragliders were having lessons at Centromar. No take-offs. Looked like one was learning the basics of gearing up with the wing and the other was traninning inflating the wing and make the take-off run (with no take-off). The sunset on the back and the orange wing gave it the final touch for the pic... Good luck on gaining your wings!

This morning the ship spotters had a big (literally) motive for their spotting. Besides the Aidablu and the Thomson Spirit, Madeira woke up with this huge platform in front of the city.It's the Saipem 7000 , the second largest crane vessel, that stoped at Madeira for a marketing action, before proceeding to Mexico. Didn't managed to take any pics in the morning but, on the afternoon, decided to go to a small mountain, behind my place (well known by paragliders....Pico da Cruz) for some shots... Aidablu had already departed but the Thomson Spirit was still on the port.... Decided to stay to the sunset, while taking some other shots, which I'll share some other day...

Estava hoje na varanda a apreciar o por-do-sol, por trás dos edifícios circundantes quando reparei nuns "trabalhadores" em final de dia, no topo de um edifício ao fundo. Achei que valia a pena ir buscar a máquina, pois estava um enquadramento muito bom, contra a luz do por-do-sol...