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2007 NOV 15 | Spotting with Jose Costa
2007.11.15
This Portuguese Air Force Aviocar has a special equipment called MAD - Magnetic anomaly detector, spent the night in Madeira, and i was lucky to catch him, since i thought that he will departure early in the morning and we only arrived to the ramps at 11am...
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This Portuguese Air Force Aviocar has a special equipment called MAD - Magnetic anomaly detector, spent the night in Madeira, and i was lucky to catch him, since i thought that he will departure early in the morning and we only arrived to the ramps at 11am...
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I wonder why it doesn't have the paint scheme as the rest of the aircraft
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I wonder why it doesn't have the paint scheme as the rest of the aircraft
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A closer look to the MAD...
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A closer look to the MAD...
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Linning up for departure runway 05
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Linning up for departure runway 05
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Not the best quality these photos, because we are against the sun in the morning from this side
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Not the best quality these photos, because we are against the sun in the morning from this side
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A more or less busy morning/afternoon thrusday
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A more or less busy morning/afternoon thrusday
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It's very weird these fuel tanks, the wrong feeling that the wings can't handle those big tanks
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It's very weird these fuel tanks, the wrong feeling that the wings can't handle those big tanks
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backtracking runway05
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backtracking runway05
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Another ugly "yellow cab"
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Another ugly "yellow cab"
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Blurry shot, but still i wanted to show since, in the middle of the smoke i catched the beacon lights giving a red look to the smoke...
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Blurry shot, but still i wanted to show since, in the middle of the smoke i catched the beacon lights giving a red look to the smoke...
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I think it's a Boeing 747 from British Airways, anyone thinks otherwise? edited: after checking at http://mode-s.kispo.net I found in Emmanuel's SBS database, that probably this one, is the G-CIVN a Boeing 744 from British Airways, probably... I want a SBS-1 :'(
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I think it's a Boeing 747 from British Airways, anyone thinks otherwise? edited: after checking at http://mode-s.kispo.net I found in Emmanuel's SBS database, that probably this one, is the G-CIVN a Boeing 744 from British Airways, probably... I want a SBS-1 :'(
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Short approach runway 05 with a medical evacuation from Porto Santo, NICE!!! (the shot sorry, not so good quality)
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Short approach runway 05 with a medical evacuation from Porto Santo, NICE!!! (the shot sorry, not so good quality)
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AHH!! This i like! A real Yellow Cab!
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AHH!! This i like! A real Yellow Cab!
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A Yellow Cab with a white nose!
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A Yellow Cab with a white nose!
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Smokey touch down runway 05
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Smokey touch down runway 05
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For so long i was trying to convince my friend Capt. José Costa to fly Bruno's Zlin! Today was the day, here they are departing runway 05 to a acrobatic session, unfortunately the clouds were too low, so they went to outside the field area, so no pictures (the only ones that i took, are in José Costa camera) :S...
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For so long i was trying to convince my friend Capt. José Costa to fly Bruno's Zlin! Today was the day, here they are departing runway 05 to a acrobatic session, unfortunately the clouds were too low, so they went to outside the field area, so no pictures (the only ones that i took, are in José Costa camera) :S...
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While the "Yellow Cab" is departing runway 05, the TAP Portugal is on the runway right base...
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While the "Yellow Cab" is departing runway 05, the TAP Portugal is on the runway right base...
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Last aircraft from this spotting session, late afternoon...
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Last aircraft from this spotting session, late afternoon...
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Comments
Very nice catches for this day, specialy the Aviocars: the one with the MAD wich is very uncommon around here and the approach of the other one.